I coined the phrase 'Designicide' to describe the current design paradigm that creates 'junkjects'. This paradigm fills the banality of Rem Koolhaas' 'junkspace' with increasingly trivial, ephemeral content...When the phrase 'designer diplomacy' becomes media-speak for politicians doing nothing, it is clear the word 'designer' needs reclaiming.The essay is posted on the the Platform21 web site, which is the online arm of a new Dutch organization created "to create dynamic spaces for a variety of projects and activities that question and give insight into how the world is shaped around us."
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That's rich! And the ethics of a marketplace are? Let's see, responding to consumer's needs, voluntary transaction of productive individuals, making a tolerable standard of living cheaper and more accessible to more people, and heaven forbid, the worst yet, actually creating wealth. Thank God Shakespeare wasn't encumbered by responding to the market. Oh, wait...
Designers, or humans in general, would do well to further their causes if they didn't attack the very mechanism of human advancement.