Tag: sympathetic design

  • Design dreams of digital worlds – but is digitech sympathetic?

    Design dreams of digital worlds – but is digitech sympathetic?

    The architectural collective Assemble– winners of the Turner Prize – continue to explore the designed and manufactured world in the second part of BBC Radio 4’s series, The Sympathy of Things inspired by John Ruskin’s views on aesthetics and the central role of sympathy. With Amica Dall and Giles Smith, the BBC state “The series is an argument […]

  • Design dreams of the material world – but is it sympathetic?

    Design dreams of the material world – but is it sympathetic?

    Have a listen to BBC Radio 4’s two-part series, The Sympathy of Things in which the architectural collective  ‘Assemble’ – winners of the Turner Prize – explore the designed and manufactured world, arguing that just as mass production has disrupted and changed our relationship to the material world, so digital technologies will also disrupt these relationships […]