All is Design
Interview with Claudia Mareis in »Horizons – The Swiss Research Magazine«
The struggle for the best ideas is also a social survival strategy, believes the design researcher Claudia Mareis. Her ideas are changing how we view design. | Image: Kostas Maros / 13Photo. Copyright: Horizons
When we hear the word ›design‹, we usually think of shapes and colours, maybe of specific chairs, lamps or appliances in the area of product design. Perhaps even architecture comes to mind. But the projects and publications of Claudia Mareis open up a completely different field. She is concerned with ›governance through design‹, with so-called active material, techniques of creativity and knowledge cultures. How does all this fit together? There are two traditions of thought, says Claudia Mareis in an interview with »Horizons – The Swiss Research Magazine«.
One has a concrete understanding of design; the other encompasses an expanded concept of design that emerged in the 1950s and ’60s, especially in Germany, the UK and the USA. »This tradition understands the planning and shaping of our entire living environment as ›design‹«, she says. »The crucial questions here are about who designs our everyday lives, and what form it takes«.
Read the full interview here: https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2023/12/07/all-is-design/
German Version: https://www.horizonte-magazin.ch/2023/12/07/designerin-des-designdenkens/