The Paradox of Democracy in the Western Modern Design Movement—Thinking about the Megastructure
Abstract
As the beginning of a new type culture, the movement of modernism signify break with traditional culture, it reshaped the aspects of people’s lives with innovators attitude. In this process, the modern design masters as a preacher with the pious attitude, they actively establish the value system of their own, and set a footnote in the earth to the design scheme of the huge amount of practice. In order to find suitable aesthetic form for new materials and new technology, they throw themselves into the logical relation between technology and function. However, at the very nature level, such design system under the guidance of materiality, apparently ignored the diverse needs of people in biological and psychological factors, so that the starting point of democracy increasingly untenable. Especially in the mega structure landscape later, the designer has evolved into an arbitrary image of the creator, and toward the opposite of democracy under the guidance of capital.References
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