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Global Issues in Design & Visuality
Tuesday March 7, 2006 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue
New York City, New York 10011 Get Directions
The Pure Products of America go Crazy: Product Design

This event is part of a series

65 Fifth Ave. Swayduck Auditorium
Tue, Mar 7
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Presented by: Jamer Hunt, Director, Graduate Program in Industrial Design,
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia

The U.S. claims free-market capitalism as one of its main exports and consumer products often serve as the enticement to embrace its ideology. But as the worlds? diverse cultures adopt and adapt this ideology, are we at risk of creating a corporate, global monoculture? This lecture presents critical product design practices that challenge market-driven orthodoxies and that re-frame design as a strategy for contesting a fully corporate future.

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