a literature review, 20th February 2020 Introduction To paraphrase Haruki Murakami in his 2008 memoir ‘What I talk about when I talk about running’, most of what I know about design ethics I’ve learned through reading. This literature review paper is a part endeavour of re-reading the design’s past and…

During his time served as the second director of the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1930, Hannes Meyer was confronted with a dilemma: ‘As director of the Bauhaus, I fought against the Bauhaus style…’ (Meyer, as cited in Weltge-Wortmann, 1993). Instead of embracing the Bauhaus’s manifesto — the unity of art…

The object is a ‘sound-absorbing reversible curtain fabric’ designed and manufactured by Margaret Leischner in 1927. It is located within the ‘Factory as Horizon’ display that runs across the spine of the ‘Versuchsstätte Bauhaus’ exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau (Bauhaus-dessau.de, 2019). Despite being produced over 90 years ago, the…

In his early days as the new director of the Bauhaus, Hannes Mayer asked his students: “Do we want to be guided by the world around us, do we want to help in the shaping of new forms of life, or do we want to be an island?” (Meyer, 1928…