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The Anti Design Festival: anarchy in Redchurch Street, and why being 'anti' is not enough
PUBLISHED 16 Dec 2010 - 5:36pm
AUTHOR: Francisco Laranjo
Any time the word 'anti' is used in a title of an event, it is bound to prompt ferocious criticism. The word is instantaneously wrapped as anarchistic, counter-culture and looked at with suspicion as disorderly by mainstream media. However, anti is presently a rare word as much as it's a trendy cliché: an indication that tactics that once worked in the past seem to be effortlessly digested and ignored today. In here lies perhaps the most evident mistake of the first iteration of the Anti-Design Festival (ADF), which took place in London between 18 - 26 September 2010. Since it began in 2003,... More
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Solomon says:

Very good response to the ADF, hope that it begins a dialogue about the current role of design. It would be interesting to read an expanded version of this article developing some of the points especially the need for the intentionality of failure in relation to value. 

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I too agree that we need this kind of discussions. There's a lot of people "experimenting" without any real sense of direction. It would be good if this could spark discussions in websites with more visits than this one and more mainstream.

D. Evans

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