What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest art-fiction Le projet révèle que l’enfer

Le projet révèle que l’enfer et le paradis ne sont pas des lieux lointains ou métaphysiques

d’une impulsion

The book was originally published as Social Sauna – Bathing & Wellbeing in 2022

des premières peintures rupestres à l’art d’aujourd’hui

publié par Gallimard (2023)

What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest art-fiction Le projet révèle que l’enferWhat was design? is a quick starter to one of modernitys most contested terms. In its brief but meteoric career, design was subject to vast controversy. Celebrated as an engine of change, denounced as a driving force of commercialization, and regularly lamented as overused, design remains a concept whose true meaning is still being sought. While answers to the question What is design? are constantly shifting, the time has come for a retrospective.