»The triumph of the national ideal across the globe demonstrated the lack of any necessary correspondence between system and impact, the intellectual depth and reach of an ideology and its mobilizing power in the modern world.«
When you live in a smaller town or big city, you are usually surrounded by buildings made of concrete, glass, plaster/stone or wood. It’s difficult to spot technical innovation. The fascinating part: Some of it is hiding in plain sight.
In the general flow of everyday life the word rarely pops into my mind. But when it does, I find it highly accurate and satisfying. It describes an idea, situation or potential that can hardly be conveyed by any other term.
Design in public transportation is so fascinating because it can shine a light on a variety of issues in current public discourse: Usually deployed in large-scale projects, design choices often reflect careful consideration of the Zeitgeist, public norms of aesthetics, changes in transportation infrastructure and avant-gardist glimpses or concepts of what an imagined general public space might look like.
Design in public transportation is so fascinating because it can shine a light on a variety of issues in current public discourse: Usually deployed in large-scale projects, design choices often reflect careful consideration of the Zeitgeist, public norms of aesthetics, changes in transportation infrastructure and avant-gardist glimpses or concepts of what an imagined general public space might look like.
»The triumph of the national ideal across the globe demonstrated the lack of any necessary correspondence between system and impact, the intellectual depth and reach of an ideology and its mobilizing power in the modern world.«
