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Victor Papanek. Image Courtesy of donation from Nicolette Papanek/Victor J. Papanek Foundation
This article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine as “Design Provocateur: Revisiting the Prescient Ideas of Victor Papanek”.
“Today industrial design has put murder on a mass-production basis,” declared Victor Papanek, design provocateur and critic, from the podium of a design-activist happening in 1968. “By designing criminally unsafe automobiles that kill or maim,” he roared, “by creating a whole new species of permanent garbage to clutter up the landscape, and by choosing materials and processes that pollute the air we breathe, designers have become a dangerous breed.”