What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest bibbe-hansen Les Bieszczady

Les Bieszczady

après quinze ans d’absence (2021–2024)

Mathias de Lattre and his classmates visited Parc du Thot in Thonac

Aurélie scrute ses semblables

Inspired by the artist’s long-standing fascination with mirroring and doubles

What was design? Declarations and definitions from a century of creative quest bibbe-hansen Les BieszczadyWhat 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.