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Cars: forever changing our cities, environment and economies - DAMN° Magazine

Cars: forever changing our cities, environment and economies

DAMN° speaks to V&A senior curator Brendan Cormier

Design Society and the V&A announce opening plans for October 2017 in Shekou - DAMN° Magazine

Design Society and the V&A announce opening plans for October 2017 in Shekou

Design Society, a new cultural hub featuring a new V&A Gallery will open to the public in Shekou, Shenzhen, in October 2017. This collaboration is the first of its kind […]

Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design - DAMN° Magazine

Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, until 6 November 2016.

Conran’s Wish List - DAMN° Magazine

Conran’s Wish List

Creating the desired object There is nothing quite like the experience of having to produce, with your own hands, the product that you yourself have designed. Gaining practical experience and […]

Probing the Object - DAMN° Magazine

Probing the Object

Eyal Burstein at the interface between art and design Eyal Burstein manages to twist the definitions of art and design in creating a curious concoction of powerful projects. Whether it […]

The Importance of being Postmodern - DAMN° Magazine

The Importance of being Postmodern

Venturi & Scott Brown It’s quite satisfying to be able to understand the distinction between Postmodern and PoMo architecture. Here the intricacies are explicitly revealed, directly from the horse’s mouth, […]

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Dubbed the “first TikTok war” the current battle raging in Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s reckless imperialism is taking advantage of user outrage.

As British art critic John Bergen so poignantly said, “Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.” And that’s just what we all want – TikTokers, magazine subscribers, TV addicts, artists, designers, and architects alike.

In the new issue of DAMNº – The Art of Protest – we side with those creatives whose work bites deep, with those who use their craft to protest, and specifically with those who reach out to the public directly as collaborators in that fight against iniquity. We have tried to extend the impact of cultural protest to emphasise those artists and designers who go beyond mere representation and dare to discuss real solutions.

And even if the medium of protest expands in the age of social media, it should be recognized that rough skills as well as cheap accessible materials have always been at the core of protest art – posters then, memes now, photography then, NFTs now.

The kernel usually starts emotional and even angry before the narrative cleans up and moves across the spectrum into polite society where eventually even galleries and collectors become enthusiastic.

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