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Zett Online: what is Global Design?

"First and foremost, global design is a matter of perspective. Gone are the days when design history could be told as a story of the Western world. Modern design was not invented in Dessau, Ulm or Zurich, but should be understood as the result of global interdependencies." Sophia Prinz is Professor for Design Theory and History at ZHdK and explains on Zett Online what is behind Global Design.

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In her painting “Kapsalon Wonder,” Ellen Gallagher works through the historical entanglements of industry, colonialism and design in global modernity. Detail, gloss varnish, rubber, ink and paper on canvas, 2015. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth; installation shot Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich 2019. Photograph: © Geneviève Frisson
In her painting “Kapsalon Wonder,” Ellen Gallagher works through the historical entanglements of industry, colonialism and design in global modernity. Detail, gloss varnish, rubber, ink and paper on canvas, 2015. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth; installation shot Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich 2019. Photograph: © Geneviève Frisson