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Design and Architecture

Public art and politics, California design

Hosted by Frances Anderton Aug. 22, 2017
Everyone is Californian now, says the co-curator of California: Designing Freedom, a show on display in London. We look at how West Coast design dominates the world. And as cities around the country remove Confederate statues, there's a debate over whether they should be torn down in the name of today's social values, or maintained as teachable moments.

Photo: Corita Kent, 'Power Up', 1965, part of the California: Designing Freedom exhibition. (Design Museum)

From this Episode:

Confederate statues and the politics of public art

A statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the former capitol of the Confederacy. Mayor Levar M. Stoney has said he believes the Confederate statues...

12 min

California: Designing Freedom

Easy Rider motorcycle at the Design Museum Photo by Luke Hayes From the drug-fueled 1960s style of the hippies to the techno-Utopian visions of Silicon Valley's founders,...

16 min

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Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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