Like popular design over my life has more or less been incredibly desaturated, sterile, and conformist. I don’t hate minimalism as an aesthetic but I do hate the white, black, and grey voids people create. To take a home and make it feel so cold and uninviting, to take out all the vibrancy and signs of human life, really doesn’t sit right with me.
The reason I say this is because historically fascist regimes have relied on strictly enforced aesthetics and co-opted artistic/design elements. They strip the meaning from something and declare it their own thing (think what the nazis did with the swastica, a symbol that holds very different meaning to the Hindi world). I just see how truly soulless and inhuman some of the spaces we’ve designed are and wonder if something similar has happened here.