Over a century, people eventually realized that designs are the windows through which industries benefit people. Modern design born in the age of industrialization and mechanization is a brand-new product towards which people have mixed feelings. Therefore, a medium is needed to bridge and integrate the old with the new, leading people to a new world that they expect. However, the multiple dimensions of modern design signify the twists and turns of its development.
The exhibition “Design Utopia 1880-1980” is showing us this fascinating and vivid history, which we call the time of Utopia. 158 modern designs in this exhibition jointly build a reflection of how people innovated with restrictions over a century. In this time of Utopia where the image of the world will be re-designed constantly, where the roles of the great opposites “natural-artificial” and “design-art” will be turned upside-down and inside-out but it is also a place where our poetic vocation will be revived by a cocktail of craftsmanship, I.T. new materials and innovative methods. The elite designers at that time not only focused on creating alternates of industrial products, but also tried to wake up the human consciousness hypnotized in the early industrial age. These classical designs reflected the state of the society as well as man’s will for conscious activities.
