The Populist Store / Is a an art intervention with the soul purpose to re-store objects used by populist people.
About the project:
The hypothesis is that it is only through the transdisciplinarity of design that can we successfully dislocate the political from the design process observed both in everyday objects and in complex design solutions on a bigger scale. Populist design is a concept I use to expose the invisible forces operating between the designer and the user, and between the hegemony of capitalism and the innovative process of design thinking. Seeing designers as populist may bring to light a different perspective on what it means to be a populist, which is, above all, to represent the people’s interests through honest new solutions that address or solve people’s struggles. I hope that populist logic may also help disciplines with oriented design solutions to understand the entanglement between right or wrong (good design and bad design) and may help those who design serves in the fast-changing political world.