Everything that stands still or moves in the public space is more or less well designed: wastepaper baskets no less than traffic signs and park benches, information items and signposts, even the trees, and naturally also the clothing people wear. Yet even so - or precisely for this reason - the public space is always chaotic as well. Empirical and designed things get tangled up and end in a state of confusion. Just as exciting, however, is the constant changing of the public realm, since the boundaries that separate public and private space have long since ceased to be clear and recognizable.
Situated right in the midst of this tumult are the essays by the authors of this book, which were collected by the Cologne International School of Design (KISD). Their projects, observations, descriptions, and commentaries explore the possibilities and opportunities, the necessity as well as the incapacity of design in the pulsating, vibrating world of our everyday lives.
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