Journal article

A growing body of literature has emerged, questioning the human-centric perspective in design. Our research explores a vision of ‘life-centered’ design evolved by Bauhaus pioneer László Moholy-Nagy. Moholy-Nagy believed designers would need to move beyond the consumerist view in favor of “a better understanding of those principles which control all life”—individual life, social life, and life in the natural world. Driven by his own humble beginnings, his personal trauma in war, the rise of Fascism and the onset of a second world war, Moholy-Nagy evolved a blueprint for a vision of life-centered design that is as salient today as it was a century ago.