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The Forum: Design and Beauty

Design and Beauty

14/11/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Forum, Design and Beauty

How important is beauty in design? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

Design is everywhere - from tables and chairs to quantum physics. Does it have to be beautiful? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.

How far can we stretch the notion of a beautiful design? And, how fundamental is it to the world around us and our search for the answers to life's mysteries? We delight in beauty when we find it in the design of everyday objects. It's incorporated in the bodies we are born with and the ways we enhance them. And, on a cosmic scale, there is beauty in the rules which govern the universe. Bridget Kendall is joined by nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek, furniture designer Khalid Shafar and body architect Lucy McRae to explore the frontiers of what beauty in design can mean.
(Photo: Basic perspective construction by Frank Wilczek).

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