Updating Roland Barthes' Mythologies: Positionen aus Design, Architektur und Kunst

Based on Roland Barthes' Mythologies from 1957, this book is dedicated to naming and exploring today's myths of everyday life almost seven decades after the publication of the famous classic. This "actualisation" from the perspective of the 21st century takes the form of short, pointed texts on contemporary everyday phenomena - just as Barthes himself did at the time. The more than 30 authors from Germany and abroad focus on topics and issues that are related to the fields of design, architecture, art and the environment or appear particularly relevant to them: on the one hand, designers are the authors of the collected contributions. On the other hand, those interested in questions of design, art and environmental design in general - including students in particular - are the primary target group of this project.

Hans Leo Höger is Professor of Theory and History of Design and Communication at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Previously, he was Head of Department and Managing Director of the German Design Council in Frankfurt am Main for six years. He then worked as a consultant specialising in research & strategy, communication and studio management for Michele De Lucchi in Milan. At the same time, he taught at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics in Milan. As an author and researcher, he focusses on design issues at the interface between business, culture and society.