Protest, provocation and social responsibility: Gerrit Rietveld’s Crate Chair - a podcast by The Open University

Designs don’t just have utilitarian or aesthetic functions they can also have economic, social and political ones. Here Emma Curtis, of the Design Museum, discusses examples of designs that are driven by social responsibility.

Further episodes of Design Essentials: are you sitting comfortably? - for iPod/iPhone

Further podcasts by The Open University

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