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Designing isn’t associated with movements like Dada
Design at its simplest is not usually associated with philosophical movements like Dada, but rather with craft movements, such as the Deutscher Werkbund, the Bauhaus, or with the Constructivist (Constructivism) art movements of Russia, the Netherlands and other countries.
It is as if design is, inescapably, part of a mode of production that is both craft-related and direct, quite removed from all ambiguous or chaotic artistic and creative activity. Dada began in Zurich in 1916 during the First World War and involved literature, fine arts, theater and music, and was influenced by antiwar and anarchist philosophies an aspect that was particularly important to Hugo Ball, the Club Voltaire’s protagonist from Munich.
Dada never propagated arbitrary disorder but questioned the existing concepts and dominant systems of order and government in a profound and radical manner. Having experienced the social and cultural poverty and the violent chaos of the First World War that resulted from the existing social and cultural bourgeois good order, Dada confronted it with new, radical forms of organization and logic.