In Denmark, design is taken seriously in ways that are not always easy to explain from the outside. Design is not a layer of beauty placed on life after everything important has been settled. It is part of how social life is organized. It shapes how we sit, eat, wait, move through the city, host guests, rest, feel at home, and be together with other people.
The anthropologist Daniel Miller wrote about the humanity of objects and how they take part in shaping the humans who live with them. The things around us hold what we believed in, the status we came from, our habits, our relations with our environment, our fears, hopes, and beliefs.
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