SALON: Designer and design historian Matthew Bird on “Expanding a Point of View: What is Good Design?”

We all know what is good, but each of us uses different factors to arrive at our decisions and opinions about design and taste. Bird will share revelations brought home from a month-long summer seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and present different methods to ad layers of thinking to deepen and expand our interpretations. He will consider culture, gender, geography, history, and other factors that make us instantly certain we are correct in our decision making, and nearly always wrong.