The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground—breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.

Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth—century art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for the contemporary age. Linking philosophy, design, and the digi...