Just think of your own musical tastes. They are personal at one level, but they are also likely to be strongly shaped by current musical fashions, the tastes of your peers, the subcultures that you identify with, etc. The cultural theorist Bourdieu argues that taste is strongly class stratified. The 'Kwinana yob' with a taste for velvet Elvis carpets is not 'lacking in taste', rather his tastes do not correspond to middle and upper class aesthetic values. They are shaped by a different social milieu.
Context is important.
I can't deny it. What I'm going to offer you today is a more middle-class version of design, one that traces its lineage to some of the great radical aesthetic movements of the 20th Century. In the workshops we'll do some practical exercises to get you thinking more precisely and critically about the design process. In this lecture, I want to focus on some background creative knowledge. The Photograph as Design Element Early 20th Century art regarded photography as having a radical liberating potential.