Architecture and Design for consumer culture

Architecture and Design for consumer culture Essay 2,500 words • Explore the ways in which design and architecture generate and excite consumer culture or commercial exchange. (Advertisements, lay out of products, visual culture and etc; need to start about specifics of people in shops you also can mention commercial exchange as [login to view URL], [login to view URL], car boot sale, fleemarket - is it time wasting or such a good opportunity to buy somthing exciting, how they make people buy things) • Chose 4 examples of commercial space (or particular design objects found within them) and critique the role they play in arousing the consumer subject. (somethign really specific, for example Top Shop, eBay and etc similarities and differences between them; or Mayfair (London) window explore, some of clients do and some of them do not want to be seen during a shopping process ) • These examples can be current, historic, fictitious, science fiction, dystopian or utopian. • Your answer should show evidence of a wide range of research sources for each case study and its cultural context. It should also engage with existing literature on the opportunities and dangers presented to the subject by popular and consumer cultures. It should be richly illustrated and position your case studies in a substantial archive of visual materials. • Your answer must begin with a firm hypothesis about how your case studies produce consumers (be they active, passive, enabled or entrapped) and must end with a well-supported conclusion about their merits and demerits, similarities or conflict. (In this part you should talk about point 4 and to mention point 1) To make a topic easier for you i will attach a file with references list ( I ask and deeply recommend to use at least few of them) I promise to help you as much as I can during all process. Looking forward to start it V : ))