The starting point of the lecture “Good design for a better society: the aestheticization of everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia” by Ildiko Erdei is a reflection on what constituted good design and what was its role in the society of the 1950s in Yugoslavia. The new socialist state was not an exception in this regard, but was integrated into the modernization trends and modernist currents in Europe and the world. On the example of housing, furnishing and decorating an apartment, the arrangement will show how the concept of good design was conceived and set up as a tool for (socialist) … Continue reading Tea party with Ildiko Erdei: The role of design in the modernization of socialist Yugoslavia