OK, how's this for a bit of 8y controversy to kick us off in the new year:
"When design privileges innovation, culture speeds along; when art drives forward relevant social commentary, culture flourishes. When one mixes the two, it is effectively the combination of salt and gasoline. The motor splutters to a deliberate and irreversible death."
Hani Rashid writing in Domus.
Anyone up for a bit of automotive genocide?