Designer’s Choice: Norman Teague – Jam Sessions invites us to reimagine the past by moving beyond “good modern design.” What belongs in a museum, and who decides? How can we be more democratic in defining value? Drawing inspiration from artists traditionally excluded from museums and assisted by generative AI, Teague offers a reinterpretation of design history.

Posters and prototypes alongside objects from MoMA’s collection foreground makers of colour and embody the spirit guiding Teague’s design practice. Norman Teague’s – Jam Sessions balances reverence for design innovation with an acknowledgment of the power dynamics that shaped it. With the rise of AI forcing a wholesale reevaluation of human creativity, he reminds us of the creative potential of inviting a diversity of voices into the chorus. As in a musical jam session, collaboration, respect and improvisation bring us back to the question that sparks every act of imagination, inviting us to contemplate both the past and the future as realms of boundless possibility.