"Britain's architects should refuse to let moralising snobbery define their approach to laundry"

Architects need to rethink their part in Britain's dysfunctional relationship with laundry, writes Phineas Harper.A tangle of tubes, ducts, and electrical appliances hanging in moist air around a sodden cotton T-shirt is the undisputed highlight of Island, a new exhibition at the Design Museum. Created by design researcher-in-residence Mariana Janowicz and feminist architecture collective Edit, the exhibit is a monstrous metaphor lampooning Britain's dysfunctional relationship with laundry.