By juxtaposing selfies taken by visitors to Peter Eisenman's Holocaust memorial with archive photos from concentration camps, artist Shahak Shapira has revealed why design that shames is important, says Owen Hatherley in his latest Opinion column.

I came across Yolocaust on the Twitter account of historian Alex Von Tunzelmann. Clearly unsure about whether or not to link to it at all, she prefaced it with "warning: link leads to VERY graphic images". Obviously I clicked.
The link led to two juxtaposed photos: one in colour of a young woman in sunglasses standing on one leg and waving a cup of coffee in the air on one of the concrete stelae of Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and another in black and white, where she had been photoshopped so that she was standing on a mass grave. Created by the Berlin-based Israeli artist Shahak Shapira, the website featured a selection of photos of hip young people gallivanting around the memorial. When you moved the cursor to the images, you saw the people in them transplanted onto images of the Holocaust. Their grins and poses became utterly horrifying as they put their thumbs up on trenches of bodies or leaped between them. In design terms, it resembled the darkest work of photomontage artists like John Heartfield and Gee Vaucher, and was frighteningly successful in doing what it set out to do ? shame.
The grins and poses became utterly horrifying
A link at the bottom let people whose photos had be...