Interior design must begin facing up to uncomfortable truths about our planet and health in 2024, Michelle Ogundehin writes in her annual trends report for Dezeen.

This must be the year of truth. It's no time to be distracted by talk of trends, new or latest looks. The tactic of holding facts at arm's length has only enabled denial, obfuscation, and fakery, as well as cauterising our moral obligation to change. Mark Twain aptly summarises our current malaise with the pithy: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
Thankfully, the zeitgeist is shifting. We see it in current TV programming, ever a prescient reflection of public mood. Consider Channel 4's punchy The Great Climate Fight, which volubly charges the British government with incompetence, to ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, dramatising the scandalous lies behind a huge miscarriage of justice. It's no time to be distracted by talk of trends, new or latest looks
The desire for unvarnished veracity is there in Netflix's new tranche of documentaries. Think Robbie Williams: Behind the Scenes and its Jeffrey Epstein exposé. Even Disney's Wagatha Christie vehicle was about truth-telling.
It reflects the shattering of any persistent facade that everything's just fine. In the face of extreme weather patterns ? from tornados in Manchester in the north of England to record-breaking monsoons in Pakistan ? and the escalating rates of chronic disease, anxi...