What is “degrowth,” and how can it influence design?
Editorial
Long-form Otherwise editorials exploring design, ethics, ecology, and the role designers play in climate action.
Much of the design industry's work is centered on making life as simple as possible, but what happens when that idea is taken too far?
The tools, mindsets, and actions that got us here won't get us there.
This sub-category in branding acts like FlexTape on the ruptured water tank of climate change.
In the design industry, the climate crisis seems like a spectator sport. How can reimagining our arms-length relationship with it help push us toward action?
While biomimicry is a step in the right direction, do we misunderstand what parts of nature we’re supposed to mimic?
Even if design drives culture, we have to ask, "Who's at the wheel? And where are they driving to?"
The worldview that made design is dying a slow death, but change tends to happen not-at-all, and then all-at-once.
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