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Imagination Rehabilitation

Imagination Rehabilitation

How does design culture limit our imagination? These articles explore different ways to open our mental aperture and find untrodden paths.

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Unpacking AI's lofty promises and lowly returns

🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 15

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A new metric for design beyond ‘growth’

What is “degrowth,” and how can it influence design?

Imperfectly perfect design

Imperfectly perfect design

🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 13

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Do we really need to learn about the climate crisis? We’re just designers, after all.

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?

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How can design be "inspired by nature" without greenwashing?

While biomimicry is a step in the right direction, do we misunderstand what parts of nature we’re supposed to mimic?

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What’s driving design culture?

Even if design drives culture, we have to ask, "Who's at the wheel? And where are they driving to?"

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Platforming care in design

How could changing our definition of ‘good design’ help the industry address the climate crisis?

🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 6: Reframing

🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 6: Reframing

Familiar framings can lock us into familiar solutions. What happens when we suspend reality and imagine new processes?

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