What is “degrowth,” and how can it influence design?
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🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 14
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?
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?
This week, we look at how the stories we tell ourselves affect the narratives we act out.
Even if design drives culture, we have to ask, "Who's at the wheel? And where are they driving to?"
We're dying for community, but individualize everything. Why is that?
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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