How Design Designs Us | Part 1: The Silent Social Scripter

In this three-part series, I’m exploring the ways in which design influences and affects our lives and how to unlock the emergent potential for design to create positive social change.

I believe design can be used as a catalyst for positive social change, but much design is done without the intent to create outcomes that do so. As a result, we end up living with things we don’t eed, and solving problems that don’t exist, whilst ignoring the really critical ones. In order to first understand this and then inspire change in the design process, we need to understand how design, indeed, designs us.