The 400-year-old mentality that still influences design

The worldview that made design is dying a slow death, but change tends to happen not-at-all, and then all-at-once.

Hat: Unknown; Background: Aerial View of Light Craft Industry in Kuwait's hinterland. Image courtesy of Yousef Awaad Hussein, Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub in collaboration with Atlas of Places for Future Observatory Journal.

Capitalism is stronger than ever, but its public image is imploding under its own weight.

How can that be?

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