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?

credit: Joe Hamilton

Although designers acknowledge the climate crisis more than ever, the industry is still rife with resistance and indifference. Action is seen more as a noble cause than a survival technique.

While it might feel like the climate crisis is just one more thing on an already insurmountable pile of methods and frameworks to learn, scuttlin…