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Long-form Otherwise editorials exploring design, ethics, ecology, and the role designers play in climate action.

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Crossing design’s climate skill chasm

The tools, mindsets, and actions that got us here won't get us there.

A woman set in a 'solarpunk' future creates artificial rain for her garden.

Does ‘climate branding’ miss the bigger picture of systems change?

This sub-category in branding acts like FlexTape on the ruptured water tank of climate change.

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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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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.

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Platforming care in design

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

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We've developed a climate blind spot

We're more aware than ever of climate change, but how does a purely technical approach affect how we see the crisis?

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