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Social Narratives

Posts that search for new narratives and value systems beyond tech progress and free-market capitalism.

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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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🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 10: Origins

This week, we look at how the stories we tell ourselves affect the narratives we act out.

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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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🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 8: Atomization

We're dying for community, but individualize everything. Why is that?

A "Make America Great Again" hat, modified to read "Make Orwell Fiction Again".

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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🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 7: Tech Divisions

Global tech culture is splitting into two visions of the future: erasing humanity and rekindling it. Which side are you on?

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Platforming care in design

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

A sculpture by Christina Bothwell. A sleeping woman lies on her back, while her spirit sits up, awake.

Sustainable action is superficial

We often understand ‘sustainability’ as a verb rather than a noun. Could this be a reason sustainability is so easily appropriated?

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