can design save the world (and should it try?)
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Can design change the world? Designers have always wanted to change it -- with better ideas of how we can live differently. However today, the trend is more of wanting to restrict our behaviour than of exploring we ways of exploiting resources, creativity and notions of the future. Should design adopt a conservative outlook -- or strive for more radical and progressive ideas?TRANSCRIPT
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Can design save the world (and should it try?)
Martyn Perks | [email protected] | twitter: martynperks
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Design today:
Radicalism is borne out of a conservative agenda
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Crisis, crisis, crisis...
Crisis of growth (potential)
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Professor Richard Layard
Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler
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Adrian Shaughnessy, Design Week
“The more design is placed at the forefront of the radical new thinking around finance, urban living and social change, the more likely it is to prosper…”Designers want to fill void
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“even when they [designers] tackle topics like prison life, aging, or obesity; they do not simply work, they give people a sense of hope and strength… society’s new pragmatic intellectuals.”
Paola Antonelli is senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art
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The unstoppable designer?
Example: behaviour change
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Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insight Team
small charitable donations when using cashpointslearner drivers be opted in to an organ donation schemelottery to encourage people to take tests to prove they have quit smoking
Designing in implicit behaviour change
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Schiphol airport, Amsterdam
Employ trickery to get us to focus!
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Target ‘unhealthy’ social norms
Building interiors, displays, advertising, packaging and of course signage…
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Implicit opt-ins instead of debate
Insurance forms, websites, marketing campaigns to voting forms
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Masdar city, Abu Dhabi: enforced pedestrianised areas
Everything designed around behaviour
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But what about our liberty?
Debate is being designed out
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‘you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete’Buckminster Fuller
US architect, designer, futurist
Forget pragmatism, question everything
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‘ambition is to make a dent in the universe’Steve Jobs, Apple Inc
Excel in expert-led design leadership
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‘envision and investigate new product meanings, through a broader, in-depth exploration of the evolution of society, culture, and technology. ’Professor Roberto Verganti
Objectivity is essential in leading change