DESIGN RESPONSIBLY

Design has always been the engine of innovation and progress. In times of ubiquitous misinformation, visual pollution, mass consumption, ecocide and other emerging crises, design can be seen as bearing some responsibilities.
/  Design often obscures problem making in its mission in problem solving. As image makers we may wonder how and where we sometimes fit in the chains of production and consumption, between calls for economic growth and environmental sustainability.
/ It is often said that design, even activism, naturally tends to be commodified, but it is “form” itself when it is objectified that can be commodified. More than anything, design has a long history of being driven by commerce. As always our challenge remains to always establish and re-establish life and poetics as the central values of what and how we do what we do.
/ An exploration related to our Dissuasion Engine project selected for Driving the Human.