Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world on.ft.com/42Pe3i8 #FTEdit
02.10.2025 15:55
👍 7
🔁 3
💬 0
📌 1
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world on.ft.com/42Pe3i8 #FTEdit
💕 The path ahead is not straightforward but awkward — and that’s precisely where its potential lies. #queerness
Trump‘s Strategie ist nicht eine Gleichschaltung traditioneller Medien, sondern deren Abschaltung. Digitale Medien hingegen lassen sich vielleicht nicht gleichschalten, aber dennoch besser algorithmisch Steuern.
Even though I understand the necessity to acknowledge privileges I felt the same: it excludes people from the conversation for not doing the right thing rather than inviting them in to start to rethink.
Céline Semaan: replace the word privilege with responsibility. #worlddesigncongress
@janegoodallcan.bsky.social opening the World Design Congress directly countering Donald Trump’s approach to design: you have the creativity, the skills, and the power to redesign the world. not for efficency or beauty, but for survival. @designcouncil.bsky.social
So, it’s beginning: The Design Action Plan FRM 🚀
🔑 Key lessons from the workshop with pdr for design policies:
▶️ Start with the ecosystem
▶️ Bridge sectors
▶️ Think long-term
▶️ Prototype before scaling
▶️ Institutionalize change
What a weekend in Munich at DIVE’25 for WDC 2026. we explored what a design policy should look like. Key takeaways:
– Clear goals, audiences & strategies are essential
– Theory matters, but shouldn’t paralyze action
– Design must be seen as a strategic tool across sectors
#DesignPolicy #WDC2026
Jörg Sommer: Wer denkt, dass Partizipation nervt, der hat ihren Sinn genau richtig verstanden.
From our interview “After Democracy” Eleonora Herder highlights what led to the concept of the performative Audio Walk set in a not-so-distant future when representative democracy doesn’t exist anymore.
.
You can find the full text in our first #mañanabold zine ✌️
Frankfurt, save the date: Am 25/26.4. veranstalten wir im offeneshaus.bsky.social ein Symposium zu den neuen autoritären Verhältnissen weltweit. Es gibt zwei Tage lang Vorträge, Diskussionen und Workshops. Alle Infos und Anmeldung via: transnationale-demokratie.de/symposium-de...
Bei mir war‘s ne Französische Schulklasse oder letzter freier Platz im Kinderabteil
Looking forward to be part of the Jury for the international gender design award. You can still submit projects till March 31: genderdesign.org/award/submit/
"Bei Trump müssen wir auf zwei Szenarien vorbereitet sein. Dass er mit seiner Art gewinnt. Oder dass er alles verspielt." – Herfried Münkler im Interview www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/herfr...
New video on disillusionment in design over on TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZNddNtHsm/
Art and design shape our perception - but what role do they play in democratic processes? In the panel "Can art do revolution?" at the KfW Stiftung, I spoke to the artist Hamlet Lavastida about how visual language and state narratives shape historiography. Moderated perfectly by Aisha Camara 💚🖤
What is BEDA? And how do you lobby for design as a method and for designers as creative workers? I spoke to Prof. Regina Hanke Hanke about these questions. You can find our conversation at DDC Deutscher Design Club e.V. : ddc.de/en/mag/advoc... #designpolicy #lobbying #designpolitics
“There are only two genders” – Trump emphasized a rigid gender binary central to far-right ideology. In Queer Masculinities in Design (DESIGNABILITIES), I explore this concept and propose queer, fluid, and inclusive designs of masculinities to challenge such notions. #design #designtheory
