
e more than a pair of han…power, our agency, and our responsibility. He reminded us that labor without counsel is not design. We have a skill-set that people need in order to get things made, and that skill-set includes an inquiring mind and a strong spine. We need to be more than a pair of hands. And we certainly can’t become the hands of unethical men.
There are two words every designer needs to feel comfortable saying: “no” and “why.” Those words are the foundation of what we do. They’re the foundation of building an ethical framework. If we cannot ask “why” we lose the ability to judge whether the work we’re doing is ethical. If we …
…ell. We design based on constraints, parameters, dynamics, systems, living things and human beings. I very often have to explain to the people I work with that without their input and contribution, I cannot create anything. I am merely crystallising, remodeling, digesting what I am given. We work together, I work with them. Not for, not against, not isolated.