‘Change the Model’: an interview about drip-feeding culture change via strategic design

Stuart Candy interviews me about moving the Overton Window, Slow-release Culture Drugs in government and beyond, and designers as General Practitioners

Stuart Candy and I bumped into each other at the Dubai Future Foundation’s Futurological Congress in Berlin last year. As we caught up, he suggested we also do a quick interview for an issue of the Journal of Future Studies he was then editing with Cher Potter. That issue is out now (Volume 23, Number 4, June 2019), and available here, and is full of good stuff, including essays and interviews by Timothy Morton, Paola Antonelli, Nik Baerten, Lucy Kimball, Tony Fry and others. Do pick it up.

Stuart, now of Carnegie Mellon University, is an old friend and colleague; we used to work together at Arup in Australia. He knows much of my work inside-out, and so managed to home in on some great questions; in fact, it was more of a conversation than an interview. I thought I‘d post a version of the interview that Stuart wrote up, with some links for context and further thoughts. We did the interview standing in a courtyard at eWerk in Mitte — basically, a pleasant car park, but a car park nonetheless — but somehow he managed to get…