Thank you for speaking up. I recently came across a poster in an office that was saying „Design does not save the world“.

I could not disagree more. Our world (the men made parts) has been designed by us – and we can change it for the better.

As Victor Papanek has written in his book in 1984 „Design for the Real World – Human Ecology and Social Change”:

In this age of mass production when everything must be planned and designed, design has become the most powerful tool with man shapes his tools and environment. This demands high social and moral responsibility from the designer.

We all can and have to decide with Ethics as our compass on weather or not we create something. Let’s do that. Not for us but for future generations.

But since Ethics are also not something static and they will and have to evolve — we have to be at the forefront of this dialogue with society. Let’s bring together the disciplines of Philosophy, Sociology, Technology, Design and History to design the dialogue we need for the future.

Best, Hardy