期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2019
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：5-14
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2019.01.001
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractHow should we think about design in the face of the crises humanity faces? In my view, it would be favorable to turn design attentions to the political economy that underlies the problems and to post-growth politics, which offers a compelling counter-narrative to neoliberalism. Global problems are continually rehearsed in the scientific community and mass media, yet we behave as though they will be addressed in some other place or time, by someone else. Design is a potent mindset with potential for engaging the issues, and we should make vigorous efforts to take it where it is needed; the severity of our problems indicates that we can no longer afford to be apolitical or uninterested in politics.Highlights•Design has a role to play in addressing the global problems humanity faces.•To address them, we must alter the political economy which is both the root cause and potential key to mitigation.•We should devote most of our design resources to the problems—they are that bad.•Post-growth economics offers realistic analysis and positive existential approaches to living in the current world, and designers should become involved in efforts of this kind.
