If design is ‘the problem’. Can we design ourselves out of it?

 

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Is design responsible for making attractive and irrisitible those things which people don’t need, to fuel a system whos primary motive is to seek ever increasing wealth for some in the world and hold down the rest, keeping the balance in their favour?

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Can designers use their skills and the system they work within to undo the mess?

 

 

 

 

 http://www.adbusters.org/abtv/are_we_headed_crash.html

http://www.adbusters.org/cultureshop/front

“Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
R.D. Laing

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

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