Design as Future-Making

<p><i>Design as Future-Making</i> brings together leading international designers scholars and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that with its focus on innovation and newness is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine sustainability digital crafting fashion architecture urbanism and design activism. <p/>The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice environmental health political agency education and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively they make the case that as an integrated mode of thought and action design is intrinsically social and deeply political.</p>