A design manifesto for the planet | Royal Danish Academy

In her new book Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design, Professor Ida Engholm of the Royal Danish Academy describes how design can pave new paths to a sustainable world. Over the recent centuries, design has been like a huge engine, generating a constant spiral of new needs. This design engine is driven by our human capacity for imagination, which keeps producing new ideas while also resulting in the consumption of vast amounts of scarce resources. In Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design, Professor Ida Engholm argues that instead of focusing on how design can serve humanity, we should critically question what fundamental values and world views our design is based on. So far, our design has been centred on human users and our needs, but today, the scale of the environmental crisis compels us to put the planet first. We need to go from human-centred to planet-centred design. Just as design has been part of the problem, it can now become part

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