can design save the world (and should it try?)

Martyn Perks: mail@martynperks.com twitter: martynperks

Can design save the world (and should it try?)

Martyn Perks | mail@martynperks.com | twitter: martynperks

Example of design mixed with politics…

Design today:

Radicalism is borne out of a conservative agenda

Crisis, crisis, crisis...

Crisis of growth (potential)

Economy of services not things

State retreats leaving void of ideas

Professor Richard Layard

Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler

Individuals as emotional and irrational

And the response...

Institutional crisis to exhibit change

“Underground” reaction: two fingers!

Adrian Shaughnessy, Design Week

“The more design is placed at the forefront of the radical new thinking around finance, urban living and social change, the more likely it is to prosper…”Designers want to fill void

“even when they [designers] tackle topics like prison life, aging, or obesity; they do not simply work, they give people a sense of hope and strength… society’s new pragmatic intellectuals.”

Paola Antonelli is senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art

The unstoppable designer?

Example: behaviour change

Cabinet Office’s Behavioural Insight Team

small charitable donations when using cashpointslearner drivers be opted in to an organ donation schemelottery to encourage people to take tests to prove they have quit smoking

Designing in implicit behaviour change

AKA the Ministry of design nudges

Schiphol airport, Amsterdam

Employ trickery to get us to focus!

Target ‘unhealthy’ social norms

Building interiors, displays, advertising, packaging and of course signage…

Implicit opt-ins instead of debate

Insurance forms, websites, marketing campaigns to voting forms

Masdar city, Abu Dhabi: enforced pedestrianised areas

Everything designed around behaviour

But what about our liberty?

Debate is being designed out

‘you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete’Buckminster Fuller

US architect, designer, futurist

Forget pragmatism, question everything

‘ambition is to make a dent in the universe’Steve Jobs, Apple Inc

Excel in expert-led design leadership

‘envision and investigate new product meanings, through a broader, in-depth exploration of the evolution of society, culture, and technology. ’Professor Roberto Verganti

Objectivity is essential in leading change

Your turn…!

can design save the world (and should it try?)

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