Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World

Fuad-Luke's comprehensive survey of design activism — design mobilised for a sustainable, more just world, with 'beautiful strangeness' as a tactic. It gathers three SDF threads at once: the Sustainability and Social-Responsibility mottos and the framework's view of design as a political act. Published by Routledge, the book maps expressions of design activism against a backdrop of global and local tensions, arguing that design has a central role to play in the sustainability challenge. Fuad-Luke examines how a diverse range of designers, teachers and other practitioners are challenging who gets to use the design process, from individual and collective action to the wider infrastructure that supports it, and presents design as a political and social act aimed at building societies' capacity to shape their own futures.