Designing Activism
- Author
- What Design Can Do
- Year
- 2020
Published by What Design Can Do, this collection profiles 31 designers around the world using their work for activism, from homelessness and plastic recycling to peace and women's rights. It is the organisation's fourth publication and gathers portraits and project descriptions as a case for design's social impact.
A rallying collection of thirty-one creative activists using design to push for positive change. Short and motivating, it turns the SDF's Social-Responsibility motto and its design-is-political stance into concrete Procedures.
Published by What Design Can Do as its fourth publication, Designing Activism presents 31 designers from around the world working on causes including equality, social justice, plastic recycling, peace and wellbeing. It features designers such as Bas Timmer, inventor of the Sheltersuit for people who are homeless, Russian illustrator Victoria Lomasko, and Indian photographer Sujatro Ghosh, alongside Ekene Ijeoma, Ronny Edry, Sunny Dolat, Kacey Wong, Panmela Castro and Edel Rodriguez. The portraits and project descriptions together make a case for the impact design can have on society.
Where to find it
In the framework
- Social Responsibility
- Design is a political act · concept
- Procedures Component
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