Design als Haltung. Handlungsfelder jenseits des Kommerziellen

In recent decades, design has been strongly focussed on stimulating needs and boosting consumption. This concept of design stems from the spirit of the economic miracle and reached its peak in the era of exuberant stock markets and neoliberal economic systems.

Today, we look with horror at the environmental destruction, the division of society and the strengthening of the political fringes as consequences of this economic system. Time to break new ground! Design and society are closely interrelated. Design influences how people interact with each other and how they behave in the designed environment.

This book paves the way for a new understanding of design that focusses on the process in an open-ended and integrative way, is oriented towards togetherness and does not serve turbo capitalism. Because design can change the world for the better. And because design, understood in this way, gives life more meaning.