I know a lot of people will think that this is a 'radical leftist ideological approach', but when I read calls to 'design ways to survive the heat', I really feel sad for the current limited productivist vision #design has.
You know what will help us to survive? Downscaling production, stopping billionaires, ending colonialism (yes, it's still there) and shifting to a post-growth economy of care.
You know how designers can help? By stopping designing products we don't need.
@alx Exactly.
I feel the same way about programmers rallying for "green IT". 99% of the time it's just a PR campaign for services that shouldn't exist in the first place.
By far the greenest IT is to refuse to build and run services that are unecological or socially unjust
@alx so, so much this. People will buy any new products that are put in front of them. Design should be about creating things that work well and last a good long time, are repairable and use less resources. Convivial products to misquote Illych.