Silvio Lorusso – What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion

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Silvio Lorusso – What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and DisillusionDesign is broken. Young and not so young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many feel impotent: they were told they had the tools to make the world a better place, but instead the world takes its toll on them. Beyond a haze of hype and bold claims lies a barren land of self doubt and impostor syndrome. Although these feels might be the Millennial norm, design culture reinforces them. In conferences we learn that 'with great power comes

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rendering them veritable sculptures in their own right

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