Can Designers Save the World (and Should They Try?)
http://www.uigarden.net/english/can-designers-save-the-world-and-should-they-try

Macdonald, Nico
uiGarden
2006

Abstract:

Designers are clearly more self-conscious about their social role today than they have been at any time in the last 20 years, yet the lack of substance of the critics who have come to the fore, and the issues on which it is chosen to take a stand, reflect a political agenda that is set elsewhere. There are many areas of life in which designers can make a real difference, but we need to look first at why they are taking themselves so seriously in the noughties.