TY - GEN
T1 - The No Design Manifesto: Curb Your Enthusiasm
AU - Gerritzen, Mieke
AU - Lorusso, Silvio
AU - Lovink, Geert
AU - Rossiter, Ned
N1 - All publications of this series are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)
PY - 2025/9/23
Y1 - 2025/9/23
N2 - The design world is dazed and confused. The role of the professional formerly known as “graphic designer” is caught between conflicting expectations of meme-driven social media, worthy government policies, and dirty business practices. Over the past 50 years, design has super-charged a disposable culture, pollution, and consumerism. Social inequality has dramatically increased over the past two decades. Will the sector be able to “design” itself out of the deadlock? It is no longer enough to pay lip service to good intentions. Can “design” step out of the managerial straight-jacket and regain autonomy or will it humbly retreat into a submissive service role?
AB - The design world is dazed and confused. The role of the professional formerly known as “graphic designer” is caught between conflicting expectations of meme-driven social media, worthy government policies, and dirty business practices. Over the past 50 years, design has super-charged a disposable culture, pollution, and consumerism. Social inequality has dramatically increased over the past two decades. Will the sector be able to “design” itself out of the deadlock? It is no longer enough to pay lip service to good intentions. Can “design” step out of the managerial straight-jacket and regain autonomy or will it humbly retreat into a submissive service role?
UR - https://networkcultures.org/longform/2025/09/23/curb-your-enthusiasm/
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M3 - Other contribution
PB - Institute of Network Cultures
CY - Amsterdam
ER -