Design philosophy politics is a related project to design philosophy papers and discribs its position like this:
“The objectives of Design Philosophy Politics are to:
• widen the constituency that recognises the importance of the relation between design and politics;
• create a global community of critical, politically informed designers, design thinkers and critics.
Design Philosophy Politics is an extension and development of Design Philosophy Papers, a refereed online journal established in 2003. The political implications of design are frequently addressed in Design Philosophy Papers in theoretical and scholarly ways. Contributors have engaged design in relation to concerns such as: ethics, user-centredness, technology; otherness; dematerialisation; aesthetics; sustainability; urbocentrism; homelessness; politics and the political. The kind of radical thinking being developed through Design Philosophy Papers informs the briefer, more hard-hitting content of Design Philosophy Politics.
Design Philosophy Politics aspires to be rigorous in its criticism of the unsustainable and affirmative in its embrace of potentially effective actions towards sustainment.”
It’s interesting that, design research theorie philosophie and so on, mostly focusing on social ecological related design issues. Sure there a even as many papers about mainly consume focused design, what makes the main part of the design profession. But, it seams that the main progress is done in the more objective seemingly sustainable design.
