Otto von Busch is a researcher, exploring the emergence of a new “hacktivist” designer role in fashion. He acquired his PhD degree from University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts in 2008.
It seems like the deeper design gets into processes of participation, engaging users and stakeholders, the more the designer becomes a facilitator or manager of operations.
Why is so much design still bad?
With slow food there is also slow design, a mindful idea of thinking about progress at large and a sustainable zero-growth future
'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.'
Throughout the 20th century design in many ways ruled as a royal practice of modernity.
The notion of the Anthropocene acknowledges the impact of human civilization and capitalism on the planet