"I dream of a future where everyone has what they need and where design supports human and planetary flourishing. This vision fills me with hope while also making me acutely aware of the reality many designers face today. Our work is done within the dominant capitalist framework that prioritizes financial growth above all else, often at the expense of true flourishing."
"As designers, we often find ourselves caught between: The practical necessity of working within existing systems to earn a living and have immediate impact The moral imperative to imagine and create fundamentally different systems that center human dignity, social justice, and ecological health The professional challenges of balancing client expectations with our deeper values and ethics The emotional labor of holding hope for transformation while facing the limitations of incremental change"
Design practice operates largely inside a capitalist framework that privileges financial growth over true human and planetary flourishing. Designers face tensions between earning a living within existing systems and imagining fundamentally different systems centered on dignity, justice, and ecological health. Everyday decisions about projects, stakeholder voices, and future-making reveal questions of complicity, compromise, and possibility. These tensions include practical, moral, professional, and emotional dimensions that shape action and ethics. Three approaches to shifting within the current system are identified: practicing harm reduction, building movements, and centering rest as a form of resistance here and now.
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