Design can be seen as a tool to improve a wide range of human activity. These same activities must now be understood as contributing to impacts on the planet that we will be living with the consequences of for a long time. Does design have a role in adapting human activities in this new context? If so, what is the new form that design must take?

Livework’s Anna van der Togt and Ben Reason will discuss this question drawing on a wide range of influences from philosophy to risk management and ethics to economics. 

Article: Designing in the Anthropocene