Verbal/Non Verbal as an Identifying Polarity
The typological role in identity reference.
All about social responsibility
Find the best thoughts, case studies, book references, debates and tips of interest for the social responsibility category.
Fewer Products vs. More Services
A possible new horizon for the world and for the Design.
The Citizen Designer
In the dark days that live Mexico, emerges a discussion about how designers get involved with social conflicts.
Don't Mess with My Design!
The interprofessional critique taboo: insecurity, paranoia and corporatism refuge.
A Navel Too Big
Isn't it too much to ask design to “make the world better”? Isn't there in such request an exacerbation of its goals (and of designers) above its possibilities and concerns?
Social Design: Definitions
Graphic design seeking for understanding between sender and receiver through communication.
Sign Consumption
Culture adherence to the speech of globalization require reviewing purposes and values design assumed.
What is social design?
Design's social impact is a research area not covered enough by designers.
The Critical Designer and Material Culture
Working unreflectively and predominantly for neutral or anti-social programs perpetuates a society characterized by inequalities.
Accomplice Design or Ethical Design
How long are the designers going to keep collaborating with a system which leads us to an Earth disaster?
Design and Intelligence Development
Human beings are born with several potentialities marked by genetics; nevertheless, today we know that we can develop some others through certain stimulus, like design.
The Roots of Industrial Design Colleges in Colombia
Looking back from two theories about its origin.
Green Models in Classroom
Design teachers must spread pedagogical processes for a green world to reduce the impact of our academic exercises on the local environment.
Planned Obsolescence
Design should no longer respond to market interests anymore, but to the human needs that as a global community we have created as time goes by.
Malacca Beach: Social and Environmental Implications of Design
A call to designers and engineers to take up social and environmental impact in their designs - especially when it comes to off-shore resource extraction.
Graphic Design's Carbon Footprint
Carbon footprint is defined as the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse effect gases, bound to a product or service.
