Design as Common Good

Attention all designers! On 25 – 26 March 2021, the online conference „Design as Common Good“ will take place. I don’t know exactly what to expect at this event. Nevertheless, I am excited and full of anticipation to learn something new and to broaden my design horizon. In the following, I will describe why I find the two panels I will be attending particularly interesting.

Panel 1: Social Design in Emerging Economies

In this panel we will talk about social design in emerging economies. I think this topic is incredibly interesting because in times of rapid growth and development, design has the power to create sustainable good structures.

Panel 2: Diverse, Open, Collaborative: Innovative Approaches to Design

Collaboration is and always has been an important part of design. It is only through diversity and openness that the greatest possible potential can be tapped from a collaboration. Not least because of the pandemic, many people have discovered online communication for themselves. What was difficult for many at first has now become completely normal. And yet, without the compulsion of the pandemic, we would probably never have discovered these possibilities for ourselves.

Author: Ayko Kehl