Envisioning what we need; when it doesn’t yet exist: this; Thomas Fisher tells us; is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning schools; working infrastructure; thriving cities—why not design one? Fisher shows how the principles of design apply to services and systems that seem to evolve naturally; systems whose failures sometimes seem as arbitrary and inevitable as the weather. But the “invisible†systems we depend on for our daily lives (in education; politics; economics; and public health) are designed every bit as much as the products we buy and the environments we inhabit—and are just as susceptible to creative reimagining.Designing Our Way to a Better World challenges the assumptions that have led to so much poor performance in the public and private realms: that our schools cannot teach creativity; that our governments cannot predict the disasters that befall us; that our health system will protect us from pandemics; that our politics will remain polarized; that our economy cannot avoid inequality; and that our industry cannot help but pollute the environment. Targeting these assumptions; Fishers approach reveals the power of design to synthesize our knowledge about the world into greater wholes. In doing so; this book opens up possible futures—and better futures—than the unsustainable and inequitable one we now face.
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