Good design looks good, but good looking does not make good design." Prof. Michael Hardt (University of Lapland Rovaniemi, Finland) looks at the impact of unethical design on current global issues, and our growing recognition of the role designers play in this process.
Are designers the victims or the culprit? Either way, if we designed the problem, we can design our way out of it. Using both historical examples and findings from his student's projects, Hardt urges the creative industry to turn ethical values into financial values, and work to design solutions rather than problems.