Design
Good Design Is a Public Good
In an excerpt from his book Design for Good, John Cary considers the achievements and future of the social-impact design movement.
The following is excerpted from Design for Good by John Cary, with a foreword by Melinda Gates (Island Press, $30). The book collects 20 case studies of public-interest architecture.
If you asked 100 random people or even 100 designers, “What is design?” you would get approximately that many different answers. In the most positive sense, this explains the pervasiveness of designers working in and touching every imaginable aspect of our lives. Beyond built structures, the products we rely on day in and day out, the services we use as members of society, are all designed.