How design can help foster the conditions for global peace: an
intersectional visual conversation between activists, designers,
architects and theorists
How might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a
future we want to live in and take action to create it now? Designing
Peace is an intersectional snapshot of the actions--culturally diverse
and wide-ranging in scale--that are currently in play around the
world.
Offering perspectives on peace through essays, interviews, critical
maps, project profiles, data visualizations and art, this book conveys
the momentum that design can gain in effecting a peace-filled future.
From activists, scholars and architects to policymakers and graphic,
game and landscape designers, Designing Peace flips the conversation:
peace is not simply a passive state signifying the absence of war, it is
a dynamic concept that requires effort, expertise and multidimensional
solutions to address its complexity.
Designers engage with individuals, communities and organizations to
create a more sustainable peace--from creative confrontations that
challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice
and truth in a search for reconciliation. This publication aims to
expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for
peace.
Contributors include: Michael Adlerstein, Pablo Ares and Julia
Risler, Merve Bedir, Everisto Benyera, Nadine Bloch and Andrew Boyd, Lee
Davis, Toni L. Griffin, Kristian Hoelscher, Dillon Horwitz, Michael
Kenwick, Jason Miklian, Michael Murphy, Binalakshmi Nepram, Caroline
O'Connell, Chelina Odbert, Tone Selmer-Olsen and Håvard Breivik, Beth
Simmons and others.
