The Turn of Design Towards Common Good

We are able to conceive apocalyptic scenarios or great technological developments, but we are unable to develop a better society. What can design do for this? As designers, we should promote ideas to tidy up the world we live in, cultivate and teach the fundamentals of civic awareness. The text introduces critical thinking on these issues and then analyses some research projects and practices concerning commons. Final thoughts are developed, rough syntheses to explore what are the purposes, tools, results of design as common good: design of systems to enable changes; purposeful attitude on critical issues; bottom-up generative practices. A mapping proposes the concepts obtained by relating experiences. Design as a common good means taking the community into account. It should be an enzyme healing our way of living, educating, practising.