Designing our Way to a Better World

The disruptions we see happening around the world - political disruptions like Brexit in the UK or the Sanders and Trump phenomena in the U.S.; social disruptions like the rise of random terrorist acts in cities or the protests against excessive violence in our streets; or environmental disruptions like the increasing intensity of storms or the increase in the number of people fleeing drought - are all indicative of political, social, and economic systems no longer functioning as they should. In my new book, just out from the University of Minnesota Press, entitled Designing our Way to a Better World, I talk about how design thinking and design methods can help us create better functioning systems with better outcomes for us all. Here is a link to the book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/designing-our-way-to-a-better-world