Radical Thinkers in Design

Radical Thinkers in Design is part of a trilogy that includes the Designing in Dark Times and Beyond the Modern series. It presents key, provocative texts in contemporary thinking on designing by renowned scholars, offering resources for renewed thinking and praxis today. By bringing together books and essays that were previously out of print, untranslated, or otherwise inaccessible, the series opens up powerful lines of thought for re-imagining what designing is, and what it can become, for future generations.

The series responds to a central paradox of contemporary design: while education and practice have expanded globally, the field is too often reduced to a narrow understanding of vocation. As a result, depth of thought disappears, deeper crises remain untouched, and genuinely new practices and concepts become difficult to articulate. Design risks becoming purely instrumental at precisely the historical moment when deeper modes of thinking and acting are most urgently needed.