Alix Rule Makes Waves with 'Design Probably Can't Really Change Anything Dramatically' Essay

Could that be the first crack in the “design will save us all” mantra of the past year? Probably not, but if so, we want to be able to say we, sadly, called it first. We’re talking about an interesting essay, “The Revolution Will Not Be Designed,” by Alix Rule in In These Times magazine. In it, Rule says that while thinking design, in whatever form you decide to define it, is going to be the thing that makes the world a much better place, solving all those rotten social ills, is a nice ambition, it’s also naive and flawed from the start.