The reading group is part of a larger series of events at The___School for Designing Critique exploring design in a new economy ———— an intro session (Jan 28) + two (or three) monthly meetings centering around Matthew Wizinsky’s book Design after Capitalism.

The discussions are ran by Johanne Aarup Hansen (interaction designer and initiator of the self-organized educational project called The___School for Designing Critique) and will explore how design is entangled and implicit in the capitalist economy and what are the alternatives.

You get to:

 Understand how the discipline of design is entangled and has developed alongside the capitalist economy

 Get an insight into alternative/anti-capitalist design practices

 Get an introduction to alternative economic thinking

 Discuss what design after capitalism mean

 Develop strategies on how to identify patterns of growth within contemporary design

 Develop strategies on how we start to do things differently