Prof Dr Suzette Worden (picture) from Curtin University of Technology talked on design and its role in a social context at UTAR Petaling Jaya Campus on 15 February 2012.
The talk addressed several important issues in design which included the need for creative responses to global environmental, political and social conditions, and providing innovative and creative solutions needed to affect changes in the social context.
Prof Worden mentioned that there was an emerging design activist movement whose members were demonstrating how design could be an agent for social change. She provided certain definitions of design activism and presented an overview of some current projects based on activist principles. She also contextualised her work by looking at historical precedents and the legacy of radical design ideas from the previous century.
