Some suggest that the system needs to change, that individual actions like stopping flying are pointless, as one hundred corporates emit 70% of all emissions.32 Others demand ideological purity on climate consciousness, arguing that unless someone lives a carbon-neutral life, they can’t have a say about what needs to change in the system. This

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In this article, I set to understand and explore fundamental thinking that examines a new design worldview. A proposal to change our ways of working as designers, first in voluntary communities (which we already have, but with different goals) and then to be better equipped to understand and explore as individuals and as a community.

The future depict­ed here is one where Euro­pean cit­i­zens reclaim agency through intro­spec­tion. As pre­vail­ing nar­ra­tives of per­pet­u­al eco­nom­ic growth and tech­no­log­i­cal fix­es fal­ter, more and more indi­vid­u­als believe that chang­ing the world begins with per­son­al trans­for­ma­tion.