Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to one another. As design teacher and researcher Anne Galloway says:

“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”

Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements; t... See more

Beyond virtue and vice, a few words, whether carefully formed or impulsively flung, have the ability to sculpt reality into something entirely new.