Changing Design/ Designing Change

An article I wrote for RISD's alumni publication discussing the shifting role of design, designers, and our potential to create planned change: 

There are many good definitions of “design,” which have been expanding, shifting, sifting and most of all changing rapidly, along with the rest of the world. But how is industrial design, in particular, changing, and what is happening both at RISD and within the design profession itself?...

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