ABSTRACT
Fisher's simple answer is that designers are one group of people who can imagine how conditions might be different than they now are. His attitude is not self-deluded or overly self-important, but based on a long career of thinking about and acting in design culture. To accept Fisher's proposition does not, however, give those of us without design degrees an ethical pass. Instead, his critique of contemporary technological, or design culture is that most of us have failed to recognize the degree to which our day-to-day activities are actually design practices. Through our formal education and on the job training we have not lost the capacity to make the world different, we just do so unconsciously. In the wake of the disruptive storms and economies that we have already experienced at this point in the Anthropocene, Fisher argues for a technological culture that embraces 'design thinking'.
