ABSTRACT
Displacement and unsettlement are growing conditions of the contemporary world destined to increase. The keynote address qualifies both linked conditions. First, as a disastrous existential loss of place and every aspect of a way of life—as a result of conflict or of a severe enviro-climatic impact. Second, as the wider psychological condition of living in an increasingly geopolitically unstable world of uncertain futures. So framed, and against my own experience of working in post-conflict environments, I asked and responded to a question, directed at designers and design thinkers: where do we place design?
