Designer’s Role

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

Excerpt from Reframing the World as One City Forum, T2.

Designers have to decide whether they want to stay in their traditional comfort zone.

Dealing with the usual interlocutors and focusing on local configurations of physical space, or speak truth to power, using a critical exploration of current urbanization processes as their particular contribution to devising new, planetary apparatuses that inhibit the ferocity of this new urban Moloch.