Compassion, or has it always existed as a basic human trait?
Design Academy’s 2011-2012 academic year opened on Wednesday 7 September with the ‘Our Way’ symposium. A series of lectures and workshops focused on this theme and brought together a gamut of musicians, scientists, design thinkers, journalists, educators and critics, each of whom discussed their different and sometimes clashing views on the current and future implications of empathy within this creative domain.
“If design embodies the materialization of our world, there must be a socio-political meaning”
Rick Poynor