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The State of Design

ABSTRACT This paper is the transcription of an opening speech delivered to the European Academy of Design's The Endless End conference on 4 May 2011 in Porto, Portugal. It examines the changing, and evolving, state of design in a postindustrial age. In particular, how a radical step-change, caused by intellectual technologies emerging from the Industrial Revolution, stimulated new systems of mass democratization that, in turn, were to transform our notions of individual freedom and social cohesion. In this context it considers design to be a key agent in the production and co-production of useful things and meaningful interactions with the latter gathering influence in a post-industrial society.