Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

Designing Peace implicates design in processes for mitigating, if not expunging, conflict ... How can design preserve community safety? How can design be used to root out the causes of a conflict? How might design contribute in smoothing the transition to peace in unstable contexts? And more curiously, can design engage “creative confrontation”? Given the sad state of geopolitics, the findings and solutions presented in Designing Peace are as urgent as ever. ― The Architect's Newspapaer

As the war in Ukraine rages on, it’s hard to imagine a more timely summer show than “Designing Peace,” at the Cooper Hewitt. -- Andrea K. Scott ― New Yorker

Building playgrounds on the border wall and serving cuisine from North Korea, designers and artists are creatively engaging the challenges of world peace in ways that surpass static emblems such as the peace symbol. -- Jonathon Keats ― Forbes: Media

Highlights how design can help resolve conflicts, promote justice, and pave the way for peace. -- Elissaveta M. Brandon ― Fast Company

An intersectional visual conversation between activists, designers, architects and theorists ... Profusely illustrated, thought-provokingly informative. ― Midwest Book Review