At a Crossroads: Public Interest Design
Environmentally conscious design has paved a path for design with a higher purpose, asserting itself as a mainstay in the global conversation of architecture and design in the past decade. But, curiously, human-centered design has only just started following suit, despite being more immediately impactful on humans themselves. Now just might be the time that human-centered design, more appropriately deemed as public interest design, will take center stage. So what exactly is public interest design? Public interest design, or PID, is intended to exist as a very big umbrella under which environmental, cultural, social and economic concerns, along with a whole slew of other design issues, can all find a home. In collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, a group called Illinois Humanities is hosting a series of panels and lectures on the topic “Designing for the Social Good: From Blueprint to Building. As part of the series, public interest …
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