Saving the World Through Design Thinking

During a recent World Economic Forum in Dubai, the Global Agenda Council/Design Group came up with a Design Manifesto to advocate for "what design thinking can do to help reshape the big issues of the day."

Learning – Design can help to rebuild the education system to ensure that it is fit for purpose in the 21st Century. Another challenge is to redefine or reorient the design education system at a time of unprecedented demand when thousands of new design schools are being built worldwide and design is increasingly being integrated into other curricula. Designers are also deploying their skill at communication and visualization to explain and interpret the overwhelming volume of extraordinary complex information.