Scroll down for highlights from the series
As a concept, design now often functions either as a marketing tool or as a form of art, its promise to make a positive difference to ordinary people's lives through problem-solving seemingly expired.
At the same time, the planetary polycrisis continues apace, hastened by an incessant deluge of buildings and things that are bad for nature and bad for us. Designers and architects are either complicit, or powerless to stop it.
Just as it seems the world has never been in greater need of good design, design is in disarray.
How did it come to this? And, more importantly, how can we fix it?
Read on for six highlights from the series, in this special edition of Dezeen Agenda:
