How design can help foster the conditions for global peace: an intersectional visual conversation between activists, designers, architects and theorists How might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now? Designing Peace is an intersectional snapshot of the actions--culturally diverse and wide-ranging in scale--that are currently in play around the world. Offering perspectives on peace through essays, interviews, critical maps, project profiles, data visualizations and art, this book conveys the momentum that design can gain in effecting a peace-filled future. From activists, scholars and architects to policymakers and graphic, game and landscape designers, Designing Peace flips the conversation: peace is not simply a passive state signifying the absence of war, it is a dynamic concept that requires effort, expertise and multidimensional solutions to address its complexity. Designers engage with individuals, communities and organizations to create a more sustainable peace--from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation. This publication aims to expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for peace. Contributors include : Michael Adlerstein, Pablo Ares and Julia Risler, Merve Bedir, Everisto Benyera, Nadine Bloch and Andrew Boyd, Lee Davis, Toni L. Griffin, Kristian Hoelscher, Dillon Horwitz, Michael Kenwick, Jason Miklian, Michael Murphy, Binalakshmi Nepram, Caroline O'Connell, Chelina Odbert, Tone Selmer-Olsen and Håvard Breivik, Beth Simmons and others. 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