Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers scholars & critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that with its focus on innovation & newness is a natural ally of futurity Ultimately the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative & critical reflection examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine sustainability digital crafting fashion architecture urbanism & design activism The authors contextualize design & its affects within issues of social justice environmental health political agency education & the right to pleasure & play Collectively they make the case that as an integrated mode of thought & action design is intrinsically social & deeply political