Design affects all social contexts and is therefore intensively instrumentalized both by the politically powerful and their critics. Both functions of design, and their inevitable combination, are presented in this book in precise detail.

Authors from various countries present previously unknown and innovative examples of democratic activities conducted through design. This publication is therefore aimed not only at design professionals but also at the general public of all countries.

• CONTENTS 5
• Foreword BIRD 8
• Introduction Underneath the Pavement 10
• Acknowledgments 12
• 1 Design (Govern)mentalities: Implications of Design and/as Governance in Cape Town 14
• 2 Design for Policy: Looking for the Next Step Design for Policy: The Time of Maturity 29
• 3 Democracy by Design 36
• 4 Democracy by Making – A Failed Rendezvous of Design and Pragmatism? 45
• 5 Designing Democracy or Muddling Through? – A Cautious Plea for Reflection and Moral Disarmament in Social/Transformative Desig 59
• 6 Design and the Politics of the Everyday 74
• 7 Desocracy – Contradictions and Possibilities within and between Democracy and Design 86
• 8 How to Act? 96
• 9 Office for Design of Democracy – Conclusions from a Field Trip 105
• 10 Agonistic Events to Remember 111
• 11 Design Activism, Democracy, and the Crisis of Social Networks 120