The time when architecture and design involved creating new buildings and products is over, argues Beatrice Galilee in a manifesto written for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. Instead, the discipline must expand to include the systems and people it has long overlooked.
"The radical architecture of the future may come from architects who refuse to build at all," writes Galilee in her manifesto titled The Design We Can't See.
"The time when designers had the luxury of focusing only on end products has come to a close," she writes.
Dezeen 15 is a digital festival celebrating Dezeen's 15th birthday. Running from 1 to 19 November, it will feature a different manifesto for the future each weekday. See the line-up here.

The Design We Can't See The image of the world's largest container ship, the Ever Given, gracelessly splayed sideways across the Suez Canal, blocking 12 per cent of the planet's cargo, while a pair of guys in hi-vis vests stand on the banks beside it with their hands on their hips, made for some solid memes for a week or so.
It also became an instant metaphor for the sequences of unremarkable hulking objects and systems that the western world depends upon but only pays attention to when things go wrong: the invisible but still highly designed world.
After centuries of industrial production, these ugly systems and ugly values that built the dominant world culture have led to climate, economic and cultural disarray. But the future of architecture...