Design Capital is the title of a book series that expose challenging and critical long-form essays about fundamental structures sustaining the design field. The books hijack a term that reflects the power struggles and quests for control and hegemony happening in design discourse and practice, and the politics that they embed and reproduce. Formed by five immersive, critical volumes, Design Capital aims at rigorously questioning the foundations of the field, as well as opening space for marginalised worlds within it.

Design Capital is the title of a book series that expose challenging and critical long-form essays about fundamental structures sustaining the design field. The books hijack a term that reflects the power struggles and quests for control and hegemony happening in design discourse and practice, and the politics that they embed and reproduce. Formed by five immersive, critical volumes, Design Capital aims at rigorously questioning the foundations of the field, as well as opening space for marginalised worlds within it.

Design Capital is the title of a book series that expose challenging and critical long-form essays about fundamental structures sustaining the design field. The books hijack a term that reflects the power struggles and quests for control and hegemony happening in design discourse and practice, and the politics that they embed and reproduce. Formed by five immersive, critical volumes, Design Capital aims at rigorously questioning the foundations of the field, as well as opening space for marginalised worlds within it.

Design thinking has created divisions in the field: either designers are too theory-driven or simply practitioners. Those feeling lost can easily turn …