No Design Manifesto, Design Beyond Shame / Mieke Gerritzen

A world full of rules needs imagination. Design isn’t about guilt—it’s about play, possibility, and co-evolution.

Welcome to a world where everything seems “wrong”: eating meat, smoking, sitting, flying, data, campfires, flowers on the table—even your houseplant might be a climate offender. We’re flooded with dos and don’ts, as if daily life must constantly be corrected by a moral authority. But what if we didn’t shrink back in shame? What if we moved forward—with imagination? The NO DESIGN MANIFESTO is a call for creative freedom. Instead of turning design into a lecture on good behavior, we see it as a space for radical curiosity.

The future doesn’t need perfection—it needs connection: between nature and algorithm, bacteria and emotion, human and more-than-human. Forget the checklist. Embrace the ecosystem. Don’t fear the wild edges. The new manual? We’re writing it—together.