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The No Design Manifesto

Design Beyond Shame

Mieke Gerritzen

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BIS Publishers B.V.
02 June 2026
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. At Next Nature, we

don't believe in going back to nature-we believe in moving forward. A nature

where humans and technology co-evolve, not under rigid rules, but through new

forms of play. Design shouldn't be a moral compass-it should be a living,

breathing system, alive with potential.

Instead of turning design into a lecture on good behavior, we see it as a

space for radical curiosity. Not statements that align neatly with policy,

but experiences that invite us to feel, think, and act differently. 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.
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Imprint:   BIS Publishers B.V.
Dimensions:   Height: 180mm,  Width: 110mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   260g
ISBN:   9789063698072
ISBN 10:   9063698070
Pages:   190
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mieke Gerritzen is a designer and curator, currently serving as Creative Director at Next Nature Network. Until 2017, she was director of MOTI (Museum of the Image) in Breda, where she developed the museum's artistic program. She has written over ten books and produced more than twenty exhibitions exploring the impact of technology on art, design, and media. From 2002 to 2008, she led the design department at the Sandberg Institute and taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her film Beautiful World was shown in over 30 countries, and her graphic work is held by MoMA SF and Cooper Hewitt.

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