558. INFRASTRUCTURES 4. Design-research for democracy (USA/France). A talk with Max Stearns

Diseño y Diáspora

Max Stearns, a designer that has for a long time worked in the intersection between participatory design and climate. He also works in European research projects in relation to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. In this interview we talk about one of these projects: Net Zero cities, about democratic infrastructures, citizen participation and design-research.

We talked about:

Net Zero Cities

Strategies for a Networked Approach

Climate Participatory budget in Vienna

Democratic infrastructure

This interview is part of the lists: D&D in English, Democracia y diseño, Infrastructures, Diseño sostenible and Gobierno y diseño. The lists can be found in Spotify, in our website and in Youtube.

This is the fourth episode of a series on Infrastructures. This is a series of 4 interviews to people based or coming from: Ireland, Finland, France, Denmark, and the United States. The main focus is in understanding the possible role of design in relation to infrastructures. I started this enquiry interviewing designers involved in the development of services for projects. I wanted to ask them: what can we design in relation to the work of infrastructures?