Mona, Annette and Mo joined the co-creative session during the Donut Days in Amsterdam in 2021. Designers want to solve problems. But let’s face it, most designers are part of the problem. Their ‘solutions’ drive consumption and inequality, exclusion, creates waste and destroys nature. As this has led to an existential crisis of humanity, the question is: what is the crisis approach of designers and artists to World Problems? What did we learn from the covid crisis, what can makers do to turn the tide? With the help of Ilmirah, Ibrahim, Lisa and Zalla things became more and more concrete: How to combine activism with artistic practices and entrepreneurship. So it became a foundation with a variety of projects, run by a group of makers with and without a valid residence permit.
