It is easy to think that politics has no place in design—that design is banal and inconsequential. Arrive at the design section of any bookshop in any European or North American city, and you are welcomed by an anti-intellectual assortment of books that demonstrate design is only about style, grids, the celebrity designer-artist, and clever one-liners. It is as though you’ve mistakenly wandered into the self-help section. What if these shelves demonstrated the extent of the discipline? What if they showed that design is not a neutral, isolated or value-free activity, but a transdisciplinary practice?