Lisa Lenkersdorf’s bachelor’s thesis explores the complexity of design decisions, her own creative stance, and their consequences and influences. Using design theory, she examines how personal convictions and design understanding relate to ecological, economic, social, and cultural developments.
She argues that such reflection fosters awareness of complexity, values, responsibility, collaboration, and dialogue. Can communication design still meet society’s future needs? Should designers actively shape the world around them, as Friedrich von Borries suggests? Must we try to address everything, or is simplification a better path?
To share her insights, Lenkersdorf created a prototype knowledge pool—an ever-growing design canon that visualizes her reflections, creates links between key actors and information, and supports knowledge transfer.