Few designers have been able to detach from the dominant paradigm of generating wealth for markets, who have taken a critical stance on profit-led design practice. By positioning environmental and social issues at the top of their agenda, they have demonstrated that design can play a vital role in helping to bring about positive social changes and thus challenge the status quo. These are the designers who are considered design activists.

Profiling the needs, traits and values of the knowledge worker are the first steps in exploring the potential of a service to assist and enable a new lifestyle for this user group. This information and technology based worker. Having identified the need and potential of a service based relationship between knowledge workers and British libraries the potential for incorporating design as a tool for reali.

This project sets out a framework for sustainable living in rural areas. The objective is to preserve the existing heritage and culture in my home town and, in particular, the local food market, which will be destroyed by the forthcoming opening of a supermarket by a global grocery company. Increasing awareness about a loss of traditional trading identity and way of life due to the forthcoming international supermarket. Losing of certain tradition, ways of living and value .

Designa strives for providing a platform with online and offline components where adhering members can have access to a community of designers who share the same principals and beliefs about Lebanese design. One of the main drives behind this project is the reaffirmation of the social role of design as a powerful tool for expression and also as a great agent for change. Designa functions on the basis of five main principles that dictate its activities and its directions.