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In the past, designers created objects. Today, practically everything is designed: the climate, processes, refugee camps. But when everything is designed, it is high time to stop judging design solely on aesthetic criteria. According to Friedrich von Borries, we need a political theory of design. Man is forced to design the conditions under which he lives. If this happens in such a way that options for action are reduced, we are dealing with subjugation.0In his manifesto 'The World as Project. A Political Theory of Design', Friedrich von Borries argues for a design (of survival, society, the self) that evades the totalitarian logic of securitization and imagines new forms of living together against the ideology of lack of alternatives.00Translated by Ian Pepper. Previously published in German as 'Weltenwerfen: Eine politische Designtheorie', Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016 (ISBN 9783518127346).