Trust Design Publication 3: Trust, Design and Faith

We're pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Trust Design publication series is out. For issue three, we focus on the relationship between trust, design, and faith.

Faith and trust are the underpinnings of almost all our sociological and personal constructs, yet both can be allusive goals or attributes. What role does faith have in our relationship with design? Can the mechanisms of faith be used to enable trust through design? Apple has created an almost quasi-religion around its products through design, while contemporary faith-based organisations are turning to design as a way to increase and strengthen their role in society.

In addition to discussing Trust Design’s central exploration of the relationship between trust and design, we extend the conversation to debate the role of faith – spiritual or otherwise – within trust and design.

Featured in this issue are the following authors and articles: 

• Scott Burnham - Faith Is Trust
• Andrew Breitenberg - Uthixo Luthando
• Mathieu Frossard - In Design We Trust
• Nigel Cross - The Utopian Design Policy Of The Shakers
• Garðar Eyjólfsson & Thomas Vally - The New System
• Kenneth Fitzgerald - I Believe In Design
• Adrien Petrucci - Deity Emergency

Excerpts from the issue will appear on this site once the hard copy makes its way to subscribers - Trust Design: Faith is Trust is published in conjunction with Volume 29 - more information can be found here.