A Proposal to Connect all Design for the Common Good

Eric Benson
9 min readFeb 18, 2021

Systems Thinking is “the way”

Illustration was commissioned for this article. It was created by Veronica Pham.

Design does not exist or function in a vacuum. It also does not exist without Mother Earth. Gaia gifts everything we need for us to live and thrive. What we have unfortunately done with her philanthropy created the divides, crises, and opportunities we still have. Nature provides for all of us and, equally as important, is a model for

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Eric Benson

Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Co-founder of Re-nourish & Fresh Press Agri-Fiber Paper Lab.