I can’t help thinking you are being uncharitable. It seems your critique is more levelled at the current global economic system and the limited resources and time available to the organisers of the Summit. These are not unreasonable things to discuss or dispute, but they are the parameters in which proposals to governments must operate. While we academics are merely observing we are free to imagine best case scenarios. However, when charged with the responsibility of (potentially) contributing to public policy its back to the old adage ‘politics is the art of the possible.’

For myself, I’m impressed at the breadth of the proposals. I like your suggestions of ways the proposals could be extended, but it seems having an awareness of design is a pre-requisite to understanding or acting on them. The proposals as stated at designpolicy.org appear to be introducing design to members of the senate in a fundamental way. First things first I reckon.

Katherine