Designing a new social contract
Session type:
Keynote
Presented by:
George Aye
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Greater Good Studio
Session time:
23 Sep 09:45 — 10:45
Session duration:
60 minutes
About the session
Designers, advocates, and social sector leaders are working inside a social contract they didn't design, and one that is rapidly being rewritten by a well-organised, authoritarian right.
"Designing a New Social Contract" argues that if we don't become intentional authors of a different future, we will be governed by someone else's blueprint for generations.
Drawing on co-leading Greater Good Studio for 15 years, this talk surfaces how race and class quietly structure our current contract, how efforts by the authors of Project 2025 are codifying a new one, and why most people don't realize they've already been assigned a role in this system at birth.
Rather than centering policy experts or design heroes, the talk presents aging and long-term care as a gateway issue and the hardest design constraint that, when solved, reverse-engineers the supports needed at every earlier stage of life.