Conspiratorial Design

Carlo Bramanti is a designer and writer based in The Netherlands.We literally told you not to research:The Conspiracy to Rule the World, unknown author and dateThe following text is an excerpt from my book “Conspiratorial Design - Information Design for the Bigger Picture”, slightly adapted to work as a standalone article. In the book, I try to articulate a series of formal and theoretical intersections between the world of design and that of conspiracy theories, using diagrams as an access point to the topic.Looking for Patterns: Conspiratorial DesignConspiratorial design: a disposition towards information that uses design methods and tools of representation to achieve a hypertrophic synthesis. The conspiratorial designer assumes that there is a hidden and emergent knowledge they can disclose because they have a privileged total perspective to see the bigger picture. Through conspiratorial design, one can see and make others see the invisible connections between the dots that form…