Read some books that make you uncomfortable about being a designer. Books that challenge the modern western narrative of a problematic world waiting to be solved help us understand the larger structures that use design.
Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty
Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth
Charles Jencks: The Language of Post-Modern Architecture
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus
James C. Scott: Seeing Like A State
Sorry for the lack of diversity in that list. If anyone has suggestions for political theory or design/architectural criticism not written by white men, I'd be excited to add them to my bookshelf.
Read some books that make you uncomfortable about being a designer. Books that challenge the modern western narrative of a problematic world waiting to be solved help us understand the larger structures that use design.
Sorry for the lack of diversity in that list. If anyone has suggestions for political theory or design/architectural criticism not written by white men, I'd be excited to add them to my bookshelf.