# The Manifesto of Society Centered Design

**URL:** https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-manifesto-of-society-centered-design/4949
**Category:** Humane design
**Tags:** awareness, ethics, best-practice
**Created:** [September 13, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-manifesto-of-society-centered-design/4949 "2020-09-13T11:39:56Z")
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### Author: ![gctwnl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@gctwnl](https://community.humanetech.com/u/gctwnl)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 7:10am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/the-manifesto-of-society-centered-design/4949/2 "2020-09-17T07:10:29Z")

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Hey Arnold, have a look at [https://ea.rna.nl/all-that-it-what-is-it-doing-to-us/](https://ea.rna.nl/all-that-it-what-is-it-doing-to-us/) and especially the third and fourth article. Because society-centered is — I think — indeed a good term for the answers if we want to counterbalance the spinning out of control of individualism (which damages ‘society’).

That fourth article suggests that we might need a ‘fourth’ power in the balance of power between executive, legislative, and judicial: the protective (that last one an independent power that protects individuals from being manipulated so the fabric of society is less vulnerable). Such a power could guard against ‘design and actions against the fabric of a democracy and the rule of law’. But there are likely to be far better answers than that.

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