Saym Hussain is a Design Engineer based in London and is currently working at Dare, where he is developing renewable energy technologies to facilitate the green transition. Saym is an alum of the new Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London - an institution that evolved from the renowned IDE and GID programmes at Imperial College and Royal College of Art - where he developed his multidisciplinary practice and design methodology.
Saym’s work combines design, engineering, and foresight practice with a deep engagement of visual cultures, social sciences, and politics to genuinely understand the micro and macro perspectives that shape people, systems, and environments. Through this cross-disciplinary approach, Saym grapples with complex and multi-dimensional challenges, with his work often transitioning between different mediums of research and implementation to target root problems.
Saym takes on an ontological approach to design, understanding that, through design, we affect the world we live in and therefore shape our ways of being. Thus, design is a responsibility that carries social, political, and cultural influence, affecting how we perceive the past, experience the present, and navigate futures.
His recent work Design for Distributive Agency explores the future of design practice. It formalises a new meta-theoretical framework of designing informed by the socio-political, cultural, technological, and environmental changes of the 2020s. The framework focuses on how designers can create equity and afford agency in a period when inequality is rising, human rights are withering, and technology threatens ways of being.
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