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On May 29th, 2001, the D&AD SuperHumanism conference took place in London, convened by Richard Seymour of Seymour Powell. The event brought designers and other professional creative people together with historians, social theorists, technologists and policy makers. Their shared goal? To reassert human values over the technological and commercial ones that sometimes seem to have taken over our lives.

The site has transcripts of all of the speeches given at the conference. There’s some good discussion around using design as a force for social change. Naomi Klein, Rem Koolhaas, and John Maeda are some of the contributers you might recognize.