Design for the unthinkable world: Strange ecology and unwelcome change

If design's raison d’être is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it. In other words, the world-for-us. While once upon a time this might have been seen to be a worthy objective, now the role of designing must cease to service design for change in the manner in which it has been doing. Now, it is designing itself that must change to explore what possibilities there might be for the design of what-might-not-become in an unthinkable-world. What Eugene Thacker has called a world-without-us. A world-without-us does not mean a world devoid of humans, but a world we project (and design) that continues to revolve around the sun but no longer revolves around us.