“Most contemporary design projects that purport to support democracy do so in the realm of politics and not the political, and so we can differentiate between design for politics and political design. Design for politics most often works to improve access to information (such as public health information or information regarding organizations and candidates) or to improve the access to various forms of ordered expression and action (such as petitions, balloting, and voting). As used in projects that apply design to politics , it emphasizes techniques of merging form and content in aesthetically compelling and functionally appropriate ways to support the means of governance—the mechanisms by which a state, organization, or group is held together. Such work is imperative but is not inherently political in an agonistic sense. “
DiSalvo, C. (2015). Adversarial Design. The MIT Press.