Designing within Danger: How Military Design Contributes to Security Forces Differently

This is an excerpt from an upcoming military design book chapter for an international educational textbook addressing various forms and functions of design practice. Once that project is published (digitally and in print), an announcement will be made through Medium and other social media. Follow Ben Zweibelson, PhD to get the latest news, articles, excerpts from various writing projects and more.

Although the modern military design movement is but a few decades old, their collective efforts to produce a new community of practice toward disrupting and transforming how defence organizations think, act and organize is already making significant inroads internationally. A growing body of professional design theorists, researchers, practitioners and educators are generating what is becoming a distinct sub discipline within Security Studies as well as a new area of andragogic consideration across international professional military education (PME) programs. The military design movement recently had its first formal literature review completed (Wrigley et al., 2021), and a growing network of theorists and practitioners from Ottawa to Fort Leavenworth (Anderson, 2012; Beaulieu-Brossard, 2015; Kelly & Brennan, 2010; Mitchell, 2017), from Stockholm to Sydney and elsewhere are bringing into clarity these…