HUMANITY-CENTERED design, a prevailing trend in the 21st century, focuses on developing systems, services and processes that address pressing global challenges, transcending the traditional creation of iconic structures or user-friendly products.

Aligned with this is the Design Center of the Philippines' priority to "make design thinking a national competency," says Design Center Executive Director Rita Matute. "It is ... a 21st-century skill ... and critical in the quest to future-proof the Philippines and address some of our systemic and generational challenges and unjust systems."

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