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Dear Mauricio, Government policy design is a large well-established design field (taught in universities - but not usually in Art and Design schools ) in which people create designs for government policies to be enacted - see for example https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2017/POLS30035 From experience, many politicians are only peripheral to the government policy design processes. It’s a bit like executives of vehicle manufacturers who say something like 'I think we should next manufacture a five door hatchback', and their order to produce the designs for the new 5 door hatchback goes to the vehicle stylists and engineering designers. Did the executives 'design' the car? It’s a parallel question as to whether politicians actually 'design' government policy or whether their role can best be seen as them instructing policy designers to design the detail of the policies. Government policy designers are usually public servants and government policy design is usually undertaken within the public service, but, as the recent evidence from the US, UK and Australia is showing, government policy design may also be undertaken by organisations and individuals outside government who wish to direct the actions of government and the nations involved. Behind the work of the public servants undertaking government policy design are an army of policy design researchers undertaking the design research to provide the evidence for the policy designers. It is something many of us on this list do: For example, this half million $ design research project https://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/mp/files/resources/files/2014-eval-community-patrols.v1.pdf Best wishes, Terry == Dr Terence Love FDRS, AMIMechE, PMACM, MISI, MAISA Director Design Out Crime & CPTED Centre Perth, Western Australia [log in to unmask] www.designoutcrime.org +61 (0)4 3497 5848 == ORCID 0000-0002-2436-7566 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------