This MA thesis is aimed to stress the link between design organizations and global governance for what concerns sustainable development. By analyzing the main conferences of the past — especially the ones held by the ICSID Association — and by observing what is going on today on national and global level, this thesis will try to trace a path for the hypothetical future of design collaboration in the political field. It will consequently interrogate the following: Can design and politics communicate? How? Can design change the actual global situation for the better? Further, which are the past and present responsibilities that Design has to address to itself? The research behind this thesis paper was carried out mainly thanks to the support of the bibliographic archives present at the University of Brighton, England.