Design Culture can be:
an object
ecologies of designers, citizens, design entrepreneurs, government officials, associations and institutions, environmental resources, technologies, objects, images, spaces
a discipline
an approach to understanding and studying design cultures that embraces the arts and humanities, social sciences and management studies in multiple ways
a practice
a sensibility, drawn from deep understandings of how design cultures work, to develop new ways of approaching design especially in the contexts of demographic change, environmental challenges and social justice.