The Futures Archive S2E6: The Bug Zapper
Note: This episode addresses topics notably delicate in gentle of this week’s college taking pictures in Texas. While Design Observer has by no means shied away from tough conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content material may be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and dying are discussed on this episode. It can be onerous to seek out someone who desires to share house with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how can we handle what lives and what doesn’t? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee Moreau and Sloan Leo go deep on how human-centered design doesn’t all the time replicate humanity. With extra insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There may be a need for Zap Zone Defender humans to exert their authority, however there is also a necessity for us to exert our love. The thing that I hope we hold area for is: This is all observe because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.
That will create some form of stagnancy. Life is actually about holding space for dynamism, modifications and cycles. Lee Moreau is President of Other Tomorrows, a design and innovation consultancy based in Boston, and a Professor of Practice in Design at Northeastern University. Sloan Leo (they/he) is a Community Design theorist, educator, and practitioner. They are the founder of FLOX Studio, a community design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the writer of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessive about Them. Dr. Juliano Morimoto is an entomologist and lecturer on the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an associate professor of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-author of "Killing Begets Killing: Evidence From a Bug-Killing Paradigm That Initial Killing Fuels Subsequent Killing". Paola Antonelli is an author, architect, and the Senior Curator within the Department of Architecture and Design on the Museum of Modern Art, as well as MoMA’s founding director of Research and Development.
Lindsay Garcia is an artist, scholar, and an assistant dean at Brown University. Kathleen Fu created the illustrations for every episode. A big because of this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, this is Lee. Every week is a bit completely different on this show. And this week, while we’re still talking about design, we’re going to be speaking about some fairly critical issues. And so I would like to ensure that everyone who’s listening is conscious of that is in an excellent place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to verify our present notes prior to listening to the episode so that you perceive the context of what we’re talking about and prepare ourselves a bit. Beyond that, I welcome you to the dialog and that i hope you find this conversation as highly effective because it was for us. And i thanks for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a present about human centered design the place this season, we’ll take an object, look for the human at the middle and keep asking questions.
… and Zap Zone Defender I'm Sloan Leo. On each episode we’re going to start with an object with power. Today the article is the bug zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve accomplished work in human centered design. Not simply the way it appears to be like and feels and sounds and smells, but additionally the relationship between that object and the people it was designed for… … and with different humans too. The Futures Archive is delivered to you by the design crew at Automattic. Later on, we’ll hear from Vanessa Riley Thurman, a member of Automattic’s Designer Experience Team. Sloan Leo, it’s fantastic to see you once more. Thanks for joining us. Lee, it's a thrill to be here. So I’m wondering-for this specific episode, I’m questioning if you could tell me a bit bit about your historical past as a toddler with bugs and insects. Where you this kind of like, like child that like loved the creepy crawly stuff?