The Futures Archive S2E6: The Bug Zapper

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Note: This episode addresses topics significantly delicate in light of this week’s school taking pictures in Texas. While Design Observer has never shied away from difficult conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content material could also be troublesome for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and death are discussed on this episode. It can be exhausting to find somebody who needs to share space with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how can we address 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 always mirror humanity. With extra insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There's a need for humans to exert their authority, but there can also be a necessity for us to exert our love. The thing that I hope we hold area for is: This is all follow as a result of it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.



That might create some form of stagnancy. Life is actually about holding area for dynamism, adjustments and cycles. Lee Moreau is President of Other Tomorrows, a design and innovation consultancy based mostly 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're the founder of FLOX Studio, a group design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the author of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them. Dr. Juliano Morimoto is an entomologist and lecturer on the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an affiliate professor of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-creator of "Killing Begets Killing: Evidence From a bug zapper for backyard-Killing Paradigm That Initial Killing Fuels Subsequent Killing". Paola Antonelli is an creator, architect, and the Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, in addition to 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. An enormous because of this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everyone, that is Lee. Every week is a little bit completely different on this present. And this week, while we’re nonetheless speaking about design, we’re going to be speaking about some fairly severe issues. And so I would like to verify that everybody who’s listening is aware of that is in an excellent place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to verify our show notes previous to listening to the episode so you perceive the context of what we’re speaking about and put together ourselves a bit. Beyond that, I welcome you to the dialog and bug zapper for backyard that i hope you discover 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 where this season, we’ll take an object, search for the human at the center and keep asking questions.



… and I'm Sloan Leo. On each episode we’re going to begin with an object with power. Today the thing is the bug zapper. We’ll look on the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve finished work in human centered design. Not just the way it looks and feels and sounds and smells, but also the relationship between that object and the individuals it was designed for… … and with different people 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 again. Thanks for becoming a member of us. Lee, it is a thrill to be right here. So I’m wondering-for this specific episode, I’m questioning if you may tell me somewhat bit about your historical past as a child with bugs and insects. Where you this sort of like, like kid that like liked the creepy crawly stuff?