Note: This episode addresses subjects particularly sensitive in light of this week’s faculty taking pictures in Texas. While Design Observer has by no means shied away from difficult conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content material could also be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and death are mentioned in this episode. It could be arduous to find someone who wants to share space with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how can we tackle what lives and what doesn’t? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee Moreau and Zap Zone Defender Sloan Leo go deep on how human-centered design doesn’t at all times replicate humanity. With additional insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There's a need for people 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: That is all follow because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.
That will create some sort of stagnancy. Life is actually about holding house for dynamism, modifications and Zap Zone 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're the founding father of FLOX Studio, a group design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a author and the author 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 affiliate professor Zap Zone of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-creator of "Killing Begets Killing: Evidence From a Bug-Killing Paradigm That Initial Killing Fuels Subsequent Killing". Paola Antonelli is an writer, 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. An enormous due to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, that is Lee. Every week is a bit of different on this present. And this week, Zap Zone Defender while we’re still talking about design, we’re going to be talking about some fairly severe points. And so I need to ensure that everybody who’s listening is conscious of that's in an excellent place when they’re listening. And Zap Zone that i encourage you to check our show notes previous to listening to the episode so that you perceive the context of what we’re talking about and put together ourselves a bit. Beyond that, Zap Zone I welcome you to the conversation and i hope you discover this conversation as powerful as it was for us. And i thanks for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a show about human centered design where this season, we’ll take an object, look for the human at the center and keep asking questions.
… and I'm Sloan Leo. On every episode we’re going to start out with an object with power. Today the thing is the bug zapper. We’ll look on the history of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve completed work in human centered design. Not simply the way it seems and feels and sounds and smells, but additionally the connection 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 staff at Automattic. Later on, we’ll hear from Vanessa Riley Thurman, a member of Automattic’s Designer Experience Team. Sloan Leo, it’s wonderful to see you again. Thanks for becoming a member of us. Lee, it's a thrill to be right here. So I’m questioning-for this explicit episode, I’m wondering if you would inform me somewhat bit about your history as a baby with bugs and insects. Where you this kind of like, like kid that like beloved the creepy crawly stuff?