The Futures Archive S2E6: The Bug Zapper

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Note: This episode addresses matters significantly sensitive in light of this week’s school shooting in Texas. While Design Observer has never shied away from tough conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content could also be difficult for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and demise are mentioned in this episode. It could be hard to find someone who desires to share house with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how will we tackle 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 replicate humanity. With additional insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There's a necessity for humans to exert their authority, but there can also be a need for us to exert our love. The factor that I hope we hold space for is: That is all apply because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.



That may create some kind 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 primarily 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 community design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the creator of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessive about Them. Dr. Juliano Morimoto is an entomologist and lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an associate professor of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-writer of "Killing Begets Killing: Evidence From a Bug-Killing Paradigm That Initial Killing Fuels Subsequent Killing". Paola Antonelli is an creator, architect, and the Senior Curator within the Department of Architecture and Design on 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 each episode. A big due to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, this is Lee. Every week is a bit of totally different on this present. And this week, while we’re still speaking about design, we’re going to be talking about some fairly serious points. And so I want to ensure that everyone who’s listening is aware of that is in a superb place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to verify our present 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 conversation and i hope you find this conversation as highly effective because it was for us. And that i thank you for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a present about human centered design where this season, we’ll take an object, look for indoor bug zapper 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 energy. Today the thing is the indoor bug zapper zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve performed work in human centered design. Not just how it seems and feels and sounds and smells, but additionally the relationship between that object and the folks it was designed for… … and with different humans too. The Futures Archive is dropped at you by the design group 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 particular episode, I’m wondering if you could possibly inform me a little bit about your historical past as a toddler with bugs and insects. Where you this form of like, like kid that like liked the creepy crawly stuff?