The Futures Archive S2E6: The Bug Zapper
Note: This episode addresses matters notably delicate in light of this week’s faculty capturing in Texas. While Design Observer has by no means shied away from troublesome conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content material could also be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and death are mentioned on this episode. It can be onerous to search out someone who needs to share house with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how will we deal with 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 reflect humanity. With further insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There may be a necessity for people to exert their authority, however there is also a need for us to exert our love. The thing that I hope we hold house for is: That is all practice as a result of it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.
That might create some type of stagnancy. Life is definitely about holding house for dynamism, adjustments 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 are the founding father of FLOX Studio, a neighborhood design and technique studio. David MacNeal is a writer 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 at 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 writer, 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, bug-free backyard 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, this is Lee. Every week is just a little totally different on this show. And this week, whereas we’re still talking about design, we’re going to be speaking about some fairly severe points. And so I want to verify that everybody who’s listening is conscious of that is in a good place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to examine our show notes prior to listening to the episode so that you understand the context of what we’re talking about and put together ourselves a bit. Beyond that, I welcome you to the conversation and that i hope you find this dialog as highly effective as it was for us. And that i thank you 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 center and keep asking questions.
… and I'm Sloan Leo. On every episode we’re going to start with an object with power. Today the object is the bug zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve completed work in human centered design. Not simply how it seems to be 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 brought 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 great to see you once more. Thanks for becoming a member of us. Lee, it is a thrill to be right here. So I’m questioning-for this specific episode, I’m questioning if you may inform me a little bit about your historical past as a toddler with bugs and insects. Where you this kind of like, bug-free backyard like child that like cherished the creepy crawly stuff?