The Futures Archive S2E6: The Bug Zapper
Note: This episode addresses subjects notably sensitive 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 troublesome for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and demise are mentioned on this episode. It could be hard to find somebody who desires to share area 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 all the time reflect humanity. With further insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There is a necessity for humans to exert their authority, however there can also be a necessity for us to exert our love. The factor that I hope we hold area for is: That is all practice because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.
That would create some kind of stagnancy. Life is definitely about holding area 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, indoor bug zapper and practitioner. They're the founder of FLOX Studio, a group design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a author 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 at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an affiliate 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 author, architect, and the Senior Curator within 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 each episode. A giant because of this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, this is Lee. Every week is a little 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 points. And so I need to verify that everyone who’s listening is aware of that is in a good place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to test our present notes previous to listening to the episode so that you understand the context of what we’re speaking 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 as it was for us. And i thank you for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a show about human centered design the place 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 start with an object with energy. Today the article is the indoor bug zapper zapper. We’ll look on the history of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve done work in human centered design. Not simply the way it seems to be and feels and sounds and smells, but also the relationship between that object and the folks it was designed for… … and with other humans too. The Futures Archive is brought to you by the design team 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 here. So I’m wondering-for this specific episode, I’m questioning if you might tell me a bit of bit about your historical past as a child with bugs and insects. Where you this type of like, like child that like beloved the creepy crawly stuff?