Note: This episode addresses topics notably 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 could also be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and loss of life are mentioned on this episode. It can be arduous to seek out someone who desires to share house 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 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 is a need for people to exert their authority, however there is also a necessity for us to exert our love. The factor that I hope we hold area for is: That is all observe because 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 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 Defender by Zap Zone practitioner. They're the founder of FLOX Studio, a community design and technique studio. David MacNeal is a author 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 at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an associate professor 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 author, architect, and the Senior Curator within the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as MoMA’s founding director of Research and Development.
Lindsay Garcia is an artist, Zap Zone Defender scholar, and an assistant dean at Brown University. Kathleen Fu created the illustrations for each episode. A big because of this season’s sponsor, Zap Zone Defender Automattic. Hi, everybody, that is Lee. Every week is a bit totally different on this present. And this week, Zap Zone Defender whereas we’re still speaking about design, we’re going to be speaking about some fairly serious points. And so I would like to verify that everyone who’s listening is aware of that's in a great place when they’re listening. And i encourage you to verify our show notes previous to listening to the episode so you perceive 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 because it was for us. And i thank you for Defender by Zap Zone listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, Defender by Zap Zone 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 am Sloan Leo. On each episode we’re going to start out with an object with power. Today the item is the bug zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve carried out work in human centered design. Not simply how it appears to be like and feels and sounds and smells, but also the relationship between that object and the individuals it was designed for… … and with other people too. The Futures Archive is dropped at you Defender by Zap Zone 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 fantastic to see you again. Thanks for becoming a member of us. Lee, it's a thrill to be here. So I’m questioning-for this specific episode, I’m wondering if you could possibly tell me a bit bit about your historical past as a child with bugs and insects. Where you this kind of like, like kid that like beloved the creepy crawly stuff?