Note: This episode addresses subjects notably delicate in light of this week’s college shooting in Texas. While Design Observer has never shied away from troublesome conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content may be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and loss of life are mentioned on this episode. It could be arduous to search out somebody who wants to share area with a mosquito control device. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how can we address what lives and what doesn’t? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee Moreau and mosquito control device Sloan Leo go deep on how human-centered design doesn’t all the time replicate 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, but there can be a need for us to exert our love. The thing that I hope we hold space for is: This is all follow 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 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 are the founding father of FLOX Studio, a neighborhood design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the writer of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them. Dr. Juliano Morimoto is an entomologist and lecturer on 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 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 each episode. A giant due to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everyone, that is Lee. Every week is a bit of different on this present. And this week, whereas we’re still speaking about design, we’re going to be speaking about some pretty critical issues. And so I want to make sure that everyone who’s listening is conscious of that's in a great place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to test our show notes prior to listening to the episode so that you understand the context of what we’re speaking about and put together ourselves a bit. Beyond that, I welcome you to the conversation and that i hope you find this conversation as highly effective because it was for us. And i thanks 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 middle 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 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 how it appears to be like and feels and sounds and smells, but additionally the connection between that object and the folks it was designed for… … and with other humans too. The Futures Archive is delivered 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 great 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 specific episode, I’m questioning if you might inform me slightly bit about your historical past as a baby with bugs and insects. Where you this type of like, like child that like liked the creepy crawly stuff?

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