acing social,political, and environmental turmoil on a global scale, buildinganother chair may seem futile or even an insult to those whosuffer
so rather than making another chair, how can our chair be different in serving people? so who are the people that we address and what are their needs?
It isa space where you deal not so much with the fine arts but thedirty arts of matter
love this!
design (planning) and making (manifesting)
i often have awkward discussions with people who are not working in the field about what kind of design i am doing if there's no tangible objects that I make. we often associated the word design with products, therefore the industry itself (in my experience) tends to discredit intangible labor.
maybe the same with speculative projects? the work faces critiques on responding to the now since the products go beyond the present. what/who does it serve for?
Unfortunately, most secretaries in the United States are female, andmost human factors design data, also unfortunately, are based onwhite males between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five
Related reading; Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez. https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/
cardboard, held togetherwith dowels and tape and glue
love this! when prototypes begin from easy-to-find objects. really make me think about affordances of everyday stuff
So here's a quick recap
a really helpful framework in tackling how research can take form, why must it be done, and anchoring though process
“thoughtful how,”
amazing
have to drop the dreamy language that we love to use about the power of art, how it can change a person's perspective, that it can be used as a weapon against oppression, or shake a society to its core. All those things sound amazing, but Ron is asking, how? How are we actually going to make those things happen?
not only artists! we just had this question raised during thesis, how the research go for questions that is "up there" anthropological (not bad, yet it's so wide and people spend their lifetime to it) but shackles when being faced to "ground" the questions
it is quite another to provide real solutions to the dire political, social, economic and ecological problems we face in the world today.
found myself struggling with conversations on utopia, futuring, speculative to audiences aside of academician, designer, ... but I enjoy every word afterwards -- that nurturing imagination itself is power, that "Engineers, programmers, and fabricators, have long taken the impossible dreams of artists, visionaries, and revolutionaries and brought them down to earth, transforming them into something possible."
The dominant system dominates not because people agree with it; it rules because we are convinced there is no alternative.
Love this! convinced by choosing to not see "other" options, maybe we're in a privilege spot? so is domination equal power every time?
they are destined to fail
it's rather humbling that idealistic politics are meant to fail. I see it as the nature of human/non to keep evolving and resisting -- to create alternative ways of being, which is explained further in the text