Note: This episode addresses matters particularly delicate in light of this week’s faculty taking pictures in Texas. While Design Observer has by no means shied away from troublesome conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content could also be difficult for Zone Defender some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and dying are discussed on this episode. It could be laborious to search out someone who wants to share house with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how can 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 additional insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There may be a need for humans to exert their authority, however there is also a need for us to exert our love. The factor that I hope we hold space for is: This is all practice because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.

That may create some form of stagnancy. Life is actually about holding house for dynamism, modifications and Official Zap Zone Defender 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, 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 creator, architect, and the Senior Curator in 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 big thanks to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everyone, that is Lee. Every week is a bit completely different on this show. And Zone Defender this week, whereas we’re still speaking about design, we’re going to be talking about some pretty severe points. And so I want to ensure that everybody who’s listening is aware of that's in a great place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to verify our show notes prior to listening to the episode so that you understand the context of what we’re talking about and prepare ourselves a bit. Beyond that, I welcome you to the dialog and i hope you discover this conversation as powerful because it was for us. And i thank you for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a present about human centered design where this season, we’ll take an object, search for the human at the middle and keep asking questions.

… and I'm Sloan Leo. On every episode we’re going to start out with an object with energy. Today the object is the bug zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve accomplished work in human centered design. Not simply the way it looks and feels and sounds and smells, Zone Defender but also the connection between that object and the individuals it was designed for… … and with different humans too. The Futures Archive is delivered 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 wonderful to see you again. Thanks for joining us. Lee, it's a thrill to be here. So I’m questioning-for this explicit episode, I’m questioning if you possibly can tell me a little bit bit about your history as a toddler with bugs and insects. Where you this type of like, like child that like loved the creepy crawly stuff?