1 The Futures Archive S2E6: the Bug Zapper
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Note: This episode addresses subjects particularly sensitive in mild of this week’s college capturing in Texas. While Design Observer has never shied away from troublesome conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content material could also be difficult for Zone Defender some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and death are discussed on this episode. It can be hard to seek out somebody who wants to share house with a mosquito. Hence, ZapZone 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 extra insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There is a necessity for people to exert their authority, but there is also a necessity for us to exert our love. The thing 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 kind of stagnancy. Life is definitely about holding area for dynamism, changes and cycles. Lee Moreau is President of Other Tomorrows, a design and innovation consultancy based in Boston, ZapZone 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 founder of FLOX Studio, a neighborhood design and technique studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the creator 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 associate professor of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-author 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 in 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 big due to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, this is Lee. Every week is a bit totally different on this present. And this week, whereas we’re still talking about design, we’re going to be talking about some fairly serious points. And so I need to make sure that everybody who’s listening is conscious of that's in a very good place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to test our present notes prior to listening to the episode so that you perceive the context of what we’re speaking about and put together ourselves a bit. Beyond that, I welcome you to the dialog and i hope you discover this conversation as highly effective as it was for us. And that i thanks for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a present about human centered design the place this season, we’ll take an object, ZapZone search for the human at the middle and keep asking questions.


… and I'm Sloan Leo. On each episode we’re going to start with an object with energy. Today the thing is the bug zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve executed work in human centered design. Not just the way it looks and feels and sounds and smells, ZapZone Defender but also the connection between that object and the folks it was designed for… … and with other humans too. The Futures Archive is dropped at you by the design crew at Automattic. Later on, we’ll hear from Vanessa Riley Thurman, ZapZone a member of Automattic’s Designer Experience Team. Sloan Leo, it’s fantastic to see you once more. Thanks for joining us. Lee, it is a thrill to be right here. So I’m wondering-for this explicit episode, I’m questioning if you might inform me a bit bit about your history as a child with bugs and insects. Where you this sort of like, like kid that like loved the creepy crawly stuff?