Note: This episode addresses matters notably sensitive in mild of this week’s college capturing in Texas. While Design Observer has by no means shied away from tough conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content could also be difficult for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and dying are mentioned in this episode. It could be hard to seek out somebody who wants to share space 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 replicate humanity. With additional insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Zap Zone Defender USA Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There is a necessity for people to exert their authority, however there can also be 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 will create some sort of stagnancy. Life is actually about holding house for dynamism, adjustments and 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're the founder of FLOX Studio, a neighborhood design and technique studio. David MacNeal is a author 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-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 in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as MoMA’s founding director of Research and Zap Zone Defender Development.

Lindsay Garcia is an artist, scholar, and an assistant dean at Brown University. Kathleen Fu created the illustrations for every episode. A big due to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everyone, that is Lee. Every week is slightly completely different on this show. And this week, while we’re nonetheless speaking about design, we’re going to be talking about some pretty critical issues. And so I need to make sure that everybody who’s listening is aware of that is in a superb place when they’re listening. And that i encourage you to check our present notes prior to listening to the episode so that you understand the context of what we’re speaking about and prepare ourselves a bit. Beyond that, Zap Zone Defender I welcome you to the conversation and i hope you find this conversation as powerful because it was for us. And that 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 am Sloan Leo. On every episode we’re going to start out with an object with power. Today the thing is the bug zapper. We’ll look on the history of that object from our perspective, Zap Zone Defender as designers who’ve done work in human centered design. Not simply the way it seems to be and feels and sounds and smells, but in addition the connection between that object and the individuals it was designed for… … and with different people too. The Futures Archive is dropped at you by the design crew 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 once more. Thanks for joining us. Lee, it is a thrill to be right here. So I’m questioning-for this specific episode, I’m wondering if you could tell me a little bit about your historical past as a baby with bugs and insects. Where you this sort of like, like kid that like beloved the creepy crawly stuff?