Note: This episode addresses topics particularly sensitive in gentle of this week’s college capturing in Texas. While Design Observer has never shied away from tough conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content may be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and dying are discussed on this episode. It would be exhausting to find somebody who desires to share area with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper. But as designers, how can we tackle 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 always reflect humanity. With further insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Zap Zone Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There's a necessity for people to exert their authority, Zap Zone however there is also a need for us to exert our love. The factor that I hope we hold house for is: This is all observe because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.

That would create some sort of stagnancy. Life is definitely about holding space for dynamism, changes and cycles. Lee Moreau is President of Other Tomorrows, a design and innovation consultancy primarily based in Boston, and a Professor Zap Zone 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 author of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and Zap Zone 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, Zap Zone Defender 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 every episode. A big because of this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, that is Lee. Every week is a bit different on this present. And this week, whereas we’re nonetheless talking about design, we’re going to be talking about some pretty critical issues. And so I would like to ensure that everybody who’s listening is conscious of that is in a very good place when they’re listening. And i encourage you to check our present notes previous 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 powerful because it was for us. And i thank you for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, Zap Zone Defender 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 start out with an object with power. Today the object is the bug zapper. We’ll look on the history of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve carried out work in human centered design. Not simply the way it seems and feels and sounds and smells, but additionally the connection between that object and the folks it was designed for… … and with other people too. The Futures Archive is delivered to 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 again. Thanks for becoming a member of us. Lee, it's a thrill to be here. So I’m wondering-for this particular episode, I’m wondering if you could inform me just a little bit about your history as a baby with bugs and insects. Where you this type of like, like kid that like beloved the creepy crawly stuff?