Note: This episode addresses subjects significantly delicate in light of this week’s school taking pictures in Texas. While Design Observer has by no means shied away from tough conversations, the editors acknowledge that this content could also be tough for some listeners. Content Warning: Violence, killing, and loss of life are discussed in this episode. It would be exhausting to seek out somebody who needs to share space with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the bug zapper for backyard zapper. But as designers, how can we handle 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, pest control device Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There is a necessity for humans to exert their authority, however there can be a need for us to exert our love. The thing that I hope we hold space for is: That is all follow because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.

That might create some kind of stagnancy. Life is definitely about holding space for dynamism, changes and cycles. Lee Moreau is President of Other Tomorrows, pest control device a design and innovation consultancy primarily 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 founding father of FLOX Studio, a neighborhood design and strategy studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the creator of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessive about Them. Dr. Juliano Morimoto is an entomologist and lecturer on the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an affiliate professor pest control device of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-writer of "Killing Begets Killing: Evidence From a bug zapper sale-Killing Paradigm That Initial Killing Fuels Subsequent Killing". Paola Antonelli is an writer, architect, and the Senior Curator within the Department of Architecture and Design at 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 giant due to this season’s sponsor, pest control device Automattic. Hi, pest control device everybody, that is Lee. Every week is a bit completely different on this show. And this week, whereas we’re still talking about design, we’re going to be talking about some pretty severe issues. And so I want to verify that everyone who’s listening is aware of that is in a very good place when they’re listening. And i encourage you to examine our show notes previous to listening to the episode so that you perceive the context of what we’re speaking 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 show about human centered design where this season, we’ll take an object, search for the human at the middle and keep asking questions.

… and pest control device I'm Sloan Leo. On each episode we’re going to start with an object with energy. Today the object is the bug zapper light bug zapper. We’ll look on the history of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve done work in human centered design. Not simply how it seems to be and feels and sounds and smells, but in addition the relationship between that object and the people it was designed for… … and with other people too. The Futures Archive is brought 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 great to see you once more. Thanks for joining us. Lee, it's a thrill to be here. So I’m questioning-for this specific episode, I’m wondering if you might tell me a bit bit about your history as a child with bugs and outdoor bug zapper zapper for camping insects. Where you this sort of like, like child that like beloved the creepy crawly stuff?