The Futures Archive S2E6: The Bug Zapper

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Note: This episode addresses subjects particularly sensitive 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, backyard summer comfort and death are mentioned in this episode. It could be arduous to search out someone who wants to share space with a mosquito. Hence, the creation of the buy bug zapper zapper. But as designers, how will 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 mirror humanity. With additional insights from David MacNeal, Juliano Morimoto, Spee Kosloff, Paula Antonelli, and Lindsay Garcia. There's a need for humans to exert their authority, but there can also be a need for us to exert our love. The thing that I hope we hold area for is: This is all practice because it’s not going to be resolved, and it shouldn’t be.



That would create some form 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 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 group design and technique studio. David MacNeal is a writer and the author of Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them. Dr. Juliano Morimoto is an entomologist and backyard summer comfort lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Spee Kosloff is an associate professor of psychology at California State University in Fresno and co-creator backyard summer comfort of "Killing Begets Killing: Evidence From a best bug zapper-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, 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. An enormous thanks to this season’s sponsor, Automattic. Hi, everybody, that is Lee. Every week is a little different on this show. And this week, while we’re still talking about design, we’re going to be speaking about some fairly critical issues. And so I need to verify that everyone who’s listening is conscious of that is in a superb place when they’re listening. And i encourage you to examine our present notes prior 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 conversation and that i hope you discover this conversation as highly effective because it was for us. And backyard summer comfort that i thank you for listening. Welcome to The Futures Archive, a present about human centered design the place this season, we’ll take an object, search for outdoor bug zapper zapper sale the human at the center and keep asking questions.



… and I am Sloan Leo. On every episode we’re going to begin with an object with power. Today the thing is the bug zapper for patio insect zapper. We’ll look at the historical past of that object from our perspective, as designers who’ve done work in human centered design. Not just how it seems and feels and sounds and smells, backyard summer comfort but in addition the relationship between that object and the people it was designed for… … and backyard summer comfort with other humans too. The Futures Archive is brought 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 fantastic to see you again. Thanks for mosquito killer joining us. Lee, it is a thrill to be here. So I’m wondering-for this particular episode, I’m wondering if you may tell me just a little bit about your history as a baby with bugs and insects. Where you this kind of like, like kid that like liked the creepy crawly stuff?