Design(s) Critique(s)

Un entretien sur les liens entre design spéculatif et activisme social pour provoquer le changement. 

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How your background as a designer is supporting your work in social activism?

Designers make things happen. One big thing is that I always design a question whereas traditional design is about answering questions, about solving a problem. I am a troublemaker because I always find the problem and ask about it in the first place. Nowadays, design is growing a big field and is overlapping into incredible areas; there is design research, researching in different communities though design perspective, designing empathy, designing how to tell this emotional stories afterward; social design, to design a system around a network paradigm; and of course critical design, to debate the application of design and technology, speculative to make people ask “what if…” and seeping into fields of practitioners that do not call themselves designers. For example, someone like James Bridle talks about how the general public are unabled to process fears or priorities when it comes to technology since it is too complicated. Designers are very good at digesting complex systems. It is important make them accessible.