15/9
*brainstorming intervention points of our SDG.
16/9
*presentation day and feedback,
-rethink incentives through business growth and discuss internal growth
- understand the essence of our project and where we want to go
18/9
*understanding complex adaptive systems and their ability to adapt, organize, and evolve.
*Ezio Manzini, Everybody Design
diffuse design versus expert design
*Participatory Design, 1970 Scandinavia
- leads to workplace democract and social empowerment
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*Ezio Manzini*
When Everybody Designs
* Participatory Design
PROJECT ADVANCEMENTS
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*Over the summer I attended the Worlds Hangliding and Paragliding International Competition in Ager, Lerida. Where I witnessed first hand the stable growth of this small town through the sports industry.
*Colorado Springs Olympic Sports Center Case Study
*This led us to consider how different industries can bring economic and stable population growth
*After choosing our case study of a town; Patones de Arriba we began our research. Patones de Arriba is a small town located 1 hour from the capital. The town has a total population of 48 full time residents and a slowly dying economy according to sources we found.
-considering this knowledge it could be interesting to explore a route in this direction.
- how can we utilize the environment surrounding Patones de Arriba to promote sustainable natural growth and relocation of high adrenaline sports?
-what can we learn from Ager, Lerida and its economic + population boom from flight sports?
-could Patones de Arriba possibly be redesigned to utilize its surroundings to become the next Colorado Springs Olympic Facility but for the Spanish Capital with a highlight on outdoor sports?
This weekend I watched a movie based on the true story of one of Tinders original Co-Founders. This true story is about the lack of credit she received and the sexual and workplace abuse she endured as an original founder of the app. The movie had many key points that stood out to me but at the very beginning of the movie Whitney Wolfe is asked what she wants to dedicate her life to. She pauses and proceeds to say that she doesn’t know, but knows what she doesn’t want to do.
“I know what I don’t want to do I don’t want to sell people things they don’t need, I don’t want to have a job that I have to pretend is interesting when I tell my friends, and I don’t want to do something that I have to tell myself has value when it actually kind of doesn’t”
What stood out to me about this was the initial part of her quote, how she sets her values and barriers in what she believes in. If I want to relay this in the terms of design, consumers need to stop being sold and marketed products or services that they don’t need. But how can this relate to my project?
I think we should consider the butterfly effects that design can create. I believe its important for designers to consider the idea that not every thing needs to be “designed” or maybe the very possible outcome that a design or a design solution can cause more harm then good or cause more disruptions for the systems directly surrounding our design “solution.” I have a confusing way of framing this but Arturo Escobar has a better way of explaining things. He says we need to unlearn the idea that problems are universal through methods of pluriverse design, being a framework that critiques:
“the idea that every challenge must be framed as a “problem” to be fixed. What appears problematic from a modern, external perspective may be an expression of a different logic, which might be in the real of the spiritual, ecological, or relational. Some conditions call for stewardship, not intervention. Unlearning this means resisting the impulse to define the situation and instead learning to witness, wait, and ask what care might look like. “
What I understand from this is to be conscious of what a problem truly is and how it can affect the environments around. Therefore I want the project outcome of this project to be something that can positively affect peoples lives at a long term scale.
“the idea that every challenge must be framed as a “problem” to be fixed. What appears problematic from a modern, external perspective may be an expression of a different logic, which might be in the real of the spiritual, ecological, or relational. Some conditions call for stewardship, not intervention. Unlearning this means resisting the impulse to define the situation and instead learning to witness, wait, and ask what care might look like. “
What I understand from this is to be conscious of what a problem truly is and how it can affect the environments around. Therefore I want the project outcome of this project to be something that can positively affect peoples lives at a long term scale.