Note to self, the very next day. Some people may say that these recommendations don't go far enough. That designers should not be let off the hook. That they play a grotesquely unexamined role in creating consumption and behavioural patterns that are problematic for the planet. That there are very specific things that they can do to help this planet now -- including community organizing. They will argue that designers should not use AI, that they should build fast networks of other designers, that they should quit their jobs at Facebook, that they should design quilts in co-ops and sell them for the recently unhoused, or that designers should burn their laptops. To me, climate change action requires a deep, personal and retrospective / futurist / spiritual commitment -- and designers are uniquely poised to do so, if they open themselves up to possibility. Then change will happen.
Note to self, the very next day. Some people may say that these recommendations don't go far enough. That designers should not be let off the hook. That they play a grotesquely unexamined role in creating consumption and behavioural patterns that are problematic for the planet. That there are very specific things that they can do to help this planet now -- including community organizing. They will argue that designers should not use AI, that they should build fast networks of other designers, that they should quit their jobs at Facebook, that they should design quilts in co-ops and sell them for the recently unhoused, or that designers should burn their laptops. To me, climate change action requires a deep, personal and retrospective / futurist / spiritual commitment -- and designers are uniquely poised to do so, if they open themselves up to possibility. Then change will happen.
Love Sanya’s poster
Me, too. It's a gorge.