We are so obsessed with rare futures that we are blind to the consequences of our present actions.

Sometimes designing nothing is the best proposal. But a designing-nothing approach is not design.

New issue online, including a paper by Mauricio Mejía inderscience.com/info/inarticle…

Smart low-tech non-touch handle to exit a restroom. Spotted in Bogotá ⁦ArqDisUA⁩ ⁦Uniandes⁩

Fresh from the oven. Our systematic review about how designers engage with sustainability. We found that designers are aware and interested. However, other priorities defined by business and policy strongly reduce their ability to act. Existing sustainability tools appear naive.

Considering longer-term futures would help design for immediate futures.

The DRS Special Interest Group Designing Change is pleased to announce that Mauricio Mejía and Luca Simeone have accepted to take the role of Co-Convenors. Read more about the SIG and its new Convenors here: designresearchsociety.org/articles/drs-d…

If you design for emergent consequences, there are no unintended consequences.

We should focus again on learning meaningfully not on learning rapidly.

We need to transition from designing artifacts to helping people enact artifacts in different ways. #DesignAfterDesign

Traditional designers align, arrange, and balance #form. Strategic designers align, arrange, and balance #power.

Human-centered ≠ benefits for all humans.

AI-bot teachers only make sense if there are AI-bot students who pay tuition

It has only gotten worse.