When powerful people and organizations design images of the future, they are desiging a future for themselves. In that process, they leave the rest of humanity with a future that looks more like what I would call an “undesigned negative image” of those designed futures. #Thread

Here's your reminder that the whole idea of a personal carbon footprint was a targeted BP media campaign in 2005 and it worked so well that it seems like we've all forgotten this researchgate.net/publication/30…

This is urgent! The Government wants to impose a catastrophic 50% funding cut to arts subjects at higher education (HE) level in England. I've joined the PCA for the Arts to tell Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP: arts education matters. Will you join too? campaignforthearts.org/petitions/stop…

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the New Aesthetic, a project inaugurated on May 6th 2011, and performed online, offline, and in my head and heart and the heads and hearts of many others ever since: new-aesthetic.tumblr.com

Looking forward to Matt Webb 🌸🌼 genmon.fyi speaking to Lboro Design students and staff this afternoon, as part of an ongoing series of talks by Matthew McGriskin and Google UK. I've had a sneak preview of the presentation, and it's a good one!

Phenomenally interesting paper about how AI researchers talk about what they value in their research. Very glad the authors took the time to do this laborious but important work. I'm going to keep this in my desk so the next time I go on a rant about how ML is prescriptive [1/?]

You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

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How does this happen to a person, I wonder?

ugh this again. younger design scholars, this is what he does. avoid Norman and avoid the PhD-Design listserv as it's the same gatekeeping bullying arrogance x10

Finnish demonstrators singing today at Russian Embassy in Helsinki, a patriotic Finlandia Hymn that was written during a russification period of Finland by Jean Sibelius at the beginning of the 20th century. Finland is changed in lyrics to Ukraine. Leaded by the ⁦YL Male Voice Choir⁩

Alexandra D-S (she/her) The Restart Project This sounds very cool but 1am NZT is a bit challenging. Could be one for the educators to stay up for? faith kane Brian Lucid tristam sparks  jo bailey and easier potentially for dr. İdil Gaziulusoy @idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social @e_igoe Matt Sinclair Peter Merholz

We had fun doing our DRS2022 'Making Responsible Design Education Happen' workshop today with Matt Sinclair @Ecocene

Wow (from Just Stop Oil judgement)

I applaud Gary Lineker for his compassion and support for vulnerable people, particularly refugees. Thank you, Gary.