Cognitive Justice at the user interface
Justice has become the hottest topic in calls for papers this year, particularly noteworthy in inter- and cross-disciplinary design and innovation studies. I first came across the theme of justice last year in the IPCC February 2022 report, where the authors defined it as: Justice is concerned with setting out the moral or legal principles […]
May the new worlds being born be natural
I do not know, as I begin this solemn rhythm on my keyboard whether I hit publish on this post or not. If you find yourself reading these words, then know that I did indeed do so. I can feel the new world/s being born. They do not feel industrial. Humankind’s peak industrialization, energy […]
Visualizing Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob’s metaphor of day science and night science
Our breakthrough was the result of “night science”: a stumbling, wandering exploration of the natural world that relies on intuition as much as it does on the cold, orderly logic of “day science.” F. Jacob, The Statue Within: An Autobiography (Unwin Hyman, London, 1988) François Jacob (1920–2013) was an eminent French biologist who won […]
Why I call these Gramscian times
The real sign that this wasn’t just any old “polycrisis” but a transformational inflection point in the “humanity” maturity curve was the recent news that investments in solar power are now more than that made in fossil fuels. This is a tipping point, hard to see in the midst of so much turbulence. The […]
Ways of Knowing: Ways of Thinking – A cognitive justice framework for working with an “ecology of knowledges”
As promised at the end of the previous post which introduced the background to this interwoven framework where I bring together the knowledge work of Indigenous scholars and scientists like Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martin Nakata, and Tyson Yunkaporta into my visualization together with my contributions (in purple) drawn from my own creative practice-based research. The […]
Interweaving ways of knowing from exploring the boundaries of knowledge
There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents. This is what has been called the “dialectic of moss on stone—an interface of immensity and minuteness, of past and present, softness and hardness, stillness and vibrancy, yin and yang.” […]
A Next-Gen Steve Jobs: What does visionary design leadership mean today?
Given the legacy of Steve Jobs – unavoidable in Apple’s case – and his reputation for visionary design leadership; it is inevitable that when a product such as the Vision Pro comes out in 2023 one is moved to ask: a) Does Apple truly see this category as a big enough opportunity space – of […]
Design Leadership in Turbulent Times: Apple’s failure of vision
It has been more than 15 years since I last dived into the topic of Apple and its design strategy or lack thereof on this blog. There were brief mentions in 2011 – when Steve Jobs announced his retirement, and then again in 2015 when the global smartphone industry transformed itself as a function of […]
June’s Full Moon
Johnson Tsang’s Under the Skin from his Lucid Dream series (2018) captures my feelings in this very moment right now on the 4th of June 2023, a full moon this morning. Its called a Strawberry Moon but my walk took me down into the wooded cemetery on the shores of the sea and not past […]
Exploring the role of the human being in the industrial design process now that AI is here
This screencap is from a post made in the Core77 Community boards about the emergence of AI-driven CAD outputs. At first glance, it seems as though its the end of the role of the human being in the industrial design process. And, to me, the situation right now in the first half of 2023 feels […]
