design, more or less.
asst. prof. @ctrotherworlds, wrote Entreprecariat, misc: https://t.co/Kqn61ll31Z
Feb 6, 2021 • 376 tweets • >60 min read
What do the critical designer, the radical designer, the activist designer, the designer as researcher, the speculative designer have in common? They all manipulate their own content. From this perspective (from this persp. only) they're all variations of the designer as author.
back when i was a student: students found design texts boring
now: both students and teachers find design texts boring
Dec 8, 2020 • 102 tweets • 23 min read
This text concludes a mini-trilogy on D&D, aka #designanddisillusion. As I plan to be busy with this theme in 2021, I take the chance to start a thread.
“I kept hearing about ‘design-led’ and all that and it got me excited. I was pushing for it […] Years later now, I’m in a phase where I realize that [advocacy] was really important, but in reality, design is not that important.” John Maeda, 2019.
