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> Design won’t save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck So things like the cotton gin or Ford's use of interchangeable parts don't
by spit2wind 1y ago
> Design won’t save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck
So things like the cotton gin or Ford's use of interchangeable parts don't count as design or somehow didn't change the world?
How is volunteering at soup kitchens more effective at changing the world than interchangeable parts?
And still yet...are you wanting to change the world for the better?
- socalgal2 1y agoIn the context of the article design is separate from engineering and/or invention. those later two invented the Cotten gin and ford’s use of interchangeable parts.
- pavlov 1y agoBut it's not actually separate. A lot of engineering innovation starts by identifying a design problem.
- socalgal2 1y agoIn the context of the article it is separate. maybe engage with the article itself instead of arguing with something the article is not about?
- dr_dshiv 1y agoThere is a general academic rejection of “solutionism” that prefers criticism to design. I find it unnerving, personally.
- grimpy 1y agothis is a useless semantic position. could you frame innovation problems as "design" problems? sure. was the cotton gin framed as a "design" problem in the sense that it had some sort of epistemological lineage to the "design" discipline when it was invented? I suspect not. the worst thing design ever did for itself was frame itself as "the" human-centered problem solving discpline. everyone is a human-centered problem-solver in the most general sense, in the same way that everything is a "design" problem in the most general sense.
- yubblegum 1y agoYou had n chances to note that "save" =/= change.