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Unlearning as Leverage

Unlearning as Leverage

Learning also means unlearning what you thought was correct. These posts use that notion to help us see the world with fresh eyes and avoid the status quo.

Text on a red background that reads 'Less, but better.'

Unpacking AI's lofty promises and lowly returns

🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 15

All-caps text on a green background that reads, "Degrowth in design." "Growth" is struck through.

A new metric for design beyond ‘growth’

What is “degrowth,” and how can it influence design?

Three speckled circles on a red background. The circles are set in colors that clash and vibrate.

Friction is a reminder

Much of the design industry's work is centered on making life as simple as possible, but what happens when that idea is taken too far?

A street fighter intro screen. "Fake people with 12 fingers" vs. "The literal planet you're on."

Designers, choose your player: AI or Earth

🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 12

A "Make America Great Again" hat, modified to read "Make Orwell Fiction Again".

The 400-year-old mentality that still influences design

The worldview that made design is dying a slow death, but change tends to happen not-at-all, and then all-at-once.

A close-up of a person cupping their hands under a small ice sculpture of a hand.

Platforming care in design

How could changing our definition of ‘good design’ help the industry address the climate crisis?

A diptych of to similar images: roots and drainage pipes.

🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 4: Perceptions

What does it mean to be human—or animal, for that matter? Where do we draw the line?

A drawing of a person in three stages of "unveiling." Their outline goes from completely obscured to clear.

🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 3: Unveiling

This week asks the question, "How would we feel about the status quo, if we knew how it really worked?"

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