Temporal Traps
Ending the year between collapse and care: three December gatherings on time, action, and giving back. Three events revealed not just different approaches to transformation, but different temporal logics entirely. Indy Johar at RMIT University Capitol Theatre spoke about redesigning civic infrastructure through care and community enterprise. Dark Matter Labs operates on institutional timescales – […]
Notes toward the 6th finger
I’ve spent 20 years watching designers optimise products that score well environmentally while the systems producing them remain extractive. Reusable cups requiring 1,000 uses to break even. Solar panels remain entangled in rare earth mining. On balance, design seems to pursue sustainment rather than sustainability. We’ve become very good at doing less bad. But that’s not […]