{"id":2608,"date":"2024-03-04T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2024-07-25T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T06:23:00","slug":"everything-we-think-we-know-about-the-world-is-a-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Everything we think we know about the world is a model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A familiar approach is emerging in these monthly posts \u2013 to use two events within the RMIT ecosystem to reveal opportunities \/ tensions toward a Regenerative Futures initiative.

This time a talk by <\/a>Mariana Amatullo, PhD<\/a> is complemented by a review of students pursuing the Master of Design Futures RMIT University<\/a> led by <\/a>Marius Foley, PhD<\/a>.

Mariana jumped straight into the problems that every discipline faces as it stares into uncertain futures by recovering Donella Meadows quote that remains at the crux of representational and non-rep cultures:

\u201cEverything we think we know about the world is a model. Every word and every language is a model. All maps and statistics, books and databases, equations and computer programs are models\u2026 None of these is or ever will be the real world.\u201d Donella H. Meadows (2009).<\/strong>

Mariana\u2019s experiences of moving between Design Schools and reflecting upon how design is adopted informed much of her talk. How consultancies have acquired design methods as a form of intellectual commodity to sell, but struggle to understand its social and material practice. Toward the end was perhaps the most depressing observation was that aspects of \u2018design studios\u2019 are now given over to floors of statisticians who identify \u2018the value of design\u2019 through real-time data feeds derived from social media and sales. A reality that was central to my Software Ate Design chapter for <\/a>Joyce Yee<\/a> and <\/a>Paul Rodgers<\/a> Companion to Design Research: https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gw2dBMCZ<\/a>
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In contrast to design falling into the \u2018toolkits\u2019 of consulting economies, I was invited to meet \/ review three part-time students on the Master of Design Futures programme, who are in sectors ranging from Law to Criminal Justice Systems, and each are adapting design methods within highly specific contexts.

As a whole cohort, it turned out that design is being reconsidered from multiple perspectives \/ sectors:
\u2022 Play & design
\u2022 Law & design
\u2022 Juvenile Justice, space & design
\u2022 Indigenous food systems and\u00a0re-designing our relationship with knowledge systems
\u2022 Graphic Facilitation through design
\u2022 Design for onboarding toward a meaning-driven culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What seems very interesting, is the opportunity to study how professionals in diverse sectors (who don\u2019t consider themselves designers) adopt aspects of design to get their hashtag#JobsToBeDone<\/a>. Exposed to critical and responsible thinking to support the tools and methods, each student is twisting, modifying and adapting design in such a way that it retains personal agency, is sensitive to each context, and may also produce transferrable outcomes.

So current thinking is now asking – if educational programmes where constructed around medium long term global challenges, and ‘students’ \/ ‘agents’ \/ citizens could contribute and learn. What would they learn from design?

Thanks to <\/a>Prof. Andrea Siodmok OBE<\/a> <\/a>Sarah Teasley<\/a> for cohosting \ud83d\ude09
hashtag#design_mayday<\/a> hashtag#work_out_loud<\/a> hashtag#rmitmdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A familiar approach is emerging in these monthly posts \u2013 to use two events within the RMIT ecosystem to reveal opportunities \/ tensions toward a Regenerative Futures initiative. This time a talk by Mariana Amatullo, PhD is complemented by a review of students pursuing the Master of Design Futures RMIT University led by Marius Foley, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}