The Dissenters Design Network

Critically debating the future of design, architecture, and the creative sector.

[The Dissenters Design Network @dissenterdesign]

https://t.co/40Tk3V3nCy "The creative industries are misreading the public" Here's our comment on why Brexit is a missed opportunity for all creatives. Public want change, but we seem too afraid of it. Do share... #creativeindustries #brexit #ambition #creativityneeded @dezeen

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https://t.co/SHRN6FYEZM @ArtsPro ‘Culture of censorship’ as arts workers fear backlash. ’Research indicates the openness, risk and rebellion that many believe characterises the sector is being eroded.’ Without which, creativity is meaningless #creativeindustries @brexitcreatives

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https://t.co/mzZeSyrZ8n Launch of series called Year Zero on key periods of change. ‘For the most part, architectural history in Britain is the story of gradual change. From time to time, however, there comes a tipping point when old certainties are overturned.’ @machine_books

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https://t.co/Z7Ty0b5K30 Sudjic gets existential: Is it too late for design to save the world? #ExtinctionRebellion era, ‘design as a kind of morality, and design as a commercial activity.’ 1st: world not dead! 2nd: do more, not less with it! Let’s reclaim progress! @MadridDesignF

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https://t.co/Kjo23YgbgO Paul Finch argues awards should be about excellence, not messages. If it’s about being woke, he says it’s ‘insulting to the ‘minority’ and destructive of the whole idea of architectural excellence’. Refreshing & defence of creative merit @aj #architecture

[Vicky Richardson @vcky_rchrdsn]

Is an embroidery a drawing? I’m not so sure...my article about the Architectural Drawing Prize

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https://t.co/gOYnMINj0G @Future_Cities says Brexit doesn’t mean ‘race to the bottom’. Raises imp questions re building regs & more post-Brexit: ‘standards and regulations are now part of a political and not simply a financial, business or technocratic discussion.’ #accountability

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Nothing wrong with beauty, but you cannot mandate it. Nor expect it to paper over the moribund political content that those federal buildings house… Whitehouse adopts Design Stalinism!

[The Dissenters Design Network @dissenterdesign]

https://t.co/gXkV6giU0T Our new Feb feature. Fellow Dissenter @vcky_rchrdsn asks what’s the link between a theatre in Barcelona and an Irish playwright who wrote in French? Looks at the work of Flores & Prats at Sala Beckett and its inspiration in the plays of Samuel Beckett

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https://t.co/d1KT3fnMxh What makes a knowledgeable, talented, and skilled designer? Yashusi Kusume points out the weakness of #designthinking. Design is a process, but each step can be done well or badly depending on the knowledge, skill and wisdom of the designer @designcouncil

[Austin Williams @Future_Cities]

"Why worry?...where's the wine?"
This is the spirit.
Will it take @aiww to help the Creative Class finally learn about the possibilities opened up by #Brexit? @dissenterdesign #Creative #creatives

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https://t.co/LWy5rEt6bA Remarkable: has user-centred design dragged us to the brink of catastrophe? Eco-ethical designers think so! But who buys this? Is everything systemic, as Gaia, & beyond our control? We’re not all complicit & neither is the world beyond change! @eyemagazine

[The Dissenters Design Network @dissenterdesign]

https://t.co/bAMXXPa4Sa Are Siri, Alexa and unconsciously biased? Voice-assistants commonplace. True they don’t understand everyone’s accents. An incredible IT challenge. Why some easier to understand is implicit bias is wrong. Weak AI not ‘racist’ machines to blame @design_week

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https://t.co/dV52x24M91 Simon Collison, organiser of New Adventures design community calls for ‘A time for imagination’. Raises important Qs on purpose of design, its future. Yet speaks of its potential harms & responsibilities. Isn’t precaution the enemy of creativity? @naconf

[The Dissenters Design Network @dissenterdesign]

https://t.co/FDFxC7DkFn @TimHarford on why we should have the courage to disagree. We need people who see the world differently. Reviews work by Prof Charlan Nemeth. Inclusive brainstorms help no-one. Better ideas when free to argue & criticise. Everyone benefits @ft #dissent

[Alex Dale @typofoto]

Led by Donkeys misunderstand Brexit. It is not motivated by a desire to cut ourselves off from European citizens but to change the UK constitution. This sort of emotive breast beating helps no one.

[The Dissenters Design Network @dissenterdesign]

https://t.co/aEmLsjbu5B The productivity-slump is causing some crazy design solutions to address it! How about tilting toilets to stop workers wasting too much time on the bog? Always used to be best place to think! #managerialmadeness #behaviouraldesign @ConversationUK

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https://t.co/i3FORCtzeP Paradox of @wearepocc campaign for more diversity in creative sector is it ends up being more exclusive! Representation is achieved by transcending narrowing ‘identity’ politics & appealing to universal aims. Don’t box designers in-aim higher! @itsnicethat

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https://t.co/tJtdTiKuLn Food packaging has long used design labelling to nudge consumers' eating habits. But like nudge, this is a sly trick of hand. Teenagers might be ‘fronting’ it, but Jamie Oliver & co are its real backers - finding new ways to berate the public #BiteBack2030

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https://t.co/okDIa9Verd Norman Foster wants design competition for northern House of Lords, to ’produce work that represents the very best that our age can offer.’ But public voted for accountability not undemocratic institutions. Does the #creativeestablishment get it? @dezeen

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https://t.co/73MaEoMB0u @aaronbetsky argues the 2020s “will see the return of the real” with familiar apocalyptical themes that dominate #architecture - pollution, reuse, rethink, reimagine, ‘relive our present.’ #Brexit shows public want new bold ideas. Time to step up @dezeen