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Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future - SCOTT DOORLEY & CARISSA CARTER - Highlights

Sep 20, 2024

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Scott Doorley

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Carissa Carter

Scott Doorley, Creative Director at Stanford's d. school, and Carissa Carter, Academic Director, dive into the intersection of design, emotion, and technology. They explore how modern innovations affect humanity and the environment, urging individuals to embrace their pivotal roles in shaping a sustainable future. Topics include the need for adaptive legislation in tech, the impact of AI on creativity and perception, and the paradoxes of progress. Together, they ignite a conversation about responsible design and its potential to drive positive change.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

The Tangled Web of Modern Design and Its Impact on Humanity

02:16 • 4min

Navigating Overwhelm and Agency in Climate Action

06:30 • 5min

Innovative Legislation and Human Perception in the Age of Technology

11:17 • 4min

Exploring the Transformative Impact of AI on Perception and Creativity

15:07 • 6min

“Today, someone is putting the finishing touches on a machine- learning algorithm that will change the way you relate to your family. Someone is trying to design a way to communicate with animals in their own language. Someone is designing a gene that alters bacteria to turn your poop bright blue when it’s time to see the doctor. Someone is cleaning up the mess someone else left behind seventy years ago yesterday. Today, someone just had an idea that will end up saving one thing while it harms another…

To be a maker in this moment— to be a human today— is to collaborate with the world. It is to create and be created, to work and be worked on, to make and be made. To be human is to tinker, create, fix, care, and bring new things into the world. It is to design. You— yes, you!— might design products or policy, services or sermons, production lines or preschool programs. You might run a business, make art, or participate in passing out meals to the poor. You may write code or pour concrete, lobby for endangered species legislation or craft cocktails. Wherever you fit in, you are part of shaping the world. This is design work.”

– Assembling Tomorrow
A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future

Scott Doorley is the Creative Director at Stanford's d. school and co author of Make Space. He teaches design communication and his work has been featured in museums and architecture and urbanism and the New York Times. Carissa Carteris the Academic Director at Stanford's d. schooland author of The Secret Language of Maps. She teaches courses on emerging technologies and data visualization and received Fast Company and Core 77 awards for her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain. Together, they co authored Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future.

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