The act of making is not about creativity or innovation, but rather a challenge to empathize with others different from ourselves. That other may be a fellow human being, or it could be a character in a story, a piece of wood, or even your own body. We often think we know them, but really… have no idea.
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To Make Something is to Realize Empathy.
We have a kickstarter project to print/distribute an ambitious design book that asks “Why making matters to our lives” by exploring the relationship between empathy, art, craft, design, computer technology, and ethics. ( http://kck.st/whvn03 )
We need greater exposure to make this project a success.
If this idea resonates with you, would you be so kind to spread the word on the project through your website/blog, and perhaps also through social networks like Facebook and twitter?
with gratitude,
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Bukminster Fuller
Design: Seung Chan Lim
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We live in a world full of “things”. Much of what we do everyday involves reenacting verbs on things. For example, trimming a piece of paper may be described as reenacting the verb “cut” on the piece of paper. Just as we reenact verbs on things, we often times reenact verbs on files. But for the average person, reenacting verbs on files tends to involve many more steps, and takes a much longer time to complete. Yes it’s true that you get faster as you get better with the tools, but that’s not all. Software tools are usually much more expensive than their physical counterparts. To be fair, software tools typically do a lot more than one thing to justify their cost. But the real difference is not in the speed or the cost. It is in having the freedom of choice. In the physical world, if we don’t have a knife to cut with, we can choose to use our own bare hands. If our hands are tied up, we can even use our teeth. Nobody can deny us of this freedom of choice that physics affords us. Why should the digital world be any different?
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What art school teaches you is that making is not about creativity or innovation, but rather a challenge to empathize with others different from ourselves. That other may be a fellow human being, or it could be a character in a story, a piece of wood, or even your own body. We often think we know them, but really… have no idea. Support us by pledging on our Kickstarter page!
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The act of making is not about creativity or innovation, but rather a challenge to empathize with others different from ourselves. That other may be a fellow human being, or it could be a character in a story, a piece of wood, or even your own body. We often think we know them, but really… have no idea.
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Human-Centered Design is good, but it can be better. Design isn’t just about fulfilling people’s needs, it’s also about helping each other get to the heart of who we are as human beings. To do that, design needs to strive for a clear and coherent expression of honesty, of integrity, of dignity in all dimensions.
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What empathy allows us to do is viscerally imagine the current physical state of the other, and, as an extension, their future actions. We do this by conjuring up and synthesizing our own embodied knowledge through a heightened awareness of the signals perceived from the other.
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