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Thinking beyond the 20th century’s reductive design methods
We've entered the "find out" phase of the "fuck around and find out" climate cycle. Will that force a change to long-entrenched design methods?
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
Unpacking AI's lofty promises and lowly returns
🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 15
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
A new metric for design beyond ‘growth’
What is “degrowth,” and how can it influence design?
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
Imperfectly perfect design
🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 13
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
Designers, choose your player: AI or Earth
🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 12
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
What makes a friend?
🍄 Growth Imperatives, No. 11
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
Do we really need to learn about the climate crisis? We’re just designers, after all.
In the design industry, the climate crisis seems like a spectator sport. How can reimagining our arms-length relationship with it help push us toward…
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 10: Origins
This week, we look at how the stories we tell ourselves affect the narratives we act out.
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
How can design be "inspired by nature" without greenwashing?
While biomimicry is a step in the right direction, do we misunderstand what parts of nature we’re supposed to mimic?
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
What’s driving design culture?
Even if design drives culture, we have to ask, "Who's at the wheel? And where are they driving to?"
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
The 400-year-old mentality that still influences design
The worldview that made design is dying a slow death, but change tends to happen not-at-all, and then all-at-once.
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
🍄 Growth Imperatives No. 7: Tech Divisions
Global tech culture is splitting into two visions of the future: erasing humanity and rekindling it. Which side are you on?
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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
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