Speaking at Ontario College of Art and Design, May 7
Apr 23, 2009 at 08:56PM 1 Comment OCAD and Strategic Innovation Lab in have graciously invited me to participate in an important and intense week in Toronto the week of May 4. First, I'll be giving the keynote speech at OCAD's inaugural fundraiser, the GradEx Gala. Then I'll be participating in "SITUATE.US" a day-long workshop focussing on extending social technologies to the streets and beyond. And finally, I will be giving a public lecture on May 7, part of the unfinished business lecture series on an intense range of topics that are the humble beginnings of my book. Thanks to maestro-extraordinaire Michael Anton Dila at Torch Partnership for making all this happen and forcing me to get my rangy thoughts and ideas down into something coherent. [Spoiler alert: Design is less than you think it is, and more than you thought possible.]
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Reader Comments (1)
gong --- your talk was fabulous and opened many semantic spaces for exploration, thank you for all of that. have you / will you post the slides, there are some in particular that afford commenting and crowd-sourcing possibilities.
meantime i wonder if you know von foerster's commentary on ethics, see http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html. while the entire piece is a beautiful crystal, his distinction between ethics and morals paves a clear path. i excerpt it below.
yours in ethical design -paul
"...Translated onto the domain of cybernetics: the cybernetician, by entering his own domain, has to account for his own activity; cybernetics becomes cybernetics of cybernetics, or second-order cybernetics.
Ladies and gentlemen, this perception represents a fundamental change not only in the way we conduct science, but also how we perceive of teaching, of learning, of the therapeutic process, of organizational management, and so on and so forth; and -- I would say -- of how we perceive relationships in our daily life.
One may see this fundamental epistemological change if one considers oneself first to be an independent observer who watches the world go by; or if one considers oneself to be a participant actor in the drama of mutual interaction, of the give and take in the circularity of human relations.
In the first case, because of my independence, I can tell others how to think and to act: "Thou shalt. . . .," "Thou shalt not. . . .": This is the origin of moral codes. In the second case, because of my interdependence, I can only tell to myself how to think and to act: "I shall. . . .," "I shall not. . . ."
This is the origin of ethics."