176: Unabridged Interview: Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley
Can technology be designed for more than mere convenience and speed? Technology is often geared towards addressing immediate needs and desires, with little regard for any long-term outcome. But with increasingly powerful tech, negative effects on people and the planet are showing up more and more quickly. In this episode, designers Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley discuss their book “Assembling Tomorrow,” which offers ideas and practices for building and engaging with technology in ways that help us flourish.
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Show Notes
This is our unabridged interview with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley.
We live in an era of runaway design, where tech that seemed to solve our problems has gone on to cause unintended consequences. Think about social media’s effect on our collective mental health. Or the once miraculous material known as plastic becoming an environmental hazard. But we can’t predict the future, so what can we do?
In this episode, designers from Stanford’s d.school, Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley, discuss their book “Assembling Tomorrow,” which thinks uniquely about design and offers ideas and practices for building and engaging with technology in a way that helps us flourish.
Show Notes
Resources:
"Assembling Tomorrow" by Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley
"The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul
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