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Designing for Beauty, Sufficiency, and Collective Care – Introduction

July 31, 2026 Art, Current Events, Design, Ecology, humanities, Politics, Science, Theology, Theory, Thoughts

I’ve decided to post my recent grad school paper in chunks since it is much longer than an average blog post. Below is the introduction. … Introduction Design is many things, but if we reflect on design as a trade or practice or vocation for a short time one might envision the people working as…

Too Many Unnecessary Things Everywhere: Brian McLaren, Kohei Saito, Dieter Rams and Use-Value

May 14, 2024 Art, culture, Current Events, Design, Ecology, Economics, Philosophy, Thoughts

“As people who have been shaped by the current empire–first the European, and then Euro-American, and then the global economic empire that we’re a part of now–we have to realize our survival now depends on disentangling our identities from the values and assumptions of this empire.“ –Brian McLaren The above quote comes from an interview…

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