from the DeepMind of Josh Plough

Bring me back to the Collective DeepMind

8.

Their depression sat heavy on them. As the world slipped further and further away, so too did their mental health. To think about it actually, their mental health was what was at the centre of this. Twenty years into the new millennium and everything came to a point: environmental destruction and pollution; precarious working conditions; nationalism, xenophobia and hatred permeated almost all aspects of social and political life. All facilitated by technology’s ability to coalesce all of this despair in a single device, while still managing to divide. Every narrative, every human story, every non-human story of woe was suffused with hope. A hope that was being sold by educational institutes. Because if education was no longer about the pursuit of knowledge, then it was about the manufacturing of hope. If we can hope, then we can pay the fees.

"We achieve this by making you reflect in more abstract ways on the meaning of your designs and the social roles you perform as a designer. Because we want to encourage you to link your personal story with the issues, problems and questions that arise in the world around you."**