from the DeepMind of Josh Plough
33.
So we enter the fold, buy-in to the game, only to find the croupier has it locked down. No matter the risks we take, if we follow the same patterns we’ll always be out of pocket. But we’ve still got the taste, the illusion, the suggestion of victory. To change this using the lens of mental health we not only flip the table, scattering the things across the floor, but we ask our previous competitors to become our collaborators. Collectively picking up the pieces and changing the rules of the game, together. This is an approach that calls on students, graduates, lecturers, heads of departments, deans, funding bodies, boards of directors and more, all in equal measure.
It creates this unhealthy and competitive environment, I think.
Within the academy, when working on a socially aware subject, we need to instil pragmatism through collaboration; put aside individual projects and create a consensus of designers working towards a common goal; avoid the proselytisation of platforms; work with partner entities like NGOs, research institutes and local government bodies to bridge the fissure between graduation and a professional world not so attuned to the do-research design practitioner. If we start this process of bridging and muddying then hopefully the non-design world will start see past our historic solutionism, and we can embrace being part of something instead of positioning ourselves at the end of it.
An uneasy dynamic between promises and reality.
And should academies keep churning us out into an increasingly jobless market? Should they keep greenwashing an industry by promoting ecological awareness while asking for more things?
If they really believed their hype, then wouldn't they be the pioneers of this restructuring? To make sure all of the research undertaken isn’t lost they need to offer alternative structures, break down the positions that have already there for over 100 years. Break up the ancestors, the academies, crack open the tombs and parade the bones!
from the DeepMind of Josh Plough
Bring me back to the Collective DeepMind
33.
So we enter the fold, buy-in to the game, only to find the croupier has it locked down. No matter the risks we take, if we follow the same patterns we’ll always be out of pocket. But we’ve still got the taste, the illusion, the suggestion of victory. To change this using the lens of mental health we not only flip the table, scattering the things across the floor, but we ask our previous competitors to become our collaborators. Collectively picking up the pieces and changing the rules of the game, together. This is an approach that calls on students, graduates, lecturers, heads of departments, deans, funding bodies, boards of directors and more, all in equal measure.
It creates this unhealthy and competitive environment, I think.
Within the academy, when working on a socially aware subject, we need to instil pragmatism through collaboration; put aside individual projects and create a consensus of designers working towards a common goal; avoid the proselytisation of platforms; work with partner entities like NGOs, research institutes and local government bodies to bridge the fissure between graduation and a professional world not so attuned to the do-research design practitioner. If we start this process of bridging and muddying then hopefully the non-design world will start see past our historic solutionism, and we can embrace being part of something instead of positioning ourselves at the end of it.
An uneasy dynamic between promises and reality.
And should academies keep churning us out into an increasingly jobless market? Should they keep greenwashing an industry by promoting ecological awareness while asking for more things?
If they really believed their hype, then wouldn't they be the pioneers of this restructuring? To make sure all of the research undertaken isn’t lost they need to offer alternative structures, break down the positions that have already there for over 100 years. Break up the ancestors, the academies, crack open the tombs and parade the bones!