Week 7 Reading / Responses

"Politics Please, We're Social Designers,"
http://core77.com/blog/featured_items/politics_please_were_social_designers_by_cameron_tonkinwise__17284.asp

Granted politics has a grasp and influence on everything we do as designers. As designers working for positive solutions are those solutions the results of our good will as people or our sub-conscious political leanings.

Humanitarian Designers
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1661885/are-humanitarian-designers-imperialists-project-h-responds

People want to do good but get really distracted by glamourous projects when they should be focused on the local issues. And some cities like NYC are so overloaded that they could send some problem solvers off to the country. Should we impose a system in which problem solvers move out into the country away from their home cities? Could those designers also be educators? When the designer solves the problem the people of the community are not being taught independence and are rather getting help instead of doing it themselves and having pride in their own communities. We need to create solution makers in those problem areas.

"Human Dignity and Human Rights"
http://www.thenewprogramme.net/storage/coursematerials/va7-2_human%20dignity.pdf

Such an idealistic article. Believe that design should be used to bring forth and facilitate the ideas of our country set forth by the constitution. Its a beautiful idea that designers can bring those ideas to realistic form and practice in our nation. If Human centered design is the affirmation of dignity being considered first should there not be a simular notion of design that runs in parallel with it for accountability of what the design begets? Dignity, and Responsibility.