Lateral Research - Conspiracy

I have been looking around on the internet for topics about sustainability and earth preservation. And while procrastinating on you tube i came across a few really good clips. They dealt with sustainability in a new way. We are currently living in a world that is becoming more and more conscious about sustainability and preservation. Well this is the main stream view of where we as a race are at right now. The clips that i have been looking at deal with sustainability as a conspiracy.

So i did quite a bit of looking around and seeing where this has come from. And what i have found is a large following of this conspiracy theory. That there is a small group of people that control most of the worlds wealth. And these are the people that are dealing with things on a global scale, for example the Twin Towers. Is the new drive for sustainability just another layer to the conspiracy's? There are quite a few clips of this online.

I think that this is a really interesting way to look at things . . .

Maybe sustainability for us is to have freedom of mind. Or total control of mind.(When i use "Mind" i mean thoughts and ideas). I think that the people of this earth are already slaves to the system, "The Man". Maybe sustainable design is freeing peoples minds of what they already know or what they think they know. Perhaps sustainable design is keeping people inline with what the main stream wants. Are we as designers just designing ways to control or persuade the masses. I really like the frog idea; If you have a frog and place that frog into a boiling pot of water the frog will jump straight out. But if you place that frog into a pot of cool water and gently heat up the water to boiling, the frog will eventually cook itself. The frog thinks that the small changes are nothing to be concerned about, until all the small changes add up, and its dead. (Are our lecturers and tutors just teaching us the skills or the mindset to fit into the lie? Is Doug teaching us how to be leaders in rhetoric, and control people?)

This i think will be the drive to my project two. What i need to think about now is what / who am i designing for? And are there sides and where do i sit as a designer?



(I am also not sure how to take these clips and ideas. Are they just another way to control us? How reliable are these sources? Why do i want to believe them? Why do i think the way i think? Have i already been converted into a puppet? Much like the matrix. Am i just being used by the machines? And if i am whats wrong with being a puppet? If i am happy with the way things are going for me whats the issue? Is truth law? Why should truth rule my life? Do i want to be "enlightened". Is living a lie or false existence so bad ???)

Chapter 2 - Reading

Just did the reading of chapter 2. I though that the chapter was quite interesting. I really liked the matrix quote. Where agent smith calls us humans a virus, like cancer on the earth. All we do is consume. Also i really liked the idea of sustainable consumption. I like that both words are opposite but in the same way work together.

One thing that i took from the reading is:

"Sustainability through complexity"

Where the complexity of our designs creates sustainability of the product or what ever we are designing. And when the consumer gets it all they move on. So we as designers have to increasingly provide more complex and theoretical designs.

Readings and an Asthma Game

I have just finished the readings and they are very interesting and relate to the project heaps. The emotionally durable design was good as it related sustainability and other ecological things to design. This helped me see more clearly what i was looking to create for project one. Also seeing the already in place ways of playing with in the city in the else / where reading and ground up. Looking at the social networking and the tapestry's of human life here on earth and also the way things work in wellington.

While reading one of the readings i also had a thought about a game i had seen and played online. It was about asthma. It was a really fun game and it raised awareness about asthma but i didn't feel like it was. It had asthma related games, Like blowing through a straw for a long period of time. I don't think that i realized it was about asthma until about two or three web pages later. I will try and find it and put a link up.

Jeff logging out . . .

Sustainable Wellington PDF

Here is my link to the PDF:

http://www.box.net/shared/u9n9wql4ck

I have also found a great free online storage place (For those people who dont have websites). Its www.box.net You get 1Gb of free online space and its super easy to upload and things. You can also subscribe to more space if you need it, but it costs.

Enjoy

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