{"id":17687,"date":"2016-10-27T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=17687"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:53:43","slug":"blogdetroit-rethink-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/blogdetroit-rethink-consider\/","title":{"rendered":"#BlogDetroit: Rethink and Consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going through school, I studied product design. \u00a0I learned the ways to manipulate an object in order to change a person&#8217;s behavior. \u00a0Interaction changed with the slightest curve and in many ways\u00a0and it provided too much power to designers. \u00a0We learned things to include and exclude certain behaviors such as which way to hold a razor for the most relaxed hand motions, or design a bench to keep. \u00a0Now what does this have anything to do with Detroit?<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to attend the AIGA Conference last week and Roman Mars, podcaster of 99% Invisible sat there and showed a crowd of thousands of people images. \u00a0These images were of benches, and outside of businesses where there are spikes to prevent people who were homeless\u00a0from staying there. \u00a0While inhumane- it was a problem solved by a solution. \u00a0Incorrect as that solution may have been. \u00a0But what Mr. Mars said next was more intriguing- \u00a0&#8220;When you are designing: who are you excluding and why? Is it making the world a better place?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is making a bench so that people can&#8217;t lay down on it making the world a better place or is it just putting a band-aid on a larger issue? \u00a0I think going forward with challenges, I will\u00a0consider this first and foremost. &#8220;If\u00a0this solution doesn&#8217;t- how can we change it to make the world a better place?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/blogflowchart.png\" alt=\"blogflowchart\" width=\"334\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/blogflowchart.png 334w, https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/blogflowchart-175x300.png 175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going through school, I studied product design. \u00a0I learned the ways to manipulate an object in order to change a person&#8217;s behavior. \u00a0Interaction changed with the slightest curve and in many ways\u00a0and it provided too much power to designers. \u00a0We learned things to include and exclude certain behaviors such as which way to hold a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}