Recommendations
Social Design Insights Podcast
The Curry Stone Design Prize podcast, Social Design Insights, is a podcast of conversations with leading designers who discuss innovative projects and practices that use design to address pressing social justice issues. The podcast is hosted by Eric Cesal and produced by Baruch Zeichner. – Eric Corey Freed, Principal, Director of Sustainability, CannonDesign
Future Ethics
Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles. From the publisher: “Future Ethics transforms modern ethical theory into practical advice for designers, product managers, and software engineers alike. Cennydd Bowles uses the three lenses of modern ethics to focus on some of the tech industry’s biggest challenges: unintended consequences and algorithmic bias, the troubling power of persuasive technology, and the dystopias of surveillance, autonomous war, and a post-work future.” – George White, Principal, Orange Octopus
Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act
Read the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act (Assembly bill A8352) to understand the New York State’s push to improve transparency of fashion retailers and manufacturers as well as support environmental projects. – Jennifer Rittner, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design
Mediocre
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo. The publisher notes, “Through the last 150 years of American history—from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics—Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism. As provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness.” – Shagufta Hakeem, Interdisciplinary Researcher
