#desviolenz

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Hyperallergic calls MoMA curator Paola Antonelli's Design & Violence web project one of the year's best. 

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Curator Paola Antonelli recaps the final Design and Violence debate, titled "The Internet, Open Wide." Watch the debate between Gabriella Coleman and Lawrence Lessig and read Antonelli's account. 

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Internet freedom and digital privacy will come about only through the design of better tools for civil disobedience and direct action. 

Do you agree or disagree?

Watch tonight’s Design and Violence Debate live on YouTube at 6:30 pm EST. 

Debate motions will be delivered by Gabriella Coleman (the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, and author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous) and Larry Lessig (the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University). 

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When Design Harms Instead Of Helps

Bruce Nussbaum's firsthand account of how a celebrated agro-design went terribly wrong.

The forthcoming MoMA book Design and Violence collects blog posts from the museum's interactive online experiment of the same name. Read Bruce Nussbaum's story about design and genetic modification via Co.Design.

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Can exposing past examples of discrimination prevent those in the future? This week's Design and Violence blog post looks at a map of California neighborhoods that have been labeled "high-risk" by lenders.

[Richard Marciano, University of Maryland, David Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Chien-Yi Hou, Rosemarie McKeon. T-RACES (Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces). 2010. AJAX, Apache 3.0, HTML 4.0, JavaScript 1.7, MySQL 5.0, and XML. Image courtesy the designers]

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Do full-head hoods mask or amplify violence? Journalist Christian Parenti considers the hood on the Design and Violence blog. 

[Canvas hood allegedly worn by Confederate conspirator Lewis Powell (alias Paine) while incarcerated in the Old Capital Prison, Washington, D.C., after Lincoln’s assassination. 1865. Canvas, cotton padding, approx. 14 x 13 x 12″ (35.6 x 33 x 30.5). © 2015 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved (CHS 1920.1271)]

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Fighting human trafficking through covert design, this week on the Design & Violence blog. 

[The Public Practice Studio (Mike Fretto, American, b. 1982; Kari Gaynor, American, b. 1984; Tad Hirsch, American, b. 1970; Josh Nelson, American, b. 1978; Adriel Rollins, American, b. 1976; Melanie Wang, American, b. 1975). Pivot. 2012–present. Sanitary pad, water-soluble paper. Images courtesy of the Public Practice Studio (publicpractice.org)]

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"Some ideas just can't wait." Curator Paola Antonelli talks to The Huffington Post about her web-based Design & Violence project. 

[Massoud Hassani (Dutch, b. Afghanistan 1983), Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands, est. 1947). Mine Kafon wind-powered deminer. 2011. Bamboo and biodegradable plastics, 87 x 87 x 87" (221 x 221 x 221 cm). Gift of the Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2012. Image courtesy of Hassani Design BV]