Friends,
The current issue of the New York Times Magazine has a fascinating story on design research and design practice of an immoral variety in the food industry. You can look at this through such lenses as marketing, consumer behavior — it remains the case that this story reports on different kinds of products and services, with an intense focus on innovation and new product development.
The result is one form of what Buckminster Fuller described as class-two evolution with massive changes to health over the past half century. This is also why Viktor Papanek described design as a dangerous profession.
While one cannot blame designers for this in a general sense, this demonstrates the power that design exerts — expecially the power of sophisticated, research-based design applied to questionable goals.
Go to URL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?emc=eta1
Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser:
http://nyti.ms/W3nF3E
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask] | Mobile +61 404 830 462 | Home Page http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/people/Professor-Ken-Friedman-ID22.html<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design>
Guest Professor | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China
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