Dear Ali
Thank you for bringing to our attention the work of Lee Vinsel.
His work has a background in STS (Science and Technology Studies) and he and Andrew Russell are behind the so-called "Maintenance Movement." They have mounted several fruitful conferences in recent years, and I was lucky enough to participate in the most recent. Anyone interested in "The Maintainers" conferences can read more here:
http://themaintainers.org/
In addition to the article you mention, the two have written about the larger intellectual movement elsewhere. Here is an opinion piece article in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/sunday/lets-get-excited-about-maintenance.html?_r=0
One of their earliest statements on the subject ("Hail the Maintainers") is here:
https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more
The latter is not necessarily against design, but as you note, the list may be interested in Lee Vinsel's critique of design thinking as popularized by the d-School and IDEO.
kind regards,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Guffey,
Professor of Art & Design History
Director, MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory
State University of New York at Purchase
Purchase, NY 10577-1400
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author:
Posters: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2015)
Retro: The Culture of Revival (Reaktion Books, 2006)
editor:
Design and Culture (Routledge)
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Subject: A critical article about design thinking
Dear Colleagues,
I recently came across this on medium. The writer is not a designer, but I
do think he has some valid observations about design thinking craze and
innovation fetish. It is a bit long, but—at least I think— a good read. He
has good criticisms about “lets design-think and innovate our way out of
complex world problems” attitude.
https://medium.com/@sts_news/design-thinking-is-kind-of-like-syphilis-its-contagious-and-rots-your-brains-842ed078af29
Yours,
Ali
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