Hi David
My understanding is that the evidence is in the reduction (to zero, from several per annum) of contractual disputes since the implementation of the comics contracts for Robert de Rooy’s client (in 2016).
Of course, you are right to be skeptical. As with written contracts, quality is everything. Robert de Rooy’s design and illustration team has been very strong. But we have seen some pretty ordinary examples of comics put together by other lawyers. Hence the need for multi-disciplinary work on these complex documents.
There’s a special edition of the University of Western Australia’s Law Journal being put together at the moment which will cover the papers and discussions from the Comic Book and Creative Contracts Conference from December 2017.
Stuart
On 29/4/19, 10:33 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in on behalf of David Sless" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Stuart,
This is interesting, but I’m skeptical. What evidence is there to show this has the desired outcomes?
David
> On 29 Apr 2019, at 12:09 pm, Stuart MEDLEY <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Mitchell
> There is some interesting work going on in Australia and South Africa around work contracts in comics form.
> Lawyer, Robert de Rooy instigated these in the interests of making contracts ‘everyone can understand’
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> Professor Camilla Andersen at the University of Western Australia’s Law Dept. is another leading light in this growing field of research and practice, and recently hosted the world’s first conference on these comics contracts.
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> Myself and one of my PhD students, Bruce Mutard, have been comics consultants on work with Professor Andersen.
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> In short, the work is aimed at reducing contractual mis/dis/information through visual design.
>
> Regards
> Stuart
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> On 23/4/19, 2:42 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in on behalf of Mitchell Sipus" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear PhD Design Community,
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> Over the last several months I have been researching design of machine
> learning through Service Product Ecologies to counter disinformation and
> misinformation.
>
> From within design conferences and publications, I have found various
> references on the topic of dis/mis-information concerning design and
> democracy, yet I'm wondering:
>
> a) who else is engaging the topic of design and disinformation?
>
> b) what design research is less concerned with democracy and more about
> information integrity in light of the social repercussions realized through
> our products and services?
>
> c) have we witnessed any changes in hiring or approach by industry using
> design to engage this very real and dangerous problem?
>
> If this is something you are working on in research or practice, I'd love
> to hear from you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mitchell Sipus
> sipusdesign.com
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