November 12, 2021
16:10
Between Darlings and Sacred Cows
Ricardo Sosa
In this talk we will use three metaphors to address issues around reflective practice in design. The first metaphor speaks of killing sacred cows, the second of killing our "darlings" (spoiled beings), and the third of invisible elephants. These metaphorical vehicles will help us distinguish between the professional practice of design and the advantages and opportunities to connect practice with reflection.
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Ricardo Sosa
Service Designer - Organization of Organizations
(They - Them)
Ricardo Sosa is a professor of design and creative technologies at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and at Monash University, Australia. Ricardo started working in the '90s in Mexico in design projects for interactive museums, websites, and multimedia educational systems. His work took him to Singapore where he begin his career in research, completing a doctorate in design and computation in Sydney, Australia in 2005. Since then, his work inside and outside academia connects topics and areas such as creativity, computation, robotics, and social and community activism. He’s been responsible for university programs with industry and local communities, as well as interdisciplinary projects in three continents. Ricardo lies in the city of Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) in Aotearoa New Zealand.