Research response 10-JD

Joval Davis 5/9/22

Reading Response 10

Design is something that can benefit many people in different ways. Whether it is through the messages of the design or what the design is being used to promote. It is all-important and helps to get people to view things like race or pollution in new ways than they did before. It can open the eyes of the audience to new ideas. This is why the manifestos Ken Garland from 1964-2020 all talked about the same idea of designers using their designs to help benefit the people and the environment. It can be through creating designs to educate or creating designs to bring awareness to people about problems in the world. It also talked about rejecting the idea of design being used simply for the selfish gain of the designer or other people who want to use it to benefit their selfish desires. Like companies who use designers for self-products that are dangerous to people simply to get a profit.
Of all the manifestos and their ideas of what design should be and what it should not be the 2020 manifesto stood out to me. What stood out to me is the talk in the manifesto about all the bigger things that design can be used for. How it talked about how we should use design to support those in need and to help bring people closer together. This stood out to me because it is something that many designers due not think about. When you design sometimes you become focused simply on how you can benefit yourself and the person you’re creating for. We never really think about how we can use design to help the environment or bring attention to things that may ruin the lives of people and animals either now or in the future. This is something we never really think about but is something we needed to consider more when designing.
Technology change had a major effect on how the manifestos changed over time. The author of each manifesto experienced different types of technology of the year they were creating the manifesto. Such as the creation of the computer which did not exist in, 1964. They also expected too disasters and problems that came about before the creation of each manifesto. Such as the increase in the effects of climate change and the amount of effort being put to stop it. This affected how the authors believed design should be used too and what benefits it could bring to that year due to the changes in technology and problems that are going on during that year.

link to jouernal

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufiRlU6jqmV9-IoPXMyjYdsT9chQzoahpioB3i9wAlw/edit