responsibility: exercise one

hi, all!
i've moved the responsibility postings into this one category. please reply to this one rather than starting a new post.

thanks!




Responsibility-
This is something that comes with being a leader. There are different levels and roles of leadership but each one has certain principals like ethics, trust, and accountability tied to it.
As the leader, the one in charge, you are the one held accountable for certain tasks, actions, or decisions and their repercusions, wether you carried them out personaly or insructed someone else to them.

tarvis



It comes with everything you do. As a designer it is quite relevant to take care of what you impact others by your own creation. Something like "tail-tag" that always comes with every single new ideas that can be advantage and disadvantage toward you. Be sure to know how this single word can affect you as a designer!

yi-ha



A conscientious approach to design (i.e., research, brainstorming, problem solving, etc.) with the intent to impact the user experience and promote either change or no change, whichever is relevant.

Woody


I think as creatives we have certain opportunities that other members of society may either take for granted or are ignorant of. Those "opportunities" thrive on our ability to observe, rationalize, contemplate and conceptualize, and they rely our abilities to apply these skills to solving (and defining) problems or successes in how things, in general, work. We have the skills and talents to see things differently from others. As members of this society, against our will or intent, we should take our skills and use them in a way that can serve ourselves and the greater concerns of said social order. I don't think we have obligations to do others needs or desires, but our skills to see those needs and our talents to help them should be excercised, for sake of feeling blood run through our veins. If we are designers, why should we NOT contribute to the rest of the world... ?

Jenks



Design responsibility to me is taking the innitiative to design for myself and others to enjoy and understand. this means designing with clarity, and expression, in a way that will help others understand and enjoy what is beeing designed. This is a responsibility because the designer has to take in many conciderations, and many different audiences, so the designer must take steps to do this in a very careful manor which works for every aspect of their design.

Maijken



What is design responsibility? For me two things come to mind over everything else, those two being honesty and ethics within the professional realm. I believe the problem with much of modern design, in any field of study, is that there is not enough focus on the social and long-term impact of what is being created.

Ethics are important to design; because when the effects design has on society are taken into consideration it is here when great design is created. It is with these thoughts in mind that I believe ethical design is design that takes into consideration the social impact it has and looks at the entirety of society, not just a small niche that sums up to about .01% of the worlds population and owns about 95% of the worlds wealth. This is where the true problem of practicing ethical design comes to light. In an ideal world design would focus less on the making of money and more on the overall impact and importance of its outcome it has on society as a whole. What should be of key importance to a designer of ethical intent is not the size of his pocket book nor the prestige he has among his constituents, instead the designer's actions and great accomplishments for a greater good should be most important because it is only accomplishments such as these that last. Essentially the designer's actions will speak louder than his words.

The_Diz

passion & integrity

As designers, we play the primary role of visual communicators in this society. It is our role, for sure, but it provides little direction as to what we are to communicate and in what fashion. In other words: what "kind" of designer are you going to be? (more appropriately...what kind of person are you going to be?). This opens the discussion to values and our responsibility to the people we live with & design for as well as the place in which we conduct these relationships. In a blind society, we are left to our own to find our own truth. Our fathers failed us; they made values relative (and many of them used this rationale to abuse or abandon us). But to even discuss values or responsibilities seriously, there must be a measuring stick. There must be some bedrock, some universal big "T" Truth. Only with agreement and joyful submission to a common Truth can we begin to live lives of integrity. Being integrated people is vital to being responsible designers. We cannot continue to separate and compartmetalize our lives where one truth applies in one area of our life but not another. Much discussion is required to resolve this essential question:

What is Truth?

In addition to being people of integrity, our other major responsibility is to live lives of passion. As men and women passionate about design we are the purveyors of the beautiful & sublime and I believe our society is consistently looking to us for inspiration. But to inspire, you must be extraordinary and all extraordinary lives throughout history have all loved deeply. This begins with seeing, something we as designers should be good at. We need to see ourselves for who we truly are, BELOVED. We will then begin to see this in others. From the security found here (as a natural out-pouring) we can begin to live and design confidently and responsibly.

welcome!

hi, everybody!

welcome to our blog.
please use this place to post comments during our course
visual advocacy.

remember, each of you should post at least ten times during the semester with original thoughts as they pertain to design responsibility, the reading, respond to your peers' ideas, or respond to one of my questions posed during class.

happy posting!
brockett