SCORAI-Global

Announcing Winter/Spring Mini-Colloquium Series on Post-work/Post-consumer Futures

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The SCORAI Board and Tellus Institute are pleased to announce plans to host a Winter/Spring Mini-Colloquium Series on Post-work/Post-consumer Futures that will delve into issues at the interface of digital automation, technological unemployment, worktime reduction, consumption, and lifestyle innovation. Speakers in the series will be: February 16: Peter Frase, Editor at Jacobin magazine and author … Read more

What do SCORAI members think of Planned Obsolescence?

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Harald Wieser I used the term design in a very broad sense, comprising both fashion and technology/engineering. In so far, I don’t think that the decisions made by designers and engineers are governed by different logics regarding product lifetimes (probably by different interests though, as many engineers regard designing for durability as a virtue). In … Read more