Invisible Visible Zine

Making the Invisible Visible

Mar 27, 2024

Invisible Visible

Making the invisible visible

Join us for Invisible Visible
A Design Science Studio Salon
An immersive artist showcase to inspire planetary cooperation

March 30 + 31, 10am – 2pm PT

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Invisible Visible Zine

Design Science Studio is inviting commUnity to make a zine together to help make the invisible visible.

Design is 99% invisible.
Design is the water we swim in.

A sea of mushrooms growing everywhere in New York City by Lola Villa

IQTEST and Sustainable Fashion by Melissa Lockwood

The Status Quo: Anthropocentrism

Human-Centered Design

When design thinking considers only what is desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable, what is being left out?

If the human is the center of the social, economic, and political system, the voices of all other living beings are left out of the design of the corporate business model. This self-centered anthropocentrism is the cause of the Anthropocene. We do not live in a geocentric universe. Humans are not the center.

Natural data. In the style of Refik Anadol. by Salem Jorden

A Paradigm Shift

Life-Centered Design

We must also consider the qualitative values and quantitative standards for impact assessment of the biodiversity and resilience of living systems.

Qualitative Design

Social
Economic
Political

Quantitative Science

Physics
Chemistry
Biology

Integrity of Living Systems

Structures
Flows
Relationships

Mirrors in a meadow. Mirridian. Prism. Rain. by Salem Jorden

Design Justice is Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science

When we consider the synergy of the whole, we nurture the capacity and resilience of life. We create a community that is capable, adaptable, responsible, and sensible.

We transcend the merely desirable, feasible, and viable.

Desirable for the connected
Feasible for the affluent
Viable for the powerful

The measure of value is relative only to the status quo of industrial, corporate, and national profit, leaving out all the externalities, harms, and costs to living beings, both human and more-than-human.

We are creating a wider and more expansive lens to view the whole, to envision the imaginative possibilities with a shift in perception. This is art that changes history by reimagining the future.