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Sessão 3: Quote “[Buckminster Fuller’s plans reflect] design’s ambition to be an all-encompassing suprasystem. However, it also manifests the limits of design’s hyperconnectivity: as every problem is chased by another problem, the synthesist would end up enveloping “spaceship Earth” in its entirety.” — ‘A Complex Relationship: on Synthesis and Autonomy’, What Design Can’t Do, Silvio Lorusso

Sessão 2: Quote “[The Macintosh] was the great promise, this would be the great liberator. The Macintosh computer became the synthesizing agent, the creative tool, the uber tool by which you don’t have to have a typewriter anymore to generate text, you don’t need a photostat machine to make copies, you don’t need exacto knives to cut things out. All of these techniques, you could set your own type, all of this could be poured into the machine.” — Andrew Blauvelt, 'Graphic Design Now In Graduate Education: Love, Hate, Hope, Fear'

Sessão 1: Quote The response of the profession — and to some extent the wording of the manifesto itself — attempts to squeeze a social critique into the limits of professional ethics. The potential for intervention essentially narrows to a designer’s choice of employers. The idea of design as a neutral — or even an inherently good — force in the world promises designers a reconciliation that can occur entirely at work, in the absence of broader struggle. At the same time, treating advertising as a perilous distortion of design’s otherwise unproblematic “power” allowed designers to acknowledge the catastrophes of global capitalism while neatly shifting the blame to an adjacent profession. — J. Dakota Brown, 'The Power of Design as a Dream of Autonomy'