Ontological Design

JONATAN SPEJLBORG IN CONVERSATION WITH TRAVIS WYCHE — I’m restraining myself to say what it is that we’re precisely doing here. Did you have a look at the book? Yes, I’ve been reading it. It’s great. There’s some powerful ideas in there that are highly relevant to the realms I’ve been spelunking through. There are certainly ontological and…

A dominant mode of scientific development over the course of our global industrialization has been one of creating and testing models so as to comprehend some otherwise unknown function, then interact with that model to obtain some desired outcome. As we have seen, these models are in some way or…

Designers are obsessed with one emotion. It’s not a bad emotion, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just… there are so many emotions other than empathy, and understanding them is crucial to getting good design outcomes. Before I make the case for emotional literacy as a foundational skill for designers…

There is no such thing as an unregulated market[1]. What could this determine or mean for “development” of software and web? Let us first remind ourselves that Semantic Web and Software Architecture are two different things: no, they’re not two aspects of the same thing. We could look at the…

I find myself in NYC, on an unplanned trip here, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan — the neighborhood I grew up in. It’s spring time, and new buds are blooming everywhere, leaves unfurling outward and upward as if yawning while rising for the new day. …

Noopolitik shouldn’t be only about “Whose story wins” in the short term. But more about whose story is the most regenerative to our global commons in the long term. I noticed that the rationalist community around LessWrong got recently interested in simulacra levels. They took the original concept from Baudrillard…

The following is an excerpt of a dialogue between Jon Osborne and Kirsty Moegerlein about the need for a shift in our understanding about design, prompted by Kirsty’s PhD on desining transitions. Kirsty: Transition (noun) the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another The…

When I look out into the world today I see so much that I can’t believe — When I look out into the world today I see so much that I can’t believe. Every day there are more stories that make my heartache for humanity. I ask myself “how did we get here?” Through this attention series, I zoomed in on the subject of attention to discuss…