Francesca"With our standards lowered, the shift inwards has also become more pronounced. Where industry peers were once chatting about what they were making and for whom, we now seem fixated solely on what we're building with." is such a good quote. I encountered this problem a lot in the last weeks especially in exchange with young researchers and students approaching design research for the first time...
... It seems like there is a lot of anxiety about the tool: how AI interprets this, how AI outputs that, the bias behind generative AI, etc. I am not arguing that these are not important and vital aspects of critical design research, but I wonder if and when we will be able to look elswhere again to focus on what we are designing and why.