Design & Violence
summary
MoMA runs an ongoing project that treats design objects as probes into harm, publishing weekly posts on a WordPress platform and staging three Oxford-style debates. Specific artifacts include the 3D-printed Liberator with Cody Wilson arguing open source, a scent distilled from cage-fight towels, a menstruation-simulation device, a visualization of 2008 CDOs, a digital attack map, and a study of Thompson Correctional Facility. The project asks measurable questions — can financial instruments be violent, are denial-of-service attacks the worst online threat — and pairs objects with expert commentary.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:43Design and Violence
- 3:52Scent of Violence
- 7:06The Debt Crisis
- 10:113d Printed Gun
- 11:30The Menstruation Machine
- 12:59Eating Animals
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