Hepler-SmithE VtP Collaboration Biography

As mentioned above and in my comment on the CFP, I would advocate encouraging active thinking about efforts to remediate, abolish, and live with toxicity—which might often be caught up in the same “toxic dynamics” that they oppose but likely also exceed them. (I imagine such work will emerge on its own in any event, as it did in some of the VtS projects.) Seems to me that locating the cracks in malign inevitabilities and chipping away at them is important both for learning new things and keeping one’s spirits up! This is, as much as anything, an admonition to myself…I’m not sure exactly how this translates into design principles. Again, my starting point would be that Eve Tuck essay “Suspending Damage” (which I am guessing many of you already know better than I do!)