Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Safety as it stands and how it is known (as a brutal embuggerance) is impossible to defend. When your global mantra is the insane ideology of zero, you are set up for a hiding to nothing. In the face of fallibility, it is impossible to defend zero. … Learn more >>>>>
When one is caught in a regime of dictatorial power, where zero is the ideology, much is sustained by the management of Poetics and Semiotics. This is why resistances like the works of Banksy and other graffiti artists are so effective. If you want … Learn more >>>>>
Risk is synonymous with uncertainty and so any risk involves a ‘leap of faith’. The word ‘faith’ is one of the many silences of safety, in fear that the word conveys some religious interpretation. The nervousness and anxiety around the word ‘faith’ says much … Learn more >>>>>
An affordance is created by design eg. a chair affords ‘sitting’ by design, a cup affords ‘drinking’ by design, a ball afford ‘kicking’ by design and water is designed for drinking and swimming. Understanding affordance is foundational to safety in design, usability … Learn more >>>>>
If you see, listen or watch nothing else this week, make sure you catch the Press Club Address of Grace Tame, Australian of the Year
Grace so ably articulates the foundations of morality and ethics, in this inspiring address (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4BErJDLhD0 ).… Learn more >>>>>
