prompt 1.
- Q: Have you felt trapped inside of someone else’s imagination? How have you broken free?
Constantly, I feel trapped inside people’s imaginations or expectations. Speaking from my experience, to be able to identify others’ wrong impressions and re-situate oneself takes practice. There are two types of other’s imagination to be trapped within. Growing up, Brown had to cope with white supremacists and racism. The vision loaded on her being aimed for no good within her. She speaks of her younger self looking for other options “where she wasn’t dismissed as an idealist or an inferior.” There may also be an opposite kind of imagination where people firmly believe in others’ potential, which also causes burden.
I don’t think either of those imaginations is psychologically healthy. Some might find maroon space, some just have to confront the problem.
prompt 2.
- Q: Do artists, designers, and technology have that same or similar responsibility? What are the nuances between those roles?
Indeed, all creators and inventors bear the similar responsibilities of imaging alternatives.
To think writers, artists, designers, architects, etc speak independently from their own field, I would better imagine working collectively as part of world-running systems. Think of any today’s product, simple as a water bottle, which is designed, manufactured, tested, commercialized, and consumed, engages multiple areas of specialists working collectively to bring out. As mentioned in Brown’s article “critical relationships, the strength of collective is more important in a long-term transformation process.”
Artists, designers, and technology, in regard to alternatives’ emergence, are all responsible for thorough research, experiments, and bias elimination. Living in the industrial age, I think some fields are required to be more specified than others. The artist sometimes can be really abstract about their idea, the designer in other words has to make sure the deliverables are more accessible to users.