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Provoke
Design does not only have to solve. It can stage what we would rather not see.
From Italian radical design to Dunne & Raby at the RCA: objects and scenarios that comment on consumption, technology, and habit. They do not sell a better future — they make it contestable. Foucault, on technologies of the self: every device also shapes a subject. Relatronica works in that register.
Design can be used to pose incisive questions and encourage thinking, rather than provide ready-made solutions.
Dunne & Raby · Speculative Everything
Verify
A model sure of itself has not yet proved anything.
Between what a machine produces and what becomes a decision, there must be room for contestation: evidence, objection, a trace. Jonas called “heuristic fear”, in The Imperative of Responsibility, imagining consequences while you can still act. Welt Form is built there — on verification, not on the confidence of the interface.
Ethics begins where a certainty can be refused.
From the essay · Confidence is not verification
Make readable
What you cannot read, you cannot contest.
Open source, published tools, documents others can remake: this is not an ethical optional. It is the condition for someone outside the team to understand and intervene — free software makes readable what would otherwise stay a black box. That is why the Toolbox for Ethical Futures is OPEN at CERN.
Relatronica, Welt Form, and the CERN Toolbox come from these three positions — not from a product roadmap.