— Urs Gasser, executive director at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, commenting at the start of Hyper-Public, a two-day symposium on “designing privacy and public space in the connected world” held at Harvard. The rest of his speech is here. Meantime, I love the broad definition of design, along with the organizers’ explanation of its relevance in this context. They write that design is an “agent of change. New media are our new public forums and the design of their interfaces affects what people reveal, wittingly or not. Design is essential in making legible the line between private and public, and in showing people the significance of the information they are revealing. Most importantly, in an era in which technology is collapsing the boundaries that maintained our privacy, we must understand how design can promote tolerance. For as our world becomes more public, it is only with heightened tolerance that we can maintain the freedom we value in privacy.”
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