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AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.

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Oh shit Papanek is bad now? (Gui Bonsiepe)

This rare 1974 issue of Casabella was definitely worth finding - if only for the blistering three-page attack that Gui Bonsiepe waged on Victor Papanek's vision of design humanitarianism for the underdeveloped world! pic.twitter.com/gNymysxLp0
— Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) June 28, 2021

Google Lensed some of that, it's what I guess you would expect (Papanek not Marxist enough)

Gui Bonsiepe

30 Oct 2021 - 24 Jan 2026

Design guru; I think was involved in Project Cybersyn and wrote a book on it, which I haven't found in English Diseño Industrial, Tecnologia y Subdesarrollo | Gui Bonsiepe | download

gui bonsiepe | texts | gui bonsiepe

has a PDF entitled "Design as a Tool for Cognitive Metabolism" which sounds kind of promising http://www.guibonsiepe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/descogn.zip

Has a book coming out The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe: Radical Thinkers in Design Lara Penin Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Gui Bonsiepe: Framing Design as Interface