<p>Out of the over 1.2 million species ever discovered, only one has been observed to make tools that help create other tools: The human. One specific human, fittingly named Andrew "Heumann," represents the spirit of designing tools like no other. He is a designer, architect, and software developer who made a decade-long career out of creating digital tools to facilitate automation.</p>

002: Could Memes Become an Economy? ft. Jaron Lanier

Given the opportunity, designers will endlessly debate.

Perhaps this is because practices of design fundamentally disagree. We can see this in the hotly contested differences that delineate design movements, and disciplinary boundaries that are continuously in flux. However, we may also see that there are ways of thinking and knowing common across designers.

This podcast series seeks to uncover the most pressing debates that go beyond design practices. Design Despite Disciplines is hosted and produced by the Berkeley MDes course, Debates in Design. To learn more, visit design.berkeley.edu.