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volume 14/ FRONTIER.

Like a burr on a wool shirt, frontier as an idea is embedded in design. Just when we think we've moved past those beguiling binaries of yor, we find ourselves still drawing upon that romantic promise of an easy us-to-them or old-to-new. Designing is often considered synonymous with creating. But we have other tools too: deconstructing, reorienting, adapting. Before jumping straight to world-building, designers might attempt to dismantle existing constructs of harm. In order to dismantle something, you first have to see it. This is an aspect of our inherited frontier condition that is difficult to shake: to tear our eyes away from always looking forward and begin, instead, to look around. Through four sections (Edges, Wilds, Metrics and Culture) we invite you to join us in the task of using the frontier's own story to dismantle its power. Futile? Maybe. But it seems worth a little sweat and a LUNCH issue to get this damn frontier burr off of us, and into the ground to start growing something.

Editors
Sam Johnson
Taryn Wiens
Sherry Ng
Hutch Landfair