"As a student I find this illuminating. Every time the term "design thinking" comes up in classes I have struggled to see how it fits with my process. It feels like a monolith, with very few entry points to reach a clear feeling of what to do in a given situation. Mostly I end up turning away from ideas presented under the banner of design thinking, and instead pursue more opportune and tangible strategies.This talk is the first time I have heard design thinking directly critiqued, and it is the first time I have felt invited in to be a part of the group that defines what it is."

"The Mobby chair looks humiliating to use. The chairs hook together putting you much too close together with the people in front and behind. Your feet are enclosed by a frame which looks difficult to escape if there is a chair hooked up in front of you. Being moved en masse with strangers may be more cost effective for the airport, but it sure as hell doesn't make my trip "stress-free and enjoyable" It's clear that the airport is the customer here, not the passengers. The Multimobby looks like an improvement over a golf cart, but that "advanced safety feature" where it autobrakes if someone walks in front of the collision sensor is a nightmare. The deceleration sends one of the passengers in the front seat tipping forward. There are many conditions where a person would be unable to self stabilize and would hit the rail in front of them. All it would take is a little reprogramming to ease-on the brakes.Lets put less emphasis on packing 7 people into the same space and actually center on the needs of the user please."

"The line "to suit all possible body dimensions" erases the existence of people with bodies that would not be able to use this.I would suggest saying "To suit a wide range of human dimensions.""

"I'm a big fan of this idea, and I see problems that need to be addressed.Dismissing the issue of parking by saying "and if you really need a car..." is ignoring a huge design consideration. People need jobs, and people do not always have a choice in which job they take, factors outside of their control can force them to accept work that is inconveniently located on the transit network, or very distant. A just city cannot place additional financial burden on someone already experiencing employment scarcity.Then there's the needs of people who have unique mobility requirements. I have often contemplated selling my car and using a carshare service offered in my city for environmental reasons, but I am faced with the reality that at times I cannot walk down my front steps without stopping to take a breath at the bottom. The concept of walking a block or two to get to a vehicle becomes untenable, and would serve to limit my actions and disable me by design.Likewise, placing vehicles in a parking structure outside my superblock would add many steps to my daily activities, steps I can ill afford.I'm not saying I don't think the plan can work, I'm saying its a good step, but the reality of designing a just city must place marginalized people closer to the centre, for the benefit of all."

"I wouldn't throw around the phrase waste-free so nonchalantly. It makes designers look a little out of touch.Every step in the process of making this chair + other objects produced waste. The textile is coated, by what process? The plywood is glued, with glue squeezing out of the crack.Even the last major process of cutting the plywood produces mountains of sawdust. Unless the designer found a use for the saw dust too, this has no business being called zero-waste.Minimal waste doesn't grab enough attention though I suppose. I appreciate all the work that went in to the design, but the marketing should reflect the real value of all that work."

"This is not real. The workers are far too close to the robot. Anyone with experience working on large robots knows the control algorithms can fail catastrophically during testing, and all robots of this size and weight are operated in a human exclusion zone.There are lots of other clues that this is very fake."

"Those blades! Reminds me of Matthias Wandell's Pantorouter, the long lever arm gives you a great deal of precision and power relative to the work. I wonder if there is a way to mount and use one without having to be hunched double."

"There's also the fact that sometimes wealthy countries ship their garbage as freight to poorer ones, "legally" or not.http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/years-after-2500-tonnes-of-canadian-trash-landed-in-manila-philippines-demanding-we-take-it-back"

"This seems like an area that could benefit from soft robotics. Cheaper and a larger range, plus without all those rigid edges."

"Did this make anyone else think of the pizza delivery car from Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'?"

"It is not effective to harvest heat energy in the home like this. No matter how efficient you make the transducer, the fact that you are within ten feet of the grid at all times means that you are investing materials (nanomaterials in this case, even more embodied energy and pollution) in a superfluous way.Thermoelectricity is useful in super low power applications where you dont have another power source. Or if you are generating very high heat concentrations 24 hrs a day. But recuperating energy from inefficient wall-warts? You would do far better to not convert that energy into heat in the first place, by buying state of the art power converters. If you really want a super efficient home, insulate your cooking pots so they take less energy to boil. Technology is awesome, but stop offloading your energy concerns into wasted materials."