What is Design?
People’s interpretation of design differs.
Coming to solutions for problems.
Problem solving
Applied creativity
Learning
Evolution
A social process
Interaction
Game
Negociation
Solving wicked problems
10 characteristics of wicked problems by Rittel, Horst and Melvin Webber. “dilemmas in a general theory of planning”. 1973
Design like juggling. Changeable ways of reaching a solution.
Improvisation
Design as a mastery of expertise.
Naïve
Novice
Advanced beginner
Competent designer
Expert
Master
How not to design
First idea
Inflexibility
Jump to details
Design form first
No planning
Waiting for inspiration
Ignore tests
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
4th April Lecture.
Embodied interaction. Anne.
Wearable technologies
Mobile media
Interactive installation
Telematics
Wearable technologies
Biometric devices. Entertainment devices. Smart fabrics. High tech jewellery.
Wearable technologies open up rethinking about our interaction with the computer.
“Printed organism” Sonali Sridhar and Mouna Andraos.
“LeCharpe Communicante” Electronic shadow.
Steve Mann Pioneer in development in wearable computing.
Seamless extension of body and mind.
Worn not carried.
User controllable.
Operates in real-time.
Eye tab- personal imaging, augmented reality.
“Sousveillance” cameras embedded in clothing and jewellery. Surveying surveillance. Maybe camera.
Benoît Maubrey- die audio gruppe.
Audio jackets 1982. Loud speakers sewn into second hand clothing.
Audio ballerinas 1989. Audio Peacocks 2003.
Mobile technologies
Golan Levin.
Dialtones (a telesymphony).
Interactive installations
Paul De Marinis
“Rain dance” 1998 (sound encoded water)
“Firebirds” 2004
Joachin Sauter, ART+COM
Intereaction between physical and virtual work.
“Famous Grouse experience” 2002
“Medial stage and costume design” 2002- video tracking.
David Rokeby- camera tracking to create installations.
“Very nervous system”
Paul Garrin/ David Rokeby
“Boarder patrol” 1994-96
Erkki Kurenniemi(?)
“DIMI Ballet” 1971
Telematics
Paul Seromon
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
(Bringing different locatioins together on one screen).
“Hole in space” 1980
Nam June Paik
“Good morning Mr Orwell” 1984
Wearable technologies
Mobile media
Interactive installation
Telematics
Wearable technologies
Biometric devices. Entertainment devices. Smart fabrics. High tech jewellery.
Wearable technologies open up rethinking about our interaction with the computer.
“Printed organism” Sonali Sridhar and Mouna Andraos.
“LeCharpe Communicante” Electronic shadow.
Steve Mann Pioneer in development in wearable computing.
Seamless extension of body and mind.
Worn not carried.
User controllable.
Operates in real-time.
Eye tab- personal imaging, augmented reality.
“Sousveillance” cameras embedded in clothing and jewellery. Surveying surveillance. Maybe camera.
Benoît Maubrey- die audio gruppe.
Audio jackets 1982. Loud speakers sewn into second hand clothing.
Audio ballerinas 1989. Audio Peacocks 2003.
Mobile technologies
Golan Levin.
Dialtones (a telesymphony).
Interactive installations
Paul De Marinis
“Rain dance” 1998 (sound encoded water)
“Firebirds” 2004
Joachin Sauter, ART+COM
Intereaction between physical and virtual work.
“Famous Grouse experience” 2002
“Medial stage and costume design” 2002- video tracking.
David Rokeby- camera tracking to create installations.
“Very nervous system”
Paul Garrin/ David Rokeby
“Boarder patrol” 1994-96
Erkki Kurenniemi(?)
“DIMI Ballet” 1971
Telematics
Paul Seromon
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz
(Bringing different locatioins together on one screen).
“Hole in space” 1980
Nam June Paik
“Good morning Mr Orwell” 1984
Friday 28th March Lecture
Open source design and collective invention. Luke.
Collective invention-networks.
Internet has created a way of thinking about culture.
Designed systems and products become more diverse.
Constant creation of connections.
New collboration opportunities. Network is a complete special structure. Multiple connections.
Space is an event.
50’s 60’s idea of network explored.
Network- horizontal flat space, not deep, infinte surface
Superstudio= the continuous monument.
Life becomes like a circuit board. Extension of human body through electronics. Our bodies have expanded to the size of the world.
Open source- insists source code is made available. Free technology. User generated. Collaberative design.
Capitol investment- not suited to open source.
Democratic information. Instructables.
Mash-up/remix culture.
The idea of recombining existing things to create something new.
Negativeland. Press release.
Circuit bending. Re-purposing.
Critacallity in art and design.
Has this network always existed?
Combining things to create a new meaning- an old idea.
Using things out of context. Collage. Juxtaposition,
John Cage, Tacet. 1960 Artwork about existing things in your network.
Obsession with consumerism. Punk. Deconstructivism.
Collective invention-networks.
Internet has created a way of thinking about culture.
Designed systems and products become more diverse.
Constant creation of connections.
New collboration opportunities. Network is a complete special structure. Multiple connections.
Space is an event.
50’s 60’s idea of network explored.
Network- horizontal flat space, not deep, infinte surface
Superstudio= the continuous monument.
Life becomes like a circuit board. Extension of human body through electronics. Our bodies have expanded to the size of the world.
Open source- insists source code is made available. Free technology. User generated. Collaberative design.
Capitol investment- not suited to open source.
Democratic information. Instructables.
Mash-up/remix culture.
The idea of recombining existing things to create something new.
Negativeland. Press release.
Circuit bending. Re-purposing.
Critacallity in art and design.
Has this network always existed?
Combining things to create a new meaning- an old idea.
Using things out of context. Collage. Juxtaposition,
John Cage, Tacet. 1960 Artwork about existing things in your network.
Obsession with consumerism. Punk. Deconstructivism.
18th March Lecture
Post Modernism Patricia.
Modernity- any state which creates a shock of conscience.
Post modernism is about meanings.
Post modernities state or ideology of being post modern.
Post WWII beginning of post modernism.
Innovation and technical design.
German college of design. Everything at right angles. 1955-1968 HFG.
1948 resistance of nazis Sophie Scholl.
To improve quality and usefulness of consumer products. 1960’s. Max Bill. Systemisation of design process cannot be constrained by ideology.
1940’s women working in factories. “Rosie the riveter”
Post war effects. Levittown house built. Like housing NZ. Urban grid, nature suppressed.
Defensive feminism. 1963 feminine mystique. Women questioning expectations in life.
1970 France. 50 years since American women given the right to vote. 2nd wave of feminism.
Binary concepts. Opposition concepts that cannot be mixed. Equality and what not.
Brought awareness of “others”-disables, gender, race, religion, product of women’s liberation.
Structuralism. Period of change. Surface appearance improved.
Popsicle- from pop art. Art for the masses. Comics Nintendo, video games, dreams, unreal. 160’s pop culture.
Beatles “on the road”(book) road trips metaphor for life.
Hippie movement. 1968 musical “hair”
Appealing to the masses-“habitat” shop. Explosion of consumerism.
Kennedy- space race. 1962. Design followed the space race. Apollo design.
Eltore Scottsass father of post modernism design. mid 1950’s everyone had a vespa. Famous for Olivetti portable typewriter 1969. Started in 1988 memphis. Hugely influenced by Egypt. Carlton cabinet. Synthetic laminates colours ornament is object. Memphis-want rather than need.
1971 President Nixon converted US dollar into gold.
73-86 oil crisis.
From 1984 Nz design flourishes.
Political voice of students.
1940’s-1990’s Cold war.
1947-53 Korean war.
1959-75 Vietnam war.
Post modernism architecture.
Anonymous buildings with mirror glass curtain walls.
Alienates. Subservient to capitalism.
Apple Macintosh signpost of post modernism.
As a result of WWII aluminium became huge.
Venturi “complexity and contradiction”. “Learning and Las Vegas”.
Structuralism-association.
Design should be a recognisable sign.
Le Cobusier follower Michael Graves derives from modernism.
Choice and sharing part of post modernism.
Semiotics. Symbolism. Signifiers.
Phenomenology object-space-human
Relationships of space.
Jeremy Bertham 1878 Panopticon
Prisoners in cells in circular formation around tower meaning prisoners can’t tell if they’re being watched therefore behaviour will improve.
Invisible, unverifiable control to change behaviour. Structured systems. New culture created in Vietnam war.
Modernity- any state which creates a shock of conscience.
Post modernism is about meanings.
Post modernities state or ideology of being post modern.
Post WWII beginning of post modernism.
Innovation and technical design.
German college of design. Everything at right angles. 1955-1968 HFG.
1948 resistance of nazis Sophie Scholl.
To improve quality and usefulness of consumer products. 1960’s. Max Bill. Systemisation of design process cannot be constrained by ideology.
1940’s women working in factories. “Rosie the riveter”
Post war effects. Levittown house built. Like housing NZ. Urban grid, nature suppressed.
Defensive feminism. 1963 feminine mystique. Women questioning expectations in life.
1970 France. 50 years since American women given the right to vote. 2nd wave of feminism.
Binary concepts. Opposition concepts that cannot be mixed. Equality and what not.
Brought awareness of “others”-disables, gender, race, religion, product of women’s liberation.
Structuralism. Period of change. Surface appearance improved.
Popsicle- from pop art. Art for the masses. Comics Nintendo, video games, dreams, unreal. 160’s pop culture.
Beatles “on the road”(book) road trips metaphor for life.
Hippie movement. 1968 musical “hair”
Appealing to the masses-“habitat” shop. Explosion of consumerism.
Kennedy- space race. 1962. Design followed the space race. Apollo design.
Eltore Scottsass father of post modernism design. mid 1950’s everyone had a vespa. Famous for Olivetti portable typewriter 1969. Started in 1988 memphis. Hugely influenced by Egypt. Carlton cabinet. Synthetic laminates colours ornament is object. Memphis-want rather than need.
1971 President Nixon converted US dollar into gold.
73-86 oil crisis.
From 1984 Nz design flourishes.
Political voice of students.
1940’s-1990’s Cold war.
1947-53 Korean war.
1959-75 Vietnam war.
Post modernism architecture.
Anonymous buildings with mirror glass curtain walls.
Alienates. Subservient to capitalism.
Apple Macintosh signpost of post modernism.
As a result of WWII aluminium became huge.
Venturi “complexity and contradiction”. “Learning and Las Vegas”.
Structuralism-association.
Design should be a recognisable sign.
Le Cobusier follower Michael Graves derives from modernism.
Choice and sharing part of post modernism.
Semiotics. Symbolism. Signifiers.
Phenomenology object-space-human
Relationships of space.
Jeremy Bertham 1878 Panopticon
Prisoners in cells in circular formation around tower meaning prisoners can’t tell if they’re being watched therefore behaviour will improve.
Invisible, unverifiable control to change behaviour. Structured systems. New culture created in Vietnam war.
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