Design Judo: A Redirective Method
Francis Carter, Eulany Labay and Kelly Tierney
Our design led research project focused on the unique potential of a transdisciplinary approach to research and design process and method. As transdisciplinary designers we find opportunities through new language development, exhibited in an openness to redefine and redirect. It is our ability to embrace a level of uncertainty [...]
5.4.11 | Ideas
Remember the Future
Excerpt: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
To place ourselves into the future we must look back, accessing our memories. This is demonstrated by individuals with compromised memories, without the ability to review their past they are unable to describe what their future could be like. To come together and create a shared future view we [...]
5.4.11 | Ideas
This is Serious Play
A still image from the film Brazil
How we trigger memories through ritual and play to create the starting points for future action…
The creation and recreation of our histories is the foundation for transformation and future action – to own our future we must access our past. The drama of life gives us the emotional and [...]
5.4.11 | Transblog
Design Conversations: Denis O’Brien
This semester Clive Dilnot has taught a class called Thinking Contemporary Design, an open format class that adjusts each week to reflect changing topics and discussions. We have followed several themes through the semester with each week focused on a particular topic. We have had a host of wonderful speakers to help give dimension and [...]
