12.16.11 | Transblog
The wicked and us
“She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets [...]
12.6.11 | Projects
Prototyping time
There is a level of understanding that only seems to fall into place by making and experiencing. In Tim Brown’s ”Design for change” the importance of prototyping and trying out ideas is presented as a way to find appropriate design solutions. Tangible and physical outcomes are a part of the process, not only the solution. [...]
10.7.11 | Transblog
Diving into Transdisciplinary Design
A couple of weeks ago, we were given the task to map out a complex system of our own choice. A small side effect of Donella Meadow’s ”Thinking in Systems” is that you start to think of everything around you as a system. Excited by this thought I set out to map the system of love between two people. When I was finished, I looked at the result thinking that it looked too simple and too clean. And a similar feeling came over me when I saw the systems that my classmates had made. Certainly, these system diagrams where only models but I still could not help but feeling that they were deceiving everyone that looked at them.
