Wish you were here… Greetings of the past for the future
How can we use memory to construct a shared future view, leading to action? The next question is – whose memories do we hope to use? In Greetings from Hunts Point we hope to access and create shared memories of promises made to the community of Hunts Point. The results of which define many of [...]
Narratives of Complexity
Our design led research project has given us the opportunity to reflect on transdisciplinary design both as a mode of thinking and as a collaborative university program. Beyond that it has given me the chance to step back and consider how the methods I use influence my view of the creative process.
Thinking back on the [...]
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 [...]
12.19.10 | Ideas
A Futurable Now
Futurism Poster conceived by David Malki and designed and painted by the talented Carly Monardo. http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=WON-FUTURISM&Category_Code=WON#pic
A futurable now is a condition of continued improvement that is both adaptable and flexible, maintaining a state of collective engagement to actively create and support an intentional future. We need to engage with our communities to incite and nurture a [...]
11.23.10 | Ideas
Our Neighbors, Ourselves: empathy, rivalry, and ‘that German word’
Why can’t we be like those Coke commercials from the 70s and 80s and get along in harmony? Don’t we all just want to be happy? Not necessarily it seems.
Maybe what we seek are constant oscillations in satisfaction. We may simply want to feel satiated and we gladly leave the whole happiness facade to the [...]
Tags: competition | empathy | harmony | rivals | schadenfreude | transformational
11.21.10 | Ideas
Design Futures: the words we use matter
The design world seems to be grappling with describing its value beyond aesthetics. Designers, including myself on occasion, have casually thrown around the phrase: ‘Design with an upper case D’ to give a short hand to the challenge: how do we describe our value and unique skills? This phrase, Design with a capital D, with [...]
