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“The Land Rover 2014 is a calendar designed by art director Zeynep Orbay. The 3D topographic map has a different shade for every month of the year and is sure to win over geology and design lovers alike. It’s an ideal desktop calendar for a teacher, a professor, or a designer with naturalist aesthetics.”

#minimalist

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Considering form and function in design

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User-centered vs Stakeholder-centered Design Practices

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Thinking about redaction and annotation as forms of creating experience and understanding.

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Biennal catalog for “Rethinking Dissent”, Gothenburg 4th International Biennial for Contemporary Art. A lookbook for images and a textbook for essays. 

Curated by Edi Muka and Joa Ljungberg

(August 2007)

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“Design of the travelling exhibition Livsbild where twenty people with various disabilities speak about their daily lives. The multifunctional exhibition is accessible to everyone regardless of their disability. The stories appears in various formats including text, voice, sign language, braille and elementary Swedish. Produced by Diana Chafik at Nordiska Museet. May 2013″

#disabilitystudies #researchdesign #exhibitiondesign #disabilitydesign #accessibledesign #communicationdesign #Swedishdesign

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This blog by “Lucas” - unknown person - catalogs research insights in various categories into a journal of sorts, a personal archive. Really cool build out of a blog platform!

“As part of my research for an essay that I will be writing on the museum and new media I was asked to create a journal of sorts to keep track of my research progress. The realization of the journal is completely open to the students. Since my essay is about how internet and the web have changed the museum I find it quite appropriate to use the form of a blog for my journal. It meets the requirement of being able to be handed in (in printed form) at the end of the module for assessment and also makes great use of the possibilities new media has given us. Though I doubt many individuals will come across this page it nonetheless offers the opportunity to interact.

The following posts will be of mostly visual nature with some analysis on my part in preparation for the essay.

Enjoy,

L.”

#research #researchmethods #designresearch #research+insights #design #criticism #theory

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Thinking about research processes

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Marina Abramovic at Lisson Gallery, London I’ve been thinking a great deal about performance and participation as experience design(ed experience).

#experiencedesign #performanceart #performative #research #participatoryart

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There are huge benefits of having a designer or design-minded professional in the project management role, but if your designers are tasked with too much administration, they won’t be able to dedicate their energy to new production.  My preference is a team full of professionals in their own areas, each with a design-minded approach.

Also, this has me thinking about what we mean when we say “designer.” perhaps the term is not specific enough for a role in any case since it is more a modality.

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Jimmy Turrell.  Love the combination of organic forms and graphic process. 

#design #graphic art #organicforms

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From “The ecological relations of roots” by Weaver, John E. (John Ernest), 1884-1966

#naturaldesign #naturesorganizationaldynamics #designinspiration

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New take on a logic model format perhaps?

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“Measuring the universe”

Interesting take on participation, research, art, design, data collection, patterning, and mapping.

#participatoryart #research #art #design #datacollection #patterning #mapping

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A Smout Allen Project

“Liquid Kingdom is a speculative design proposal for an environmental ‘proving ground’ of landscape and architectural installations, sited on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary, which responds to the island's unique character and prepares it for the future demands of society and climate change. Taking the form of a model village, Liquid Kingdom sees Sheppey scaled down to 1:20 with the whole model, at approximately 800 x 320 metres, ‘built’ in the island’s southern marshland meadows.

This ‘super-size miniature’ provides a place to see, experience, measure, analyse and enjoy the landscape, bridging the gap between research and local user groups. Part sincere architectural landscape proposal, part whimsy, the project speaks to the British relationship with landscape, the seaside, our nostalgic tendencies, and the anthropogenic impacts of recent times.

This autumn, a collection of new drawings of test sites will be exhibited showcasing concepts such as the Sheppey Battery, which buffers electricity from the London Array, Autonomous Pocket Farms, which allow for low impact agricultural development on previously ignored sites, Living Archipelagos to test coastal dwelling conditions and Drone Calibration Ports amongst others. The exhibition is accompanied by audio recordings of the liminal landscapes of the South East of England by the composer, Mike Challis, a leading artist concerned with recording the natural environment for public installations.”