Being able to use clear and inspiring wording and visualizations in design presentations to communicate research insights, design process concerns and intermittent deliverables, to manage expectations and facilitate constructive dialogue.
Case Studies
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Design Investigations
University of Applied Arts Vienna Stefan Zinell Design Investigations is a course that that uses critical thinking, investigative research, material prototyping and conceptual speculation to design objects, experiences, stories and systems. Students explore the designer’s role in dealing with real-world challenges, probing the limits of our current reality while addressing the future of design and
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Intergenerational games
Advertising Design, Hong Kong Design Institute Eddie Lau Recent project brief for students to design a card game to promote athletics in Hong Kong that may also connect different generations of users to play together. Students started with studying the classic portrait card game that seniors experienced in their younger age and then develop new game
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Join collective clothes
Universität Für Angewandte Kunst, Wien Elisabeth Fröhlich Students had to develop a new method to produce clothes, inspired by ‘Join Collective Clothes. This is a modular system inviting people to create clothes together. An open-source manual explains how to make the four different shapes that together create a complete outfit. Each person can modulate the
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Visualization + idea generation
Archana Surana ARCH College of Design, Foundation Course in Art / Design. A six-week module was fast tracked in two weeks. I made it into a collaborative project with a treasure hunt of talent in the neighborhood. Foundation level students had to present their understanding of the talents they had found in the neighborhood in
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Fear & (C) loathing
Ellen McCartney California Inst. of the Arts, BFA 1 Experience Design & Production Design Year 1 n a class titled Fear and (C)loathing, students explore five topics that trigger emotional reactions, and those responses are being expressed throughout the creation of a dress. The topics they explore are War and Sports, Biological and Artificial, Spiritual,
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The Neighbourhood of Feelings
Mirentxu Sardina EASD Castello (Spain) Interior Design In interior design projects, our students get into trouble by getting emotionally involved or by having conceptual arguments. In response, I have developed an exercise that I call ‘the neighborhood of feelings’, an introduction to the emotional aspects of interior design and an exercise in getting to know
