design as inquiry

margaret maile petty///senior lecture///culture+context///school of design

[Design as Inquiry]

WHO AM I WHO I AM

Hussein Chalayan, 2008; Green Pix Media Complex, Beijing, China, 2008; Ingo Maurer, LED Wallpaper, 2006

?what is design

“Design is to design a design to produce a design.”

John Heskett, Toothpicks&Logos: design and everyday life, 2002

“Design is to design a design to produce a design.”

John Heskett, Toothpicks&Logos: design and everyday life, 2002

“Design is to design a design to produce a design.”

John Heskett, Toothpicks&Logos: design and everyday life, 2002

“Design is to design a design to produce a design.”

John Heskett, Toothpicks&Logos: design and everyday life, 2002

“Design is to design a design to produce a design.”

John Heskett, Toothpicks&Logos: design and everyday life, 2002

?what is design

Raymond Loewy locomotive design, ca. 1930s; Normal Bel Geddes, Futurama, New York World’s Fair, 1939

Henry Dreyfuss, Designing for People, 1955; Walter Dorwin Teague, “Nocturne" radio, 1936

IBM mainframes, ca. 1960s; Atari 2600, ca.1977

[design as inquiry]

SPYMAKER, 2006/07

Dunne & Raby Design Interactions, RCA

[affirmative / critical design]

SPYMAKER, 2006/07

affirmative design

affirmative design

What is critical design?

critical design

TECHNOLOGICAL DREAMS SERIES: NO.1, ROBOTS, 2007

Dream Ball unplug design studio

Dream Ball unplug design studio

Verner Panton, Visiona II, 1970

! design shapes our world

the everyday [interrogating the obvious]

[scale: individual, personal]

design as placebo [expectation + interaction]

[scale: individual, personal]

design ethics [social + environmental + political]

[scale: social, political]

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massive change [design thinking + the business of design]

[scale: social, political]

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manufacturing aura [steampunk + e-baroque]

[scale: surface, symbolic]

critical visualization [information as ideology]

[scale: surface, symbolic]

European  Airspace  Rebooted,  created  by  by  ITO  World,  based  on  the  data  retrieved  from  Flight  Radar  24.  

emergence [swarm intelligence + bottom-up design]

[scale: collective, swarm]

Howard Rheingold, 2002

Smart Mobs

morphogenesis [generative form]

[scale: collective, swarm] [process3c

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Futurologists [ ? ]

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[scale: utopia, distopia]

WHO ARE YOU WHO YOU ARE