WEEK 7

LECTURER - DION TUCKWELL / ROWAN PAGE

GIORGIA PISANO -  The BioThings

Biofabrication "process of producing complex materials and artifacts through the growth of living organisms and cells"

Engineering positivism

Registering Responses - material personalities - curing, twisting, shrinking, cracking

Crafting Enchantments - relations - disenchanted garbage...

Wunderkammer

Garbaging

Using natural resources to build portfolio 

Existential role of design is changing

Ambiguity and complexity

GYUNGJU

Finland - Furniture/Interior Architecture - spatial design coordinator

Studied Industrial Design 

Missed her home country - South Korea

Followed her love - without a job

Multi-lingual - office work

Freelancer - ceramics 

Rosenthal - meeting - bathtub design

Materials - Moodboard

Working with husband

Australia is isolating  - culture shock

Using natural resources to practice design research and practice

Another Now
Yanis Varoufakis

LINK TO WORK

INITIAL NOTES

funeral - mourning - sadness - emotion

each individual has different experiences and emotions

it shapes their perceptions and actions as a human

PUTTING THEORY TO ACTUALISATION

This reading was interesting, and was difficult to link back to design for me personally. However, in reading this it was interesting to gain perspectives into the minds and inner thoughts of an individual, and as a designer we often have to get into the minds of our target consumer to design outcomes that cater to their needs and wants...

Is there Too Much to Know to be an Effective designer?
Jon Kolko

LINK TO TEXT

INITIAL NOTES

Full-bodied discipline

Design Solution - useable, useful and desirable

World is full of human made problems - as well as digital interfaces

Design Evolution and Development - progress and curiosity

Beauty - material relationship

Form and function - "form follows function"

Problem Solving - design objects' real life context

Innovation - operational optimisation and measurement

Experience and Service - importance of usability

Strategic planning and vision

Value - transactional - can change over time, includes exchange of attention and emotion

PUTTING THEORY TO ACTUALISATION

As a designer, you need to critically consider the design problem at hand, and how to effectively resolve it. One must use their experience as a way to overcome issues and uncertainty within the design profession. One must use their previous experience to inform current choices and decisions.