Teaching design to non designers
Not everything is acceptable. Creators need to be positive but also super critical. At the heart of the design process, there is the organization of the critique: students question, critique, suggest new ideas for the projects.
What are the criteria?
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They point out inconsistencies between the project and the user/client’s desire
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They go from details to more global structure and architecture: using different scales/ lenses
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They switch back and forth between abstract vision and tangible features
CRITIQUE CENTERED DESIGN
DEBATING THE VALUE
Design thinking is not enough!
More by Natasha Jen
http://99u.com/videos/55967/natasha-jen-design-thinking-is-bullshit
Why?
Basically because it considers ideation as the starting point and foundation of design: it is very convenient for non designers but it is not entirely relevant to the design practice.
Design worlds method
in the design worlds method, we start with tangible materials and experiences as the foundation of design. Design worlds are expanding: they create the desire to aggregate new people, new talents, new materials, new technologies.
NO post-its sessions made of words
In our class, we teach the “design worlds” method that we developed at the Codesign Lab. Design worlds are made of shapes, spaces, people, materials, narratives, figures, fields of tensions.
More about this: Annie Gentes, The In-discipline of Design. Bridging the gap between Humanities and Engineering, Springer.
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319659831
"DESIGN WORLDS" VERSUS "DESIGN THINKING"
Annie
Gentes
I am a design and user experience researcher, head of the codesign and media studies lab
This website shares with you some of my insights and experiments in teaching design to non-designers.
(https://codesignlab.wp.imt.fr/)
Alexandra Borsari
Alexandra Borsari is an anthropologist. She wants to study and change the way people live on the road. More about her project: https://www.alexandraborsari.org/ and her project https://exploalexandraborsari.wordpress.com/
Anthony Ferretti (http://www.anthonyferretti.fr/ ). Anthony is a designer from the “collectif BAM”, a design agency. (http://www.collectifbam.fr/ )
Anthony ferretti
Myriam Davidovici
Myriam Davidovici-Nora, a business and management scientist from Telecom ParisTech (http://ses.telecom-paristech.fr/en/membres/myriam-davidovici-nora/)
