With Friday presentations at Fluxspace coming up, designers are revisiting clients, getting on the fly feedback, and working on pitch decdks.
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Build Design Challenge: Day 7 Prototyping–Fail early, Fail Often
Gentrification was a word I have never heard of until this class, it means that wealthier individuals change poorer areas in many ways. You would think that it is good but that makes everything more expensive, to wealthy people it isn’t a problem but to those less fortunate it forces them to move. With this information provided by builduniversity.org, we began creating a prototype.
Design Build Challenge Day 6: Ideate to Prototype
Passionately working is so different from working with the sole purpose of finishing. Often, we as busy humans are subjected to cram tasks into our day, instead of being truly infatuated with what we are doing. I sincerely hope I commit my mind to openly creating throughout the duration of this class, but also throughout my life.
Design Build Challenge: Define to Ideate
Day 6 of our sprint for the Build.org National Design Challenge: How might we build powerful, thriving communities where everyone enjoys safety, wellness, and economic freedom.
Introducing: Design Build Challenge!
Background This year I’ve scripted the curriculum for NOVA Lab a bit more tightly during the first marking period. In the past, things were more open, exploratory, and…well…chaotic (see map below). There was a beauty to that. We discovered opportunities, lunged at hunches, and explored numerous though tangential paths of thought. But also a lotContinue reading “Introducing: Design Build Challenge!”
Gettin’ on the Purpose-Based, Design-Driven Soul Train
Check out what Disney and Coursera have cooked up to get people connected with meaningful, purpose-full learning.
Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education
At the beginning of the year, I discovered that a local design firm in my neighborhood was opening an incubator/maker/presentation/learning space in a turn of the 20th-century woollen mill. Dubbed Flux, the space was exactly what I have been trying to create in my own school, only about 7 times bigger! So I had toContinue reading “Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education”
Innovation: “This Must Be the Place”
When I was barely in 9th grade, I first encountered the music of Talking Heads. It was the summer of 1983, and Speaking in Tounges was on heavy rotation on my Sony Walkman as I sat on a rusting, red Wheel Horse tractor cutting acres of grass for my house and my neighbor’s. Hours of idle passesContinue reading “Innovation: “This Must Be the Place””
Empathy: The Museum
Museums come in all shapes and sizes. This one, which I found through @tombarrett ‘s “dialogical learning” e-mails, offers a look at Empathy, and it does so in a rather ingenious way. We talk so much about empathy as the key to design thinking, but the concept is far deeper than the utilitarian implications spurredContinue reading “Empathy: The Museum”
OMG!!!!
This is The Index Project. If you’re wondering how your ideas, your creations, your work could have an effect on others, take a look at the designs highlighted by this website. Designing for a better world is a real thing!
Innovation Lab 