April 2011
23 posts
WatchWHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?: mass production vs giving meaning
A short video that quickly gets to the point on What is architecture? and What is construction? Architects crystalize meaning. Experiences!
WatchEXPERIENCE BASED DESIGN: innovation + storytelling
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, to developing a training product for NHS professionals, called Experience Based Design. This video explains this innovative co-creative improvement process. Their EBD approach is about designing better healthcare services. The approach starts with helping people (patients, carers, staff) tell the...
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WatchKICKSTARTER: co-create your own chair
SketchChair is a free, open-source software tool that allows anyone to easily design and build their own digitally fabricated furniture
WatchALBERTO ALESSI & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE: borderline
Well, I headed back to the borderland When the home-guard went insane No use trying to work with people Who can’t tell fire from rain The judge had tried to hitch a ride But I only took him half way Friends are friends but in the borderland You can’t be careful of what you say The sheriff sent me every warning he could But I knew...
From: WSJ.com — How to Fire Up U.S. Innovation. By... →
creativesage:
Whether it’s the latest tablet computer, electric sports car or other cool new product, Americans get very excited about innovation—and more often than not these innovations are brought to market by engineers working in technology hubs like Silicon Valley.
An innovation engine has many moving parts and all of them have to mesh properly for the engine to run smoothly. In Silicon...
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
WatchBE VISUAL: the illusion of diversity
Three firms control 89% of US soft drink sales. This dominance is obscured from us by the appearance of numerous choices on retailer shelves. Steve Hannaford refers to this as “pseudovariety,” or the illusion of diversity, concealing a lack of real choice.
To visualize the extent of pseudovariety in this industry the authors developed a cluster...
“Architecture or Revolution. Revolution can be avoided - better yet we need...”
– Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture, 1923
WatchMIND&BODY: thinking with your hands
“Adding ART & DESIGN to SCIENCE EDUCATION would put a bit of HUMANITY back into the INNOVATION engine and lead to the most MEANINGFUL kind of PROGRESS.” - John Maeda
STEM or STE(A)M Science+Technology+Engineering+(A)rt+Math
A+B=C - Atoms+Bits= Neue Craft