emily carr design° at icograda

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

• Things have beauty... not because they are ‘well-designed’, or because they are universally recognized as beautiful, or as transcendent of the messy social actuality of life...the sociality of the object is it’s value or the direct connection to this actuality of context... (Csikszentmihalyi, 1991:34 paraphrase)

• Things and theories in design research attempts to bring to design:

• a better understanding of how objects are theorized in other disciplines

• a comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the meanings of objects

• a higher awareness of the role of objects as signifiers of culture, human relations and society

• a better understanding of the social and cultural impact of design and manufacturing

• a pedagogical tool for use in design practice and design education

• a better understanding of design as a cultural and material/virtual practice in which new models have and are emerging (Prasad Boradkar)

• Design and other difficult problem solving is punctuated by moments of discovery...These are the moments when something new and important is suddenly “seen.” (Kant & Newell)

• ...the boundaries between conventional design disciplines are blurring...(Rodgers, 2008)

• Designers are increasingly exposed to various disciplinary influences through diverse teams that coalesce for a project...it is increasingly common to find new hybrids of designers working on projects...(T.H. Dykes et al., 2009)

Storyboarding the Interaction

• ...reality is mobile. There do not exist things made, but only things in the making, not states that remain fixed, but only states in process of change...(Bergson as cited by Grosz in The Thing, in The Object Reader, 2009)

• The objects that we create are embedded in people’s actions and situations. They become contextualized, redefined, and transformed through use. (Frascara & Winkler, 2008)

• We must be sensitive to the environments where our design products come to life and to the people who use them. (Frascara & Winkler, 2008)

• ...design as an agency is capable of helping us shape, in humane and sustainable directions, our relations with the artificial and natural worlds... (Clive Dilnot, 2009)

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Documents

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emily carr bdes degree exhibit 2012

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icograda design ethics magazine

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emily carr continuing studies: fall 2014 catalogue

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emily carr university 2014 viewbook

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emily carr viewbook 2011/12

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