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This is Interdisciplinary according to #CCSStudent, Curran.⁠ ⁠ “Interdisciplinary allows you to focus on things that are relevant to your work.”⁠ ⁠ Learn more about Interdisciplinary Art + Design⁠ -> https://lnkd.in/gVphxWzY

Training spatial thinking in a playful way 📐🎮 Spatial imagination is crucial for navigating through physical spaces. How can we enhance this skill? When it comes to fostering spatial understanding, leveraging playful approaches, especially from the realm of game design, proves to be highly effective. Ulrich Götz, Andri Gerber, Natasha Sebben and their colleagues are working on an interactive, virtual, and three-dimensional training software embedded within a video game. https://lnkd.in/eE9ivQNm ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHAW digital ZHAW Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen #GameDesign #Architecture #Education #SpatialAbilities #VirtualTraining

Great framing of an area that needs far more attention.

Take part in the transformative industry tour program offered by the Vogue Institute of Art and Design. giving students useful exposure to the industry and hands-on experience. #vogueinstituteofartanddesign #vogueinstitute #voguechallenge #vogue #voguemagazine #industrial #industrialdesign #industries #industrialautomation #IndustrialVisit2024

#SpaceandAgency REPORTS - September research highlights from Accident Unveiling Japan’s Overlooked Design Boom It's Nice That highlights a fascinating chapter in Japanese design history with a new book documenting the country's commercial art explosion in the late 1920s and 1930s. Rich in avant-garde influences and technological advances, this period paved the way for modern design practices, yet remains underappreciated. This publication not only celebrates these pioneering efforts, but also reveals the deep connection between art and commerce in shaping consumer culture. #SpaceandAgencyGroup #SpaceandAgencyreports

🦽 "My first job out of college was helping design new wheelchair models that were adapted to the context of Guatemala, for rural areas where terrain is very hard to traverse. To see people use the chair—the freedom that it afforded them—was very powerful to me. I haven't looked back since." Juan Carlos Noguera is an industrial designer and an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He receives a Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Design—a $50,000 award—for his use of design as a tool to empower accessibility and equity. The Vilcek Foundation has produced a video on Noguera with our colleagues at Smartypants. Watch the full video on at the following link. #Accessibility #AccessibleDesign #DEIB #Design #DesignEquity #Designer #Diversity #Equity #Guatemala #Immigrant #ImmigrantStories #IndustrialDesign #IndustrialDesigner

For most of my career I’ve taken my creative agency very seriously. That gave me the opportunities to work in an array of sectors from place-based research in vernacular architecture, digital platforms for civic engagement, to internal communications to build collaborative global teams. I couldn’t have navigated the skills needed for these works without my upbringing in the arts and disciplinary training in architecture. The embodied knowledge in heuristics and a deep understanding of aesthetic principles are foundational to my multidisciplinary practice as an artist, designer, and strategist. I truly believe that artistic expression and cultural productions can reach beyond spectacles for consumption and generate new approaches to face a future of uncertainties. What role does arts and culture play in your practice?

Visitor One Thru Eight - performance lecture by Andrea Liu Sunday, February 4th 19:30 – 20:00 (CET) 📍Toni-Areal, Viaduktraum 2.A05, Ebene 2 (street entrance), Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich    “Barthes 1967 essay “The Death of the Author” rejects the monolithic pre-fabricated authority of the author as the sole determinant of meaning the text and hails the “birth of the reader”—the multifarious positions of the reader that comprise the true producers of meaning. In any given performance, there is a vast reserve of untapped resources: the audience. “Visitor One thru Eight” is a performance where I inhabit the role of 8 spectators who have come to my performance. Visitor One wants to be integrated into the grand narrative of appreciating art. Visitor Two believes in the mystery and the unknowability of art. Visitor Three believes in the emancipatory potential of extreme experiences. Visitor Four yearns for linear and emotional storytelling. Visitor Five believes art should be something direct and visceral, an intimate offering amongst friends. Each Visitor is a hypothetical speculation on an audience member. I incorporate the opinions, desires, & expectations of the audience as the content of my performance. The audience is a crystal through which various desires, ideologies, assumptions backgrounds, biases are refracted, projected, frustrated, appeased, challenged or fulfilled. Visitor One Thru Eight inhabits various modes of performance in order to unpack what are the conditions and ideologies that underlie spectatorship.” - Part of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” https://lnkd.in/ez7fERWn #schoolofcommons #andrealiu #performancelecture #soc2023

The first talk from the Service Futures Lab public event series this year is now online Service Design – Historical frames and contemporary issues. Professor Dr. Alison Prendiville Starting with a historical lens this lecture will explore the nature and emergence of service to contextualise key developments that have come to define it. Different perspectives on service design will then be presented to explore its role and contribution to contemporary challenges. This first talk from the Service Future Lab at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (recorded: 1st February 2023) opens by setting the scene for understanding the historical origins of service and different ways of designing for service. Having worked in service design research and practice over the last two decades, I have observed its emergence and rapid adoption that started tentatively with its early focus on improving user experiences, to today’s more comprehensive engagement with organizational transformation, and societal challenges. In parallel, I have always had an interest in design history and culture and how people are connected, and the relationships formed through design. Starting with the infrastructural nature of services during the industrial revolution, and their role in enabling the transportation of people and goods as a key component of the capitalist system, the session presents general principles that come to define today’s global systems and raises questions on the ethical role and potential for service designers in the current climate. What follows is reflections from projects with local government, and transdisciplinary projects in human and animal health in India, to highlight some of the methods that make service design so well suited to tackling complex systemic challenges. In parallel consideration will be given to different ways of conceptualizing designing for service and how this may assist our understanding in configuring relationships between humans, more than human, technologies, institutions, and place. This lecture is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in service design research and practice and more generally those students or professionals curious to better understand the opportunities for design to address societal challenges.

A huge thank you for a transformative lecture! We explored various strategic design directions like upstream (abstract) and downstream (concrete) approaches, and discussed the roles of different sectors in this field including product and experience, advertising, environmental design, and change management. Adding my favorite advice from Kailyn and Dan: “SPELL CHECK”