SDPS Synthesis April 7, 2009
Posted by sl1814 in : Uncategorized , trackbackReading – Galison, War Against the Center
Tool For Thought – The IDEO Way
I chose Galison and IDEO because they embody both ends of a spectrum upon which I situate my past work and what I hope to accomplish in the future. The relationship between information and the physical planning and layout of space – the intersection of the built and mediated environments – is one I find endlessly fascinating, and the Galison reading captures how a statistical reality could overly-determine the layout and design of a physical reality, and it illuminates precisely why my interests as a designer have focused upon information ecologies. The IDEO way inspires my thinking and process in considering how to design around information while keeping its impact on the built environment in mind. It not only builds a structure around the design process that allows for an inductive approach to solving design problems, but emphasizes the need for building in addition to thinking, or more importantly as a tool for thinking.
These two areas inspire me to look for meaningful pieces of information that dramatically impact one’s experience of and relation to physical space – an issue that takes central focus in two projects I’m working on this semester for Design for Unicef and Networked Objects respectively.
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