Monocle design tid-bits…
Fell behind in my Monocle reading…so catching up with the October and November issues. A few tidbits. ETHICAL FASHION Issue 37 – 063 Sophie Grove has written a thought-provoking piece called “Moral Fibres”. Her preface: Unreliable labelling, products made in questionable factories– are luxury brand about to face Foxconn-style scandals? We look at the firms […]
5th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy 2-4 February 2011 http://www.Design-Conference.com Design Conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and […]
10 Take-aways from the d.studio
Making lists is a wonderfully creative activity. Challenging oneself to generate 3 ideas, 10 ideas or 50 ideas really does help push the envelope and go beyond. So I am challenging myself to articulate 10 important take-aways for me from the undergraduate d.studio class experience: Teaching and Learning is Fun and Energizing: Am reminded how […]
Evaluating design/business learning
Marking. Grading. Evaluating. Asessment. An A. A B+. 77% or 83%? Rubrics. Check-lists. Giving feedback. It is that time across educational institutions where we kick into high gear evaluation mode. Not our favourite time. Although potentially a time of great learning on the part of the whole learning team: the learning designers, the learning facilitators […]
Design-Thinking 101: Discovery
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries – A. A. Milne As a fourth year Commerce & Economics BCOM student at the brink of graduation, learning something original and completely out of the box was the last thing I expected from my final year. Of course, every […]
d.studio week 13: the finale
The d.studio Community of Practice was launched on Wednesday December 1 — just after the 24 students in the d.studio course presented their final projects to their clients. The event was in the Museum of Vancouver. As a side-note it was amazing how many people don’t know where the Museum of Vancouver is — or what […]
d.studio featured in the Vancouver Sun
Moura Quayle launches the d.studio Community of Practice at the Museum of Vancouver Sauder’s innovative d.studio is catching the attention of Vancouver’s media. An article in the Vancouver Sun discusses the students’ experiences, the launch of the d.studio and the real-problem projects the students worked on during the past semester. Last week, the d.studio launched […]
Community of Practice launch event: success!
The official launch of Sauder’s design thinking Community of Practice was a resounding success, with more than 80 people coming together to discuss Vancouver’s design thinking community. Business people, designers, academics and students put their heads together using the design thinking process to come up with ideas for the community’s future. Don Chisholm of Dossier […]
Is data the new (s)oil?
By Martina Valkovicova We borrowed (and adjusted a little) the headline from a highly amusing and interesting TED Talks video: The beauty of data visualization by David McCandless. The world nowadays is powered, overwhelmed and saturated with information. We all need it to survive and let’s be honest – we are all hungry for information. […]
d.studio week 12: 3-d design thinking
This week was essentially the last d.studio class of 2010. Evaluations were completed. And each team presented their storyboards for the presentation next week. As I said mid-way through: “Ron and I failed to explain storyboards well enough.” Most of the presentations were indeed that — skeletal presentations of what is to come next week. […]