-
Much in the spirit of MoMA’s recent Small Scale, Big Change exhibition of socially engaged architecture, New York’s Center for Architecture recently opened its own show of design for the under-served, Jugaad Urbanism: Resourceful Strategies for Indian Cities. While there’s no precise English translation for the term jugaad, make-do or jury-rigged approximate the idea. The…
-
How to Make a Web Site: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
How to Make a Web Site: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
-
*Nothing too new in this attractive Tech Review article, except for that porous fabbed cement, which is the awesome. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/37218/?a=f *I’d like to see an article on how to repair and upgrade printed buildings. Every boutique building-printer device ought to come with a free printed copy of Stewart Brand’s “How Buildings Learn.” (via Architecture Fiction:…
-
Dear Bruce, I thought you might like a project we are going to present at the Milan Design Week titled KIOSK and which was loosely inspired by your short story which goes by the same name. Kind regards, Dries Verbruggen, Unfold (via Design Fiction: KIOSK, Milan Design Week, Unfold | Beyond The Beyond) Design Fiction…
-
heyoscarwilde: I am not a gun. via brickshelf.com
-
So here is the kicker. Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle. Google’s aim is…
-
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS essayist: by Paul LaFarge A JOURNEY DEEP INTO THE CAVERN OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, A UTOPIAN, PROFOUNDLY DORKY AND INFLUENTIAL GAME THAT, LACKING CLEAR WINNERS OR AN END, MAY NOT BE A GAME AT ALL We are far enough into the cave now that I can tell you that I have mixed…
-
But not all jugaad stories have happy endings. M. P. Ranjan, an eminent Indian design thinker and a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, says that the idea that ad-hoc fixes are good enough might actually be to blame for the country’s notoriously creaky infrastructure. “It is an…
-
Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World’s Biggest Problems | Co.Design
Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World’s Biggest Problems | Co.Design studi0-reference: “ Prototype Design Camp was created by Christian Long, a visionary educator, to introduce and infuse design thinking skills into the K-12 landscape”
-
AIGA Carnegie Mellon: “Design Thinking” Isn’t a Miracle Cure, but Here’s How It Helps
AIGA Carnegie Mellon: “Design Thinking” Isn’t a Miracle Cure, but Here’s How It Helps aigacmu: An interesting article that is very relevant to the discussions we are having in the School of Design and our current lecture series. Helen Walters writes: Recently, Kevin McCullagh of British product strategy consultancy, Plan organized a two-day event for…