Notes From 2/3/2016

Rachel Alberico and Nurie Agnes Jeong

How do we define ourselves in terms of profession?

• Speculative posture? Expert posture?
• How postures affect things like interviews….

The Killing of the Wolf, by Aldo Leopold

• Deep Ecology
• How does it relate to design? understanding outcomes from the choices we make.
• Everything is interrelated

What is paradigm shift?

• a change in something that is taken as a given but actually is quite “strange” or unnatural. (Paradigm shift is defined as the nature of scientific revolutions, or fundamental changes in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.)

Examples From Class

• Summer berries available in winter
• Stained but still perfectly fine clothing
• Shoes- lots of styles
• Ikea awareness -furniture
• On Materialism: We can care more or way less- are we actually materialist?
• health- eating through the seasons and native foods
• make up = cleanliness
• growing old is an option, check out Mary Clark’s in search of human nature
• Fishing industry to vendors/selling industry due to tourism and fishing impact
• Jeans example- rethinking manufacturing

On Change: how do you produce an epiphany for people?

• “new directions” orientation- you have to use value set of existing to start communicating
• Liam Young- speculative design
• empathy- RSA video, new museum
• eco design- if i change this it will have impact here

Design and Change: Will new ways of designing emerge from taking up theories of change?

• Thinking in terms of whole system> extend consequences up to whole system> communicate to Decision makers> show how this is a way to brand
• Design and policy- Christian Bason
• Design in business
• Ecosystem services- quantifying natural resources
• 20 50 initiatives- case study
• Mindset/posture applies to everyone- is it design’s job to change other people’s minds?
• Economic definitions: How do we define economics?
• How do we get under and find leverage points for greater needs?
• Designers should toggle fluidly between granularity of everyday life and the greater levels