Feedback and Classnotes 07 December
FeedbackI think this seminar has brought up a lot of (good) questions and inspirations towards the BA thesis. Since I already had rough…
Classnotes 30 November
What does it mean to own it?to stand behind to be responsible as designers we have collaborators, users, mentors, participants, friends, the…
Literature Review 05
Koskinen, I., Zimmerman, J., Binder, T., Redström, J., & Wensveen, S. 2011. Design research through practice: From lab, field, and showroom…
Literature Review 04
[zhdk], [Sweet dreams are made of this]John Thackara. 2006. In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. MIT Press. Excerpt.Design has wide…
Classnotes 17 November
Michel Foucault: Collecting data as act of caring for one another [care], [feminism]Salt life cycle: which methods, which tools? How to…
Classnotes 16 November
Jyoti InputSecond you, to question and challenge yourselfdialogue with material and collaboratorsThesis StructurePrototype has to work with…
Assignment Making Sense
My interest in finally engaging with issues in (Southeast) Asia began after living an accumulated time of over a year there. Engaging with…
Dreams
I have misunderstood the call to dream with a call to just chilling and being lazy that week. Not that I have been lazy, au contraire I have…
Literature Review 03
[zhdk], [Sweet dreams are made of this]Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Boucher, A. 2012. Attention To Detail: Annotations of a design process. pp…
Classnotes 9 November
As designers, we are already in a position of privileged, biased. Can we design beyond that? Can we overcome that?Literature review: What am…
Literature Review 01
AbstractMy journey from the now partially evicted village in Hong Kong has led me to a reengagement with my roots and heritage. Since then…
Literature Review 02
Tin, Mikkel B. 2013. “Manifesto: Making and the Sense it makes”. In Studies in Material Thinking. Vol.9 Inside Making.Making as practical…
Free Flow
When I was searching for a book, I tried really hard to not pick a book about design or art. Quite a difficult task, since I only had time…
Positions
Feminist Manifest, Mina Loy 1914I chose the Feminist Manifesto by Mina Loy because it is a brave manifesto for the time, and a necessary one…
Intersections
Jackfruit Festival poster by ML Linking to last weeks blog post: the Jackfruit Festival poster drawn by a friend of mine, who is one of the…
Influences
In the beginning I thought that these three years of this bachelor programme are too short, too rushed. Now when I think back of what has…
Feedback
The introduction in the seminar was quite interesting because I could let go of all preconceived notions and just observe. Observe people…
Silk Road
Greco Buddhism > People from Europe left behind influenced culture and style from that era.Silk Road stone carvingHistoric networks, showing…
India's Place in the World Web of Cotton
What is global history? Analysis of commodity chainsNot about covering entire globe, but aware of importance of global correlation.Showing…
On the History and Empowerment of West African Workers
Contract-workers were dominant and preferredNo trickle down of rapid economy developmentColonial export production continue the practice of…
Accelerationism
90s: Lots of drugs, lots of internet. Democratisation of things. Nick Land Accelorationism: With good enough technology, we will be able to…
Anthropology of Hacking
Reading NotesMaxigasHackteriaBesetzes Haus BremgartenKocharealHacklabsVenue to be in the urban flow, communication, infrastructure, venue to…
Literacy
Hoggart > should not romantisise Papanek > romanticising about the people he designs forWhat is the own ability of the designer to criticise…
Machines as Extensions of Man
Computers as extension of man Tecné - extension of the body Hacking as creative reconfiguration compütär, it was like hallucination…