Design’s futures
It feels like a lifetime ago when I would sit late at night pondering the future of design at my keyboard on Mason Street in San Francisco’s Nob Hill. Besides, the wench is dead, I’m tempted to quip. My world changed when I took the deliberate and considered decision to move to the Nordics – […]
Spanning Boundaries and Transgressing Disciplines: Insights for Post-Pandemic Innovation
“The Bauhaus School was deliberately designed to foster innovation by crossing boundaries, including boundaries between school and work and disciplinary boundaries. The School faced ongoing criticism because its innovative approaches and activities were seen to be transgressive (Bayer et al., 1938). Yet transgressive practice disrupts established knowledge and can generate new knowledge (Haraway, 2008). Despite […]
Sustainable Design Thinking (SDT)
Practitioners and scholars have long been aware of the limitations of Design Thinking (DT) as has been adopted by private sector and non-profits for their own applications. At some point around 2008, the early batch of design thinking bloggers, particularly those exploring the interstitial spaces between business and design, went silent as the dominant narrative […]
