Going back to first principles to take a closer look at the design process
Fundamentally, regardless of the various terms and jargon used to customize and capture the design process as one unique to one’s own industrial design studio, the design process is at heart a balancing process of equilibrium that is viable, desirable, and feasible between the opposing forces of all the stakeholder interests involved. What tends to […]
Core values guiding Nordic social design practice
Distilling the core values underpinning my conceptualization of Nordic social design, as introduced yesterday, and adding links to previous writing on each selected word. To review briefly, I introduced the concept of Nordic social design by combining Koskinen’s (2016) definition where the object of design is the social for ex. social structures, processes, practices, forms […]
Going back to first principles
It seems to me, when I finally do get the space and bandwith to step aside from academic reading and writing, to reflect upon the magic of the Kalevala, as I began to do, only a few short months ago, that the real message in Kaleva’s songs, is the power inherent in going back to […]
