The Valorized Designer
- What kind of of courses can combine theory with practice?
Towards Relational Design
- Does the Globalization reduce the cultural diversity?
- What’s the effect of “Non-linear” Design?
- Who’s the “end-user”?
If Design’s No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?
- If technology is not much important, what’s the value of designer’s skill?
Notes on Improvisation and Design
- How do we find the balance when consumers will be creates? (co-designer, the new role, how to draw the line)
- What kinds of value are shared with Jazz and design? (rough framework to bring creativity, allow people to play beyond themselves, consistent but freely )
- How to design the frame to guide people to improvise? (rules, characters, interactions)(Jazz: based on participatory methods, require little prior knowledge, judged on deviation from original, evaluated as interactive, creative instability)
- How to deal with the instability, can we accept all results? How to judge?
- How designers inspire the users to do improvisation?
- 4 patterns: involve the audiences, define parameters, no pre-knowledge, accepting all offers
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future
- What’s the feature to design virtual scenarios?
- Computer mades aesthetic choices means personification?
The Future Mundane
- Design the narrative means combine words with images?
Summer Seminar 