Lecture Complex Systems Thinking
Lecture by Pieter Jan Stappers and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 6 of Understanding Design: Complex Systems Thinking
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Powers of Ten
This short documentary film by Ray and Charles Eames investigates the relative size of things and the significance of adding a zero to any number. It illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery.
Lecture Design for the real world: Week 7 2021
Lecture by Laurens Kolks and Bregje van Eekelen about the theme of week 7 of Understanding Design: Design for the real world
IDEO Shopping Cart Project
A peak into one of design and consulting firm IDEO’s projects.
Planned obsolescence
Learn how planned obsolesce is a part of consumerism and makes bad products with the goal of making money. But can it actually also have benefits?
Braun ET66 calculator & minibus project
Fourth week, theme Formalisation of Design. From 26 to 30 September 2022
How Wolves Change Rivers
George Monbiot explains what a trophic cascade is and how wolves change rivers.
History of ideas: Consumerism
Learn about the origin of consumerism, its drivers and its consequences.
The Filter Bubble
Eli Pariser warns about the dangerous consequence that comes with the increasing personalization of our digital services.
Jim Nature & Fairphone
Seventh week, theme Design for the Real World. From 17 to 21 October 2022