Vacuum cleaner & World Plugs
Ninth week, theme Norms & Rules. From 31 October to 4 November 2022
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Lecture Complex Systems Thinking: Week 6
Lecture by Pieter Jan Stappers and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 6 of Understanding Design: Complex Systems Thinking
Lecture Consumption 2023
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The Century of the Self – Pt 2
The video referred to in the lecture on the rise of consumer research in the early 1950s. Using methods to mine the unconscious, leading to the focus group. Also contains that famous story about just adding an egg to instant-cake to remove the barrier of guilt.
Lecture Complex Systems Thinking: Week 6
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Design is Messy I
Nick and Christian from Google Design discuss potential trajectories for the messy futures of emerging technologies and argue for design being appropriately and systematically messy in response. Please watch the video from the first marker to the second for this week. In this part you will see some ideas about the roles of models and abstractions and get an idea of their possible uses.
How Caffeine Addiction Changed History
Michael Pollan explains why coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug and the effect it has had on the world.
Story of stuff
Nowadays, consumers want more and more stuff. What is the problem with this and how are the different parts of the product chain involved? This video gives a short visual overview of the story of stuff.
Lecture Design for the real world: Week 7
Lecture by Laurens Kolks and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 7 of Understanding Design: Design for the real world
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.