Designing Fallingwater | Frank Lloyd Wright
Excerpt from Ken Burn’s documentary about one of America’s greatest architects.
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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
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.
Lecture Creativity
Lecture by Bregje van Eekelen and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 5 of Understanding Design: Creativity
Lecture Design for the real world: Week 7
Lecture by Laurens Kolks and Bregje van Eekelen about the theme of week 7 of Understanding Design: Design for the real world
The Politics of Design
Alison Clarke, director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, takes you through the exhibition ‘Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design’ at Design Museum Den Bosch.
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.
How Wolves Change Rivers
George Monbiot explains what a trophic cascade is and how wolves change rivers.
Lecture Norms & Rules: Week 9
Lecture by Ianus Keller and Bregje van Eekelen closing off Understanding Design and reflecting on the theme of week 9 of Understanding Design: Norms & Rules
How Toyota changed the way we make things
Learn about how the company introduced an ethos that is now known as “lean manufacturing”.