Roller Radio & Videosphere
Third week, theme Consumption. From 19 to 23 September 2022
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Lecture Consumption 2023
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iPod & Tupperware
Sixth week, theme Complex Systems Thinking. From 10 to 14 October 2022
The Norman door
Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn’t need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine. So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?
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.
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.
Jim Nature & Fairphone
Seventh week, theme Design for the Real World. From 17 to 21 October 2022
Vacuum cleaner & World Plugs
Ninth week, theme Norms & Rules. From 31 October to 4 November 2022
Everything is a Remix | Creativity
In this episode of Everything is a Remix, Kirby Ferguson explores the elements of creativity and illustrates that copying is often an inevitable part of creation. Feel free to watch the other three parts as enriching material!
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?