Lecture Consumption 2022
Lecture by Bregje van Eekelen and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 3 of Understanding Design: Consumption
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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?
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.
Vacuum cleaner & World Plugs
Ninth week, theme Norms & Rules. From 31 October to 4 November 2022
Lecture Industrial. Design. Engineering. Week 1
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Roller Radio & Videosphere
Third week, theme Consumption. From 19 to 23 September 2022
How Toyota changed the way we make things
Learn about how the company introduced an ethos that is now known as “lean manufacturing”.
Palm V & Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard
Eighth week, theme User X. From 24 to 28 October 2022
How Wolves Change Rivers
George Monbiot explains what a trophic cascade is and how wolves change rivers.