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
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
Eighth week, theme User X. From 24 to 28 October 2022
Lecture by Pieter Jan Stappers and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 6 of Understanding Design: Complex Systems Thinking
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.
Learn about the origin of consumerism, its drivers and its consequences.
Lecture by Laurens Kolks and Bregje van Eekelen about the theme of week 7 of Understanding Design: Design for the real world
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?
Learn about how the company introduced an ethos that is now known as “lean manufacturing”.
Steve Jobs views life and the world. Recorded in 1995 when Steve Jobs had been ousted from Apple and was living in exile working on a fledgling computer company NeXT Computer.
A short introduction to Bauhaus, one of the most definitive design movements of the modern age.
This is part of The Open University series Design in a Nutshell. The questions at the end of each movie could inspire you for your seminar questions.