Roller Radio & Videosphere
Third week, theme Consumption. From 19 to 23 September 2022
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History of ideas: Consumerism
Learn about the origin of consumerism, its drivers and its consequences.
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?
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
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?
Designing Fallingwater | Frank Lloyd Wright
Excerpt from Ken Burn’s documentary about one of America’s greatest architects.
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.
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 Toyota changed the way we make things
Learn about how the company introduced an ethos that is now known as “lean manufacturing”.
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.