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Umfrage Master/Promotionsstudierende Design

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PhD Thesis database

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In the UK there is a national database for Ph.D. theses called EThOS. It is run by the British Libary and hosted here:
http://ethos.bl.uk/ [more...]

biomimetics

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(Finally i found out how to post here. Wonder who will read it. Lets give it a go)
Here is a very intriguiging approach to biomimetics by White Elephant labs Vienna. [more...]

Rezension: Neuwerk - die Zeitschrift für junge Designforschung

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Das Designkritik-Portal http://www.designkritik.dk hat die in Halle erschienene Zeitschrift Neuwerk unter die Lupe genommen. [more...]

Preisverleihung | bf-preis 2009

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Event:
November 30, 2009

Preisverleihung | bf-preis 2009
Der aus einer Privatinitiative hervorgegangene Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Förderpreis für designkritische Texte wird zum fünften Mal verliehen.
Den bf-preis 2009 erhält Anne Theresia Wanders, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, für „SLOW FASHION – Alternative Modekonzepte“.

Laudatio
“Piano! Ma non troppo.” Prof. Ruedi Baur, Leiter Forschungsinstitut Design2Context an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste [more...]

Ten years of Critical Design!

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It is now ten years since Anthony Dunne published the "Hertzian Tales". We might count it as the official birthday of Critical Design. I would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back: What has happened to design practice and theory during the last decade due to the book, and the projects? What have we learned? What do we miss? Where does the critique lead us? How does it help? Does it help? [more...]

Design research for children

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I'm looking for possibilities of design research for children in Germany or elsewhere, especially in the fields of exhibition design, learning experience, new media, interaction design.

Any tips? [more...]

Raul Mandru: Surveillance Maps of the World

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I found it interesting that recently a young german was honoured with the red dot in communication design for his interactive game/installation "surveillance map of the world.

Really wonderful piece of information design and - like in city murmur - the concept of showing hidden qualities of informational space.

I invited Raul to our Network (contact after the jump) [more...]

Kenya Hara talks about Designing Design

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As part of Google’s Authors@Google, Kenya Hara discusses his awesome book “Designing Design” and his new book “White”. Warning, it runs for 53 mins [more...]

Usability: The International Parking Meters Study by UXalliance

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To celebrate the world usability day (wasnt it just one blink away in November?) the international network for user experience (UXalliance) published a study on parking meters.

The International Parking Meters Study will explore interface and interaction design of parking meters around the world and examine different parking meter interfaces and the common problem of designing an interface to accommodate a broad range of users trying to achieve multiple tasks. [more...]

Complexity and design: fostering the dialogue for creating knowledge

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Event:
January 30, 2009

Dear Design researcher,
As in the Politecnico di Milano in January we will hold a seminar on Dialogue and Design research, I was asked to write a paper related to my research topic. I thought to share it with you (even if till now I wrote only the abstract and I'm still missing the bibliography) as your comments and suggestions (ideas, papers that must be read, books, etc.) are always very useful. [more...]

CREATIVITY

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Hi all my buddies and friends, [more...]

visualising the urban space

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CityMurmur is a project developed in Madrid as a result of Visualizar'08 workshop at the Medialab Prado in November 2008.

CityMurmur aims at addressing maps and diagrams not as passive representation of realities but as tools for interpretation and action. It wants to build a time-based narration, an historical archive of media coverage of the urban space which is able to reveal some hidden dynamics useful for city policy support, critical media analysis, and sociocultural research. [more...]

Web 2.0: Paradigmenwechsel im Design

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Interesting Article - in German - about how the participative Web influences Design.

http://www.agenturblog.de/2008-11/paradigmenwechsel-im-design/ [more...]