Category Archives: Semester 1 News

Re-design

The blog is a bit of a state at the moment because I’m doing a redesign and overhaul. It will reappear in January (at the latest), re-invigorated and refreshed. All the best

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Reading Week

So this is reading week and I’m actually reading, and skimming, a few books. Shift and Cult-ure are getting the skimming treatment as well as The culture of design, something I bought for second year and have decided to give … Continue reading

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Design Research module log

As part of the design research module we have to keep a log of the days events, including our notes. This will be used as part of our assessment process. I’ve decided to use this blog to hold the log … Continue reading

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Presentations and Papers

Presentation day went really well, it was great listening to everyone’s stories and finding out a little about everyone, where they’re from and their work/discipline backgrounds, between the M.Des students and the Design Ethnography students we have a huge range … Continue reading

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Sitting in silence

As I mentioned previously we’ve had to sit in silence at home and in a location that is strange or makes us uncomfortable. Today I went home via a church, unfortunately it was locked, so I sat in the churchyard. At home … Continue reading

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Week 2

Over the week-end I’ve been preparing for week 2. The presentation I wrote about in the interview post is on Tuesday. I’ve got my words ready and can tell the story without prompt cards but I’ll have some with me … Continue reading

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What I’m reading now

There’s a link to the tisdt website in the sidebar under external essentials. This is Service Design Thinking – Book Trailer / Explanimation from Nick Lievendag on Vimeo.

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An interview

My first task on the course is to be interviewed by someone I met yesterday! This someone is another student, Li-Chuan, who I will then interview. It’s part of an exercise that is intended to help bring us all together, … Continue reading

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First post

This is the blog I’m going to use to document my progress through the M.Des over the next 12 months, the course starts on Monday 12th September 2011. I’m not sure how often I’ll update the blog but would hope … Continue reading

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