A broken leg means you got to fill the day differently. Can’t move around too much. I’ve gotten a lot better at hopping around on my good foot. A skateboarding shoe provides a good surface. Part of filling my hours differently meant getting hooked on Wordle along with the rest of the population. If you’re …
The discipline of rock climbing known as bouldering involves climbing relatively short boulders allowing the participant to focus on more difficult and technical sets of moves that aren’t as prevalent on rock walls. An odd spin-off of this discipline is “buildering,” which is to say using the urban environment as opposed to rocks. For this …
The aim of this initial project was to get the steam-box system I was using to bend wood to functional status, and additionally to perform some simple experiments with bending wood to get a feel of the kind of force it takes, spring back, potential problems, etc. These initial tests were conducted with 3/4 x …
List of Potential Research Questions How can the outdoor recreation industry exit the plastic age? How can Manzini’s concepts of SLOC resilient systems be applied to outdoor equipment and apparel? How may we decouple outdoor recreation from its patriarchal and colonial roots? Provisional Research Framework Context Outdoor recreation, the way it’s practiced in the western …
For the final prompt of the semester, you will address the notion of research by conducting a design inquiry into an area of interest. Starting with curiosity, you will delineate a small space of inquiry, test a method of discovery and formalize your findings. For the fourth and final prompt of the year, I chose …
1. About the author; Marie Battiste is an Indigenous scholar from the Potlotek First Nation of Nova Scotia. An unstoppable force in the field of indigenous education, she’s spent upwards of forty years working on the decolonization of educational institutions, and the revitalization of indigenous knowledge systems. Her list of professional degrees is rivalled only …
1. About the author As with so many great designers, Johan Redström found the field somewhat by accident. As a Ph.D. student in philosophy, Redström was recruited by a research group at Göteborg University that was pioneering the field of interaction design. He’s been an adjunct professor at the School of Textiles at the University …
1. About the author In the landscape of design theory, Anne-Marie Willis can be found at seemingly odd intersections. Her article Design Back from the Future showed how long-term/big picture thinking about time can create more informed design scenarios. Her most recent book The Design Philosophy Reader is described as a “pioneering work” in the …
Your challenge in this prompt is to enter into a dialogue with a reading through making. How you approach this will be unique to the reading and discourse you are entering. You may choose to exemplify the reading, challenge it, deconstruct it, etc. It is important to conduct multiple readings of the text and highly …
About Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders Ever since the 90s, Elizabeth Sanders has been interested in people. A psychology academic, Dr. Sanders boasts a Ph.D. in Experimental and Quantitative Psychology, an M.A. in Experimental Psychology, and B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology. In 1995, Sanders and her colleague Elizabeth H. Nutter organized what they called Participatory Design Practices: …