Technical University Eindhoven: lecture On Depth - August2007

Learn as if you would die tomorrow. Act as if you would live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Meta Thinking


Wholism>HolismHolism (from ὅλος > holos, a Greek word meaning all, entire, total) is the idea that all the properties of a

given system (biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, technological etc.) cannot be

determined or explained by the sum of its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines

in an important way how the parts behave.


anticipatory design science(coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller in 1936)

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The 10,000 Year Clockthe clock of the long now

The Long Now Foundation


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protocols

systems

productsTuesday, June 30, 2009

Try to imagine that a system can be a product.


Try to imagine that a system can be a product.


Try to imagine that a product can be a system.


Food FacilityA prototype food platformBy Marti Guixé, 2005


Try to imagine that a system is essentially a protocol.



Try to imagine that a protocolcan evolve into a product.

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multidisciplinary teamworkdesign and research processes

self-directed & continuous learninganalysing complexity

ideas and concepts

integrating technology

user focus and perspective

socio-cultural awareness

marketing/designingbusiness processes

form and senses

WholismTuesday, June 30, 2009

multidisciplinary teamworkdesign and research processes

self-directed & continuous learninganalysing complexity

ideas and concepts

integrating technology

user focus and perspective

socio-cultural awareness

marketing/designingbusiness processes

form and senses

WholismTuesday, June 30, 2009

In short:Try to imagine that what you are bound to design can be the result of a meaningful

social, aesthetic and functional blend of (technological) components.


Such components can be both hard and soft,

social and cultural,analog and digital,

hands-on and conceptual,polemical and practical


Wholism>Holism


Meta Thinking


CuriosityTuesday, June 30, 2009

Depth2


Design

Technical University Eindhoven: lecture On Depth - August2007