Lecture 8: Sh*t Design

If you ever need some quirky inspiration…

http://dailydesign.livejournal.com always makes my day.

Communication or Community?

Birds on a wire, 2006

Technology and Nature.

Technology taking over Nature.

Maybe a tree was once there, but the birds are making their own branches now.

Communication or Community?

Take it as you wish.

Lecture 7: “What is community?” panel discussion

“No jobs on a dead planet” – Melbourne

Lecture 6: Theory & Explanation

Project 1C: Media Map 2

Name James Burling
Subject My world in relation to a good book (or books)
Postcode 2340
Visit Time 5/12/2004 9:37 PM

Media He is very moved by books, forever chasing up different books to read. A lot of his knowledge was learned from his love of reading. He keeps up-to-date watching some television, listening to the radio, and reading newspapers. He reads special interest magazines about trains. He is also an internet user in his spare time.

Project 1C: Media Map 1

Name Sarah
Subject Where does one start…..
Postcode 2036
Visit Time 2/12/2004 4:05 PM

Media She has young children, so a lot of her media engagement is through what her children are taking in – such as television and radio. She cares about her children, so magazines that relate to their wellbeing (as well as her interests) are read. Magazines also have short stories, so she can enjoy them around looking after her children. She uses the internet for entertainment as well as an information source. Junk mail also needs to be accounted for, as having young kids around she would be looking for bargains to keep costs down around the home.

Lecture 5: “On design thinking: a conversation between certainty & possibility”

Project 1B: Spot the difference (portrait 3)

Name James Burling
Subject My world in relation to a good book (or books)
Postcode 2340
Visit Time 5/12/2004 9:37 PM

I was pretty much born with a book, for want of a better phrase, ‘glued’ to my hand, so I spent most of my life, to say the very least, reading my way through it. And the book helped me understand my world a little better too: Dinotopia, by James Gurney, opened me up to a land unaffected by the passing of time, and undiscovered (or so it supposed); Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift did the very same (although I only read the first two adventures; I don’t know why I haven’t got the other two, or why they weren’t published at the time). Thomas the Tank Engine by The Reverend W Awdry (better known as the Railway Series) brought about my love of trains, and the interaction between the steam loco and its driver (it’s almost a fraternity between the two). And the enlightenment stories are completely endless. But back to the real stories. I have had a couple of interesting ’situations’ with books in my life; I’ll give three now. Do not worry; they are very short stories. One involved the first volume of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (Inferno). In the hope of getting the book (I had purchased the other two that day), I ordered it through one bookshop. After doing so, I ran frantically back to my ‘home’ bookshop (I have my allegiences when it comes to things like bookshops) and told them. They set up the challenge of getting the very same book faster than the first. Unfortunately, the first bookshop won by getting it in in a week and a bit; the other is still waiting for it. The second involves a book that ran out of print before it arrived, after waiting for it for four (maybe five) months. We’re still in search of a copy of the Tagbook.
The third concerns the Holy Bible. I found it (again) after deciding to clean myself up in action, and ended up going to church as a result. (Yes, I am a Christian now; Anglican, to be precise.)

After change move on from praying for change to having the power to make change.