Rowan Conway

This lecture is an introduction to the module and a brief design history.

At its broadest, design is an approach to solving problems (Brown, 2008, 2009; Dunne and Martin, 2006; Kimbell, 2011; Martin, 2009). > Disillusionment with design book draws early concepts of design back to being about ‘bringing order’

Design is applying meaningful order - planning roots.

Using design methods asks policymakers to move out of the confines of their office, pushing them into the field, and immersing them in both the problem space and in the experiences of the people and communities they seek to impact.

• Rethinking design thinking in an era of political upheaval and rapid technological change
• Thinking is the work, design is the expression.
• Design is a practice, it takes practice.
• https://www.helsinkidesignlab.org/instudio/#:~:text=This book explores the HDL,that have no single owner.
• A key skill is ‘zoomability’. The key challenge in systems thinking and creating systems change is that once you are looking at an entire system it becomes difficult to zoom back in and focus on the impact at a human level.

What design can’t do: essays on design and disillusionment

“Specialisms have detached themselves from products to become a sort of shared attitude and a common set of cultural and methodological references”

“More than they things they do, designers identify with the sensitivity they adopt when they to those very things”

“To a certain extent, the contemporary designer is a designer without quality”

Dan Hill

“To design is to devise course of action aimed at challenging existing conditions into preferred ones” (Herbert Simon, 1982)