Cultivating your own garden: Sketching, self-fashioning, and sharing

Elizabeth Goodman UC Berkeley School of Information

About meA bit about me

Definition of sketching

Sketching: a brief reminderThe key tool to support design cognition remains the traditional sketch. It seems to support and facilitate the uncertain, ambiguous and exploratory nature of conceptual design activity.

– Nigel Cross, Designerly Ways of Knowing

Gardening

Seeing like a gardener

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

– Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897

Self-fashioningSelf-fashioning

TimeWorking with the seasons

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden…. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

– Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981

Sharing and gardens

Sharing and ownership

So what can or should we apply to sketching in

hardware?

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

– Janet Kilburn Philips

Onwards!

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