issue 8 /february 16, 2015

/the future of uid/the new black with louise persson /habits of a complex mind/core77 awards/interaction 16

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louise persson/ba industrial design

10 words or less about yourself

Snus and coffee makes me happy

Something most people don't know

about you

My street name is Loco Lozo Chopper.

An interesting fact from your

country

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weekly ted video

news

ricardo semler / radical wisdom for a company, a school, a life

What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a

radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to

how workers report their vacation days (they don’t have to). It’s a vision that rewards

the wisdom of workers, promotes work-life balance — and leads to some deep insight

on what work, and life, is really all about. Bonus question: What if schools were like

this too?

the future of uid

Interested in knowing what UID’s future plans and ambitions are?

The Operational plan and Action plan is now available on UID’s homepage!

Available in both Swedish and English.

http://www.dh.umu.se/en/for-our-staff/documents-and-policies/

button masala

Time / Thursday February 19, 13.00 - 16.00

Place / Sliperiet, Östra Strandgatan 32

Organized By / Svensk Form Västerbotten, IASPIS, Sliperiet

Sign Up / anna.i.sjoberg@bredband.net (“Button Masala” as topic)

habits of a complex mind/fostering complexity thinking

article

In a study recently published in the journal -Ecology & Society, centre researcher

Oonsie Biggs, together with colleagues, presents a number of “habits” that may be

used as tools to “unlearn reductionist habits” and embrace the complex reality around

us. Key to this is what Biggs and her colleagues call “habits of mind” which is a “pat-

tern of intellectual behaviour that leads to particular actions. They recognise three

broad frames of mind, each encompassing a set of habits of mind that are critical to

participate planning and decision making in complex social-ecological systems.

The first frame, openness, includes the following habits:

/Hold your strong opinions lightly

/Embrace surprise, serendipity and epiphany

/Accept everyone as co-learners, not experts or competitors

The second, situational awareness, includes habits such as:

/Be aware of contingencies, scale and history

/Consider the importance of relationships and interactions

/Reflect often: formally, informally, individually and collectively

The third frame, respect for the restraint and action paradox, includes habits such as:

/Seize the just-do-it moment

/Have courage to take action from which you can learn

/Avoid premature convergence avoid being too quick to judge

With these frames in mind, the next step is a guide to action and learning, all in the

spirit of complexity thinking. Designers and researchers can use these thinking pat-

terns when making design-decisions of a more complex nature. For example for the

same complex problem whether to go for a service, product or something completely

different like a human-centred legal contract (whatever that might be)!

This way of thinking is particularly useful when working with a number of interdis-

ciplinary people (users, stakeholders, tutors, colleagues, clients) and trying to get a

deeper understanding of what was, what is and what is it that the intended design is

changing or should change?

pieces of the text are borrowed from the full article

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http://www.stockholmresilience.org/21/research/research-news/2-18-2014-habits-of-a-complex-mind.html

on the stockholm resilience centre website.

opportunities

core77 design awards

humlab short course/digital mindmapping

interaction 16

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The jury of international design experts look forward to seeing what

you’ve been working on

Design Awards Categories : In addition to the beloved standards, you’ll find several

progressive design categories that are analogous to the diversity of today’s design

disciplines.

Consumer Products / Commercial Equipment / Furniture & Lighting /

Built Environment / Visual Communication / Packaging / Interaction /

Service Design / Transportation / Design for Social Impact / Design Education

Initiatives / Strategy & Research / Speculative Concepts/Open Design

Learn more / http://goo.gl/1nVisT

Early Bird Deadline / Tuesday, March 3rd (enjoy a 20% discount)

Mind maps can be used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas as well as

for presenting, studying and organizing information, solving problems, making deci-

sions, and writing, and much much more. By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical,

non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and

organizational tasks.

This hands-on workshop gives the participant usage insights of Mindview which is a

computer program (Mac & PC) and Mind42 which is a web-based collaborative mind

mapping tool. Participants will be fairly able users by the end of the session.

Thursday - February 19, 09:00 – 12:00

Register at / www.humlab.umu.se/kortkurser

The 9th Interaction Design Association IxDA.org’s yearly conference,

Interaction 16 will be held in beautiful Helsinki, Finland 2–4 March, 2016

The craft of design is in an exciting place right now. Designers have finally earned

their seat in the corner office, but at the same time the dynamic within the industry is

changing rapidly and constantly. Modern computing is taking design to places which

we didn’t dare to dream about before, and is entering new, exciting fields such as

robotics and nanotechnology.

The big question we intend to raise is what’s next in design, for professionals, con-

sultants, studios and enterprises alike. The futures of interaction design, and design

practice as a whole. To provoke, inspire and accommodate this theme, we’ve prepared,

together with established Finnish filmmakers, a short film about the role of craft in

the modern.

Learn more / http://interaction16.ixda.org/

the week that was / #lifeatuid

wednesday lecture with designer kenneth bringzén:sustainability, humor & materials

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apd1 and ixd1 collaborate for the sound design project

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td1, kings of surface

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idi fika with the librarians

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@tylermacdesigns clay workshop #lifeatuid

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@jessicamwno boating along here for a while #frozenriver#lifeatuid

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@intheeyeofman great end to the interaction project! #lifeatuid

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@jenn _ shanother @umeaixd umeån @umeadesign representing in the #ixda15 student design competition. go tais! #lifeatuid

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we want you!share your projects, fikas and everyday events with the rest of uid by sending your photos to: wozzop@gmail.comwe love hearing from you!

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idi present their interaction design concepts for the library

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ixd fika: danish fastelavnsboller

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ixlab: prototyping to the limit

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Thanks for your contributionsFuture articles & photos can be sent to wozzop@gmail.com by Friday evenings.We love hearing from you!

Editor / Jessica WilliamsGraphic Designer / Thuy NguyenContributions / Aditya Pawar, Johan Grönskog, Lars Sundelin, Lene Rydningen, Maria Göransdotter, Petra Käck, Yui Komatsu, Rebecca Daum, Thuy Nguyen

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