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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student interview
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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
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday so you better
find yourself a SEMLA!
The New Black in TV/MOVIES
Broad City, Season 2 is out.
The New Black in SLANG
Because.... like because.
The New Black in RANDOMNESS
White lipstick and nail polish on guys!
Nomination for next week
Sonya Swan, BA1
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 / [email protected] (“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: [email protected] 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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credits
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Thanks for your contributionsFuture articles & photos can be sent to [email protected] 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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