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Horizon Projects Workshop

Design and Value(s) in the Interconnected State

Design and Value(s) in the Interconnected State Tom Klinkowstein

Horizon Projects WorkshopDesign and Value(s) in the Interconnected State Tom Klinkowstein


AKV St. Joost (Breda, Holland), 200 years

Pratt (New York City), 125 years


Goals:

-Test network tools in the context of what is usually a studio-based practice.

-Justify the profession in a time of economic disruption.

-Could a meaningful exchange take place?


Tools we started with:



2011: Uncovering Values

“…to discover the understanding, appreciation and belief of this proposed new type of designer …”

Simon Davies, Reyoud Homan (AKV St. Joost)



-Valorized:“…intrepid and courageous…understands the values underlying design.”


Project: Uncovering Values

-Essay

-Historical Poster

-Own Poster

-Proposal for a Business or Non-Profit



Max Gaines (Pratt) Actually, greed is good...

Max Senden (AKV St. Joost) I’m not driven to what pays the most. I’m driven to the tasks that both are able to sustain me and enable me to grow…

Max Gaines (Pratt) …buy a pair of Jordans!



Critique, AKV St. Joost 2011Design and Value(s) in the Interconnected State Tom Klinkowstein


2012: Creating Value

-The Design of Business, Roger Martin-Design’s Delight, Jan van Toorn


Horizon Projects WorkshopDesign and Value(s) in the Interconnected State

Design Thinking (Martin)

Visual Argumentation (van Toorn)

Tom Klinkowstein


Charlene Sequiera (Pratt) …more inclined to the design thinking from Martin’s book than van Toorn’s preaching.

Luisa Viera Silva (AKV St. Joost) …are we educated enough to make valid comments about society?

Max Bruinsma (AKV St. Joost Professor) …read a newspaper every day...



Project: Creating Value

-Mystery(Observation)

-Heuristic (Investigation)

-Algorithm (Method + Solution)



Luisa Viera Silva (AKV St. Joost) Mimi Rojanasakul (Pratt)

Heuristic (Research/Discovery) ”Poster”



Rhett Bradbury (Pratt)




Re-purpose / add purpose to these relics of analog communications for pragmatic as wellas artful public purposes.




Design and Value(s) in the Interconnected State

Algorithm / Solution:Green postal transfer boxes become a platform for utility and art.

Tom Klinkowstein

Promote awareness of boxes via social media


2013-2016 Nuturing Trans-National Manners

Tom KlinkowsteinDesign and Value(s) in the Interconnected State


Inspiration:

‘Ich und Du’ (‘I and Thou’),Martin Buber, 1923

-Goal of human to human contact is a complete, intimate and deeply respectful dialogical encounter.



Autobiographical Videos:-Personal Methodologies-Rhythms-Quirks


Horizon Projects Workshop Tom KlinkowsteinDesign and Value(s) in the Interconnected State

Understanding Context / Ethos

(New York) (Breda)


Understanding Legacies(USA) (Holland)


Transparency / Candor: “Ask me anything” (to uncover what isnormally unexpressed).



Project: Unexpressed Wants / Desires


Project: Unexpressed Wants / Desires

-More Intensive Ethnographic Research

-Create Artifacts / Persona

-User Experience Mapping

-Unintended / Unadvertised Adjacent Invention



Tools We Ended Up With:

-Blogs as a common workspace

-Facebook as a common discussion space

-Skype for team dialogues and group meetings

-Text messages to say, “we’re thinking of you”



Lessons Learned:

-This is (still) hard

-Ethos beats nationality

-Ethos beats technology (but with the right technology, a new ethos starts to emerge).



Matters Less:

Casual media with trivial intensions

Matters More:

I and Thou Professionalism
