sketching and gardening
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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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