Design processes defy a traditional understanding of methods: they alternate between rule-guided procedures and their constant transgression. They contain fuzziness – yet they are subject to the constraints of precision and explicitness. Design oscillates between analysis and synthesis and is oriented towards something that initially only exists as a possibility. This is why the work of designers does not only begin where precisely outlined problems are transformed into standardized solutions, but already with the construction of these problems. The methods used are ways of questioning one’s own conceptual thinking and design acting, rather than following rigid process models.
With this in mind, three different lab projects of three weeks each will enable a fundamental analysis of the meaning and function of methodological approaches, while examining and developing concrete methodological practices for design and research in lab-like situations.
Modules:
Jonas Rehn „Zooming in on vulnerabilities“ (14.4.,21.4., 28.4.)
Alexander van Wickeren „Postcolonial Memory: A Reading Lab“ (5.5., 12.5., 19.5.)
Sam Hopkins „Working Together – Tools, Strategies and Speculations“ (26.5., 2.6., 9.6.)
Jonas Rehn „Zooming in on vulnerabilities“ (14.4.,21.4., 28.4.)
Alexander van Wickeren „Postcolonial Memory: A Reading Lab“ (5.5., 12.5., 19.5.)
Sam Hopkins „Working Together - Tools, Strategies and Speculations“ (26.5., 2.6., 9.6.)