I am in Amsterdam delivering the Reinwardt Memorial Lecture at the Reinwardt Academy for Cultural Heritage in the Amsterdam School of the Arts [Link] [Link] This annual event commemorates the birthday of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (3 June 1773 – 6 March 1854), after whom the Reinwardt Academy is named. The Academy is the foremost…
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potting isn’t about pottery
Forensic Architecture
“At a scene of crime anything might be relevant” – a catch phrase from our work in theatre/archaeology, explored in Experiencing the Past (1992) and featuring now in my new book “The Archaeological Imagination”, out this coming week – [Link] In this light, Ewa (Domanska) has referred me to a fascinating, an intriguing new project…
time-space distanciation – past and present
We were out last night with friends. The water at the local restaurant in Palo Alto – imported from Wales, bottled in the squire’s house, Llanllyr, in the village of Talsarn, where we once lived (next to the house where Dylan Thomas wrote “Under Milk Wood”), before we moved to California.
d.school studio-based learning – feedback
It’s the end of our class in the d.school – Transformative Design. We held the presentations on Monday. Today we shared feedback – it amounts to a great concise commentary on the strengths of the d.school process and design thinking, and more generally on studio-based/project-based interdisciplinary learning. What we like: listening to others, leaving oneself…
design thinking – the importance of representation
The end of our class in the d.school – Transformative Design. Presentations of the team projects – covering recycling, sleep management, making friends, interdiscipinary learning K-12, energy efficiency, digital privacy, personal tutoring, personal finances. Communication skills are crucial – sharing ideas with team members, listening to people in this human-centered design process. Effective use of…
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