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Retrospective: DesignInquiry
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Notes:
work & words from the week
In the final session,
we answered:
what will we each take with us from this gathering?
The social aspect/the people that stand out, ultimately how similar we are?
This was a great experience of impossible collaborations, it was not an easy
but a good process, and now i have a better idea of how i spend my time as a
teacher.
I came with the question: does graphic design matter... I found that people
DO care, And I’m willing to go forward that it might matter.
I’ll leave with the richness of the activity. What began big' changed
into a tunnel, then I was lost in the work.
City, workshop, people.
The imagery & organization of imagery is new to me, the significance of
text is also new.
The Truth is... not about truth, but inspired in different ways in every conversation,
and I’m still going away with a piece I did here.
I’m inspired by the format, genius.
I’ll leave with new insights into asking questions in terms of education.
The discussions, the topic, the possibilities of working, writing, other things
combined to underscore how important it is what we do and the role we play.
We divide and conquer. As teaching goes, this nourishing, respectful, no mutiny,
collaborative was of working, in the best ways. First there was fear, then making
and making and we pulled it off.
I’ll take with me the reaffirmation that graphic design education is one
of a number of vehicles in creative thinking and creating our own ways of thinking.
Students must employ what we're teaching. Here we analyzed and then synthesized:
these are the truths I’ll retain.
What ever you believe to be your truth; be connected to it.
How easy it is for meaning to shift. It became apparent in the making. I couldn't
shut up-- that's abnormal for me!
The week was like speed rowing in a dark time.
I was lost in the meetings, they didn't stay to the topic, meetings pointed
in other directions.
Also, graphic designers are eager to talk about what they are doing. We
didn't say it all yet.
The power of dialog, the faith of dialog.
These are necessary workshops, I’m invigorated to keep working, &
explore commonality.
Thinking makes you tired.
The #1 truth: it's individual.
While I thought we would solve questions, we raised questions.
I was able to approach everything as an experiment.
We come together for deeper meaning, to try to define & see colleagues &
peers do it as well.
I’m reminded not to loose my passion, it's a lifestyle.
I realized I would always be a student. I was nervous; I want another week &
this space to work.
I’m inspired, shocked, I worked hard, the work was driven pragmatically.
It was inspiring to see how MUCH got made.
I will take away the value of listening.
At first, I was nervous by the theme, looking at the big world of design, I
became more nervous of the format, so I found a conventional way to react by
finding a text. Then we got here. The old model, just talking, is a passive
reception. I was inspired by the common ground of making, mixing elements. Let's
call it 'The Magic Space'
The actor's phrase struck me: 'you just put it out into the air and the audience
knows if it's truth' -this was my relationship to this week.
The value of what we do is affirmed.
This reaffirms my path.
And, from some of the emails later:
I am now figuring out, this week, whether I'm off to architecture
school, or not. It starts in a month! Part of me wants to go because DesignInquiry
made me realize how amazing school could be, and part of me doesn't because
DesignInquiry made me realize how much I love graphic design!
We all know when design is just form or strategy it just sits there begging
to be taken seriously and embraced. But, when it embodies a real human presence,
one cannot ignore it and must interact some how. The notion of making in response
to the lectures is NEW and needs underscored. It is the best format ever. It
gives an equalizing status to everyone.
For anything of real value to come out of such a format, equalized status rules.
One of the more valuable things I learned at this workshop was the importance
of recognizing what we believe to be our own truth. Throughout the week I noticed
a general insecurity among the attendees, both in the presentation of their
own work and the voicing of their opinions in the discussions. I thought this
was really interesting, especially considering that the majority of the group
was established professionals. I suffer from the same problem. While working
in Elliott's group, the main point he kept reiterating was the importance of
having conviction about our own truths. Much of what Elliott's work is about
is "courage". This is something we all could use a little more of.
The DesignInquiry program is a gigantic leap in the right direction for "design
conferences." I do Not even want to use the term "design conference",
because I do not feel the DesignInquiry quite Falls into that category, however
I feel it is the closest. What you put in is what you get out of it. As a participant,
you have to take responsibility for your work, input, and just your whole experience.Fast
paced.
DesignInquiry was a chance interaction and a chance to interact. I got to know
people I would never have met otherwise. Going out to dinner, staying up late
in the computer lab, and making small talk with folks was fun. I liked that
people were from different parts of the country and that there was a diverse
age range. Having just recently graduated from college, I don't really interact
on such a casual level (aka 'hang out') with people who are more than five years
older than me, so it was fun to do this. I also like that everybody attempted
to make something. Rick's strategy of responding to each day by making something
was an interesting way to pull his thoughts together. Portland was a fun city
to visit for a week. It was just the right scale to not be intimidating.
to me what came across strongest at DI: not ideas, though there were many good
ones; not skill thought much was in evidence; but passion. what if that were
the focus?
It made me think freshly about my work, because of the quality of participants
and the fact they each brought insights, sometimes from related professions
such as psychology, philosophy, theatre, music and architecture. I've also taken
the titles of several new books to read. I would come back again because I always
want more inspiration and connection with the creative spirit.
DesignInquiry was like all the best parts of graduate school, incredibly compressed
into a week.
It was a great opportunity to talk, work and play with a dynamic group
of designers, young & old (er). I think I called it a "transitory designer's
utopia." Much more interaction than a typical design conference, probably
because the relatively small number of participants made it easy to get to know
each other. when I was waiting for my plane home on Saturday I took the roster
of attendees and was able to remember something specific about nearly every
person because i'd talked with them over the course of the week. there was a
feeling of "we're all in this together" that to some degree even included
the speakers, which is something i've never experienced at a conference before,
and i've been to quite a few. also, the orientation to creating something as
part of the event was transformational. we were not simply information consumers,
we were part of a process.
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Links
http://designinquiry04.com
http://www.misleader.org
http://www.echelonlabs.com/photo/designinquiry/
http://www.gardenvisit.com/t/w9.htm
http://www.zefrank.com/redalert/index_better.html
http://www.portlandphoenix.com/art/top/documents/03917120.asp
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teachable_moment
s/photo_truth.cfm
http://mypage.siu.edu/cgorman/designforum.htm
http://designstudiesforum.org
SpeakUp
DesignObserver
Typophile
The Guardian
NYTimes
MoveOn.org
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Reading List
Peter Hall
Lupton, Ellen "The
Producers" in Inside Design Now: National Design Triennial
(Princeton Architectural Press, 2003)
Rock, Michael "The Designer as Author"
in Looking Closer Four (Allworth Press, 2002) also in Eye no. 20 (Spring 1996)
Poynor, Rick "The Designer as Reporter"
in Obey the Giant (Birkhauser/August, 2001)
Sontag, Susan "The World as India"
in Times Literary Supplement, June 13, 2003
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