Daily Schedule:

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Program: DesignInquiry Reloaded ’06

Thursday June 22

05:00pm opening:

cooking dinner together (as every morning and night)

after dinner: warm-up introductions

margo halverson & melle hammer & peter hall: vision and history of DesignInquiry, responsibilities for the week

introductions: who am I, what did I bring in my connection to the topic, movie night with peter hall: Man Ray

Friday June 23

09:00 breakfast: pancakes, bacon, lots of bacon

10:00 focus: focus on the topic from three angles, three perspectives; melle, peter, margo

11:00 warm-up assignment: Where Am I: a mapping project

12:30 lunch & work, work, work

04:00 hands-on cocktail workshop:boxes with nori gale

07:00 dinner: Amazing.

09:00 mark jamra/Type Culture: definitely More Than Business as Usual

10:00 charles melcher/into the night: Proprioceptive Writing

Saturday June 24

09:00 breakfast: eggs, more bacon.

10:00 sharing results from the first project/ recap/new map: influences

11:00 work together until lunch

12:30 lunch

04:00 workshop 1: personal geography with alfred depew

05:00 tour: the Poor Farm with jeremy moser and alicen hildreth, architect and artist

07:00 dinner: pizza at the Williams House. slow oven, gorgeous view. (with deer & maine fog)

Sunday June 25

09:00 breakfast: pancakes probably. with more bacon?

10:00 audra buck & ann mcdonald:Sticks & Stones project

recap, share work from the influences project and development of Where Am I

12:30 lunch

next question: Where is design in the world at large? What is design's role as an agent of change?

04:00 andrew twigg: Brighton Park Press, norman tabor: Value & Design, hands-on postcard workshop

07:00 dinner: again: amazing. includes local seaweed: melle in-charge.

09:00 kristen johnson: Practical Small Projects, peter & lynn fleming: movie night

Monday June 26

08:30 breakfast: egg tortilla thingy

09:30 sharing work: Where is design in the world at large? Or, What is design's role as an agent of change? and integrating into questions of DesignInquiry's role in this investigation

11:00 still working (rain)

12:30 lunch

05:00 satoru nihei: Playground project, adam king: More Than Business as Usual/identity development

07:00 dinner: lobster! finally. of course melle in-charge. and a working fireplace

09:00 dancing: until midnight

Tuesday June 27

09:00 breakfast: eggs. toast. bacon?

10:30 Audrey Bennett: Meta-DesignInquiry

12:00 everyone: new start, taking connections

schedule recap by margo halverson

FOCUS = presentation/connection/inspiration re: A Rustic Retreat
SHIFT = a short active workshop to inform the Inquiry topic
VISITING HOURS = workshops open for show & tell
PARTICIPANT PRESENTATIONS = short prepared presentations in connection to the topic, (more times may be added)

DESIGNINQUIRY… an anecdote

by Margo Halverson

When the Maine Summer Institute in Graphic Design was over two years ago, I found myself questioning the effect of the teacher-student relationship…read more about why and how DesignInquiry began.