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GET OUT OF YOUR
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The due diligence slide
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The alternative due diligence slide
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remember
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Art Design Me Art
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road in via
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Where do you draw inspiration from when you start a (design) project?
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awwwards webbies favourite competitors
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How we measure that today worked
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Before we venture outside…
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quick exercise
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Think of the last time you felt really inspired and tell us about that moment in a few short sentences.
think, write down. share with the team 5 min, solo
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back to
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FINE ARTS
Performing arts Music, Theatre, Dance Visual arts, two-dimensional Painting, Drawing Visual arts, three-dimensional Architecture
Literature
A MUSICAL DICE GAME FOR COMPOSING A MINUET (MOZART, 1787)
SERENDIPITY + CHANCE
“Aleatoric music, in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s)…”
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EINSTEIN + FREUD
theory of relativity (reconfigured understanding of the nature of time) psychoanalytic theories (sleep)
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( I M A G E )
FISH
grandmother’s dish something that has been there long before us
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His relationship with words was very particular - inspired by their shape, their
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work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s) reconfigured understanding of the nature of time, dreams something that was there long before us shape of words
Those could almost be design principles.
Let’s see whether that works.
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Work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s)
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shape of words
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adhering to more exciting principles then ‘make it personal’
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What would have Mozart composed What would have Dali painted What would have Gehry created What would have Mallarme written
If they were only drawing from contemporaries?
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Image source: https://www.agmtraveller.com/lithuania.php
Image source: https://www.agmtraveller.com/lithuania.php
we create frameworks that contribute to ‘sea of samenesss’
Image source: https://thebig.co/websites-stop-looking-awesome/how do we counter this?
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what if there was a
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to design
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to design
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to design
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to design
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let’s try to apply this stuff
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share your drawing and rationale 10 min, solo, think and sketch Design a page for today’s conference
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process design
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let’s take a
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LIKE BRAINSTORMING*.
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*folk gathering that turns into a conversation and often does not lead to any exciting outcomes.
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BRAINSTORMING AS A PROCESS
Realisation: we need more than
Organisation (large room, time, invite) Prep (up to individuals) Context setting Thinking Speaking Summary / Prioritisation
RULE: can I ask everyone write down the examples instead of showing? METAPHOR: if this was a cooking process, should I ask them all for different ingredients? TIME: Should I time box their search for inspiration in any way?
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RE-DESIGN BRAINSTORMING.
articulate the problem share with the team 20 min, in groups use a couple of methods to identify solutions
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SOMEWHAT HELPFUL THINGS
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ready?
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to conclude
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Surround yourself with intriguing events, things, people - train eye to see, nose to inhale new ways of connecting things.
#1
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Distill and play within the field of fundamental principles, not features.
#2
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Venture out of your comfort zone willingly and frequently. Track your least favourite walks.
#3
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let me know how you get on
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