“Living it now”
As we look forward to a new home for the Cannon Design Chicago office, we’re starting to shift our understanding of what an office should be. I decided to run with one of these shifts, which thinks of ...
With school starting up again, we’d love to see what you’re all heading back to! What’s your third teacher like? Tweet us (@TheThirdTeacher), post on our Facebook wall or email us a photo that shows one of our ...
While the students hit the road to experience the City Museum in St. Louis, I’ll summarize where the project stands with a little under 2 weeks to remaining.
Last week the group gave their mid-way presentation to first the other ...
This week I reached an exciting milestone as I began my first week as a coach for Northwestern’s Design for America 2011 Summer Studio. A year ago I entered the same classroom with very little knowledge of design, but ...
A week ago, I took a road trip up to Taliesin, WI. It was wonderful to see Frank Lloyd Wright’s work up close and personal, but the real purpose of the trip was to visit a week-long camp hosted by ...
As an anthropologist, the subjectivity of design and aesthetics is forever fascinating. How do we decide what is designed well and what is beautiful? I wrote my thesis on the political and social negotiations inherent in definitions of art in ...
To continue my discussion from our previous post, I will now look at how design thinking responds to societal aspirations of the individual. While collective society is a sum of its parts, the sum behaves differently than the parts ...
Another perspective that I believe is missing from Bruce Nussbaum’s critique of the design thinking movement is a deeper analysis of why design thinking was believed to be a compelling process in the first place. If we think about its ...
