You can design a great service, but if your service is tied to a physical place, and the design of that space hasn’t figured into your blueprint, the whole thing can fall apart. Space and your physical environment can sometimes be taken for granted. Through the eyes of an architect’s mindset, I have developed a…
Category: Body Storming
“NECK-DOWN” DESIGNING: A Design for America Enrichment Workshop
In October of 2013 I lead a workshop for the Columbia University Chapter of Design For America and introduced students to design research methods aimed to unearth more rigorous discovery within their own research projects. For these students, it was important to get ‘out of their head’ and ‘into their body’. The methods I introduced…
SPACE AS SERVICE: AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP FOR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
Space is a platform for dynamic experiences, not a just a static container. So, how can designers prepare to design spaces that empower a more mobile, personal and participatory experience?[1] This was the question I posed to the students at the beginning of our half-day workshop at the gradate school of architecture at Washington University…
Thinky Space 