Surf the global flow of information for news. Consider what’s happening (or not happening) that plays out across some, or a full range of scales – personal, local, urban, regional, national, or transnational, and that can be seen through the lens of design.
This week you will consider the various news sources that are the primary (or perhaps secondary) platforms for the circulation of ideas and information today and locate an issue, event, story, product, design, exhibition, etc. that relates to the topics explored by the readings(I will upload the reading by PDF) of the same week. You will provide an abstract from the original source, and write a brief text (up to 250 words) explaining the relationship, and situating the issue within the larger frame of design.
You are asked to consider the broader meanings of design that go beyond the field of visuality and the creative disciplines – design as problem solving, as a conscious intervention attempting to evaluate and change an existing situation, as a grass-roots or top-down approach, as a way of framing issues, as politics, as a way of communicating messages and agendas etc; and thus, explore design as a constantly shifting collective understanding and vision shaped by global and local factors. For example: while to many it is obvious how an exhibition is about design, it is perhaps more interesting to explore the design aspects of a political campaign: from its visual identity (colors, graphic design, clothing, media presence etc) to more subtle matters like choice of words and themes, speech, media and public presence, issues addressed etc.
In short, you are free and encouraged to report about anything that is current and that interests you, and to critically examine its relationship to design, and to the larger issues at stake.
Record that event in the following template:
Headline:
Date:
Source:
the issue:
Link:
Abstract (no more than 150 words) / photograph / diagram (depending on the nature of the source – print, video, photo, etc):
How it related to the reading(150 words):
How it related to design (up to 250 words) :
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