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Twisting everyday objects can help people make sense of things [Part 2]
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I am currently co-writing a chapter with Prananda Malasan for a book about social design practices in Asia Pacific. Our chapter explores the Indonesian concept of “ngakalin”, or the ability to creatively see unintended potential in the designed world. We argue that people living in Indonesia are very good at ngakalin and practice it as a form of collective inquiry…
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Twisting everyday objects can help make sense of things [Part 1]
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In 2018, I worked with my friend and collaborator Dr Ricardo Sosa, to develop the concept of Data Objects – or functional objects whose form and function encode data. Rather than relying on numerical tables and graphs, data objects help people to access and make sense of complex information through the utilitarian objects they encounter in their…
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Twisting Myths Towards New Experiences of Participation
The seven years I lived in South East Asia transformed my thinking about design and continue to inform how I approach my work. While these changes are mostly subconscious, absorbed gradually into the way I do things, occasionally they reveal themselves. Recently, while writing my first year doctoral report, I have had such a moment.…
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An interview with renowned Indonesian design scholar, Pak Imam Buchori
In 1973, three years after the first edition of Design for the Real World was published, Victor Papanek was on sabbatical at the Danish Royal Academy of Art and Design. That year, in a letter to William Lund, the President of California Institute of the Arts, he wrote: “Maybe because I have written Design for…
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