I attended a CreativeMorning talk by Ashley Lukasik, who has been working on a documentary about the Bauhaus in time for its 100th anniversary. Her talk centered around wonder as part of the design process, immersing yourself in an experience to truly understand it, and not losing sight of human connection for the sake of tech and convenience.
My takeaways:
Make the abstract tangible
The value of learning and making is the process of doing and engagement with colleagues, and not so much the product itself
Don’t lose sight of wonder. Example: the convenience of the iPod stole the wonder of spontaneous discovery of finding music at record stores
Be immersed (see, feel, eat, smell) and be a part of the experience to learn, create empathy, and care for the world around you.
Don’t passively learn through what you see/hear on a screen.
Stay engaged in real-time through the physical and the tangible
We over-index on technology to create a “built world” that’s overly smart/sterile, but we lose human connections as a result
Design things that give you the time to reflect and preserve what makes us innately human
Some technology over-indexes on convenience (example: an idea for passengers to let Uber drivers know if passenger wants to engage in convo or not) —> this dumbs down our natural human tendency to connect. We have an innate ability to read body language, so don’t take that away
Design is a facilitator for conversation
How does an idea relate not to its immediate touchpoint, but on a broader scale? (Ex: job market, people, communities?)
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