Archive for the ‘design’ Category
Green2 recently published an article on design research by Michal. The article starts with examples of design research seen as an activity of studying designers to learn what designing actually is. Donald Schon’s book “The Reflective Practitioner” is often one of the core references in such research. The article discusses Abel Maciel’s engineering doctorate at [...]
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Tags: Abel Maciel, Aurelie Mosse, design research, Green2, Iwona Grabska, Michal Piasecki, Sarat Babu
Green2, a polish design magazine with a focus on sustainability, published Michal’s article on SmartGeometry 2010. This year’s SmartGeometry workshops took place at Iaac in Barcelona – a post-industrial setting likely to influence the title of the event. It was called “Working Prototypes”. Over four days more than a hundred participants worked in ten distinctive [...]
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Tags: Bentley, Iaac, SmartGeometry, SmartGeometry 2010
Green2 is a new polish architecture and design magazine focused on sustainability. Their second issue is on biomimetic design and Michal Piasecki was asked to write an article on computational means of introducing biomimetics into the design process. The article begins with the discussion of Andrew Kudless’ P-Wall project. An inquiry which seems to be [...]
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Tags: Achim Menges, biomimetics, Carl Sims, computational biomimetics, Green2, Michal Piasecki, Stephen Todd, William Latham
bottom-up design
I’m discussing the notion of bottom-up approach to design in my newest article on sztuka-architektury.pl (full text in polish can be found here). I begin with a couple of examples from everyday surroundings. A flock of birds serves as an example for the argument about systems governed only by a set of local relationships. It’s [...]
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Tags: bottom-up
Objectified is a movie which I’m really looking forward to see. I especially appreciate this quote from the trailer: “There is little or none discussion about the objects surrounding – about the process of their creation (design and manufacturing) and about their impact on societies”. The movie is meant to start such a discussion. I [...]
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Tags: Michal Piasecki
