Tag: Sheila Pontis

• diagram(a)s backstage workshops 2009

  October 22, 2009

• d(a)b workshop: london

  London, Saturday 17th of October. At the research office of the London College of Communication took place the second and last diagram(a)s-backstage workshop. Once again, I would like to thank all the participants for attending the workshop (and even more on a Saturday with so many public transport closures!). As in the first workshop, participants…

  October 21, 2009

• After the 1st International Visual Methods Conference

  At the beginning of September, I wrote about the forthcoming 1st International Visual Methods Conference in Leeds, today I write some conclusions about it. The Conference was a huge event with more than 200 participants and 150 papers coming from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. All papers were grouped into five big…

  October 9, 2009

• d(a)b workshop: barcelona

  Barcelona, Saturday 3rd of October. In a sunny design studio of Gracia took place the first of the diagram(a)s-backstage workshop series. In the first place I would like to thank all the participants for their hard work and great feedback during the workshop. Although, the participants came from different backgrounds such as graphic design, web…

  October 5, 2009

• The Thames is gone!?

  I am sure most of you have noticed that there is something missing in the London underground map (September 09 edition) or at least that there is something different in it. If not, please take some minutes and look at it below: Well, yes, the Thames -the entire river!- has been removed from the tube…

  September 26, 2009

• diagram(a)s backstage workshop – london

  We would like to invite you to a design event focussed on the creation of diagrams and maps. As a testing platform for a PhD research project, this workshop will bring together different design theories for mapping information. ”¢ We will give you some guidelines to approach diagrams and mapping problems ”¢ You will learn…

  September 19, 2009

• diagram(a)s workshop: BCN – LDN

  dónde & cuándo? when & where? Octubre sábado o3 – De 10.30hs a 15hs: Barcelona, España. Carrer Santa Eulí lia, 21 – Piso1º – 08012 barcelona (Spain) October Saturday 17th – London: To be confirmed La participación en este evento es gratuita, pero por favor, se ruega confirmación a / This is a free event, but…

  September 12, 2009

• Behind all processes, there is a single common process

  After Lazy Designers, I have received many suggestions and some interesting comments introducing new points of view and theories. Mainly, I have been trying to understand a bit more about three theories that have commonalities with my PhD main research theory: a rational thought behind a decision-making process. These three theories are Later Thinking (Edward…

  September 4, 2009

• Visual Methods: Social Science and Information Design

  Last June, I attended to a visual method workshop in Cardiff, organised by the University of Leeds. When I first knew about this workshop, I was really happy to find a workshop focussed on visual research techniques. Once in Cardiff, a friend asked me: “what do you expect from these two days?”, and, honestly, I…

  August 30, 2009

• Information Design & Diagrammatic Language course (Spain)

  From the 1st of March to the 21st of June 2010, I will be given a course about Information Design and Diagrammatic Language at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, Spain. The classes will be in Spanish, but most of the biliography and references are in English. Detail program and more information about the course on:…

  August 27, 2009

• Methods for a Design Method

  Creating a design method could be defined as a three-stage process that includes analysis, synthesis and evaluation (Jones, 1992; Yee, 2006). In other words, this process can be explained as ”˜breaking the problem into pieces’, ”˜putting the pieces together in a new way’ and ”˜testing to discover the consequences of putting the new arrangement into…

  August 22, 2009

• Lazy designers

  Since I have started researching on design processes and design methods, I have received different kind of comments, questions and suggestions, such as: – Why do you want to study design processes? – Design process is a complex process to be studied, and most of these processes are pure intuition. – Do you want to…

  August 12, 2009