Tag: Sheila Pontis
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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