DHIS-400
DHIS 400 - S001: Design Futures
Completion of 81 credits
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My doctoral research is aimed at developing expanded roles and strategies for design that conform to a holistic approach to sustainability that includes more considered everyday practices, the way we construct identities, develop meaningful relationships, and understand personal fulfillment and well-being. I am especially interested in the attributes design offers as a critical mode of inquiry and intervention, investigating exploratory approaches to design that fall outside conventional approaches to commercial design practice.
Artefacts play an influential role in our lives, co-shaping our behaviours and everyday practices, mediating our relationships with one another and the world around us. How we understand and navigate the complex contexts that shape their creation has important implications not only for the way we address current concerns over the environment, technology, and the pressing contexts of our day, but for the ever renewing cyclical inquiry into what it is to be human in the built world.
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Jan 8-Apr 20 08:30:00-11:20:00 |
F | B2160 | MAIN |
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Mar 8-Mar 8 08:30:00-11:20:00 |
F | A1010 | MAIN |
DHIS 400 - S002: Design Futures
Completion of 81 credits
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Jan 8-Apr 20 08:30:00-11:20:00 |
F | B2160 | MAIN |
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Mar 8-Mar 8 08:30:00-11:20:00 |
F | A1010 | MAIN |
DHIS 400 - S003: Design Futures
Completion of 81 credits
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Gillian Russell is a Designer, Curator and Researcher whose projects centre on the interplay between design and its critical contexts. She is co-founder of the design think tank DeTnk.com, and has been a lecturer on the MA Curating Contemporary Design Programme at Kingston University, London, UK (run in partnership with the Design Museum, London) since 2007. She has published a book chapter on 'Curating Critical Design: An embodied criticality' in Design Objects and the Museum, Bloomsbury (2016). Currently she is completing a PhD in Design Products at the Royal College of Art, London. Her research is on emerging relationships between critical design and curatorial practice focusing on the phenomenon of the epistemic object and embodied criticality. It is being undertaken as part of an AHRC funded collaborative doctoral award with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
F | D3365 | MAIN |
The Thumb Twiddle Movement
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Thumb twiddling is frequently used as an example of a useless, time-wasting activity, much like procrastination, but I think it’s more of a way to slow down, relax, and appreciate time.
Use #thumbtwiddle to join the movement and become a Thumb Twiddler!
The Thumb Twiddle Movement explores the idea of positive procrastination through slowness and positive well-being. The goal of the movement is to de-stigmatize procrastination and the negative feelings
associated with it and encourage the use of procrastination as a tool for slowing down, self-reflection, and stress relief.
Buyvr
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Buyvr is a mobile app that encourages Vancouverites to contribute more to their city’s local development by helping them easily find only local businesses and events, benefiting both users and the region.
The goal is to promote the support of local businesses and the idea of “local” itself through the product, which brings great impact to the local economy, community and environment. The project encourages both consumers and businesses to contribute to the growth of Vancouver.
Find out more about this project on http://process.vanhub.sabrinaclydesign.com/
