“V for Vase” presents the processes and results of a workshop collaboration between Hans Tan Studio and the National University of Singapore Industrial Design Programme.
The “imaginative thinking” workshop directed by Hans Tan consists of a series of progressive exercises aimed at unraveling one’s imaginal thoughts and developing one’s lateral thinking abilities. “Vase” was chosen as the subject for the workshop where each of the 24 final year industrial design students apply aptitudes harnessed from the workshop to reconceptualize the notion of a ‘vase’ and develop a design proposition in the form of an object or an installation.
The exhibition reveals 24 conceptual vases and documents more than a hundred unique vase definitions developed during the workshop, which would prove more telling than that found in the dictionary – “An open container, usually used for holding flowers or for ornamentation.”
The lecture will address a series of conceptual elaborations on modelling the relationships between users and designers within user centred design (UCD). The elaborations are based on the allocations of control, creativity, initiative, and freedom of choice, between users and designers; on the commitment on user need satisfaction; and on the relative distances between the stakeholders in design. The discussion aims at introducing the idea of user-designer relationships as a feasible concept for mapping the field of UCD, and to underline the versatility of relationships that UCD community should be able to assume in its attempts to encounter with the users.
About the Speacker
Prof Turkka Keinonen, Doctor of Arts, works as a professor of industrial design in the School of Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. His teaching and research interests lie in user-centered design and product concept creation.
Professor Keinonen has worked for leading Finnish design consultancies such as Creadesign and Muodos (presently Desigence) in professional and consumer goods design projects, done interaction and exhibition design, designed paper machinery for Metso Paper and consulted for Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in international projects aiming at mainstreaming of information technologies.
Keinonen has written, edited or co-edited the following books: One-dimensional usability (1998); Industrial Design for Usability (2000, in Finnish), Mobile Usability – How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone, (by McGraw-Hill 2003), Product Concept Design (2004, in Finnish), The Change of Design (2004, in Finnish), Product Concept Design – A review of the Conceptual Design of Products in Industry (by Springer Verlag 2006) and Development of the Design Competence in Technology Companies (2006, in Finnish).
He was nominated the designer of the year 2000 for his merits in user-centered industrial design and in 2003 he received The Federation of Finnish Electrical and Electronics Industry SET prize for developing usability education.
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”
About Tim Brown
Tim Brown is the CEO of the “innovation and design” firm IDEO — taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
Every seven years, designer Stefan Sagmeister closes his New York studio for a yearlong sabbatical to rejuvenate and refresh their creative outlook. He explains the often overlooked value of time off and shows the innovative projects inspired by his time in Bali.
About Stefan Sagmeister
Renowned for album covers, posters and his recent book of life lessons, designer Stefan Sagmeister invariably has a slightly different way of looking at things.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
NUSID graduate Hunn Wai and his colleague with their their design proposal PAZIALE SERIES: New expressions of skin and structure received this year TIME TO DESIGN – NEW TALENT AWARD 2009 from the Cultural Minister of Denmark, Carina Christensen.
Wai & Lanzavecchia will embark on a project that is based on voids, skin and structure. Taking inspiration from fashion,
architecture and human behaviours, they will amalgamate those inputs, according to their vision, into a new breed of interior objects that will question our perception on the rituals of possessions storage and ecology-awareness within furniture manufacture, distribution and construction.
Time to design was established in 2008 and is an international design award with focus on the needs of young design talents in the beginning of their career. The award has been established based on the idea of creating a unique platform for young design talents within the design industry – a platform that can contribute to the winner’s future professional career. The winner is granted with three months residency at the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, 50.000 DKK donated by the Cultural Ministry and two weeks exhibition in Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store. This year the winners will also get career coaching by the company Missing Ink.
The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows rarely seen films and archival footage in a lively, loving tribute to their creative process.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
Alan Yentob of BBC meets the industrial designer Marc Newson, whose latest project is a suborbital jet that just might be the future of long-distance travel.
The programme follows Newson to Bodylines, an extraordinary Aston Martin panel beating workshop outside Milton Keynes, where men who usually work on vintage cars create his limited-edition furniture pieces – and one craftsman gives him a piece of his mind about the flaws in his Black Hole table.
In the marble quarries of Carrara in Italy, we see the processes behind his exquisite sculptures. Newson’s designs push marble into contemporary shapes, with each piece carved from one individual block. The programme also takes in the launch of Newson’s Space Plane, which, he hopes, will one day do exactly what it says on the tin.
You are cordially invited to the guest lecture on ‘Designing new habitats for an interconnected world’ by Raffaele Saporiti on 2 March 2009 (Monday), 5pm at LR 423 located on Level 4 of SDE 3, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.
Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he’s created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he’s working on now — including the “$100 laptop.”
About Yves Behar
Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium’s most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child.
About TedTalk
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
TEDTalks began as a simple attempt to share what happens at TED with the world. Under the moniker “ideas worth spreading,” talks were released online. They rapidly attracted a global audience in the millions. Indeed, the reaction was so enthusiastic that the entire TED website has been reengineered around TEDTalks, with the goal of giving everyone on-demand access to the world’s most inspiring voices.
Hunn Wai, a NUS ID graduate, will present a dining chair from the Tre di Una family of chairs and the WOOD X PLASTIC shelf at Design-e-space design/art gallery during the Architecture Biennale in Venice this year.
If you or your friends are in the area, do drop by and have a vino by the canals with Hunn and his design pieces! He will be contactable by info@hunnwai.com or the telephone numbers listed on the design-e-space website. You can find Hunn’s work at http://www.hunnwai.com/
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