September 15, 2020
SCDC and SEDTAPP collaborate to host virtual symposium on design thinking
It is critical for us, as a society, to discover how better understanding of these relationships can inform redesign of our world to be more just, more sustainable, more healthful and more inclusive into the future.” — DK Osseo-AsareSpeakers for the virtual event, which will run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., include:
- Winifred Elysse Newman, acting associate dean for research and graduate studies and Homer Curtis Mickel and Leona Carter Mickel Endowed Chair in the School of Architecture at Clemson University, and director of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments. In her talk, titled “What does digital have to do with it?” she will speak about the expanding digital world and how the relationship between designers and digital tools fosters computational design thinking.
- Dan Lockton, assistant professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the Imaginaries Lab. “New Ways to Think, New Ways to Live: Imaginaries, Design, and Futures” will explore idea of imaginaries — the mental images and understandings people have of big concepts from the climate to their own health — and how designers can work with these, to uncover them, help people share them and help people reimagine how life could be.
- Aradhana Goel leads research and design strategy for Bayer Pharmaceutical’s cardiovascular therapeutics platform as part of the Digital Ventures team. She will speak on “Design Thinking in Service of Behavior Change,” or how design and data together can help create sustainable behavior change and help reframe people’s perspectives.
- Katja Hölttä-Otto, associate professor of product development in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Aalto University. Her talk will touch on the role of empathy in design for well-being and discuss evidence-based decision-making in multidisciplinary design processes.
- Darla Lindberg, professor of architecture at Penn State, will also present the findings of her book “Outside the Skin: Systems Approaches to Society’s Larger Structural Issues.” Published in January 2019 by Applied Research & Design, the book takes design thinking outside the skin (of buildings and people) to present an emergent architecture of collective choice and consequence.
Schools and Departments:
Department of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Stuckeman School
Unit Research:
Stuckeman Center for Design Computing (SCDC)