First - thanks to the organisers for an excelent conference, the chairs were small and
hard for a big norwegian frame, but the tea flow compensated.
I was also of the impression that "common ground" was thematic, but as John
Shackleton pointed out people mostly talk about what they want anyway. In this
perspective one could say that the title encouraged a broad palette of design
research from many diciplines, which was just what I had hoped to hear. It served as
a kind of reality check for me and my dept.. One can only attend about a third of the
presentations , which means some filtering takes place, but from my perspective, the
following points seemed important Common Ground:
- A philosophical interest in phenomenology and "the embodied mind" .
- Shared interest in design teaching in terms of understanding the process of design.
- A movement from the object, to interaction as the basis of designs "artifact"
I am interested to hear other opinions from people who participated (and heard other
streams)
Trond Are Øritsland
Dept. og Product Design,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim
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