Don, thank you for your thoughts, although not very encouraging...
You write:
"it doesn't tell me the thought processes behind the exhibit."
I thought the exhibit did just that. For instance the video El Tiempo que Llegó in the Quinta Monroy exhibit presents the process over a long time and the large amounts of perspectives that needed to be considered.
"it doesn't tell me how or why these examples were selected".
The "about" section on the exhibition does provide that information.
"For educational purposes, we should be told the goals, the design research, the process, and then how the end results were evaluated to see if they had met their goals -- which were satisfied, which were not, and what lessons were learned".
Given my limited experience, the exhibits do provide this.
I will not, however, challenge your overall opinion. But perhaps you could supply a few examples of what you consider top class material in presenting process?
/Lars
(And yes, the comment on global warming was a joke. Sorry I didn't made this explicit, but I am from Europe.)
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28 dec 2010 kl. 17.06 skrev Don Norman:
THank you, Lars. but I am not convinced that your great example is so great.
Lars said, in brief:
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I am very pleased with a current exhibition at MOMA: "Small Scale, Big Change". Not the physical exhibition (I haven't been there) but the web version. It is not primarily the topic of the exhibition, but the organization the web exhibition. It is mix of medias and perspectives that offers rich views of the process, the stakeholders and key issues. I find this perhaps the best example of learning material in co-design.
It also is a great example of new media in education. A printed version of the web site would lose several key qualities, as the ability explore from different perspectives in a situated order and, of course, the videos. (The Quinta Monroy Housing may serve as a good specimen).
http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/smallscalebigchange/
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I disagree completely. I see no evidence that would be useful in the teaching of design.
The website is indeed interesting. But it doesn't tell me the thought processes behind the exhibit. it doesn't tell me how or why these examples were selected, nor does it tell me why the museum exhibit or the website was designed in the way that it is, nor even what they expected the viewer to learn or experience. In other words, these materials are NOT about the design. I do not see how i can use it to help train designers.
For educational purposes, we should be told the goals, the design research, the process, and then how the end results were evaluated to see if they had met their goals -- which were satisfied, which were not, and what lessons were learned.
It is also interesting to me -- and telling -- that although the website gives credits to a multi-disciplinary team
http://moma.org/interactive/exhibitions/2010/smallscalebigchange/credits.html
(without spelling out the design goals, methods, or validations of the website process), the exhibit itself only credits two people: the curators (see above URL).
It boggles the mind to believe that it only took two people to do the exhibit but it took 25 to do the website. So I don;t even find the credits informative.
Is the exhibit interesting? Is the website informative? Yes. But not for the purposes Lars writes about. I could not use these as examples to train designers. And what about the individual projects on display? Same critique. We are told they are wonderful examples of successful, multi-disciplinary projects with no proof. No assessment (some are student projects that in fat were never implemented, so who knows?). I take these as more exhibits for my argument that design is mostly claims without substance.
I have hopes in the blogs:
http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/category/small-scale-big-change
Hopes so far unrealized.
Sorry folks.
Don
(And Lars, as you undoubtedly know, Global warming, as it is unfortunately called, means huge climate shifts, including increased variability and colder weather and longer storms with increased snowfall in regions of the earth, especially as polar snows melt, reducing reflectivity of the sun's rays, and changing the Gulf Stream.)
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