Dear Chuck
Thanks for this link, the article is indeed very inspiring and shows a new
way in which design is being used by a technology led company as they
become user focussed. Many new ways are emerging for design use and
approaches which are are growing in a number of directions, some new.
<
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution
>
One of our design research colleagues, Uday Dandavate from California, has
posted a note on his visit to The Strelka, a new age design school in
Moscow that is looking at using design in unusual ways. You can see this
link here asa pdf file.
<*http://tinyurl.com/b3hkxh7*>
I have just come out of a very stimulating three day design festival at New
Delhi, The UnBox Festival 2013 that explored many dimensions of design
thought and action in an unusual format. <http://unboxfestival.com/>
Yesterday, I had dinner with John Thackara of Doors of
Perception<http://www.doorsofperception.com/>and a group of senior
Faculty from the new School of Design at the Ambedkar
University in New Delhi and they too are discussing ways in which design
can be integrated into their multidisciplinary university with many
humanities disciplines, perhaps a first here in India after all the focus
on technology and science based investments here. This will be an
interesting space to watch and connenct with in the years ahead I am sure.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my Mac at Hetel Vista in Sultanpur, New Delhi
12 February 2013 at 8.15 am IST
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On 12 February 2013 07:13, Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Colleagues,
> There is an interesting article at:
>
> http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-how-larry-page-engineered-beautiful-revolution
> "Google’s process is quintessentially Google and happened in a
> quintessentially Google way. Larry Page mandated that there be a new design
> focus to get the ball rolling, but instead of micromanaging at every step
> he let his employees to do the rest — guided by an empowered, core team of
> designers. They organized themselves in a typically Google structure:
> cross-discipline, informal, but driven to achieve a goal."
>
> The article raises some interesting questions about how corporate cultures
> and communities of interest might approach design, and the role of
> authority figures or experts in collective creativity.
>
> Or so I believe,
> Chuck
>
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