Learner Centered Design Education

Link to post on podcast site: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/the-bricklayers-and-the-phd/

This is where it all happens. https://practice-research.com/

I am trying this. Putting out episodes without the info and background about the episode. Let me see how this goes down.

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Notes for this episode. I will make a webpage for this episode and periodically update the webpage with information about designers I find. 60 million: Jony Ive, 2011, 30 million + 30 million per year, Find me 5 others who earn this much today 30 Million: Franz von Halzhausen (Tesla Lead Designer, 51 million home), Maximillian Missoni (BMW Lead Designer), Luc Donckerwolke (Hyundai), Find me 100 ot...

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson Apple in China by Patrick McGee The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil Invention by James Dyson The Big Con by Marian Mazzuccato

There are two texts on Derrida, on Artaud. https://kdoutsiderart.com/tag/antonin-artaud/ - For Artaud the works are intended as weapons, not commodities, but they become commodified in any event. How then to restore, to protect, their existence as “gestures, a verb, a grammar, an arithmetic, a whole Kabbalah…that shits on the other,” to maintain their endurance as “a machine that has breath”? How...

Web space for this episode: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/book-chapter-assemblages-of-development/ John Maeda's Tech Report: https://designintech.report/ Capgemini: https://www.capgemini.com/au-en/careers/career-paths/students-and-graduates/ D&I: https://www.design-industry.com.au/ Frog Design: https://www.frog.co/ Jony Ive Salary: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon...

Also See Jones, J. C. (2021). designing designing (1st ed.).Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350070707 The Diceman speaks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqSeFjaEczA Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man John Cage's 4'33'' explained: The music of silence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bGU9NTJlIo John Cage 4'33": https://www.youtub...

This is the first episode on the topic - Assemblages of Development.

Dubai is a special kind of place. Following on from that statement is another similar statement - every place is a special kind of place. To go as an ethnographer, as a researcher, as a theorist is a very particular way to look at places. Places in this vein of thinking hold secrets. They tell stories. What secrets does Dubai hold? What does Dubai broadcast, that we do not hear, because we have no...

The Provocation in this episode is: Some engineers view "design engineering" as redundant, believing that true engineering already includes design. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of design engineering is an oxymoron, industrial design engineer is an oxymoron - you will find a lot that is enjoyable. Check it out. Alec Issigonis - the person who visiualized and realized the Mini (M...

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This is a letter to my fellow teachers. 6 of them. They have worked with me to teach in the first year - of an Industrial Design Program.

This is an episode that provides an entry point into the speculations about the future. It provides an entry into the world of investors, researchers and those that are constructing the future inside the labs. Here are some search terms for you to explore these areas: Precision fermentation Tony Seba Ray Kurzweil (Invention - A Life a book by James Dyson Apple in China the book by Patrick McGee Yo...

This a podcast episode for a project collaborator. A fellow teacher. A colleague. We are collaborating to teach a studio. How do you teach an Industrial Design Studio in 2025? Okay more questions: How do you teach studios in the contemporary? Would you use an LTP framing? Actually an LTS - Lecture-Tutorial_Studio? How would you teach a studio that enables students to enter a pathway towards a futu...

This is a short (18 minute) podcast about making a list of or a glossary of actors. I use gym work and muscle cars to illuminate, to throw light on the existence of a specific language. Of specific terms, which can be drafted to serve in an orchestra of actors.

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This was a walk. A long one. And I reflect upon three aspects of pedagogy - the PhD supervisions, the Capstone Project Supervision and the first year as a liminal space.

This is an episode about Placements and about my current project - "I am the Project" in Capstone Work. It is a pedagogy account. Or a musing about what I do in this space. Soumitri Varadarajan discusses the decline in campus placements in India, noting a lack of industry interest this year. He reflects on his experience coordinating placements at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi...

This is an episode that relates to a studio within the territory of The Social Object. The Social Object is a book I have written. Why have I been offering prompts within a design studio setting?

The Social Object LINK The aim of the author has been to silence the voice of the designer to allow the accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that reveal a hidden maelstrom of passion, ideas and ailed projects. The book opens with the biography of a project dealing with waste, leading the reader to a very particular kind of object, the bads. This object is illicit, handled by crimin...