Learner Centered Design Education

This is a 17 minute session. It is me musing about what Independent Study could be when located within a design context.

This is the third episode in a a mini series on - 2 kinds of innovation and the designer maker. As the definitive definition of Industrial Design? What is design when the post code is de-industrialised? Is it still okay to use this phrase?

This is the second episode in a three part series on Innovation - specifically as it pertains to Industrial Designers.

This year I have reframed Industrial Design as being in 3 parts. Social Innovation + Technical Innovation + Designer Maker. That is it. In this way we lay to rest the practice of referring to Industrial Design bits with Product Names. Or category Names. Or transient names aka fashionable names.

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It is May 2024. I have mentioned the acronym i.e. ID. I have been asked to provide a voice note explaining this process.

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I had a conversation with a friend. About the creative period. As being in the 20s. That the Beatles and Keats both had their best works in that period.

This is a podcast about project design. Or the typology of projects - aka what are the types of projects. Or what are the 5 types that all projects can be classified into. See more here - https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/the-smeis-typology/

I have been reading Mariana Mazzucato. The Big Con is the book. Dont read it if you have a weak constitution or if you have a tendency to flame. I had to frequently put it down - it is that incendiary. LINK The title for this podcast is borrowed from here: LINK QUOTE "Cynicism around consulting is nothing new. That adage about a consultant “borrowing your watch to tell you the time” didn’t co...

Names in this episode: James Dyson: Best to buy the book I think. LINK Isambard Kingdom Brunel LINK Buckminister Fuller LINK Monika Mulder: http://monikamulder.com/ Guy Burgoyne: https://youtu.be/Jz0mKjwaBPQ Pernilla Johansson: Search in YouTube Ralph Gilles: Look up Abstract on Netflix. The binaries? celebrity versus altruism market versus ideé fixe Ideé fixe: https://www.britannica.com/art/idee-...

Maybe yes? Maybe no? Listen to hear about what I did. I have undertaken a pilot project to learn French in 4 weeks. I have attended 40 hours of classes at Alliance Française Montpellier – learning in that way. I have also studied French using apps and flash cards. I now have a good grasp of the language. The pilot project is complete. Flipping my project – I also have a good understanding of what...

Recording from Montepellier, France. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/

I speak about my foray into doing Instagram for a trip. I then muse about the typology of ways that constitute what we see as the visual instagram. In my case I sketch a typology in 5 parts, which sometimes expands to 6 parts. For more have a listen. For the Instagram account that I refer to, see: https://www.instagram.com/soumitri_varadarajan/

I am doing a few stub episodes on The Library. This first recording is about the Library as Place. The Library is a place. The library is a social space. The Library is a proposition open for coding as L4X.

This is an episode about pedagogy. It is also a bit about how design is constructed in the contemporary in my local area. Binaries Consumer Side/ Producer Side Destination/ Journey aka Product/ Process Design as Art/ Design as a Job City Studio/ Factory R&D aka Studio/ Lab Retail/ Museum Thing/ Service Local/ Exotic Rich/ Poor (and the middle class?) Theory/ Manufacture Gadget/ Decorative Obje...

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about Beauty. I have the book “On Beauty” by Umberto Eco sitting on my desk. Is that what triggered me to do this episode? Possibly. Podcast structure: Beauty in Three Parts Outer Beauty Inner Beauty The beauty of machines Essential Beauty Insider language: The...

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about Perfection. An instigation – aimed at students on their journey of becoming designers. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ CORRECTION: The Lexus car I mentioned as LFA is in fa...

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about Learning. An instigation – aimed at students on their journey of becoming designers. An Australian lens specially crafted to see a very particular kind of territory and landscape of education? Maybe. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawsle...

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about China. A designer’s China. A Designer’s lens specially crafted to see a very particular China. I can open a door to China. A very peculiar door. My door. My China. Do you have a China of your own? Can you name 10 designers in China? 5 Architects? One fash...

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about freedom. Freedom was the title of a book I read over the holiday period. Link below. 9.38 The Article I read out from: https://culturacolectiva.com/books/on-the-road-jack-kerouac/ “Without this book we might have never had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ,...

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about temperament. The links are – further reading on this subject. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Blog Post on Embodiement: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/temperame...

I am treating design as a text - that can be interpreted. Then again I am using design as food. Which can be queried to seek its genealogy, why is it the way it is? Food is culture. Culture is the ways of a people. And here we have a package - a bundle - that can be opened to reveal. Design seen as a bundle - a thing holding secrets - can reveal the cultural construct. As you can see I could be ma...