DESIGN LAB SESSION 2

Questions in reaction to Kees Dorst' lecture.

Melina
How to increase awareness of our assumptions in class situations at the Design Lab?
Robbert
How to close the gap between broad theoretical knowledge and the practise (vertaalslag)?
Rana
How do you specify abstract findings in a project? How do you work with analytical data?
Marjan
How to connect this to the ‘normal’ person who doesn’t know anything from this new design?
Rosa
In what way are we different from non-designers?
David
What is design for me?
Sjoerd
Do designers still need a personal intuition in the new design?
Sophie
Why do we have to put new in front of everything?
Laurianne
How does the environment influence us and how to keep your own touch?
Johanna
How to learn to initiate projects when we are studying
Alexander
What is more effective for the designlab; a collective or a hierarchical structure
Stefie
In a changing world why do we need consistant values?
Does intuition follows changes?
Peik
What are natural partners in design-process?
Ben
Is design becoming part of social studies, is antropology replacing industry, how should they work together?
Fleur
Would it be helpfull for the designlab to have brainstorms with people of different backgrounds (like sociologists)?
Myrte
Should we dive more into human-behaviours and also social structures (big and small)?
Erik
What should happen to the old-school designers?
Eleny
Is design a tool to reform a society?
Niels
Can a new design create his own value with- or without research?
Kees
Are you ready to open up to design in this way?
Lena
Are the Lab1 students different than the Lab2 students? Why?
Comment of Kees Dorst:
How can we develop a program at the designlab this year that answers these questions? No more projects but adventures.