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11/29/12
BOOK STRUCTURE #1
Each chapter has brief essay followed by practical know-how
Possible title:
Connect: A Guide to Interdisciplinary Graphic design
_introduction: the new connector
(theory, context)
historical presedents; history of disciplines; why interdisciplinarity now? inter/cross/trans; design and philosophy
_chapter 1: method (mind games, including the end user, testing, learning to talk to each other)
_chapter 2: space (flexible spaces for doing interdisciplinary work; flexible classrooms, inspiring work areas at home and work; space to put your ideas in — process books, idea books, notepads; portable spaces; school as space)
_chapter 3: scale (S, M, L, XL projects)
subdivide these into culture, science and society
this would be longer and more heavily illustrated; snazzy captions will point to relevant points
Culture (the fashion company, India projects, etc)
Science (data visualization…)
Society (Center for Urban Pedagogy, Ideo…)
Add: Interviews and assignments for educators; these can be peppered throughout on special, color coded pages.
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9/27/11 Let’s start thinking about the book structure. What are the chapters we want to write? What are the sections of each chapter? Other sections (columns, sidebars, rubrics) that can thread their way throughout the book?
Introduction
Essay:
- What is Interdisciplinary Graphic Design
- Why now
- A little background
Chapters:
Home (Not sure what this is)
School — How schools are organized to foster collaboration; examples of great interdisciplinary teaching; what are the pitfalls? How do we promote this?
Work — Nascent fields where graphic design merges with —statistics (data visualization), –programming (web design, software design, gaming, etc), what else? –medicine, etc
Culture — How we bridge cultures in such work; learning to think like a different person; appreciating difference in the kinds of ways people think; India/Serbia as inter-cultural projects
Chapter sections:
- Essay
- Case study
- Interview
- Practical application (how you can do it, tips, assignments, projects)
This replicates the structure Participate book; is there any new way we want to structure this? What will people who would pick up this book want to know and how best they would get that knowledge?
Other organizing principles:
- Craft — How designers collaborate with craftspeople
- Art — How designers collaborate with artists (M/M Paris, Stephen Ferrell and Lili Maya for collaborating with literary writers)
- Science — How designers collaborate with scientists?
- Code — How designers collaborate with code writers?
Conclusion?
A closing essay, not too much text, lots of visuals, drawing some conclusions of our research. (We did not have this in Participate, but it could be useful)
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09.29 thoughts on structure
Focus of structure :: examples
SCALE from individual to large design firm
DESIGN PROCESS from ideation to production, small to large problems
LOCATION usa to global
PROBLEM SOLVING from small town problem to global issues
example of SCALE ::
DEFINE what does it mean? where are the lines?
HISTORY describe and show examples of evolution to now
DESIGNER as an individual how to utilize your skills across disciplines
COLLABORATE working with others across disciplines
SCHOOL within the context of a university
WORKER studios that encourage cross discipline thinking and collaboration
FUTURE where are we going
where does interdisciplinary happen during the design process?
lateral thinking
process
collaboration
final products