In Liz Ogbu’s presentation, she talks about her experience being an architect. She explains that her job description does not neatly fall into a category. She instead explains that she would instead call herself an expert citizen, story-teller and a translator. When Ogbu talks about how she is an expert citizen she explains that an…
Perhaps the most important project Terry Irwin has led, the reworking of the Carnegie Mellon curriculum is not something traditionally ascribed to the field of design. However, that is kind of the point of the project: to expand the meaning of design. As mentioned in her biography, Terry Irwin had developed a deep reverence for…
Stuart Candy’s lecture was impressive. He was introduced as an experiential futurist. I was fascinated by the term “futurist”. He started off the lecture by putting forth the question “How might we design a better world?”. And then rephrased that into “How might we world a better design?”. The first part of the lecture was…
Eddie Opara is a founding partner of the Map Office, which is a New York-based studio specializing in design, strategy, and technology. I had no knowledge about Opara or the Map Office prior to this lecture.The speaker who introduced Opara already knocked me over by sharing a multitude of diverse projects that Opara has been…