#18: Neutral is impossible - Annemiek van Boeijen

06/08/20 • 39 min

There is no universal design. Everyday objects and services that work in some parts of the world, are totally different somewhere else. Annemiek van Boeijen, assistant-professor Design, Culture & Society, argues for design creativity, context and richness in her new book Culture Sensitive Design. We’re also joined by special guest Timo de Rijk, Director of the Design Museum in Den Bosch, to discuss culture, design history and the stupidity of efficiency.

References in this episodes: Culture Sensitive Design: a Guide to Culture in Practice Chen Hao – Cultura Victor Papanek – The Politics of Design The Story of the Weeping Camel Rag Mask

References in this episodes: Culture Sensitive Design: a Guide to Culture in Practice Chen Hao – Cultura Victor Papanek – The Politics of Design The Story of the Weeping Camel Rag Mask

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#17: Noise-cancelling windows and wacky giraffes – Joost Dommisse

Working from home provides us with a whole new set of challenges and opportunities. As designers, shouldn’t we be the best equipped people for this? In this final part of our special Freedive isolation series, Ianus chats with Joost Dommisse. He studies Integrated Product Design and they together talk about designing noise-cancelling windows, how to study design from a distance and wacky robotic giraffes.

References in this episode:

NY Times – No Knead Bread: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/081mrex.html

Jimu Robot – resale: https://www.marktplaats.nl/q/jimu+robot/

Ze Frank – True Facts: the Wacky Giraffe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfHxUaJDEn8

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#19: Is it good enough? – Jeroen van Erp

How do you know if an idea is good? Is it a hunch, a gut feeling? Or can you learn to systematically recognise good ideas and move them further to make them work? In this episode, we talk with Jeroen van Erp, Professor of Concept Design at TU Delft and founder of influential Dutch design agency Fabrique. About ad agencies, how to learn design, and plastic soup. You’re not allowed to leave the podcast without at least 10 new ideas!

References in this episode:

Museum Voorlinden: https://www.voorlinden.nl/?lang=en - Later... with Jools Holland (BBC2): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ml0l - Book: Is it good enough? – Jeroen van Erp: https://www.managementboek.nl/boek/9789462261433/is-it-good-enough-jeroen-van-erp