This TED conference talk from 2003 has some very interesting themes in it about the relationship of culture, language, religion, and artifact (which we could interpret as design). This is also a great excuse to introduce you all to the TED conference talks, which have just recently begun being televised.
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Wade Davis: the richness of the ethnosphere
Day One: Images
During our discussion of "What is design", we wrote some notes on the board. Here are images of the 3 boards as they were at the end of class:




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Day One: Videos
Today in class, we looked at the following videos in our exploration of "What is design":
A conversation with Milton Glaser, iconographer extraordinaire:
A documentary about Jane Mcgonigal's Cruel 2B Kind:
We also looked at a video about Reverse Grafitti (This one is slightly more informative than the one we watched in class:
Finally, we looked at a video from a group of scientists at Princeton who are researching vulnerabilities of voting machine technology:
A conversation with Milton Glaser, iconographer extraordinaire:
A documentary about Jane Mcgonigal's Cruel 2B Kind:
We also looked at a video about Reverse Grafitti (This one is slightly more informative than the one we watched in class:
Finally, we looked at a video from a group of scientists at Princeton who are researching vulnerabilities of voting machine technology:
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