This week: RIP

In addition to the assigned reading for this week, "Pop to Postmodernism" also watch the flim clip below from "RIP: A Remix Manifesto" (9 mins) and if you like it, you can (optional) watch the entire movie here:

Special tutorial session: test notes

Nan will will be holding extra tutorial session to help you strategically prepare your 'notes page' for test 2. This special session will be held in VS318 2.40 - 3.30pm Tues 5 Oct (the day before test) All are welcome! (at least until room capacity is met)

Next week's materials posted

As I will be away next week, I have posted next week's reading, "Pop to Postmodernism" by Jonathan Woodham and lecture pdf to the 'Readings' and 'Lectures' page of this blog. I have also posted the test 2 review pdf and next week's blog assignment on the 'Tools+Briefs' page of this blog. Please make sure to stay on top of your work for this course. Only one more lecture before the test. Contact me (margaret.petty@vuw.ac.nz) if you have any questions.

Announcement: movie night!

Next week, Wed. 29 Sept. at 6pm the School of Design will be hosting it's first official 'Movie Night' hosted by Culture+Context, Studio, and ACS. Come join us and see the award winning "Cats of Mirikitani" -- drinks and nibbles provided!

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the politics of design

[Design and the Cold War] next week's reading has been posted. If you have trouble reading the pdf online you can also find the original file in our course R-Drive DSDN171 (2010).

blog assignment 7: brief

The brief has been posted, review it here (or on the 'briefs+tools' page of this blog).

Campus Coaches: Info

Kaupapa Maori design

Tracey Gardner's lecture has been posted as a digital recording and PDF on the 'lectures' page of our blog. Be sure to review the Maori terms and concepts.
Week 10: Kaupapa Maori + design education

Week 10: optional reading and further information

You can find supplemental reading materials supporting our guest lecture this week by following this link to our issuu page. Also further information and sources for Maori design can be found below:
NGA AHO
Awatoru
Te Aranga

Our theme this week:

Kaupapa Māori and alternative design frameworks

This week Tracey Gardner will provide a guest lecture for DSDN171, presenting her research into Māori graphic design, and more specifically, kaupapa Māori visual communication design and process. Tracey’s research includes experiences from practising Māori designers and examines their work in order to highlight apparent differences in process and practice when design is undertaken from a kaupapa Māori perspective. Importantly, Tracey’s ‘by Māori, for Māori’ or kaupapa Māori cultural framework differs from the current predominant ideology of New Zealand’s design schools. Throughout Tracey’s research, a recurring underlying theme is the interaction of two world-views, that is, design and Māori ‘ways of knowing’, and focuses on the synthesis of both world-views and the space where these two intersect and meet. If you would like to read more about Tracey's research follow the link.

More on Bauhaus and Design Education

To help you with this week's blog assignment, here are a few links: on Johannes Itten's teaching method and studio explorations, on Moholy-Nagy (the section 'the educational project) on and on the Bauhaus and here.

Welcome back!

This week, "Technology and Progress" -- be sure to complete this week's readings (part I-II) before the lecture on Wed.
We will discuss the test results briefly in lecture as well. See you Wednesday.

László Moholy-Nagy, photogram, ca. 1926

Make-Me: The Emergence of Butch-Craft in Contemporary Design

from Core77 -- contemporary craft exhibited at Moss in NYC

Oscar Magnus Narud's Keel collection: tables in rough wood and iron.

Make-Me is an upcoming exhibition at Moss, running from September 15th through November 14th, that brings together an set of artists and designers producing what Moss has coined 'Butch-Craft.' Maybe there is no better way to describe this than the words they use themselves: 'a cerebral yet virile narrative applied to rough work crafted in wood, iron, steel, marble, rush, paint, boiled leather, clay, baked agricultural waste, plant-life, gypsum drywall, and blood, sweat and tears.'

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