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2008.06.10

The New External

Duncan of Jordanstone have asked me to be the External Examiner for the MDes course. I'm thrilled to be a part of it. It's great to be asked, and a fascinating role which is making me think long and hard about design education again. On an initial visit to see students and projects, it's heartwarming to see such a fine mix of people making great inroads into taking design into social and more challenging places.

Here's how they reveal the course structure via a map on the floor. Just a small example of how they have a thoughtful dialogue between staff and students there. Making the workings visual. One of our passions, too.

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Next visit, the final projects.

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Qin

Hi Gill! no wonder I thought the view was familiar, they almost miss the deadline on the floor though~ ha ha ha :)

How is everything going in London? I am looking forward to meeting you in Dundee again at the final assessment. The students are all working hard now and you will be really happy with their final outcome!

Posted by: Qin | 2008.07.24 at 09:41 PM

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  • Nick Durrant has worked in interaction design for over a decade.

    After several years in Silicon Valley, via Taligent, IBM, and 280 Inc. developing group, collaboration environment, and social software such as 'Places for project teams' and 'Meeting Centre' he returned to the UK to bring interaction design strategy to Metadesign, Icon MediaLab and Futurebrand Digital. Client work at from this time includes research, strategy and design for Bristol Legible City , Orange, Skoda, Bosch, Telia, GSK, MSDW, Bank of America, Artranspennine 98, Netaid UN/Cisco, Telefonica, Lastminute.com, UPC/Chello, and Peoplecom. Bristol Legible City won an environmental design effectiveness award and is widely held up as a best-practise example in urban design.

    His design research projects include 'The bubble engine - Net Archaeologies, Web Geographies, and Active Networking – Issue Network Mapping at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, in 1999, and FLIRT, location-based recreational media, at the RCA and Helsinki in 1998.

    More recently Nick has been a Visiting Professor to Innocence/Interbrand, an 'Agent Provocateur' for Orange, and an ongoing Advisor to, and Mentor for, the Design Council's Humanising Technology project. He graduated from the Computer Related Design programme at the Royal College of Art in 1994.

    Contact Nick via: nick at plotsite dot net

Gill Wildman

  • Gill Wildman's passion is the design of people-centred systems.

    Gill believes businesses and other organisations need to realise the value of both end-user participation and interdisciplinary collaboration to succeed with their innovation strategies and design initiatives. Her early work, as a researcher and developer of local services, used the community development approach, which emphasises linking local networks and agencies to user-needs. This was amplified and extended by the pioneering use of social visualisations, and other design methods. Later, expanding on these practices as a designer, and then as a strategic design management consultant, Gill has influenced the direction of many public and private sector organisations.

    The Humanising Technology initiative for the Design Council introduced user-centred design approaches to early-stage UK technology start-ups and brokered collaborations between many talented designers and scientists.

    Gill was Assistant Director of the Design, Strategy and Innovation MA at Brunel University, has been active in shaping the definition of Service Design for the British Standards Institute, and is currently an Industry board member for Innovative Product Design and Interactive Media Design at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.

    Contact Gill via: gill at plotsite dot net

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