Friday's notes of Demos Helsinki's wicked problems -studio for Aalto's new design-MA-students.

1. Find the lectures and the videoblog here:
http://mediafactory.aalto.fi/?page_id=1046
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2. Today you will discuss your system-drawings with other group.
In the end you will make a videoblog together.
First we will watch a film about the power of ideas.
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3. Film: The Century of Self.
How the idea that people are driven mainly be
their subconciouss desires created consumer
culture.
How psychology became center of society in the
1900’s
How one idea from Freud created the way we
view consumption, production and design.
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4. Film about the
power of ideas
and concepts.
How the idea that people are driven
mainly be their subconciouss desires
created consumer culture. Man as a
beast
That is the old idea.
Lets try and think of a new one.
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5. Human beings are controlled by
their unconsicouss desires.
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6. The power of ideas
and concepts.
Man as a
subsconciouss
?
New idea?
beast.
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7. How the idea that people are driven
mainly be their subconciouss desires
created consumer culture. That is the old idea.
Lets try and think of a new one.
people are influenced easily, our behaviour can change quickly
people random yet predictable people looking for happiness, but a bit diffucult.
we need others to be happy for a lot of people acceptance is happiness
people are concerned by others perceptions and not enough by themselves.
people are most of the time pre-occuppied people are fundamentally co-operative
people believe in better future - it’ll be ok! people are thinkers, philosophers
different layers in human beings come up at different times people are primarly selfish, or
people are driven by empathy and cognition everything can be explained
people are builders people have taken control of what they are
people imatete other and that leads them the most peoples values are shifting towards
communities
everyone wants to be happy
people are defined by choice p
people can be free people can be rational, if helped
people are the same, but feel individual
people dont know how to be free
people are good, but limited persona capacity
peoples will grow together with machines people are all different
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8. My Skills and the Wicked Problems:
Systems – a discussion
Systems – different layers of reality that your designs shape and that in return create the constraints of design.
Skills – your skills as a designer. Your skills are your possibility for finding solutions in different systems.
Wicked Problems - new level of problems that are complex by nature and can not have one-trick-solutions.
What did you find challenging?
Even defining wicked problems are is difficult. Every definition was closing another definition.
How do we describe and visualize our skills
Simplyfying the tons of information into drawings with people from so different backgrounds
Time-constraints
Did you find the ways through which your skills shape
the different systems?
Concrete project idea.
We have a great team is skill sets
According to the way you use your skills in the systems you can solve a problems or create them
Wicked problems in our skills - what we are doing is difficult, but many designers think its easy.
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9. Excersice for 1 2
today: Lecture
hall
lifts
toilets
• you are here
Main entrance
•
10 9
videosblogs
8
5.
7 6 5 4 3
lobby Gallery 11 Lounge
To-do:
TIMETABLE
1. Present your drawing and explain your core sentence to the partner-group. 14:00 1 14:30 7
2. Discuss and find out how they: 14:05 2 14:35 8
- How did you define your own skills? 14:10 3 14:40 9
- What was different in your approaches in defining skills? 14:15 4 14:45 10
14:20 5 14:50 11
- What systems are involved in your drawing? 14:25 6
- Could the systems of your drawing be combined?
3. Decide what was most interesting you learnt in terms of your skills? This is your new core
sentence.
4. Design your presentation for the videoblog (max 2.min) using the core sentence and the
drawings.
5. Practise presentation
6. Check your videoblog time from the back of the group number and go film the presentation.
When filming videos:
•Choose one person to say your core sentence aloud clearly in the beginning and the end of the video.
•Be sharp and quick. Think what you will say. Let the others speak. Practise together how your going to use your video time. Its really
only 1 - 2 minutes.
•Hold the number of group visible during the whole filming.
•Watch others videopresentations over the weekend, we’ll get back to them and develope the themes further in the wikicafe on
monday.You’ll get the link http://mediafactory.aalto.fi/?page_id=1046 from the facebook-group.
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