Day 1

Your Lifestyle Your Design
Day 1
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Introduction to the class: Aspects of Lifestyle, the many Faces of Design.
Can we address the problematic aspects of our lifestyles as design problems?

Subjects: After a class activity used to gauge interest in various lifestyle issues, the following subjects (and groups) were formed:

1. Targeting Excess (finding the waste of daily life, capitalist post-consumer problems, reduction and repurposing, etc).
   Group Members: Megan Schulz, Micah Cerelli, Dan Edlin, Joe Intile, Zach Y., Sara Dubick.
   
   
2. Back to Basics (understanding the mechanisms of daily life, analog tools, building skills, carpentry, etc)
   Group Members: Jason Randall, Russel Kamp, Brad Fish, Bryson Micahel, Chris Wilson, Jenna Flohr, Andy Pomeroy, Kelcy Mead, Angelica S.H.
   
   
3. Behavioral Study (Human patterns, time management, organization, lifehacking, habits, work processes, etc)
   Group Members: Keith Stedman, Nick Fisher, Melinda Thomas, Andrea Jahja, Kady Stapes, Keillan Mennella, Ben Olsen, Michael B.
   
   
4. Restructuring Personal Space (address how space is utilized in living situations, tackling clutter, customizing or reinventing the purpose of living space, etc.)
   Group Members: Steven Robinson, Maren Borecki, James Prahl, Kimberly Palmer, Libby Corliss, Julia Morlock, Allen Huang
   
   
5. Interaction with our Environment (how humans interact with their communities, physical outdoor/public spaces, or the larger environment as a whole)
   Group Members: Lee, Diane Gard, Kristin Dorn, Chris Ralston, Drew Travis, Brian Schmidt, Ray Tsuonda.
   
   

Watched video of Ross Lovegrove at the TED Conference (link)

Quickly went over mind mapping. Software can be found here, PDF about the process is on Blackboard.