Learner Centered Design Education

Web space for this episode: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/book-chapter-assemblages-of-development/

John Maeda's Tech Report: https://designintech.report/

Capgemini: https://www.capgemini.com/au-en/careers/career-paths/students-and-graduates/

D&I: https://www.design-industry.com.au/

Frog Design: https://www.frog.co/

Jony Ive Salary: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive

"In 2011, it was reported that Ive was paid $30 million in base salary with a $25 million stock bonus for the year."

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) - Toyota: https://mag.toyota.co.uk/kaizen-toyota-production-system/

LEAN

Toyota production system adopted by cancer unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne: https://www.news.com.au/national/toyota-production-system-adopted-by-cancer-unit-at-st-vincents-hospital-in-melbourne/news-story/8226198e586a660b8a893550bdb35d39

Comparisons of Lean in Healthcare: https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/633_ANZAM2011-454.PDF

Also See

Jones, J. C. (2021). designing designing (1st ed.).Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350070707

The Diceman speaks -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqSeFjaEczA

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man

John Cage's 4'33'' explained: The music of silence:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bGU9NTJlIo

John Cage 4'33":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4

John Cage about silence:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y

MOMA: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/393

Textile artist Matthew Harris lets a roll of the dicedictate his artistic choices. We spoke to Matthew about his unique creative process, the interplay between paper and textile, and the roles that improvisation and chance play in his art practice.

https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/matthew-harris

Hans Arp: https://expressivemonkey.com/element-of-chance-2/

He thought that by giving up control and letting randomelements shape his art, he could tap into the heart of true creativity.

Chance in Art and the indeterminacy aesthetic:https://art-newzealand.com/21-chance/

The historian Mommsen estimated that chance accounts for athird of all historical effects. Strindberg wrote a manifesto on its role in art. For the Surrealists it was a means of transcending the barriers of causality and conscious volition. Richter adopted it as a protest against the rigidity of straight line thinking. Duchamp categorised some of his works as 'canned chance'. Arp revered the law of chance as the highest and deepest of laws; as did the great physicist Heisenberg, who, in 1927, sanctified chance ina mathematical formulation.

Vesna Jovanovich:https://vesnajovanovic.com/2024/06/27/meticulously-planned-chance-operations/

This is the first episode on the topic - Assemblages of Development.

Dubai is a special kind of place. Following on from that statement is another similar statement - every place is a special kind of place. To go as an ethnographer, as a researcher, as a theorist is a very particular way to look at places. Places in this vein of thinking hold secrets. They tell stories.

What secrets does Dubai hold? What does Dubai broadcast, that we do not hear, because we have not tuned in?

That is my way of saying that we rush to judge. In doing that, we miss the opportunity to develop a love for, an affection for a place, a people.

Links coming soon.

The Provocation in this episode is: Some engineers view "design engineering" as redundant, believing that true engineering already includes design. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of design engineering is an oxymoron, industrial design engineer is an oxymoron - you will find a lot that is enjoyable. Check it out.

Alec Issigonis - the person who visiualized and realized the Mini (Mr Bean Version) was an engineer. And a guru to James Dyson.

This Episode is on D4X. As an opener into a series - of episodes that look at what happens when designers work inside manufacturing enterprises.

The Author of this Podcast Series? https://soumitri.owlstown.net/

The Website where transcriptions can be found? https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

NOTE: I dont upload transcripts of all episodes. I do upload transcripts if someone in the audience requests a transcript.

These podcast episodes will become text one day. In a book or a paper. Or that is an aspiration I mull over.

Do check out live transcriptions for this episode.

Do check out the live transcription as you listen to this episode.

This is a letter to my fellow teachers. 6 of them. They have worked with me to teach in the first year - of an Industrial Design Program.

This is an episode that provides an entry point into the speculations about the future. It provides an entry into the world of investors, researchers and those that are constructing the future inside the labs. Here are some search terms for you to explore these areas:

Precision fermentation

Tony Seba

Ray Kurzweil

(Invention - A Life a book by James Dyson

Apple in China the book by Patrick McGee

You tube search terms and playlists:

Tony Seba - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU7nrcTLINEQ_Lo0SPRRAGgaCg7kQ0LJy&si=RSGnKvIgWPPOc0pS

Precision Fermentation

Molecular Gastronomy

ANT - Actor Network Theory

SCOT - Social Construction of Technology

The Social Object Book - https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-social-object

This a podcast episode for a project collaborator. A fellow teacher. A colleague. We are collaborating to teach a studio. How do you teach an Industrial Design Studio in 2025?

Okay more questions:

1. How do you teach studios in the contemporary?
2. Would you use an LTP framing? Actually an LTS - Lecture-Tutorial_Studio?
3. How would you teach a studio that enables students to enter a pathway towards a future in medicine related work? MedTech yes. But actually medical discovery work.

This is my academic site: https://soumitri.owlstown.net/

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