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- This blog originates from Bas Raijmakers' PhD work at the Royal College of Art. All materials from the PhD are available, and also selected examples from later work, with STBY.
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Blogs of the student groups at ENSCI Les Ateliers
Each of the groups in the design documentaries workshop is keeping a blog to document the design research they are doing, in particular materials they have found and discussions about approach and findings. The films they shoot are not on there if there is a confidentiality issue with the participants. This depends on what has been agreed with participants.
Marie, Kristian, Elisa and Yaeka: http://parisfrompeople.blogspot.com/
Darren, Hugo, Sanam and Barbara: …
Day 1. Inspiration from a 100 years of documentary film
We introduced three ideas in documentary thinking that are particular useful to design researchers. The idea that “Film is like reality” is important because it allows Design Documentaries to portray the people and situations you are designing for. “Film is like a language” makes us realise that we can use our design skills to tell stories and that we can use visual language to express the stories, and our views …
Day 1. Creative exploration in diverse disciplines.
1. Co-discovery can reveal a collective imagination.
2. Set up a “protocole of research”… something done in a systematic way to create sense or intuition.
3. Playing with the medium (photo/video) creates another perspective on the thematic.
Design Documentaries workshop at ENSCI Paris
Learning, experimenting, creating: Les Ateliers – Paris Design Institute has opted for ambitious, multidisciplinary, theoretical and practical courses in correlation with project studios run by professional designers. The teaching is based on the principle of individualised programmes for each student. In addition to regular teachers, the school calls on outside personalities for lectures or workshops. In this context, Bas Raijmakers will teach a one week workshop on design documentaries.
During the …
Belonging & Belongings
How do people present themselves online and offline, and is there a connection between the two?
Belonging & Belongings is an international and interdisciplinary research programme, exploring the interrelationship between technology, society and sartorial appearances by investigating how people express their identities through their physical and virtual possessions.
How sticky research drives service design
In a project for Deutsche Telekom, we found very clearly that the design documentaries we made were ‘sticky’ because they stuck in the minds of the team for months. At many stages and iterations of the early concepting the marketeers, designers and business people involved referred to the films when they came up with ideas or had to validate ideas. The …
Designing Across Boundaries
Mid September STBY participated in a multicultural design challenge at Villiers Highschool in Southall, London. We worked with Sao Paulo-based designers, London-based designers and teenagers from Southall. The goal was to design something for the school, using card board, in 60 hours with about 40 people in three teams. We counted more than 30 countries when we explored where all the participants and their parents came from! This became the …
PhD thesis
Design documentaries result from PhD research at the RCA that I completed in May 2007. Below is the abstract of the thesis. You can also download the complete thesis (5 Mb).
Thrill
Three short compilation films by Jessica Charlesworth, Michael Burton and Tom Wynne-Morgan, for Brendan Walker’s “Fairground: Thrill Laboratory” at the Science Museum, London, October 2006. I coached all three filmmakers.
Jessica Charlesworth explored “Excitement”
The project presented three events in the Science Museum where fairground experiences were explored in different ways, and one was through our films. The Thrill films were not explicitly created for a design process, but …
