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This is the third in a 4-part series from Cameron Tonkinwise, sharing learnings from a two-year project from the New School’s Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab. Amplifying Creative Communities, works to research, promote and amplify community-based solutions for sustainability. Read the first part of this series on Kinds and Products of Social Design here.
In addition to there being a confusion of different kinds of social designing, there are also a confusing set of processes that social designing, whatever its aim, tends to use. What follows is the terminology that the Amplifying Creative Communities project adopted to weigh up how it could best do its work of co-designing social solutions and design-enabled social innovation:
Platforms
Platforms seem to be to ‘social business design’ what portals were to the first dot.com era. Platforms are areas that can focus social design work. Whether a physical or online location, or a combination of the two, a platform convenes background research, tools and appropriate people, allowing focused work on problem-solving or innovation with particular communities around particular themes.
The rationale for a platform is that other kinds of problems—business innovation, policy formulation and education, for example—have dedicated institutions in which solutions can be developed and applied. Social issues arise when problems manifest that lack an institution which can resource work on those problems. Digital domains and social software have enabled the creation of almost-free platforms—the primary cost is the service system design of the technologies into a productive and elegant platform—allowing social issues to convene a combination of expertise, community knowledge and cognitive surplus.
There seem to be four kinds of problems that platforms attempt to solve:
Platforms may have more or less designed processes and structures to make contributions convenient or relevant—see Formulae and Toolkits below.
The Amplifying Creative Communities project has, for each of its two years, used an exhibition as a platform. Rather than the exhibition being of completed research, summarizing what has been done, the Amplify exhibition is a platform for the design research. It curates some contextual research and presents it in a way that mobilizes it as the focus for a series of workshops with social service system design experts and local community representatives. As propositions emerge from those workshops, they are incorporated into the exhibition, and only at the conclusion of the exhibition-as-platform are there ‘results.’
A project proposing to reinforce distinct aspects of alternative food systems through staged interactions: Aaron Cansler, Amy Findeiss, Mai Kobori, Anke Riemer, Grace Tuttl.
Dear Readers,
As this year draws to a close, I’d like to thank you for all the love you have shown UPPERCASE magazine and books in 2011. I appreciate each and every one of my readers, contributors and stockists—you all are so very talented, generous, inspiring… and motivating! It’s a lot of work, but knowing how appreciated UPPERCASE is makes it all worthwhile.
Looking to the year ahead, there are a lot of things I hope to accomplish. In addition to a design and backend overhaul of the website and online shop, I want to integrate more community capabilities so that we can be better connected. Also top on the list is to launch a reader referral program in which you can earn rewards for all the blog posts, tweets and other referrals that have really helped the magazine grow. If you’re interested in being part of the testing of the referral program, please sign up here.
I’m excited about the themes we’ll be exploring in forthcoming issues. In the new year, I will post the working themes so that we can have even more reader participation and contributions. And what about more books? Yes! I have some very exciting new books in their early development stages and look forward to sharing the ideas with you. If you want to nominate someone to be the next Suitcase Series artist, send me your suggestions here.
But before I get carried away by all of next year’s projects, let’s take a well-deserved break. I know I could sure use some rest and relaxation!
Much happiness to you and yours this season. See you in 2012.
Janine
publisher, editor, designer
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Foster + Partners have won a competition to design a high-speed rail station for the city of Ourense in northwest Spain.
A row of arched roofs will shelter the Ourense AVE Station, which together with a new park will oversail a set of existing railway tracks through the city. Glazed walls inside the station will give arriving and departing passengers a view of the landscape beyond, while a reflective ceiling will bounce light down onto the platforms below.
The proposals also include a bus station and car park that will be located underneath the station concourse. A network of pathways will cross both the station and park to reconnect disjointed routes on each side.
The proposals were completed in collaboration with engineers GOC and local architects Cabanelas Castelo.
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See more stories about railway stations here, including a metro station with a UFO-like roof.
Here’s some more information from Foster + Partners:
Foster + Partners wins competition to design Ourense AVE Station
Foster + Partners, in a joint venture with engineers, G.O.C. and Cabanelas Castelo Architects, has won an international competition to design a new high-speed rail station in the city of Ourense in Galicia, north western Spain. The design combines transport infrastructure with a new park, which will create a major new public space in the city and open up pedestrian links between the districts on each side of the tracks.
The high-speed AVE train station is located over the existing track level and integrates a bus station and parking area below. Above ground, the station’s presence is discreet and transparent, with glazed facades that allow views through to the mountains beyond. The concourse is sheltered beneath a sequence of lightweight roof canopies, which rise in a sweeping arc over the station and extend to shade the plaza and entrance to the park. The underside of the roof is reflective to bounce daylight down to the platforms, and between each canopy is a glazed, linear opening.
The park extends from the station plaza and is intersected by pools of water and a formal network of pedestrian walkways, which echo the alignment of the tracks and connect the streets of Barrio del Puente to Barrio Veintiuno.
Nigel Dancey, senior partner at Foster + Partners:
“We are delighted to have been selected for our integrated design, which brings together high-speed rail and bus stations with a major new public space for the city. We look forward to working with ADIF and the City of Ourense as the project develops.”
The Temporium: you can get 15% off Cristian Zuzunaga‘s new series of digitally printed scarves at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until Christmas Eve in London.
His Alchemy collection features pixellated patterns as though zooming right in on a digital map of the city.
They’re made of wool and modal in Italy.
Here are some more details from Zuzunaga:
Alchemy is an ancient tradition whose philosophy underpins much of our work here at Zuzunaga. While in popular culture it is best know for turning metal into gold or creating an ‘elixir of life’, for us, alchemy is inherently about transformation.
Our Alchemy collection is about this process of transformation and follows its methodology. Each design starts from a photograph we have taken of the urban environment. We use this analog image and transform it into a digital one. This enables us to manipulate it and create designs that are then applied to products using different materials and printing techniques.
Alchemy transforms the real into the digital and back again. It transforms the elements and the landscape around us and creates products that enable us to appropriate our environment. It transforms our perceptions of reality and makes the invisible tangible.
Dezeen presents The Temporium
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Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
Experience Designer
Philips
Andover, Massachusetts
Philips Design is seeking an Ambient Experience Designer to with a focus on the design of spaces and experiences within healthcare environments. Philips provides Ambient Experience Design services to improve patient and staff experiences within healthcare environments. Using field research and an expertise in the healthcare domain our designers define solutions that improve spatial environments and clinical workflow. Designers work in multidisciplinary teams consulting directly with the healthcare industry and are able to deal with issues around interior architecture, lighting and workflow within clinical environments.
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It’s coming to the end of another year in the wonderful world of visual communications. Time to test your knowledge of who did what in the CR Quiz of the Year.
We’ve divided the questions up into the months of the year. If you’re stuck for an answer, you can find them all by digging around either in this website or in your back issues of the printed magazine. Best of luck. Answers to be revealed in the New Year.
1. CR’s January issue introduces readers to six Ones to Watch. One of these young creatives also designed our cover – who was it?
2. Starbuck’s reveals a new stripped-down logo designed by which US consultancy alongside the brand’s in-house team?
3. Intel launches The Chase, an innovative ad featuring a 105-second chase across a wide variety of programme windows on a computer desktop including iTunes, Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative Suite. Which agency was responsible?
4. “It does look like a bulbous penis, unfortunately.” Which major sporting event’s logo, launched this month, was this CR commenter referring to?
5. The Gunn Report reveals the most awarded commercial of 2010. An unlikely tale in French, can you remember the name of the ad and the client?
1. Can you name three of the typefaces honoured in the Best in Book section of our Type Annual?
2. Droga5 launches a campaign to remove all the advertising from Times Square in aid of the new documentary by which filmmaker? Bonus point: what was the film called?
3. VW reveals what would go on to be the most viewed ad of the year at the Superbowl. Name the ad and the agency responsible
4. Unit Editions launches its book on Dutch studio Total Design: can you name two of Total’s founding partners?
4. Penguin Books follows up Great Ideas with Great Food. Who was the art director on the series?
5. Which country threatens to boycott the 2012 Olympics because of the logo? Not as a comment on the quality of its design but because it allegedly spells ‘zion’.
1. The Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award goes to…?
2. CR profiles the designer of pictograms that represent every aspect of life. His work also appears in our Monograph booklet that month: what was his name?
3. Which punk band did we also feature in the same issue?
4. Wieden + Kennedy launches a new commercial featuring cats with thumbs: which client was it for?
5. Eurostar launches its new identity – or should we say ‘brand world’? Who designed it?
6. The Design Museum’s Wim Crouwel show opens. Which London-based designer and self-confessed Crouwel stalker co-curated it?
1. CR announces its list of our 20 favourite logos of all time. Which one came top?
2. Who designed the cover of our April issue?
3. Hat-Trick designs a series of RSC stamps featuring Shakesperean quotes written out by which illustrator?
4. A spoof Royal Wedding video becomes massively popular on YouTube (comments on CR range from “You can feel the smugness coming off the screen in waves” to “I LOVE this ad, it’s funny, and that… as they say, is that! “- which ad agency was responsible?
5. D&AD launches a new award for work done for creative ideas that change the world for the better: what colour pencil will the winner receive?
1. In CR, Rick Poynor interviews someone described as a “musician, artist, film director, writer and patron of great graphic design”. Who?
2. Name three projects honoured as Best in Book in the CR Annual
3. The Little Chef gets a makeover, courtesy of which brand design studio?
4. BBH creates an epic two-and-a-half-minute commercial for Audi in which a driver talks about his experiences of which famous race?
5. The Design Museum stages a show about which soft drink?
6. What was this little feller advertising?
1. CR profiles veteran ad man Sir John Hegarty: what was the name of his creative partner on the 1985 Levi’s Laundrette commercial?
2. The Glue Society creates an installation consisting of a house where it rains on the inside for an arts festival in which country?
3. Name two of the six Black Pencils awarded at D&AD
4. And the winner of the Titanium Lion at Cannes?
5. Wieden + Kennedy launches an innovative scheme by which fans of which band can create their own album cover and even earn a share of sales?
1. Name two of the illustrators featured in the Best in Book section of the CR Illustration Annual
2. And who designed the cover of this issue?
3. Former graphic designer and music video director Mike Mills releases his second feature film, starring Ewan McGregor. What was it called?
4. MoMA in New York opens a major show on interactive design – what was it called?
5. Which Leeds-based studio created this new identity for the National Railway Museum?
1. CR’s Summer Reading issue features a selection of great writing on visual communication. Who wrote this? “Early in my life as a designer, I acquired a reputation as a good bullshitter.”
2. Levi’s releases the latest in its Go Forth series of ads but which event made the timing of this ad somewhat awkward and ensured that it would not be shown in the UK?
3. Which illustrator releases a Daily Monster Maker app?
4. How old would Bill Bernbach have been on August 13?
5. The Radio Times launches a controversial website designed by which studio?
1. CR features a book on the in-house packaging design department of which major supermarket?
2. Name one of the graduates featured in our September Graduate Special issue?
3. Interbrand renames Airmiles as what?
4. At last some interesting work for the Olympics – a series of Paralympic posters by agency McCann Worldgroup and which illustrator?
1. CR features the Comedy Carpet, a major installation in which seaside town?
2. In his regular logo design column, Michael Evamy looks at the Google Android: who designed it?
3. The Imperial War Museums unveil a new identity by which studio?
4. Steve Jobs passes away: in which year was the Mac launched with Ridley Scott’s famous ad?
5. “What an appalling redesign. The choice of font is uninspired. The mark is lazy (ten minutes in illustrator?). The positioning of the mark lacks dynamism. And the strapline is so trite that it must have come out of a marketing dept group ‘workshop’.” Which logo for a major UK corporation is this CR commenter talking about?
6. Name three of the cartoon characters featured in TBWA’s Müller yoghurt Wunderful Stuff commercial
7. As the Occupy movement pitches camp outside St Paul’s it publishes a newspaper, The Occupied Times, using which Jonathan Barnbrook typeface?
1. “I like it to be powerful. I like to have some humanity in it.” That’s why his body of work still speaks to us decades later. It has humanity. Who was Rick Poynor talking about in a major feature in CR?
2. Who painted Coke’s Yes Girl, the subject of a major piece in CR this month?
3. “Such a great twist at the end! Watched the video 3 times and wanted to cry each time!! So heart wrenching… but lovely” Which ad is this CR commenter talking about?
4, Name three of the artists producing posters for the 2012 Olympics
5. “Looks like he spilt his paint and was trying to wipe it up”. Which artist’s Olympic poster was this CR commenter referring to?
6. Students from which college produce alternative Olympic poster designs featured on the CR blog?
1. Which city is the focus of CR’s attention in print this month?
2. Which Dutch designer, profiled in CR this month, increased her body weight by almost 50% during the course of one mammoth project during which she barely left her desk?
3. The Design Museum acquires which weapon and design ‘classic’ for its collection?
4. Which brand suggests shopping with it will allow us to avoid the Walk of Shame?
5. Which rapper-turned-design critic offered this analysis of the work of Charles and Ray Eames: “they was doing mash-ups before mash-ups even existed!”
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from all at CR
If you only read CR online, you’re missing out. The January issue of Creative Review is a music special with features on festivals, the future of the music video and much much more. Plus it comes with its very own soundtrack for you to listen to while reading the magazine.
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There are some documentaries that seem to benefit from what suddenly happened to their already-interesting subject matter during the time the film was being shot. We’re thinking Wilco’s unexpected break-up while I’m Trying to Break Your Heart was being made, or Julius Shulman passing away at the same time as the releasee of Visual Acoustics. This time, it just happened to be director Alison Klayman being at the right place at the right time in making a documentary about artist Ai Weiwei, just as he was entering a very difficult 2011, which also turned him into a household name. The first trailer for Klayman’s documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, has now just been released:
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