As part of our introduction to conceptual design course I ask participants to spend a week keeping a briefing diary. The aim is two-fold: to recognise that design briefs come in all shapes and sizes, not just in a formal design context; and to give participants the chance to apply the tools we discussed for picking apart a brief.
Continue reading “Follow-up notes on keeping a briefing diary”Construction training design – efficient facades
Aims for this construction training course
What’s inside
Further reading
- We have taken findings from the Get It Right Initiative abour eliminating error in construction as part inspiration for this course. You can about the Get It Right Initiative’s research in to the costs and the root causes of error.
- If you are interested in facade design then you should check out the Get It Right Initiative’s training on avoiding error at interfaces . This is a course I am involved with developing at Think Up.
Conceptual Design at Plymouth University
Last week Dr Boksun Kim Lecturer in structural engineering at Plymouth Univesity invited me to the engineering department at Plymouth University to talk about creativity with staff and students. Boksun had attended the two-day Advanced Conceptual Design course I run at the Institution of Structural Engineers. As a result of going to that couse she asked if I could come down to share some of my thinking with the department. I was happy to be asked!
A recipe for cooking ideas
In the morning I gave a 45-minute talk on conceptual design to a group of third-year students. In this short time I gave them a quick run through my process for having ideas. After this run through I asked the students to create their own recipe for creative thinking. The idea was to create a series of steps that they can ‘cook’ from next time they are set a design project. Continue reading “Conceptual Design at Plymouth University”
Magnificent flying machines, creativity and action learning
Here are some reflective notes in video form from Day 1 of January creative design week at Imperial College department of civil engineering.