LEGO Serious Play – Microsoft Geek Girl Dinner

Lego Serious Play

Next week is the first Lego Serious Play for women event in Australia. As part of Mays Sydney Geek Girl Dinner, Microsoft are hosting the event which will include an evening of Lego, Xbox-ing and networking. The even has been organised by the lovely Catherine Eibner.  It looks set to be a fantastic event (registration info here) and I’m excited to one of the facilitators.  Lego Serious Play is a process developed to support innovation and communication which apparently focuses on “thinking through your fingers”, which as someone who is always scribbling, waving hands and constructing things in meetings  – I’m really looking forward to experiencing.

WHEN? Thursday 14th May 2009
WHERE? Microsoft Building, 1 Epping Rd, North Ryde

RSVP Here

What is design?

As part of establishing the theoretical building blocks for my thesis I have been writing a position on design, and design research. To my surprise a debate about the nature of both has spring up again on the PhD Design list, I say surprise because I sort of thought that the discourse had stabilized somewhat, but it seems not. I have enjoyed articulating my own position (heavily influenced of course by a range of excellent existing work by others) because it really frees me up from feeling a need to define design in any hard way, but it puts the emphasis in all the right places (for me anyway). In the draft Chapter (Entitled Perspectives on Design Research) I begin with three positions on ‘design practice’ that act as the pillars of my discussion on design research that follows; they are: design  is flexible, design is social and design is situated. I share those three (draft) pillars here.

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