The key to talking to someone and not at them is speaking in a way that doesn’t confound them with specialist language.
Monocle Minute On Design
“Working with boatbuilders has helped me to understand the complex structure of a tree,” says the designer. “Each piece of wood has different properties and potential. Boat building is a combination of selecting the ideal parts and understanding how they work together.”
self-taught designer Mircea Anghel
Monocle Minute On Design, WEDNESDAY. 02/08/23
Its architectural essence lends it a unique quality: it’s a kinetic art that shifts and moves over the course of the day as light filters through the glass. This choreographic work across the interior spaces of buildings is a magical and mysterious aspect that is impossible for a painting to deliver.
Brian Clarke – stain glass creative. Monicle
I believe that education should expand our consciousness, capabilities, sensitivities, and cultural understanding. It should enlarge our worldview. As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do, and the world around you—the core purpose of education is to enable students to understand both worlds. In today’s climate, there is also a new and urgent challenge: to provide forms of education that engage young people with the global-economic issues of environmental well-being.
Sir Ken Robinson
A transformative leader is also concerned about being effective, but they are more likely to operate from the position of a deeper self-knowledge, and take bold actions based on their convictions and self-understanding to bring about significant change.
Derek Weymouth, Futuremakers.
https://futuremakers.nz/2023/06/20/all-at-cs-re-leadership/
Design isn’t like fashion with its seasonality – it’s a calmer, more contemplative world, guided by the idea of durability. Design is for life, so designers need a genuine sense of responsibility: to be attentive in what they do and think about transportation, recycling and the materials that they use when they create an object. I launched the Ro Plastic Prize in 2019 with my son because I believe that it’s not plastic that’s bad; it’s the misuse of it that’s wrong. We need to engage designers in its reuse and also make them think differently about how they design.
Rossana Orlandi, Italian Design Guru
Monocle Minute on Design
April 27
The working relationship between a craftsperson and a designer can often be fraught with technical and creative tension. It’s not unusual to hear a furniture designer lament the limitations of a carpenter’s skills; equally, it’s not rare to hear a carpenter complain about a furniture designer’s unrealistic visions. So what’s the solution?
He [Alexandre Willaume, of Marie et Alexandre] believes that this is beneficial to both parties collaborating on a project. For the designer, not knowing exactly what is possible can be freeing. For the maker, receiving proposals that might seem impossible to execute can encourage them to explore new processes and methods. Perhaps, then, not only can approaching a collaboration with naivety lead to smoother professional relationships but it might also allow both designer and maker to improve their craft.
Nic Monisse is Monocle’s design editor.
great geo-politicians,’ do not always want to see ordinary people. Ordinary Ukrainians. Millions of those who actually live in the territory they are proposing to exchange for the illusion of peace. You always have to see people.
President Zelensky after Henry Kissinger and others advise that Ukraine give something to Russia.