2013 | Thinking Design Exhibition

Thinking Design was an exhibtion curated by me in 2013 that provided an opportunity to showcase the design processes behind the making of products. Overview: Thinking Design is an inversion of the term Design Thinking and highlights the hidden thoughtfulness that goes into a design, or the solving of a design problem. This is an overt consciously systematic and iterative process. Thinking Design focuses on the physical artefacts generated through this process from five professional industrial designers - all alumni from the University of Johannesburg's Department of Industrial Design. The artefacts included research, sketches, renderings, development models, user-testing, engineering, development prototypes and final manufactured prototypes. This exhibition was enlightening for design students and the broader public by tangibly making visible the complex process of getting to a final design ‘solution’. The exhibition opened on the 7 August 2013 and ran until the 28 August 2013 at the FADA Gallery, University ... Read More