infrastructure

Regarding the designed city, language all over the place, on every wall, plans being carried out in every street — consider the London views of George Scharf (1788-1860).

By induced accident, stumbled upon a scientific lithograph by Scharf — described in three tumblr posts, the last here. Follow the links. London, design, infrastructure is a long way from the long extinct Hybodus basanus, but I make no apologies. Will discuss in class.

Assembling an Ikea furnishing is like assembling a sentence, one article or noun or connective at a time. Some rooms have Ikea written all over them. What's made invisible?

In the IDEO reading — David Kelley, Design Adopts Technology — "He started his design consulting business in Silicon Valley in 1978, when the engineers and entrepreneurs were so focused on chips, printed circuits and software... David saw the opportunity to integrate the human design disciplines of industrial design, human factors, and interaction design with the technical disciplines of mechanical, electrical and production engineering." (Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions (2007) : 301

IDEO / IKEA.