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Unfiltered design #2: Informal learning, futility, and standards—oh and I have a podcast now!
Sometimes the word “design” is so heavily associated with just tips and tricks and at some point that gets stale. Good design can only come if our sources of inspiration are broad! So here goes… Informally formal Not only in learning but in work as well, there is a general reluctance for play… for silliness.…
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Unfiltered design #1: Teaching design, Apple vs Figma, too many standards, and chess.
Writing has always been about learning for me. I’ve started posting regularly on LinkedIn using articles I read as launchpads for my own thoughts. This way of making connections is a great way to digest the torrent of information I’m bombarded with on a daily basis. At the end of every week, I’ll compile my…
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Overcoming indecision
For the last five years, I’ve grappled with a crippling obsession with making the right decision. This is despite knowing, intuitively, that life doesn’t have right choices. The onset of this condition was likely an overconsumption of content about what is now known as “hustle culture.” Following a severe dissatisfaction with my undergraduate education, I…
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Tracing speculations to analyze thinking
It’s no secret that traditional academic grading is a short-sighted and limited assessment tool for students and teachers alike. The information that can be extracted from a report card is often little more than “this student knows 80% of what we call ‘Math’.” Without going much further into this, as it has been discussed to…
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Deliberate speculation as a learning mechanic
I wrote recently that I’m stepping away from redesigning school for the time being. Defeated, I was biking back home when I started speculating about the future of the middle eastern world, my heritage. With all the hate directed to and from the Sham region, where would our broken internal politics and exaggerated external influence…
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Stepping away from redesigning school
After two weeks of research involving discussions, readings, and paper scribbles, I’ve come to the conclusion that education is not suitable for the nature of the two months we have to build a final project. In the scope defined for us, we have to find a specific and limited problem that we should then build…
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A selfie was taken in virtual reality and no one seems to be bothered
Think about this for a second: We’re already carrying metal rods dedicated to taking pictures of our faces as they obscure landmarks, beautiful scenery, even the faces of the people we’re trying to take photos with, all to post them on some ephemeral electric signals which generate light on a piece of glass so that…
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For the love of the glorious green apple
Have you ever bitten into the shiny surface of a beautiful green apple? There are apples so green and beautifully juicy, they almost define the taste of joy in my life. It’s amazing how something as humble as the apple can be the source of joy for a grown man. Crisp, succulent, fresh, and with…
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You’re designing for change? Great, here’s 14¢!
Designers are a masturbatory bunch. We like to sit in white rooms with just enough colour from all the ridiculous post its that we post on our walls and discuss our ability to change the world. “Design is different from art in that it provides solutions.” “Designers are natural problem solvers.” Both reiterated to death.…
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Distilling my views on education
This past week, I attended a class in an international school here in Copenhagen called Bjørn’s International School. Over there, I witnessed students in a single class get dynamically regroup based on their understanding of a subject and not on their age. Basically, when the English class started, the teacher moved the students around the…
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Two Visions for Radically Technological Schools
As part of this final project, I’ve been thinking a lot about standardization in regards to the educational system. Personally, one of the biggest burns I experienced in high-school was having to adhere to a system that had no room for computation and design — two of the main things I’ve been doing as work and now…
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Early musings on education
For our final project here at CIID, we have to keep a Final Project Journey which I am actively publishing here on Medium. This entry has been added as a part of the Journey 0.5 update. My starting point… Currently, I aim on tackling the issues with traditional schooling systems. These institutions have really failed…