Critical Curiosity: Design Processes that Challenge Norms - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Description

Three practice leaders will share how design research, curious methods and provocative questioning provide a critical foundation for their work. These stories will explore how different scales of practice are challenging the normative environment of professional practice through process-oriented ways of working, engaging, and thinking.

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Learning Objectives:

• Explore the fundamental duality within the field at the intersection of art and science.
• Understand how various analog, digital, analytical tools, and other curious methods catalyze innovation and grow sets of knowledge around design process, critical research, engagement, and post occupancy evaluation.
• Explore case studies of active projects through a sharply focused exploration of process, experimentation, and research.
• Understand the successes, challenges and needs of the professional relationships and practice models that are fighting to do this work.

Speaker(s):

• Maura Rockcastle, ASLA, Principal and Co-Founder, Ten x Ten
• David Seiter, RLA, Founding Principal & Design Director, Future Green Studio
• Rebecca Popowsky, RLA, SITES AP, Research Associate, OLIN