Canary Wharf – Regeneration

In groups we wondered around the busy footfall of Canary Wharf owned by the UKs, Capital. Theonce derelict Docklands has now been regenerated with tall large complexes, clearly designed for large businesses cooperation’s with plenty of income. On my visit I noticed the vase amount of different ethnicities from around the globe, with the current…

Globalization Space

(DFS Worldwide, Container shipping, 2017) After todays lecture watching the documentary of ‘The Forgotten Space’ it has helped me to understanding the impact that globalization has on our lives. The documentary show the exporting goods worldwide in, ‘Todays globalization process differs from that of earlier times in three ways. The volume of material moved is…

McDonaldization

  I remember a time where I actually used McDonaldization whilst I was on holiday. I was looking for somewhere to eat and of course you can have plenty of places that you could ‘try’. However, I didn’t feel confident on what I’d get and for that reason I ended up not trying something new…

Gender Design: Lego

Gender design is all around us, and as consumers we still buy the designs to fit in the category, why is this? For instance, if you were to buy a present for a young girl you would immediately go to the toy store… The first thing you will notice is that all the toys are…

Visual essay: Memories

Seville Trip: 20/02/17

Seville is the capital of southern Spain’s Andalusia region and I recently visited there with my university class. On my visit there we visited several tourist attractions my favorite being, the Alcázar Castle Complex ‘one of the most representative monumental compounds in the city, the country and the Mediterranean culture as a whole.’ (Seville. A…

Sensory Design

Interacting with our surroundings are transformed into a memorable and meaningful event. Firstly, it’s impossible to look at a something without using one of our senses. In addition to our five senses  according to Dr.Willam are hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and touching (William.K,2017). Although the Finnish architect Pallasmaa believes that there are seven senses. He…

Participatory Design

  Assembles live project in conjunction with HARCA 2017 What is participatory design? What benefits does it have on us and our communities? Participatory Design is an open innovation design that involves working with many participants and designers alongside the public. Participatory design ‘invites citizens to think more like designers’ (Wood, 2007). Participatory design can…

Exhibition Review, Victoria Miro – Do Ho Suh: Passage/s

Approaching the cast iron door into the unknown, the building didn’t seem to look like the typical entrance you’d imagine; I felt as if some sort of secret lurking inside. I was approaching the exhibition Victoria Miro Gallery, the exhibition being held was called Passage/s by Do Ho Suh, he was born in 1962 in…

What is good design?

There is a story behind every object. The journey, materials, and the purpose. Alice Rawsthrone a british design critic claims that ‘Design is taken for granted people don’t think of it as being designed, what they don’t realise, is from the moment they wake up almost everything that fills their world has been designed’ (Rawsthorn,…