Thought Swamp

Category: Moving Thoughts

  • Shape Grading

    Grades are just the worst, wouldn’t you agree? In the realm of design education, it seems to me that grades are generally a poor instrument for providing feedback to the student, or testifying as a record of the learning experience for the transcript. Perhaps the whole enterprise is suspect, although this piece will not address…

  • How Long is Your View?

    How long is your perspective? It may be more common to think about having a wide or narrow perspective, but what about the other dimension of our view…time? Designers constantly face down deadlines that force one’s focus on the immediate, right here, right now. Yet what would design look like in “the long now?” The…