David Roedl

The annual Bioneers conference, from San Rafael, CA, is “a gathering of scientific and social innovators who have demonstrated visionary and practical models for restoring the Earth and communities”. The event features powerful speakers representing diverse approaches to sustainability.
Lucky for Bloomington residents, this weekend’s conference plenaries are being broadcast live via satellite to IU [...]

This week in Design Theory there was some interesting reading and discussion about the relationship between design and craft. Here are a couple open-ended questions that were brought to my mind:
1) In his book, Design Methods, John Chris Jones describes how in traditional craftsmanship, small incremental changes are made over long periods of time based [...]

This was written for and originally posted on the Interaction Culture class blog
As Gillian Smith points out (in her forward to Designing Interactions), Interaction Design has drawn heavily on the ‘existing expressive languages’ of non-digital mediums. She breaks these traditional languages down into 4 ‘dimensions’: 1 – words and literature, 2 – painting, graphic design, [...]