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A Service Design Opportunity ☆

I just participated in a two day workshop run by Engine, a UK design group that focuses on applying diverse design processes to designing customer-oriented services. The workshop focused on designing services that are complex by nature, usually involving "four P's": People, Places, Processes, and Products (not to be confused with the four P's of marketing). …

Posted 2 months ago by Brian Hughes

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First Day with Engine

I just finished my first day of a 2-day "Service Design Workshop" run by Engine – a design group that focuses on service design. What is service design? It's pretty much as simple as it sounds, design processes applied to designing services. Of course, there's the challenge: services are complex by nature, involving "four P's": People, …

Posted 2 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Drawing and an Argument for its Autonomy

Should the ability to draw be seen as a literacy? Is it sensible to characterize the act of drawing as the reduction of  multi- dimensional events to readable two-dimensional imagery? Last Thursday I was lucky to attend a lecture and conversation by Professors Stephen Farthing and Simon Betts on "The Bigger Picture of Drawing: A New Curriculum …

Posted 2 months ago by Brian Hughes

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World of 100

Information about the world as if it were a village of 100 people -- a simple design and a powerful effect. Nice work Toby Ng!


Reposted from The Data Art Review. Written by Jihii Jolly.

Even when statistics are clearly represented as visuals, understanding data is difficult. We're not so naturally inclined to to understand statistics in relation to our personal, daily lives. An emerging method of providing people with the tools to achieve that contextual understanding is through interactive graphics, such as the 9/11+ME project (which uses Facebook or …

Posted 3 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Check This Out: Ethnocharettes

This is an interesting example of "design" being an inspiration for a day-long collaborative event. Interesting in many ways, but especially for the marathon-like duration. (It seems like it might not have been worth it . . .)


Reposted from Learning at the Library. Written by ten.

For those interested in developing courses that integrate ethnographic methodologies and social theory with the modeling practices of designers I suggest checking out the innovative work of the University of California Irvine's Center for Ethnography.

Posted 3 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Snurblog liveblog at AIOR

Igniting Internet Research | Snurblog. Another liveblog of our Ignite talks. These internet researchers are good at liveblogging!

Posted 3 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Ignite Talk at AoIR Internet Research conference

Matthew Allen » Blog Archive » IgniteIR – fast talks at AoIR Internet Research conference - Researcher, Educator and Net Critic. An early review of my Ignite talk on "Super-charging Creative Teams with Negative Feedback" at the Internet Researcher 12 conference. Cool!

Posted 3 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Around the Campfire at IR12

The Twitter hash for the conference was #ir12. I had a chance to meet Mike Monello from Campfire and hear about his work in transmedia marketing. Monello was one of the producers on the Blair Witch Project. I also went to a panel about communities and behaviors of fans online.

Posted 3 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Schools for Tomorrow

Nothing like a livestream to make it real. I'm speaking on "Tools Available in College" at The New York Times Schools for Tomorrow event. In their words: . . . we’re bringing together 400 of the most influential leaders in teaching, government, philanthropy and industry. The goal: to harness the power of technology to improve …

Posted 4 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Richard Eldridge Day

The first chapter to Richard Eldridge's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art provided a good basis for discussion in class last week. He really shows off his interest in Romanticism, and his leanings towards a Pragmatic philosophy of art. We talked about the problem of "not having a perfect philosophy," located some philosophizing …

Posted 4 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Strage Prize 2011: Christopher Emdin

Gerat video by the EdLab Team about a great teacher and scholar. I am proud to say I was a (small) part of this!


Reposted from Learning at the Library. Written by Brian Hughes.

This video features the work of Christopher Emdin and his new book, Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation. The book, "is rooted in his experiences as student, teacher, administrator, and researcher in urban schools and the deep relationship between hip-hop culture and science that he discovered at every stage of his academic and professional …

Posted 4 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Intellectual Cosmopolitanism

I'm getting excited for the upcoming New York Times' Schools for Tomorrow conference, and working on my presentation. I'll be on the "Tools Available (college-level)" panel, and I'd like to convey some ideas about the future balance between tradition and timeliness in the academy. It's hard to articulate an interesting position in the 5-10 minutes that …

Posted 5 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Philosophy as History

This afternoon I had the honor of working with Art Education students in Teachers College's Instep program – thinking about John Dewey's legacy and impact on art education. As preparation for the lecture and group activity (collaboratively writing philosophies of art education), we read: Ursula Niklas’ “On the Philosophy of Teaching Philosophy of Art” to …

Posted 6 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Oh -- I also have a few print copies of an essay i wrote on "hermeneutics as a meta-ethic" if anyone wants to drop by the library and pick up a copy…

What’s Hot on the Newly Released Vialogues Site?

The new Vialogues embed looks great. Congrats to the development team for a slick new interface.


Reposted from The Vialogues Blog. Written by katemeersschaert.

There has been engaging discussions this week around the following vialogues: Sloan-C ETOL 2011: Bryan Alexander on Mobile Devices in Higher Education Does the Current Educational System Kill Creativity? Can we teach kids to be entrepreneurs? Try the new Vialogues site and start a hot new discussion of your own!

Posted 6 months ago by Brian Hughes

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MBA Fail

I like Wall's quick look at the realities of entrepreneurship: Why MBAs Fail at Entrepreneurship, and in particular his inclusion of the problem of workers with a sense of entitlement.

Posted 6 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Masterclass and the Importance of Mentoring Across Disciplines

I'm excited about EdLab's role on this project -- creating online tools to support teachers and students. We'll be implementing another instance of Pressible with special features to support the discussions that unfold in the classroom. Have any ideas for us? Comment below or swing by EdLab and chat with us.


Reposted from Arts & Humanities. Written by Carey Zamarriego.

“Do young artists need older practitioners to look at them with something benign, giving them permission to try? Yes, yes, that’s essential,” remarks Bill T. Jones, on the importance of mentoring. The Tony award-winning choreographer is a member of a cluster of great artists (including Placido Domingo, Frank Gehry and Edward Albee) who mentored select …

Posted 7 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Thank you Professor McClintock!

This site is a fun use of Pressible, as well as a well-deserved tribute to a great teacher-intellectual.


Reposted from Robbie as Educator. Written by jonah.

This is a site for tributes from friends, colleagues, and students as Professor Robert O. McClintock retires from 44 years of teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. If you would like to leave a short tribute to Robbie, please comment directly on this post. If you would like to make a longer contribution please contact this site's administrator to …

Posted 8 months ago by Brian Hughes

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How to Credit . . . via DesignSponge

This is a fun summary of citation options online, and makes me wonder: are new methods of publishing making scholarship better, or just more complicated?


Reposted from Shelfless. Written by Julia Martin.

Posted 9 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Publishing with Libraries

Last week I attended the annual Association of College & Research Libraries conference in Philadelphia. Julia and I presented a poster on Pressible, and how our library is using it to expand the publishing possibilities available to our community. I attended panel and paper sessions on "embedded librarianship, "building lean and mean web project teams," …

Posted 9 months ago by Brian Hughes

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