DTM Podcasts — Design Theory and Methodology 2023

Practitioner Podcast 2 - Cathelijne Bertels

In this second design practitioner podcast Mieke talks to Cathelijne Bertels, who is based in Amsterdam. Cathelijne originally studied at IDE in Delft before going on to work at Microsoft for 13 years, working as a user-experience designer at a time when UX design was just becoming a major part of large IT organisations. After working at Microsoft, Cathelijne established her own design agency and over the years has broadened her approach to design, embracing an ever wider range of design problems, and working with very different organisations. Most recently she has been working in the area of social innovation as a designer in government.

InterviewPeter LloydJanuary 21, 2021designComment

Practitioner Podcast 3 - Grace Turtle

In the third design practitioner podcast Mieke talks to Grace Turtle, a well-travelled Colombian strategic designer and futures research manager. Grace is based in Amsterdam, dividing her time between Deloitte and her own design practice, Becoming Studio. Grace originally studied Interior Design in Australia, before focusing on sustainable design at the Pratt Institute in the US. From the US she returned to Colombia to work on social and community projects, before then going to Australia to do a Masters, establish a makerspace and a new design studio called ‘Mash Up’ where she first did a project for Deloitte. Her next move was to The Netherlands, where we catch up with her.

Grace talks about her unique path of working and learning in different places in the world. She talks about the way she uses design and other practices such as, futuring, play, and embodiment in her work and the many different people, books and other resources that have inspired her work and continue to influence her today. She reflects on the role of designers in the world, particularly in what she calls ‘designerly engagement’. She describes design being about doing things with beauty, not creating beautiful things.

Grace is a unique person, who is critically engaged with many different practices of design and how they can be used to bring about change and transformation – whether that is an organization, a community, or herself.

InterviewPeter LloydJanuary 19, 2021designComment

Practitioner Podcast 1 - Wouter van der Hoog

In the first of several podcasts with design practitioners, Peter talks to Wouter van der Hoog, who set up the Rotterdam-based design practice Hoog+Diep in 2006. The aim of the practitioner podcasts is to get more of a professional view of how working practices and design theory & methodology are related. Many of the questions asked relate directly to Assignment 2.

InterviewPeter LloydJanuary 7, 2021designComment

Episode 8 - Future of Design Methods

In the final DTM podcast Peter talks to Elisa Giaccardi, Professor of Interactive Media Design at IDE, about what design methods will look like in the future. They talk about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing the design process from something that is ‘user-centred’ into something much more dynamic. Elisa introduces the idea of how humans and computers can design together through ‘co-performance’.

InterviewPeter LloydJanuary 23, 2020designComment

Episode 7 - Design Expertise

In this penultimate DTM podcast Peter talks to one of his colleagues at Delft, Professor Matthijs van Dyke. Matthijs is a Professor of Practice and co-author of the well-known Vision in Product Development (ViP) method. Matthijs is not only an educator though. His main job is working at the design business he co-founded: Reframing Studio in Amsterdam, where he has built up considerable expertise in design working with major clients and organisations.

InterviewPeter LloydJanuary 8, 2020design, ViP, Expertise Comment

Episode 6 - Participation in Design Processes

Peter talks to Jocelyn Bailey, an expert in using participative processes in the design of complex social systems. Jocelyn has worked with members of the UK Parliament to raise awareness of design approaches to solving complex problems, she has worked with USCreates, and recently completed a PhD thesis on emerging practices of design in the UK government.

InterviewPeter LloydDecember 13, 2019design, co-evolutionComment

Episode 5 - Metaphors and Creativity

Mieke talks to Nazli Cila from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences about the use of metaphors in product design. She then explores this topic further in short interviews with designers Renée Schuffelers and Willem Mees van der Bijl, and in a discussion with Peter in the studio.

InterviewPeter LloydDecember 4, 2019design, co-evolutionComment

Episode 4 - A Short History of Design Methods

Mieke talks to Peter about his knowledge of the history of design methods. She then discusses the interview with Annemiek van Boeijen, one of the editors for the Delft Design Guide, available in the IDE bookshop, with a second edition coming soon.

InterviewPeter LloydNovember 27, 2019design, co-evolution

Episode 3 - Design Fixation

Nathan Crilly has written a lot about the phenomena of design fixation that is discussed in the podcast. Two very recent publications of his, in volume 64 of the journal Design Studies, are a good place to start. One is of case studies of creative discovery, and the other summarises the theory of design fixation to date. The key early work he refers to, that first identified the design fixation phenomena in 1991, is by David Jansson and Stephen Smith in Volume 12 of Design Studies.

InterviewPeter LloydNovember 20, 2019design, co-evolutionComment

Episode 2 - Co-evolution

This podcast is the second part of an interview that features Kees Dorst, Professor of Design, from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Further details about Kees can be found in the show notes for the first podcast. The interview is followed by a discussion between Peter and Mieke, who talk about some of the ideas in the interview that they found interesting.

InterviewPeter LloydNovember 16, 2019design, co-evolutionComment

Episode 1 - Reflective Practice

This podcast features an interview with Kees Dorst, Professor of Design, at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. The interview is followed by a discussion between Peter and Mieke, who talk about some of the things in the interview that resonated with them. Below are some key references for you to follow up on the ideas that are talked about.

InterviewPeter LloydNovember 8, 2019kees dorst, design, reflective practice, design thinkning, framingComment