Free Tickets! Pick these up Today!

Free Tickets for Thursday Lecture! Pick yours up today!

Hi folks! I received word from ASCC that they have about a dozen tickets for the Thursday night (January 15) Science and Technology lecture at the Schnitz. This is an excellent and fortuitous opportunity connecting directly to our class.

The lecturer is Dr. Terrence Love, who is a professor and academic from Australia. Tickets for this event are $40-50 at the boxoffice, but you can get yours for FREE because you are a student at Clark.

Stop by the ASCC office. Either Grace Farmer or Sami Lelo should be on hand to give you yours ... feel free to take two if you are going to bring a friend or sig other.

Here's the lowdown...

Holistic Design: A Philosophical Framework
Holistic design of products, services, systems, and organizations depends on the objective material opportunities but even more on our inner subjective, emotional life. We are both the creative designers and aesthetic participants in those designs.
Feeling different: upturning emotion and feeling in design
Design activity depends on our inner subjective life both as designers and as users of designed products, systems, organisations and services. For 5000 years, humans have been interpreting their inner life through a particular perspective on emotions and feelings. We have a now deeply established model of emotion and feeling embedded in literatures, myths, religions and cultures. This perspective on emotion and feelings extends to the sciences concerned with the psyche and cognition. This 5000 year old view of emotions is simple and neat - we feel emotions of love, sadness, happiness etc.

H. L. Mencken: For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Recent research by Damasio and others suggest that the 5000 year 'simple and neat' view of emotions and feelings is flawed. It doesn't align with what is now known about how the phenomena occur inside us. Damasio's insights turn upside down many theories particularly in areas of design and creativity. This lecture gives a helicopter view of the implications of Damasio's insights and how they radically change how we understand how we design our world's future, and our personal environments, and how we see ourselves as creative humans.