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Can there is a design school that one enjooy so much that he or she refuse to get out?
THE CONTEXT
Get Inspired is so important in design. yet its almost a pain going to design schools, why is the design school not designed for good design to happen consistantly? What is the teacher-students relationship and how that could be expressed spatially so that interaction, collaboration happen naturally?
As architecture students, we spend long hours on our desk- work, eat and even sleep in the same table, why is that problem not solved? Why there is not a single table available comercial cater for the designer needs?
How come the education system is such a waste of time as we foud out what we learn in school is not applicable in real world problems? Why do the transition from university student to working such a sudden transformation, we feel lost, uncertain the moment we graduate? What cant we make use of the design resources in education institute onto real world problem? Why is there a mindset that the students that graduate from university would not be useful in the first few years? What the have we learn in our design education?
POWER TO THE STUDENT
Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he eat for a lifetime. I beleive the problems lies in our design educational system. We should be faciliators, giving tools, the basic and the direction,
Why must we learn about material on a textbook? Can there is a material lab that student can feel, touch and smell the material? Shouldnt course be aimmed at producting product with understand to the constain of the material and not just on pretty renderings?
Why our design school cannot be like a design museum where knowledge of design is embedded into the spatial arrangement?
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE
There is three types of knowledge in the world- one that you know you know, one that is you know you dont know, another is you dont know you dont know.
I believe our design institution should function as a space that integrated with knowledge. As seeing is believing, believing is knowing.
Our design intend to investigate the design solution for a more integrated design education system that cater for the design education community that one refuse to get out of the design school.
PROBLEM
I believe that the space, environments, tools does aflects the way we design. Meaning the design environment actually has a impact on how well we design. Say you are willing to spend 15 mins more on your desk to design because the environment is nice, in one year you would have about 15 more days then your peers who dont want to focus on his design.
More importantly resources and direction is vital to the success of projects, sometimes finding the right person to ask is solving half of the problem. Also the ability trading is such valuable meaning I may be able to do Task X in 10 mins but you would take a week, but you are able to do something else that I cannot. What I mean is that design is a multidisciplinary task that involve many parties with different ability. Creating the system and environment that the right people comes together is so valuable.
Design IDEA-
We in the archtiecture, eat, work and even sleep in the same location if neccessary but this design of the table has never been a offical product of any company or any type…
Our source of design abilities lies in our ability to make and do prototypes, the maker space concept by standard seems to be a good solution but in actual fact the design of that space has not been very integrated with our working environment. The tools, the machines are too noisy, too dirty and it seems a pain when someone really wants make he or her model the machine is always in use.
Future Design Lab
COOL Spaces
- geometry library (a space where various geometry is explained )
Interactive table that is used to explain geometry and the various types of geometry to get inspired. - material library (typs of material explainned)
material lab that expains the basic of material, also host workshops that use new materials - 3DP library
exhibit all material that can be printed in the industry, how much it cost and what it is used for. - splirt paint unit
a painting inclosure that enable the use of painting with out affecting others - Designer Table-
a table that sleep, lamp, with notification, task, etc… - gym reading room
allow gym and watching interesting design video at the same time - self exhibition spaces
students can generate exhibition as and when they like,
COOL SYSTEMS
- Smart lock system
students are given authority over the usage of the conference rooms, lecture hall, equipment room etc, the smart lock system helps govern the rules. - boardcasting system- online camera for internet class system
for students who wants to restudy and go through what the professor says in lecture. - booking of equipment system
a system for the booking of equipments and students can plan ahead of the time to get their model done. - Get together APP-
Gathering a team is a difficult and sometime finding the right person to do the job is a pain. Its so important but we actually never really knows if we can find the correct person… we design a app to aneble finding member for a innovative idea app. - NEED HELP!
Job export function, need help is a alart that call for help and people who may have that skill could come and resolve that problem for a small cost.
Future Design Lab 