Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

It’s Not Easy Being Green

It’s Not Easy Being Green is a project by two design­ers trav­el­ing around the world in 184 days. The project was ini­ti­at­ed by Aart van Bezooyen and Paula Raché, a Dutch-Ger­­man design cou­ple liv­ing and work­ing in Ham­burg, Ger­many. Over the course of six months they are offer­ing inspir­ing lec­tures and mate­ri­als work­shops to explore […]

Sir Ken Robinson + RSA Animate

This is a great visu­al­iza­tion of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk from my pre­vi­ous post Bring on the Learn­ing Rev­o­lu­tion!

Idea Visualization: sketch vs. prototype

So far in all my class­es, pro­fes­sors have con­stant­ly said things like “just idea viz it up!” My inter­nal response was always some­thing like, “what the hell does that even mean?!” So, here it is – my first group attempt at real­ly idea vizzing it up!

Bring on the Learning Revolution!

I first watched this great talk by Sir Ken Robin­son a few months ago, and since then I’ve watched both this talk and his pre­vi­ous talk three times. Not only are his talks inspir­ing and thought-pro­­vok­ing, they are also very fun­ny. He is tru­ly a great speak­er.

Design Thinking: A Solution to Fracture-Critical Systems

This inter­view with Tom Fish­er, Dean, Col­lege of Design at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta, dis­cuss­es the val­ue of design think­ing in solv­ing many prob­lems with “frac­ture-crit­i­cal sys­tems” that we have seen recent­ly as well as the increas­ing impor­tance of a design edu­ca­tion.