What do yoga, woodworking, entertaining friends over a meal have in common. To the
casual glance they appear quite disparate, connected only by virtue of human
participation. A more deliberate look is revealing. They all involve codified behaviours,
patterns, oftentimes the use of specialised objects and their own peculiar environments
and settings. They are threaded through with narratives and meaning. Networks of
practices both as nouns and verbs make up our lives
Designing around practices both existing and speculated- with them, for them and
sometimes in opposition, provides an opportunity to develop critical methods and
abilities used in design. Participants working in teams will traverse the distance from
identifying and studying practices to testing and developing ideas into designs.
The outcome of the studio will be the students using methodologies which allow them to
arrive at successful design outcomes in a context. Designs which have a higher
probability of an effective outcome while avoiding negative, unanticipated and
unintended consequences
