Part of the College of Design’s Kusske Design Initiative, the KDI Exchange invites consideration of varied design motivations, disciplines, methods, and solutions.
Textiles and other soft goods can evoke memories, support learning, or otherwise become supports for personal meaning-making. Woven, knitted, or stitched; displayed, worn, or repurposed; soft goods have ways of deeply touching the human psyche.For this session of the KDI Exchange, participants are encouraged to engage in an asynchronous conversation via Miro board.
Share your ideas at z.umn.edu/kdi-miro; we'll revisit the board in the July 19 Exchange session with co-dialogists Sarah Kuhn (professor emerita of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, author of Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction: The Case for Thinking With Things, and founder of Occupy the Hand) and Aidan O-Connor (director of the Goldstein Museum of Design).
The KDI Exchange occurs biweekly on Fridays, 11 a.m. to noon. These dialogues are open and informal, conducted via Zoom to maximize inclusion and reference-sharing for building community and enriching design thinking and practice.
