Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
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We then used these objects to prompt discussions through questions of making – specifically asking participants ‘why do you think this was made?’ Making motivations is a lens being explored by the V&A East team as a curatorial framework and we wanted to build on this. Through these conversations, participants drew lines between their objects and... See more
Cara Gray • Designing for serendipity in the museum – surprise encounters with ...
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“Fiction is just gossip about people who happened to be make-believe.” — Lynn Barnes
Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen (2016) put it even more concisely:
Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.
“A theory is a statement of causality. It’s a statement of what causes what and why.”
Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics: gender, culture,... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts . It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now ? It’s fine, and maybe even better, if the topic isn’t explicitly intellectual or academic in nature. And if one topic leads you to another topic that seems totally unrelated, that’s something to get excited... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really
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