This talk is an introduction to cross-disciplinary thinking based on my academic, professional, and personal experience in the last two decades. The matrix is from Rich Gold's book "The Plenitude", which provides a great way of looking at (and challenging) the similarities and differences between the ways of thinking across disciplines.

1. "The Plenitude" -Rich Gold

2. Zacoalpan,
1995
http://huaracheblog.
wordpress.com
http://www.flickr.com/
photos/mexicantextile
Tzintzuntzan, 1996
http://www.artemolinero.com.mx

3. Opportunity Lab
Design for social change
Kerala 2013
Bacolod 2013

4. Intro to Design 2012

5. Design and Creativity MSc/MBA 2014

7. complexity
measures present
clear advantages
for selection
criteria of
automated design
generators that
seek to increase
variety and quality
of solutions
Gero, JS and Sosa, R (2008) Complexity measures as a basis for mass customisation of novel designs, Environment and Planning B 35(1): 3-15.

10. Acuña, A. and Sosa, R. The Complementary Role of Representations in Design Creativity: Sketches and Models, ICDC 2010
• Designers that sketch,
tend to generate more
original solutions
• Designers that build
models, tend to
generate more
functional solutions

12. DISCIPLINES

13. THANK YOU
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