Seminar information
| Dates | 2 October 2024 |
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| Time | 5.30 pm - 7 pm |
| Delivery | Online lecture and Q&A |
| Related disciplines | Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Psychology, Sociology. Design, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, Product Design, Industrial Design, Interaction Design |
About the seminar
The psychology of design is fascinating: continually hovering is the question of how the things we design refer simultaneously to our outer, observable, lives as well as to our inner, psychologically active and deeply personal, worlds. Design is very much about how we project outwards our inner reality. Yet this is a fraught, especially where inner and outer reality clash. In this sense, design is part of what the child psychanalyst Donald Winnicott called a mediating “potential space” which is neither fully inner nor fully outer: a location where the two worlds can be reconciled. This lecture explores some psychoanalytical thinking about design as a vital activity within this potential space.
Seminar presenter
Learn from industry experts
Gowrie Waterhouse
BSc, BID(Hons) medal
Gowrie has a 30-year involvement with all areas of Design and Architecture both in the 鶹Ƶ context and the private sector as well as with the Commonwealth Government. His principal area of interest remains industrial design. His particular focus is interdisciplinary design and the hybridisation of creative endeavour that these intersections produce. As part of these explorations, he has developed an enduring interest in the symbolic meaning of those designed objects we collectively call “belongings” and how they are part of “belonging” more generally.
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