11/17/2021
Architects and designers of the built world! Excited to be leading this Contemplative Designer live online interactive workshop (free trial) this Thursday November 18 from 12-1pm.
Are you struggling with a current design challenge or feeling stuck?
Discover how LISTENING with WONDER and EMPATHY can help you overcome a current design challenge and generate new creative ways of approaching future design challenges.
Bring your design challenge and "stuck" to the workshop!
Register today at : https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
10/06/2021
Filled with gratitude for this beautiful journey (and sometimes challenging) I have been on for the past many months of love, interdependence and sheer joy.
Now ready for this next chapter of Contemplative Designer-Mother !
09/22/2021
Honored and excited to be speaking and leading a workshop entitled “Contemplative Designer: A Novel and Essential Framework for Architecture and Design’s Next Chapter” at the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design, the New School tomorrow September 23, 4-5pm.
If this piques your interest, please register (for free) for the online interactive zoom workshop at this link:
https://event.newschool.edu/contemplativedesigner
08/18/2021
In our upcoming live online interactive workshop on Saturday August 21, 11am-12:30 EST we will be exploring our innovative DESIGN MOMENTUM EQUATION in a very practical and fun way to bring about transformation momentum for your design practice!
It's so easy to lose momentum and direction in the long process of design of a project and especially for our long career goals!
We truly believe this equation can provide valuable insights and framework that can be an engine that MOVES your larger INTENTION for design forward and PROPELS your design career to the next level.
JOIN US for the free trial membership workshop by registering in the link below (also in our bio):
https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
08/16/2021
We would like to propose that we define MOMENTUM in DESIGN as COMMITMENT x CREATIVITY.
M=CC
Like momentum as a physical property, if either commitment or creativity in a design process drop to zero then momentum grinds to a halt.
As a designer, what do the terms Commitment and Creativity mean to you? Do you see how the momentum in your design life is truly affected by these variables?
In our upcoming live online interactive Contemplative Designer workshop on Saturday, August 21, 11am-12:30pm EST we are going to be exploring an innovative design momentum equation in a very practical and fun way and it can be a gamechanger! Join us for the workshop by signing up on our website at this link (also in our bio) https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
08/15/2021
Momentum.…let’s be honest, how many times have we designers started a project with so much gusto and energy, but that motion forward seemed to get dissipated over the months and even years of a project where it just felt like such a drag and we wanted to just get done with it! We LOST the MOMENTUM.
In physics, specifically Newtonian mechanics, momentum is defined as mass times velocity. p=mv
In an architecture and design context what would your equation for design momentum be? We really need to understand the variables so that we can keep our momentum on track!
In our upcoming live online interactive Contemplative Designer workshop on Saturday, August 21, 11am-12:30pm EST we are going to be exploring an innovative design momentum equation in a very practical and fun way and it can be a game changer! Join us for the workshop by signing up on our website at this link (also in our bio) https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
08/14/2021
I want to introduce another way of understanding INTENTION.
It's a word we designers use a lot – or at least versions of it. It is common to think of intention – specifically, an intention – as something that will happen in the FUTURE at some point in time.
In his book “How to Understand the Mind” Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, an internationally known meditation master, states that “…without INTENTION our mind would be motionless – the MOVEMENT OF OUR MIND depends on INTENTION.”
Through contemplating these words and through my experiences, I realized that Intention was not something in the future, but VISCERAL AND ALIVE IN THE HERE AND NOW, every time I connected to it.
THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!!! We are bringing the future into the present moment….and designing and leading from the emerging future in the present moment.
How does this way of understanding INTENTION shift things for you as a designer?
In our upcoming live interactive Contemplative Designer workshop on Saturday, August 21, 11-12:30pm EST we are going to be exploring this new way of understanding Intention in design in a very practical and fun way! Join us for the workshop by signing up on our website at this link (also in our bio) https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
08/14/2021
This quote by Peter Zumthor speaks to his INTENTION for design.
Project: Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Cologne
Photo credits: Aldo Amaretti
In our upcoming live interactive Contemplative Designer workshop on Saturday, August 21, 11-12:30pm EST we are going to be exploring the concept of "Form follows Intention" in a very practical and fun way!
Join us for the workshop by signing up on our website at this link (also in our bio) https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
08/13/2021
We at Contemplative Designer believe that an equally or perhaps more important design principle than "Form Follows Function" is
“Form Follows Intention”
…as felt in Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Chapel in Germany.
That is authentically designing from inside-out.
How do you define INTENTION in your design practice?
In our upcoming live interactive Contemplative Designer workshop on Saturday, August 21, 11-12:30pm EST we are going to be exploring this concept in a very practical and fun way! Join us for the workshop by signing up on our website at this link (also in our bio) https://www.contemplativedesigner.com/membership
08/13/2021
Louis Sullivan, in the late 19th century, coined the design principle “Form follows Function”.
Sullivan rejected the historical details common to Victorian architecture in favor of abstract forms that later became the hallmarks of modern architecture. The James Charnley House designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright was the first residential project that embraced this new principle.
Does "Form follows Function" speak to you as a designer?
Fill in the blank for you...." Form follows ___________". Please comment below!
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