Inspired Production: Design Thinking by Designers

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About Inspired Production: Design Thinking by Designers

I've been researching how designers think about design for a few years. It strikes me there is an ever expanding database of pictures about the design industry (especially adverts for products/agencies) but there is less attention paid to how designers themselves design ways of visualizing their practice and craft.

Inspired Production is a tentative step towards inviting designers to add images of how they visually reflect on doing design in action. The following are proposed tags. I am open to any and all suggestions as I am not a designer, just someone who is fascinated about how design thinking shapes our world.

Spaces of production - Where do you do most of your design thinking? (office spaces, studios, bedrooms, hotdesks)

Organizing processes - How do you organize your design thinking? (e.g., doing interviews, reading about other designers, taking photos, making audio field recordings, keeping a library or diary)

Fabrication - What are the tools of your trade? These could be materials that are both physical and immaterial (e.g., pens, pencils, charcoals, mouse, websites).

The Macrosope - This is Thackara's term for the bigger picture, like an inverted microscope. How would you visualize the wider role of design? (sustainability, social communications,product design etc).

Any other ways you can think of visualizing the design process are welcomed.

I hope the group might become an archive that can spark ideas about the role the designer plays in both contemporary economic production and creating and maintaining social relations.