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To all the roundabout enthusiasts, analysts and designers, NCHRP 1043 is finally out. This is a revision to NCHRP 672 backed by extensive research using data from past 13 years. https://lnkd.in/ghkG2fg3 #roundabout #trafficoperations #geometricdesign #fastestpath #safety American Structurepoint

“An overarching challenge is our sense of human exceptionalism but also the real limits of anthropocentrism. A large part of that exceptionalism is based on our belief that human reason can explain away complexities. It is almost imperialistic in the belief that everything can be explained. But the real concern is that we privilege what is explainable or what can be measured or made visible over what is not, at the expense of what is not seen.” Ron Wakkary's work illustrates the importance of designing with a more-than-human perspective, accepting uncertainty, and redefining our relationship with technology and nature. An understanding of biography, constituency, speaking subjects, and repertoires offers practical insights into the design process. To explore Ron's ideas further, we recommend reading "Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds." Thanks for sharing your profound insights with us, Ron, and for inspiring us to rethink design and its impact on the world. Ron Wakkary's conversation with Michela Ventin can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eFjK5j_E

If you're thinking about commissioning a research, here are a few examples of services and methods you can expect. Remember, the choice of research service or method largely depends on your specific objectives, budget, and timeline. Nightingale Design Research team can guide you in selecting the most suitable approach for your project. #design #research #nightingaledesignresearch #researchmethods #researchservices

“Cultures of Transformative Design" Participating in the construction of society through transformative design requires patient and constant reflection, study and adaptability for survival. Contemporary society builds and destroys at the same speed, excessively manipulated by particularized interests, seriously polarized and riven with desires and projects so contradictory that they engulf the essential social nature of the human being. In order to aspire to recover a more naturalized environment, our area of responsibility, design studies, invites us—indeed, sometimes it forces us—to think and rethink transformational solutions that also coexist with systems proven harmful to personal and global survival. With full awareness of the power of design, its powerful emotional effect and its capacity for positive transformation, we propose a courageous discourse of transformation. Firmly grounded in humility, can we can nevertheless set our set ourselves the task of creating realistic, social, ecological and sustainable proposals, viable in the moment in which we are bound to live yet, above all, humanizing. It is proposed to analyze current design cultures that set out to transform the world. It is boring, even demoralizing, to listen to speeches and transformative proposals incapable of positive practical implementation in a society formed of people with differential capacities to enact change. Constructive criticism is necessary, certainly painful, and this can lay the foundations for a sustainable, socially inclusive and normalized future. Transformative design may not be perfect. Its focal interests and programs may not be homogeneous. Their agendas may be minimal, recycled or reused. Often, they fall outside the standardization parameters to which we have become accustomed. Nevertheless, they raise possibilities that we might not contemplate in more formal environments. As such, they may break with certain conventional design schemes, and prompt necessary change to our way of being in the world—our ways of creating, producing, acquiring and consuming. In these circumstances, design becomes a strategic tool and engine of social change. https://lnkd.in/gxSrzNfT #ICDPP24 #DesignPrinciplesandPractices https://lnkd.in/g5xji8fg

CoLabs is getting a cheeky feature in the latest issue of Design Studies, where we explore a handful of key principles for 'designing for coexistence'. - #Design #Innovation #RegenerativeDesign #CircularEconomy #TransformativeInnovation