Petra Cerne Oven

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The question is an old one. How do you teach in a way that students actually learn something? In a way that they actually acquire knowledge? And what does it mean to acquire knowledge?

Other authors in the book: David Erixon, Alain Findeli, Tony Fry, Tomás Maldonado, Norman Potter, Teal Triggs

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Authors:

• Petra Cerne Oven,
• Barbara Predan

Zbornik besedil na temo vpeljevanja oblikovanja in inovacij v javni sektor. Gre za prvi zbornik, ki je na izbrano temo izšel v slovenskem jeziku.

Vsebina:
Barbara Predan
Javni sektor: nosilec napredka?

Lucy Kimbell
Kaj obsegajo profesionalne oblikovalske veščine?

Jesper Christiansen in Laura Bunt
Prenova javne politike: upoštevanje družbene kompleksnosti in negotovosti pri oblikovanju javnih storitev

Guy Julier
Politične ekonomije oblikovalskega aktivizma in javni sektor

Petra Černe Oven
Študije primerov: Seznam dokumentov, ki izpostavljajo pomen in vlogo vključevanja oblikovanja v javni in zasebni sektor (izbor)

Uredila: Barbara Predan
Cena: 10 Eur
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Authors:

• Petra Cerne Oven,
• Barbara Predan,
• Jesper Christiansen,
• Laura Bunt,
• Guy Julier,
• Lucy Kimbell

Design is all around us (Introduction)

1984.
A highly meaningful year. Orwell's novel from 1949 has marked us and its contents remain all present – just like Big Brother. If the omnipresence of control in Orwell's dystopia was loud, always manifesting itself through posters and telescreens, the omnipresence of design in the society is quiet. In his book Becoming Human by Design Tony Fry characterises design as the overlooked factor which defines us as humans besides biology and culture of the society. Moreover, according to Fry design is "an enormous complexity that is negated by almost every way that it is addressed".

2014.
Anniversary. Every anniversary (besides enthusiasm: "Who would have thought, we're still here!") opens a phase of reflection on the past and current state and provides the starting points for the cooperative planning of the future. Thirty years have passed since in 1984 the first higher education programme in Slovenia came to life in the context of the Department of Design at what was then the Academy of Fine Arts. Even today this programme covers the various design fields and regularly introduces new courses and subjects in the attempt to respond to the constant development of this profession at home and abroad. Some of these efforts are described in this book.

The motto of the anniversary is "design is all around us". When we started thinking about this it became clear that although we may have different opinions about what design actually is, the fact that it is everywhere cannot be disputed. Everything is designed, the only difference is whether the design is good or bad.

We can proudly state that despite the unenviable and second rate position of the design profession in the context of the University of Ljubljana the results of our graduates and professors are becoming increasingly visible. They develop our environment, fascinate us with international successes, and in fact (in spite of their scarce numbers) keep pushing the envelope.

Authors:

• Petra Cerne Oven,
• Barbara Predan

The aim of the book, lies in designing a plan, in a methodology and tools, in recommendations to policy-makers, and in dealing with concrete cases that, in both theory and practice, bring together stakeholders in certain selected topics and starting points. Our concern, is to shift to a search for the right problems and needs – things we encounter every day in receiving and offering services and information – and to bring at least one project to realization: in other words, to confirm that service and information design can have a positive influence on our surroundings, that we are designing for the community and inspiring concrete changes.

The power to achieve what we have described we find in linking the two disciplines: service and information design. Both disciplines share a methodology, which, although it can diverge in certain phases, often overlaps in many areas. That is also why the third volume in the Zbirka 42 series deals with the two fields in an integrated way, and where they intersect we find: the user. When interdisciplinary teams working on projects concentrate on different aspects of scoping, exploring, and solving a problem, what they have in common is that in all these phases of work they “put on the glasses” of the stakeholders involved in the service. And from that point on, experts, users, and other stakeholders in the service add, each in their own way, knowledge and experiences from their own particular fields. Only such an approach can deliver a good solution and – as is our own ambition – make it possible for the service to become a reality and continue its own independent life among those who perform services and those who receive them.

This book, then, can be read as a handbook, a guide to how and why we should tackle two extraordinarily complex fields, which at the same time are integrated into every pore of our daily life. With one important note – borrowed from Douglas Adams, a master of writing guidebooks: DON’T PANIC.

Authors:

• Petra Cerne Oven,
• Barbara Predan

504 pp about one of the most prolific Slovene designer, who was instrumental in building identity of Slovenian state in 1990s. Soon to be published in English language. Connected exhibition: http://www.ng-slo.si/si/razstave/razstava/miljenko-licul?id=1502

This remarkable volume is a collection of eleven essays and shorter articles which for the first time provide rich contexts – social, cultural, and political – for graphic design in Britain.

Authors:

• Petra Cerne Oven,
• Paul Stiff

"The book, published by the University of Reading, is not an exhibition catalogue. It was planned, instead, as a companion to the exhibition. It brings back into circulation some forgotten texts written about Edward Wright by contemporaries – collaborators, students, and critics. It republishes an important handful of Wright’s own writings from diverse sources. The book ends with two very useful listings: a biographical outline of Edward Wright and a bibliography of writings about and by him."

Typographic history of diacritical marks

"This interview was recorded in London on 28 May 1999, and published in Slovenian translation in the cultural magazine ‘Emzin’ (vol. 9, nos. 1–2). In making this transcription, we have made some clarifications and expansions of what was said." (RK)

Authors:

• Petra Cerne Oven,
• Robin Kinross