This week we will examine a number of studios that have chosen to build their businesses more globally, forming a creative team based in different parts of the world. We will question how to ensure cultural understanding across design teams that operate remotely. We will also explore how technology can help to support greater diversity and inclusivity in a studio with a global reach.
These questions get to the very heart of how design studios and practices operate today. By exploring these examples, we want you to think about potential models of practice that can offer you new, exciting opportunities for collaboration in the future.
You will be working towards achieving the following learning outcomes:
LO1: Research – select and deploy appropriate research methodologies to inform the needs within a project.
LO4: Distil – position a creative strategic insight that has been distilled and refined through an informed investigation.
LO5: Imagine – deliver appropriate and innovative ideas that embrace risk, have contemporary relevance and question the boundaries of the discipline.
LO8: Design – realise a final solution that evidences its strategic journey and clear relationship between form and function.
LO9: Communicate – communicate effectively in a range of contexts and situations to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
L10: Manage – demonstrate applied planning and organisational skills to support self-directed project work and inform ongoing professional development needs.