Meaningfulness. That’s our theme for today’s article, where I’m looking at how our lives are changing, and how the shift we are experiencing is right now in our daily routines, in our work, our families, our media consumption and in…
(This was originally published on LinkedIn, here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-changing-world-part-23-vanessa-julia-carpenter/) I’m including it here for you – because it’s part of my work with meaningfulness as you’ll see in the next post. Yesterday I introduced this series of articles where each article…
(This was originally published on LinkedIn, here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-changing-world-part-13-vanessa-julia-carpenter/) I’m including it here for you – because it’s part of my work with meaningfulness as you’ll see in the next post. This is the first of 3 articles I’m writing on…
2020 heralds a time of humanity being recognized as being more important than technology. This might sound ridiculous, or, at the very least, obvious, but it hasn’t been. Technology has been the hot topic for many, many years now and…
Welcome to 2020! As we enter a new decade (!) I want to take the knowledge I’ve gained in the last decade and really understand the main takeaways. Try to think of where you were, 10 years ago. I had…
After having done a whirlwind circuit in the beginning of June, visiting Jewellery of Tomorrow, Respond Festival and Folkemødet and presenting some design guidelines for Designing for Meaningfulness, a question kept arising, “Does every device have to be meaningful?” –…
In this post, I’m defining the three take aways which I present in my dissertation for Designing for Meaningfulness – Chapter 9, and available here, in much more eloquent language. This is alongside the 6 Mechanics of Meaningfulness (the value…
In this post, I’m sharing the work I’ve done with meaningfulness in welfare technology, exploring and evaluating meaningfulness with companies, and creating an industry report and a CHI paper, as well as a case study for my PhD. Welfare Technology…
It has been a minute since I last published a blog post. In the meantime, I’ve been writing this little thing called my PhD. Designing for Meaningfulness is now complete and ready to be sent to a PhD Committee for…
The common house plant is usually a decoration, something to add a little green to your environment. Perhaps, if you’re ambitious and don’t kill everything like I do, you even have a kitchen garden with herbs and chilis. Or, like…