Tag: IdeaGeneration

The technicolour light of new ideas

In December 2016, I visited my favourite building, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia. That afternoon, the low sun shone straight in through the stained-glass windows in the west wall, filling…

Pattern mixing lessons from Bristol’s brewers

Bristol’s craft brewers are constantly experimenting – mixing patterns to create something new. Over the years I’ve been fortunate to facilitate workshops for teams from local breweries, which…

Joesph Monier’s flower pots

The simple model we use in our teaching at Constructivist is that an idea is simply what happens when we take two existing patterns and mix them to…

Divergent poem

Two days ago we had the Convergent Poem, full of ways of working that engineers (and other humans) tend to get praise for. Here is its awkward sibling,…

Observe | Brief | Ideas | Test | Repeat

This week I’ve been making the case for a continuous, place-based approach to design. As James Norman and I set out in the Regenerative Structural Engineer, we see…