{"id":2773,"date":"2025-09-08T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:06:33","slug":"design-frequencies-sharing-international-practice-in-design-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisspeed.net\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Design Frequencies: Sharing International Practice in Design Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Already deep into semester two here. Last semester School of Design RMIT College of Design and Social Context hosted three visiting speakers, and it\u2019s taken some time to get the permissions sorted. But we\u2019re good to share now!

We used the title for the short series: Design Frequencies: Sharing International Practice in Design Research. And perhaps a connection question might be: how do we bridge the gap between speculative imagination and material impact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rathna Ramanathan<\/a> (Central Saint Martins) opened with a challenge to design education’s inherited biases, arguing for “regenerative” approaches that acknowledge the precariousness of immigrant perspectives. Her restructuring of CSM into the C, S, and M schools\u2014Culture, Systems, and Material\u2014deliberately abandons disciplinary names to enable new forms of transdisciplinary collaboration.
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