TELLING DESIGN STORIES FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN ENTREPRENEURING

摘要

I am riding Caltrain and twirling a water-filled paintbrush into a compact box of watercolors to plan my afternoon class. I take the train during the week from San Francisco-newly transplanted from Boston-to Palo Alto where I am a visiting professor. During the first weeks of the commute I used a computer for this purpose, then books; finally I turned to what makes time stand still for me- painting. Today I am trying to figure out a way to structure exercises to access story as a methodology and explorative form for a graduate engineering and design methods class. To do this I reflect back on what I already know, what I am learning from graduate student co-creators, and how my participant observation as instructor for the class will impact the developmental stages of their projects.