142 research outputs found

    Daily Dying: The Gateway to Living Well

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    Dr. Ravi Ravindra marries deep studies in both science and comparative religions to explore important questions of our age. In this community conversation, he will help us explore how holding an understanding of our own mortality can enrich our living. Dr. Ravindra’s spiritual search has led him to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, G. I. Gurdjieff, Zen, Yoga, and a deep immersion in the mystical teachings of the Indian and Christian classical traditions. He is the author of several books on religion, science, mysticism, and spirituality, including Whispers from the Other Shore: Spiritual Search--East and West, and Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World. Using these lenses, Dr. Ravindra will help us explore the questions that facing our own mortality brings to the surface, both personally and culturally. Mainstream American culture has a paradoxical relationship with dying. On the one hand, our media focuses on death through violence and war, and on the other hand, although we are all moving toward death from the moment of our birth, we turn away from the intimacy of considering our own dying or the death of those we love

    Emotion deep dive for designers: Seven propositions that operationalize emotions in design innovation

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    This paper presents a five-day intense course that teaches “emotion-driven design”(EDD) to graduate students with a broad variety of disciplinary backgrounds at theFaculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. We introduce seven principlesdrawn from design-relevant emotion knowledge that informed the design of thecourse’s overall structure, and explain how they guided the development of learningactivities and materials. We envision that this paper will interest design educatorswho aspire teaching how to operationalize emotions in creative design processes tostudents with little preexisting expertise in (or scientific knowledge about) emotionpsychology.Human-Centered DesignDesign Aesthetic
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