JLS webinars

Part of JLS’s social media strategy, we have begun to organise webinars in which an author discusses a new paper with a panel and audience. We’ve had 2 so far, and they have both been very engaging conversations! It is a great way to have a conversation about your new paper with some of the people you think need to know about it. We record the video (and edit it for length if necessary) and make it available here, so this is a good resource that can be used with the article, for example if you use it in a course. Seeing seasoned scholars discuss a research article can be a great learning experience for graduate students.

In the most recent webinar, Kevin O’Neill discussed his thought provoking Reports and Reflections article with Rogers Hall, Brian K. Smith and Josh Radinsky. O’Neill looked at big “failures” in modern architecture and urban design to see what we can learn from them for design research. In doing so, he makes a distinction between “designing for the future”, that is, designing interventions that address conditions that we can reasonably expect to last, and “designing the future”, where one tries to create a new educational reality. The webinar especially explored faulty predictions and the unintended consequences of designs. Want to know more about what the picture shown here has to do with design research? Watch the full webinar video here.

Interested in hosting your own webinar? Contact our web outreach coordinator Lillian Liu.