Dear Colleagues, Over the past year, we have been holding our Design Perspectives Lectures on a regular basis. We've documented these on audio and video. When we first announced these, we had requests to make these accessible online, and we committed ourselves to making the lectures available via the web. We are happy to announce that you can now access these lectures via the Swinburne Design web site at URL: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/design-perspectives/ Eight lectures are now available online. Nigel Cross - Creative Thinking in Design Nigel Cross - Understanding Design Thinking Wendy Wong - Chinese Graphic Design History in Greater China SInce 1979 Keith Russell - Chocolate Bread, Sacred Rice: Continental Ways of Looking at Things Judith Gregory - Activity Theory as a "Trading Zone" for Design Research and Practice Kalevi Ekman - The Story Behind Aalto University's Design Factory Jacob Buur - User Centred Design Pi'ikea Clark - Expanding Design Education through Indigenous Design More lectures will be added as we complete the preparations. In some cases, we only have audio. I regret this, but our legal department informs us that we can't broadcast or publish some images without copyright clearance from the original copyright holder. An image that may be used for an education lecture in a single classroom or lecture hall falls within fair use provisions of the copyright act, while making it accessible online falls under those aspects of copyright law governing broadcasting and publishing. When possible, we now ask lecturers to use images for which they have permission, but the requirements of topic and theme determine the choice of images. At any rate, we make as much available as we can do. We hope eventually to make the lectures available in written form. Please visit our web site to enjoy the lectures -- five audio, two video, one in both audio and video. http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/design-perspectives/ Best regards, Ken Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | kenfriedman@groupwise.swin.edu.au | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design