Notes from Meeting at Central Saint Martins 1st September
Present: Janet, Rachael, Peter
Apologies: Fraser
1. Progress Since Last Meeting
The list of actions outstanding from the last meeting was reviewed. All had been completed apart from Peter following up organisations to participate through the RSA. Fraser had made a valliant attempt to collaborate with Spinnaker International but this had not been successful for reasons of confidentiality. Peter had not heard back from the product design organisation he had contacted. Rachael has arranged data collection with CIVIC, while Peter had collected data from the second meeting for the Milton Keynes Crematorium project. Janet had distributed the Taylor-Francis book contract but only Nigel had responded with any comments. Peter has invited around 12 people to participate with very positive responses so far.
2. Data Collection
Peter has collected data from a further meeting in the design of the MK Crematorium and commented on the consent approval process. He had asked for signed consent at the start of the meeting, to which all participants had agreed. Rachael said that data collection at CIVIC looks extremely promising, looking at the re-development of the old Arsenal football ground. A week for a meeting that we can film has been set. Rachael will keep contact and ensure that there is someone there to film it.
It looks increasingly unlikely that we will be able to get an engineering company to participate, the overall feeling was that this would not necessarily be a bad thing, as it might lead to too much data being produced and invitees referring to their own data for comparisons along discipline lines might prove more beneficial. We will endeavour to try to film more design meetings, however, up to the deadline of December. Peter will contact the Design Council to see if any possibilities lie in that direction.
3. The Event
Peter and Janet had met a week previously to look at the Central Saint Martins venue for the event. Janet has booked the main room for the four days during and surrounding the event. The room looks highly suitable, with a 'workshoppy' feel to it, AV equipment, and flexible space. There is also a clear line of movement to what will be the different spaces at the workshop (entrance, reception, eating, presentation). Janet had followed up the possibility of the workshop dinner being at the British Library Reading Room which is close by to the workshop (walking distance). Janet had produced a likely breakdown of costs and it looks like the final conference fee will be around £300. This includes everything, refreshments, lunches, the workshop dinner, pre-prints, and a copy of the book when it is published. All agreed to put any profit back into the workshop. Janet will work out the break even point for the workshop based on these figures, and look into how we can use PayPal for registrations.
4. The Website (http://design.open.ac.uk/dtrs7/)
Peter has produced a website for the workshop which is now ready for launch. Peter and Janet had discussed final changes the week previously. The list of participants will slowly be updated as people say that they want to be involved. Two aspects to the site have yet to added. These are a discussion forum to talk about and possibly classify the data, and an online registration and payment system. These will be up and running by the time data is distributed to participants at the end of December / beginning of next year.
5. Timetable
The timetable has been slightly revised and is now on the website. There is also a description of what the individual phases leading to the workshop will require in terms of inputs and outputs. All in all the timetable seems relatively straightforward.
6. Date of Next Meeting
18th October 10.30am at Reading University
Actions Arising
Janet: Follow up the possibility of publishing with Afterall
Rachael, Janet, Fraser: Contact remaining people to invite them to participate
Peter: Forward email inviting people to participate to Janet, Fraser, and Rachael
Peter: Contact the Design Council to explore possible projects to film
Janet: Work out the break even costs of the event
Rachael: Get DRS to take DTRS7 off their list of sponsored events
Peter: Look at DVD distribution issues
Apologies: Fraser
1. Progress Since Last Meeting
The list of actions outstanding from the last meeting was reviewed. All had been completed apart from Peter following up organisations to participate through the RSA. Fraser had made a valliant attempt to collaborate with Spinnaker International but this had not been successful for reasons of confidentiality. Peter had not heard back from the product design organisation he had contacted. Rachael has arranged data collection with CIVIC, while Peter had collected data from the second meeting for the Milton Keynes Crematorium project. Janet had distributed the Taylor-Francis book contract but only Nigel had responded with any comments. Peter has invited around 12 people to participate with very positive responses so far.
2. Data Collection
Peter has collected data from a further meeting in the design of the MK Crematorium and commented on the consent approval process. He had asked for signed consent at the start of the meeting, to which all participants had agreed. Rachael said that data collection at CIVIC looks extremely promising, looking at the re-development of the old Arsenal football ground. A week for a meeting that we can film has been set. Rachael will keep contact and ensure that there is someone there to film it.
It looks increasingly unlikely that we will be able to get an engineering company to participate, the overall feeling was that this would not necessarily be a bad thing, as it might lead to too much data being produced and invitees referring to their own data for comparisons along discipline lines might prove more beneficial. We will endeavour to try to film more design meetings, however, up to the deadline of December. Peter will contact the Design Council to see if any possibilities lie in that direction.
3. The Event
Peter and Janet had met a week previously to look at the Central Saint Martins venue for the event. Janet has booked the main room for the four days during and surrounding the event. The room looks highly suitable, with a 'workshoppy' feel to it, AV equipment, and flexible space. There is also a clear line of movement to what will be the different spaces at the workshop (entrance, reception, eating, presentation). Janet had followed up the possibility of the workshop dinner being at the British Library Reading Room which is close by to the workshop (walking distance). Janet had produced a likely breakdown of costs and it looks like the final conference fee will be around £300. This includes everything, refreshments, lunches, the workshop dinner, pre-prints, and a copy of the book when it is published. All agreed to put any profit back into the workshop. Janet will work out the break even point for the workshop based on these figures, and look into how we can use PayPal for registrations.
4. The Website (http://design.open.ac.uk/dtrs7/)
Peter has produced a website for the workshop which is now ready for launch. Peter and Janet had discussed final changes the week previously. The list of participants will slowly be updated as people say that they want to be involved. Two aspects to the site have yet to added. These are a discussion forum to talk about and possibly classify the data, and an online registration and payment system. These will be up and running by the time data is distributed to participants at the end of December / beginning of next year.
5. Timetable
The timetable has been slightly revised and is now on the website. There is also a description of what the individual phases leading to the workshop will require in terms of inputs and outputs. All in all the timetable seems relatively straightforward.
6. Date of Next Meeting
18th October 10.30am at Reading University
Actions Arising
Janet: Follow up the possibility of publishing with Afterall
Rachael, Janet, Fraser: Contact remaining people to invite them to participate
Peter: Forward email inviting people to participate to Janet, Fraser, and Rachael
Peter: Contact the Design Council to explore possible projects to film
Janet: Work out the break even costs of the event
Rachael: Get DRS to take DTRS7 off their list of sponsored events
Peter: Look at DVD distribution issues
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