Aesthetics
4 posts tagged with “Aesthetics”
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The Compass Unpacked: Six Accounts of Evaluative Capacity in Design
Two recent practitioner blog posts converge on a problem that runs through my own research into planning, governance, and design. In a recent week-note, I reflected on Jaimes Nel's (2026) recent...
Immateriality and the Sensual in Service Design
The two preceding posts in this series have established a framework for thinking about aesthetics in service design: Folkmann's (2013) three platforms - sensual-phenomenal, conceptual-hermeneutical,...
The Distribution of the Sensible in Service Design
The previous post argued that service design faces an aesthetic deficit: a lack of vocabulary and theoretical apparatus for discussing how services structure experience across sensual, conceptual,...
Aesthetics as a Design Problem
Before I became a service designer, I spent several years working as a ski instructor in Norway. The transition from teaching people to ski to designing public services might appear to be a...