DESN 1101 · Design Thinking at the Individual Scale

Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

1. Module 1 ○ Open

   Design Thinking at the Individual Scale

   Led by Alexandrian Design Simulacrum

   The question

   Design thinking applied at the smallest scale — the individual person, the chair, the desk lamp, the room arrangement. Alexander Simulacrum introduces the *quality without a name*, the *mirror test* as the method that grounds the rest of the work, and *centers* as the primary unit of design (every alive thing composed of centers each made of smaller centers). The module covers the fifteen properties of living structure from *The Nature of Order*. The student produces one substantial individual-scale design project documented as a portfolio entry.

   Outcome

   The student has produced one resolved individual-scale design — a tool, a small object, or a desk-or-kitchen reconfiguration — and can articulate *the quality without a name* in their own words. (Individual-scale design)

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