Cultivate the possibility for meaningful attention on a UT design student’s way to DES 304 by ritualizing it.

Inspiration

![“Symbols are words, gestures, pictures, or objects that carry a particular meaning within a culture.

Heroes are persons, alive or dead, real or imaginary, who possess characteristics highly prized in the culture and who thus serve as models for behavior (Wilkins, 1984).

Rituals are collective activities that are technically superfluous but are socially essential within a culture-they are therefore carried out for their own sake. In Figure 1, we have drawn these as the successive skins of an onion-from shallow, superficial symbols to deeper rituals.

Symbols, heroes, and rituals can be subsumed under the term "practices," because they are visible to an observer although their cultural meaning lies in the way they are perceived by insiders. The core of culture, according to Figure 1, is formed by values, in the sense of broad, nonspecific feelings of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, normal and abnormal, rational and irrational-feelings that are often unconscious and rarely discussable, that cannot be observed as such but are manifested in alternatives of behavior.”

— Hofstede, Geert, et al. “Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study Across Twenty Cases.” ](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/12d22480-3d3f-4b17-a96d-3cab0ad62090/6c68f262-f6fe-4252-99bb-8bd2b7241bfb/image.png)

“Symbols are words, gestures, pictures, or objects that carry a particular meaning within a culture.

Heroes are persons, alive or dead, real or imaginary, who possess characteristics highly prized in the culture and who thus serve as models for behavior (Wilkins, 1984).

Rituals are collective activities that are technically superfluous but are socially essential within a culture-they are therefore carried out for their own sake. In Figure 1, we have drawn these as the successive skins of an onion-from shallow, superficial symbols to deeper rituals.

Symbols, heroes, and rituals can be subsumed under the term "practices," because they are visible to an observer although their cultural meaning lies in the way they are perceived by insiders. The core of culture, according to Figure 1, is formed by values, in the sense of broad, nonspecific feelings of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, normal and abnormal, rational and irrational-feelings that are often unconscious and rarely discussable, that cannot be observed as such but are manifested in alternatives of behavior.”

— Hofstede, Geert, et al. “Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study Across Twenty Cases.”

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Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity

Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity

More inspiration:

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Requirements and constraints

  1. Keep it simple!
  2. Make it symbolically rich.

Design deliverables

<aside> <img src="/icons/run_gray.svg" alt="/icons/run_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Note: each deliverable will typically have an accompanying in-class exercise / activity. Be sure to document / photograph as much of these activities as you can. Include how these activities are shaping your thinking.

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