GFRY2012 class blog goes live

After many, many months of writing proposals, giving presentations, cajoling partners, inspiring speeches and careful negotiations, the GFRY Studio, “(re)designing a public school cafeteria” is all go and full steam ahead. And like many of my classes*, it’s not real till there’s a blog to go with it. 

As in previous classes, the students soon take over the running of the blog, but as we build up momentum, I’ll be posting about food, schools, and kids and all things related on that blog. The first post even has a mini FAQ for those who are wondering what the hell is going on here.

Click here for the GFRY2012 class blog 

*It’s a shame the #SamsungSAIC class this year had to go into stealth mode due to confidentiality agreements, as it’s been a teriffic blog with tons of updates from the student teams.

Upcoming classes presentation, Fall 2011, Spring/Summer 2012

Today, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for my two upcoming classes, Samsung: Mobile Tools for Global Ties, and the GFRY Studio: Next-generation public school cafeteria.

Rather than explaining what happened, I have posted a video (made from Keynote) of the presentation itself. The first 30 seconds was a buffer for me to explain my background as a design consultant, and how these classes are built to feel as much like a design consultancy experience as possible.

As I said in the presentation, you can keep an eye on these classes as they progress through our blogs or through the Twitter hashtags. #SamsungSAIC one has it’s own blog up and running here, and #GFRY2012 will have one soon.