Unit 8 Design

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Unit 8:

Design with purpose


1. Look at the photo. Why do you
think the company has a space like
this for employees?

2. What is your opinion about the


design of the room? What would
you change?
EXPLORE THE THEME

1 2 3

Do you visit museums What do you personally Why do you think the
or art galleries? Why or think about Pei’s design initial reaction to his
why not? for the Louvre design was so negative?
B. Work in a small group. Discuss the questions and explain
your answers.
C. Use a dictionary to complete the chart with different word
forms.

Noun Verb Adjective


appealing
appeal appeal

committed
commitment commit

influence influence influential

innovation innovate innovative


A GUEST LECTURE
LISTENING ABOUT DESIGN
WHILE C. Listen to the lecture. What does the guest speaker mainly discuss?
LISTENING Check three answers.

An influential experience she had a design student

Examples of the designs that she finds most appealing

People who have had a major impact on her philosophy

Reasons why she enjoys designing things for her clients

Some principles she thinks are important for good design

Why different people have different ideas about design


LISTENING
SKILL Listening for Inferences
E. Listen to three excerpts from the lecture. Write the inference you can make about each excerpt.

We can infer that Ana thinks that it’s not an easy question

We can infer that Ana was very embarrassed

We can infer that Ana thought her design was not very good.
AFTER
LISTENING

1. The guest speaker, Ana Fuentes, describes learning from her mistakes.
Think about when you learned from a mistake that you or somebody else
made. Explain the situation and what you learned.
2. Some people says, “The biggest mistake in life is to be afraid of making
mistakes.” Discuss whether you agree or disagree with this idea and why?
VIDEO:
Designing the Future
B. Read about Skylar Tibbits. What types of things he may
be designing in his laboratory
D. Watch the video again. What is the main messages of the video?

a. Machines like airplanes must be made of strong materials.

b. Nature has produced materials that humans can not copy.

c. Robots are becoming better at assembling components.

d. Self – assembling materials offer many benefits to humans.


E. Complete each sentence with a phrase from the box.

build some furniture the future of robotics


remove components, complexity pairs of shoes
the creativity of humans put things together
environments and users temperature, moisture, pressure

remove components, complexity


1. Skylar Tibbits says he and his team aim to_______
environments and users
2. He wants to make smart products that respond to_____
put things together
3. He says that in nature, there is just a single way to_____
temperature, moisture, pressure
4. He mentions carbon fiber sheets that are affected by ____
pairs of shoes
5. He says that for different tasks, people have different ____
the future of robotics
6. Tibbits says that his group believes materials are____
AFTER VIEWING: Discuss these questions

1. Which of the ideas mentioned in the video is most interesting for you personally?
Why? – furniture that can assemble itself, smart products that can respond to
users, shoes that can change to perform better, or high – tech materials that
respond to touch?
2. Do you think the work of Skylar Tibits is more closely related to design, to
engineering, or to some other field?
VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY SKILL
C.

function browse

influence identity

philosophy illustrate

principle explore
D. Interview your classmates by asking these survey questions.

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