Unknown, Unplanned, Unfinished: Peripheral Vision as an Act of Inquiry
Margo Halverson
What if the unplanned is the provocation that breathes life into a design exchange? Might a practice of not knowing affect and transform the course of an outcome? Why not reinterpret the design process itself as a collaborator in an inquiry? How can a communal experience of thinking and making inform what design can be and do?

Margo Halverson, a professor at Maine College of Art & Design was Director of Maine Summer Institute of Graphic Design before co-founding DesignInquiry, a non-profit collective of thinkers and makers devoted to extra-disciplinary exchange. Now entering its third decade, DesignInquiry continues to influence design research practices and teaching methods, lead intensive team-based gatherings, publish outcomes, and inspire professional designers to rethink the value of new ways of cultivating the peripheral. Halverson will share how the generosity of collective improvisation can become a personal invitation to trust the unknown, unplanned, and unfinished.

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