LETTER no. 61Week no.9: Christmas Greetings. FridayDesign 101 MOOC, Abadir for iversity

Greetings from Springfield, Massachusetts,

While playing the classic memory game, Stefano receives a ring!

A special bone ring. Containing the Design 101steam members DNA.

Something to wear and carry with him everywhere he goes. A real deal for Stefano!

By the way, how good is your memory?

Who is Stefano?An architect, a designer, a teacher... a troubleshooter!

Stefano is the backbone of Design 101 and the teams personal troubleshooter. He always knows how to anticipate, locate, or repair any kind of negative symptoms that can appear along our processes. Stefano is really all about developing complex systems and keeping its processes healthy!

When somethings goes wrong, he makes it operational again. Its like magic!

He knows a lot (and writes a lot) about design, fashion milan, school, design school, architecture and also likes to play games and draw things on his ipad mini.

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A bone ring?I love you Together forever Til death do us part

Did you know that some 2000 years ago, Romans wore key-rings on their fingers? Those who wore them were in charge of keeping the family treasure locked and safe.

By the way, you probably noticed Solomons ring we have printed on the back of our postcard. Well, it is a magic signet ring that gave Solomon the power to command demons, genies, or to speak with animals...

Yes indeed. Today Stefano received a ring. But not any kind of ring...As a sign of our love and fidelity, we are giving him a bone ring grown from bone cells taken from each of the Design 101s team members jawbones.

A special circular band fitting his left hands fourth digit finger. A way to connect to his heart via his vein of love, or vena amoris.

If you like our present idea, here is the link to know more. And here, about the design process.

Why Memory?Because it is a classic game, its quite universal... In fact, the game is known as Concentration, Pelmanism, Shinkei-suijaku, Pexeso or simply Pairs. A matching game that appears in many different shapes and forms.

Here it is on Sesame Street.

The game can be played with any deck of cards, alone or with friends. It starts with all cards facing down on a table (or any horizontal

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plane). Then, players take turns flipping two cards one after the other. Once a pair of matching cards is found, the player picks up the pair and can play again. The game ends when all cards have been picked up. The winner is the player with the most pairs.

The goal is to remember the cards that have already been flipped. For this, a level of concentration is required.

Players might think it better to turn over a known card before going for an unknown. But, in fact, it is strategically advantageous to first turn over a less certain card, so that if it is not what was expected, the player can remember it and know not to turn over a more certain card.

Its stimulating Its brain training improving short-term memory (aka. working memory). The game can be enjoyed by all. And as our memory functions increase and decline naturally as we age, its a challenging game for the young, the old and the in-between.

Here you can play all sorts of brain games allowing you to achieve your full potential. Quite a big claim to live up to. Go check it out for yourself!

http://www.lumosity.com/%20

Design 101. A How-To.We know we have some late-comers, here are a few instructions on how the whole thing functions...

A typical Design 101 day:

We send you an email around 9 in the morning (Berlin time) with the link to our daily unit + some news, updates, cool Design 101 things we found etc.etc.

Note: you can find all of our previous emails in the Announcements section of Design 101 on iversity.

Once you land on the units page, you find our shipment (which consists of a video-postcard + a letter). You watch the video, read our letter, get to work and complete the assignment (or relax if its a weekend day). For even more fun, you can always refer to the Design 101 encyclopedia, which is updated every week.

Dont forget to take part in the conversations of the Discussions forum!

Now, going beyond the iversity platform, we have setup other places for us to meet and spread things we do.

On Facebook:the Design 101 page: to follow whats going on (in general terms)the Design 101 Exercises page: to check out picks (things that fascinate us the most)the Design 101 Arena group: to post your pictures, share your thoughts, emotions, references, lalala (as a complement to the discussions happening on the platform).

On Twitter,@design1o1: to follow whats going on + discuss with each other.#design1o1: to connect us all under a same hashtag.

On YouTube:the Design 101 channel: to view + share our video postcards (which is not possible to do from the iversity platform)

https://iversity.org/my/courses/design-101-or-design-basics/announcementshttps://iversity.org/my/courses/design-101-or-design-basics/discussions?category=course_relatedhttps://www.facebook.com/design1o1https://www.facebook.com/design1o1.exerciseshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/design1o1/https://twitter.com/design1o1http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_Cu5Z4-rSCRwbx45QzdIw

On Instagram:#design1o1: to connect us all under a same hashtag.

Regarding the hashtag, make sure to use #design1o1 with an o and not a 0...

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PS Uploading your homework to the iversity platform is very important in terms of archiving. It is the only way we can collect all the things we do in one same place. Once the course ends, it might turn out to be reorganized into a wonderful book and/or exhibition

http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/tag/design1o1/

J.R.R. Tolkien

Solomon Ring

Todays postcard

Memory cards

Bone ring