Joy

VINALHAVEN, ME — JUNE 20–25, 2010

• Driven to Joy by Gabrielle Esperdy
• BitterSweet by Margo Halverson
• Joy by DesignInquiry
• Love & Joy by Eve Faulkes
• Précis for a Field Guide to Joy by Gabrielle Esperdy
• The Lens by Jeremy Moser
• The Sentient & the Bag of Meat by Elliott Earls
• Bread by Charles Melcher
• Joy by Denise Gonzales Crisp
• Learn from Snowstorms by Alex Gilliam
• trophyheads by DesignInquiry
• Alloo Mutter by DesignInquiry

“Surely joy is the condition of life.”- Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher (1842)

“The absence of joy is the biggest threat to our society.”- Will Alsop, Architect (2003)

Does design create or embody joy, or does it merely create conditions for joy to emerge? Is there joy in the designed artifact or in the act of design? Is a designer’s joy the same as a user’s joy? What is the relationship between joy and play and how might design conjoin the two? What might a taxonomy of joy look like?