Since I last wrote here, I moved to Germany. That still feels strange to write. If you can believe me, it really did sneak up on us. My partner, Casey , and I touristed in Berlin in summer and loved it. A visit to Berlin is catnip for the modern creative geek, from the hackerspaces to the silkscreen studios to the long, chilled-out canal-side brunches discussing philosophy and world affairs and travel and art. Back in San Francisco, Casey started taking evening courses in German.
Neither would you, if you knew him. Then things took an unpleasant turn in our charmed Bay Area techie life: we got evicted from our nice big rent-controlled apartment in Noe Valley, San Francisco.
We were in a much better position than many people who have lost their housing in the Bay Area, but it stung nonetheless. The end date of our visa loomed. In a nondescript s building, in the woods outside Potsdam, we are doing much more than teaching human-centered design.
We are building people who can collaborate, who are oriented towards action and change, who can oscillate between strategy and details. What is the deal with this program? The D-School is a year-long certificate program, not a degree. Our students already study or work in another area; this is an add-on to their normal study of design, law, engineering, fine art, languages, whatever.
We teach and work in English, because some of our students, and some of our projects, are international. However, the structure is pretty different, which gives the two schools a very different feel and different community. The Stanford d. However, you have to be a current Stanford student to be a part of the Stanford d.
