Summary
Designing From the Inside Out challenges the way design research is practiced today. Drawing inspiration from Method Acting (Stanislavski, Strasberg, Adler, and Meisner) the talk explores how designers might move beyond short, clinical research encounters toward deeper, lived understanding of the people they design for. By examining how great actors inform their creative choices through immersion, emotional openness, contextual awareness, and presence, this session invites designers to reconsider empathy not just as a deliverable, but as something earned through time, vulnerability, and attention. Attendees will leave with a provocative reframe of design research—one that replaces distant observation with embodied understanding.
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