Designing Your Life Virtual Workshop

Published in the Research School of Physics Event Horizon
Vol45 Issue32 10–14 August 2020

Designing Your Life Virtual Workshop

Thursday, 13 August 2020, 12–1.30pm

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home – at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone.

Join us for the next Pathfinder event on August 13, for an interactive virtual workshop based on the book Designing your life, guided by ANU alumnus, Benjamin Gill (BSc 2016). During the session, Ben will discuss how the emphasis on finding your passion or the notion that you ‘should’ know where you are going in life can in fact, be limiting.

In the book, Designing Your Life (DYL), Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfilment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.