The retrospective show at London's Barbican is a go-to if you're in the neighbourhood. It showcases Charles and Ray Eames who 'are among the most influential designers of the 20th century. Enthusiastic and tireless experimenters, this husband and wife duo moved fluidly between the fields of photography, film, architecture, exhibition-making, and furniture and product design.'
It's a reminder that organisation design practice is similarly about moving fluidly between fields of organisation structures, cultures, people, work, processes, technologies, data and so on, and meeting some kind of need in doing so.
In one room Design Q & A Charles answers succinctly a series of 29 questions in a 5-minute video. Both the questions and his answers are applicable to organisation design. (You can read the text here) Four of them stood out for me as I reflected on my work last week: