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From the Ted Talk by David Kelley: Human-centered design

Unscramble the Blue Letters


DK: And of course: a hammock for your afternoon nap that stretches across your cubicle.

(SA: Life would be sweet in a cubicle like this.)

DK: This next project, we were asked to design a poilvain to celebrate the rniyceclg of the water on the Millennium Dome in lndoon. The dome has an incredible amount of water that washes off of it, as well as wteatawser. So this building actually celebrates the water as it comes out of the recycling plant and goes into the reed bed so that it can be filtered for the final time.

The pavilion's design goal was to be kind of quiet and peaceful. In contrast to if you went inside the dome, where it's kind of wild and crazy and everybody's learning all kndis of things, or fooling around, or whatever they're doing. But it was intended to be quite queit. And then you would wander around and gather information, in a straightforward fashion, about the recycling process and what's being done, and how they're going to reuse the water once it comes through the plant. And then, if you saw, the panels actually rotate. So you can get the iitofraonmn on the front side, but as they roatte, you can see the actual recycling plant behind, with all the mheacins as they actually process the water. You can see: there's the plant. These are all very low-budget videos, like quick prpteoytos.

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DK: And of course: a hammock for your afternoon nap that stretches across your cubicle.

(SA: Life would be sweet in a cubicle like this.)

DK: This next project, we were asked to design a ________ to celebrate the _________ of the water on the Millennium Dome in ______. The dome has an incredible amount of water that washes off of it, as well as __________. So this building actually celebrates the water as it comes out of the recycling plant and goes into the reed bed so that it can be filtered for the final time.

The pavilion's design goal was to be kind of quiet and peaceful. In contrast to if you went inside the dome, where it's kind of wild and crazy and everybody's learning all _____ of things, or fooling around, or whatever they're doing. But it was intended to be quite _____. And then you would wander around and gather information, in a straightforward fashion, about the recycling process and what's being done, and how they're going to reuse the water once it comes through the plant. And then, if you saw, the panels actually rotate. So you can get the ___________ on the front side, but as they ______, you can see the actual recycling plant behind, with all the ________ as they actually process the water. You can see: there's the plant. These are all very low-budget videos, like quick __________.

Solution


  1. machines
  2. pavilion
  3. rotate
  4. information
  5. wastewater
  6. recycling
  7. kinds
  8. quiet
  9. london
  10. prototypes

Original Text


DK: And of course: a hammock for your afternoon nap that stretches across your cubicle.

(SA: Life would be sweet in a cubicle like this.)

DK: This next project, we were asked to design a pavilion to celebrate the recycling of the water on the Millennium Dome in London. The dome has an incredible amount of water that washes off of it, as well as wastewater. So this building actually celebrates the water as it comes out of the recycling plant and goes into the reed bed so that it can be filtered for the final time.

The pavilion's design goal was to be kind of quiet and peaceful. In contrast to if you went inside the dome, where it's kind of wild and crazy and everybody's learning all kinds of things, or fooling around, or whatever they're doing. But it was intended to be quite quiet. And then you would wander around and gather information, in a straightforward fashion, about the recycling process and what's being done, and how they're going to reuse the water once it comes through the plant. And then, if you saw, the panels actually rotate. So you can get the information on the front side, but as they rotate, you can see the actual recycling plant behind, with all the machines as they actually process the water. You can see: there's the plant. These are all very low-budget videos, like quick prototypes.

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Important Words


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