Lo/Be Lab Field Notes https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/ Short essays from the working memory of Lo/Be Lab: methods being tested, patterns that keep showing up, ideas still being pulled on. en-us Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Anchor, then hold space https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/anchor-then-hold-space.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/anchor-then-hold-space.html Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Inclusive leadership as a stance, not a competency. From the Inclusive Leadership Lab workshop (ISEO and the Career Design Lab) for international peer mentors at Dartmouth. Discipline-specific or universal? https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/discipline-specific-or-universal.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/discipline-specific-or-universal.html Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000 RQ 5 isn't theoretical; it's a daily question. AI as mirror, not advisor https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/ai-as-mirror.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/ai-as-mirror.html Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The design choice in NBD to use AI for reflection-surfacing rather than recommendation. The 90-minute constraint https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/ninety-minute-constraint.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/ninety-minute-constraint.html Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Why NBD is 90 minutes, and why that's pedagogical, not logistical. What architecture studios know about reflection https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/what-studios-know-about-reflection.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/what-studios-know-about-reflection.html Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Critique-as-reflection, ported from design education to career deliberation. Compression as a method https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/compression-as-method.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/compression-as-method.html Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 A method that keeps showing up across the lab's projects, often unannounced. Maps over lists https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/maps-over-lists.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/maps-over-lists.html Thu, 08 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 A pattern that has shown up independently in two of the lab's projects. Research cycles, not curricula https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/research-cycles-not-curricula.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/research-cycles-not-curricula.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 What changes when you treat teaching as design-research iteration. Environments, not advice https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/environments-not-advice.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/environments-not-advice.html Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000 The lab's design ethic, and what it means in practice. Throughput vs. understanding https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/throughput-vs-understanding.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/throughput-vs-understanding.html Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 The institutional design problem the lab is responding to. Career development as learning https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/career-development-as-learning.html https://lo-be-lab.com/notes/career-development-as-learning.html Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 The lab's one substantive commitment, and what changes downstream when you accept it.