Gardening Communities As Urban Archives And Social Resource In Urban Planning,
2015
Design Research Society
Gardening Communities As Urban Archives And Social Resource In Urban Planning, Elisabet Nilsson, Wiman Veronica
Nordes Conference Series
This exploratory paper presents initial thoughts on a research theme described as Urban Archiving. The aim is to explore potentials of urban gardening communities both to be read as urban archives and to become platforms for transmitting knowledge and connecting different communities of practices that engage in urban development and societal change (e.g., design communities and urban gardening communities). Issues to be explored concern how practices of urban archiving can contribute to a more holistic view of our cities, including urban gardening communities that engage in urban sustainable development but are seldom invited to influence matters of urban development.
Designerly Influence On Politics And The Press: Changing A Deadlocked Relationship,
2015
Design Research Society
Designerly Influence On Politics And The Press: Changing A Deadlocked Relationship, Sune Gudiksen
Nordes Conference Series
In recent years, political communication and political television debates have become farcical because of the professionalization of political communication. This has resulted in a deadlock between politicians, journalists and citizens, who appear to have fundamentally different goals. Consequently, television debates have become predictable, less focused on political argument, and far removed from their consequences in the daily lives of citizens. Drawing on empirical data from a workshop attended by a diverse set of stakeholders - journalists, producers, politicians, and media students - this paper presents the initial findings on how co-design and design games can take part directly in the …
That’S The Smell Of Peacetime: Designing For Electricity Load Balancing,
2015
Design Research Society
That’S The Smell Of Peacetime: Designing For Electricity Load Balancing, Stina Wessman, Rebekah Olsen, Cecilia Katzeff
Nordes Conference Series
In this exploratory paper we review, reflect, and react upon recent research that heavily critiques common design approaches towards electricity load balancing. Through this review we identify overlooked opportunity spaces for design in which we situate a prototype called Peacetime as an alternative approach to load balancing on the electrical grid. In sharp contrast to home energy management systems (HEMS) and in-home displays (IHD’s) which provide detailed energy data, Peacetime employs frameworks from slow time and emotional design, and from ambient multimodal interfaces to create a stronger and different experience in relation to load balancing. We present the Peacetime concept …
The Performance Of Nonhuman Behaviour,
2015
Design Research Society
The Performance Of Nonhuman Behaviour, Claudia Dutson, Delfina Fantinivan Ditmar, Dan Lockton
Nordes Conference Series
This workshop is situated at the convergence of technology, behaviour and people’s understanding of the nonhuman entities with which they interact, questioning the ideas of ‘intelligence’ and ‘smartness’. As the Internet of Things, ‘smart cities’, Quantified Self, and similar concepts intersect with design for behaviour change and sustainable behaviour, becoming pressing research themes across product, service, interaction and architectural design, we ask how the relationships between humans and nonhumans are characterised and articulated.
Designing Learning Scenarios For Futures Of Sustainability,
2015
Design Research Society
Designing Learning Scenarios For Futures Of Sustainability, Hannah Jones, Anette Lundebye
Nordes Conference Series
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and inter-connected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Rather than fragmenting the world into separate disciplines for the sake of efficiency, an alternative whole systems approach to sustainability education aims to join-up different skill-sets and types of knowledge to improve effectiveness (Sterling, 2001). This requires a shift from the delivery of knowledge via top-down pedagogic methods, to designing the conditions for a critical co-learning to take place. Here, co-learners work together …
Holding Together: Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage Objects Via Diagrammatic Drawings,
2015
Design Research Society
Holding Together: Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage Objects Via Diagrammatic Drawings, Bilge Merve Aktaş, Asım Evren Yantaç, Ilgım Veryeri Alaca
Nordes Conference Series
We present an experimental approach to sustain cultural heritage objects like handmade socks linked with issues such as knowledge transfer for the continuity of craftsmanship. The project amplifies the intuitive production process of cultural objects and learning by doing aspect of handicrafts via diagrammatic drawings while questioning the problematic market conditions by symbolic use of newspaper. Improvised process of our stitching on the paper mimicing traditional crafts is then explored with successive drawings to attain a methodology.
Designing Curriculum Interventions For Teaching Sustainable Design In Thailand,
2015
Design Research Society
Designing Curriculum Interventions For Teaching Sustainable Design In Thailand, Treechada Chotiratanapinun
Nordes Conference Series
As part of a larger study aiming at building a pedagogical model for teaching sustainability to Thai undergraduate design students, this paper looks at key factors affecting the learners’ view of sustainability and their ability to think critically. A number of unique cultural issues will be explored, followed by discussion on the rationale and development of the curriculum interventions in a participatory action research plan that seeks to unfold if transformative learning is necessary for facilitating a paradigm shift towards sustainability in Thailand’s design education.
Sharing Eco-Soap Knowledge: Joosoap Studio,
2015
Design Research Society
Sharing Eco-Soap Knowledge: Joosoap Studio, Ying-Ju Lin, Andrea Botero
Nordes Conference Series
In this paper we document some of the experiences gained while designing and prototyping JooSoap Studio. JooSoap Studio aims to make it easy for people to gather and make eco-soap products together, anywhere in the world. The Studio is part of a larger project that aims to spread sustainable knowledge around making ecological cleaning soap (eco-soap) from recycled used (kitchen) cooking oil pioneered by activist communities in Japan and Taiwan. JooSoap Studio experiments with tools, practices and infrastructures that will help spreading this knowledge to more communities, through local engagement, aiming at sustainability and replicability of the information.
Object Theatre In Design,
2015
Design Research Society
Object Theatre In Design, Preben Friis, Merja Ryöppy, Jacob Buur
Nordes Conference Series
In this workshop we will demonstrate a set of techniques from the post-dramatic genre of Object Theatre and discuss how they can enrich design practice and design research. The work brings together a design tradition of engaging objects in co-design and a theatre competence of improvising action with objects. With the participants we will inquire into: Object puppetry (exploring objects from ‘within’), Improvising movements (action before thought), Staging objects (context dependence), and Multi-stakeholder drama (object perspectives).
Exploring Context And Building Empathy With The Youth In Southern Africa,
2015
Design Research Society
Exploring Context And Building Empathy With The Youth In Southern Africa, Vikki Du Preez, Ryna Cilliers, Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, Satu Miettinen
Nordes Conference Series
This paper explores the use of a collective imagery framework, as part of a participatory design workshop, facilitated by the My Dream World project in Namibia. The workshop focused on issues relating to youth unemployment in Southern Africa. The collective imagery framework, discussed in this paper, was the first phase of the participatory workshop. The framework aimed to externalise individual creative imagery, in order to create a safe, creative space for participants to explore their own perceptions regarding youth context and unemployment, as well as those of others. This paper documents the context, process, and participant experience, and aims to …
Different Data Detroit (+ Stockholm),
2015
Design Research Society
Different Data Detroit (+ Stockholm), Patricio Davila, Daniel Mccafferty, Rachele Riley, Joshua Singer
Nordes Conference Series
Different Data is a collaborative critical design research project by which we collect, manipulate, and display data in location-specific, and theme- driven scenarios. As research through-design and practice-based research, we investigates place and explore methods for generating and collecting data, developing an experimental approach to visualizing connections and meaning. We map hidden, overlooked and silent aspects of the urban cultural ecology. We collect narratives of cities using standard datasets transforming it to ‘different data’—that which is affective, emotional, and subjective; marginal and little-valued; esoteric and ephemeral; idiosyncratic and absurd; questionable and inappropriate. Work is executed publicly into a seamful artifact …
Split Vision Urbanism: Investigating Visual Connections In Los Angeles,
2015
Design Research Society
Split Vision Urbanism: Investigating Visual Connections In Los Angeles, Per-Johan Dahl, Peter Palvén
Nordes Conference Series
Single-family residential zoning continues to be a key tool for carrying out planning policy in Los Angeles, and a praxis that instantly hampers design innovation from correlating suburban development with new socio-economic and cultural tendencies. An architectural ecology is, today, surfacing in Los Angeles, where generic suburban houses camouflage experimental practices that challenge the constraints of single-family residential zoning. Reconceptualizing the suburban backyard, these experimental practices pursue design intervention under the radar of planning administration to implement new forms and uses in Los Angeles. Drawing from such observations this design research project encompasses an on-going investigation at the intersection between …
Rocksect: Profiling Site Processes Through Translation Of Deep Fieldwork In The Fluid Margins Of Land/Water,
2015
Design Research Society
Rocksect: Profiling Site Processes Through Translation Of Deep Fieldwork In The Fluid Margins Of Land/Water, Gini Lee, Lisa Diedrich
Nordes Conference Series
Rocksect expands a collaborative landscape architectural research that aims to develop a method for capturing site qualities through deep fieldwork-based empirical enquiry and interpretation. The authors regard this method as a critical component of the conceptual design act. Their journeys are termed ‘travelling transects’ and nurture a concept that conveys both a scientific regard – the transect – and a more ephemeral condition of movement across time and place – the travel. Its theoretical foundation relies on a reinterpretation of Alexander von Humboldt’s transareal and mobile empirical science. Over the past years the authors have conducted several travelling transects in …
De-Computation: Programming The World Through Design,
2015
Design Research Society
De-Computation: Programming The World Through Design, Kevin Walker, John Fass
Nordes Conference Series
We describe a developing methodology called ‘de- computation’ which combines design making and computational thinking in a two-way exchange aimed at understanding and reacting against increasing computational control of humans’ natural, artificial and social systems, by using the tools and methods of computation in the design process. The steps of de-computation are detailed, its relation to similar approaches is explained, examples are given, and we explain its relevance for design research, theory construction and practical design work.
How Much For A Tree? How Planning Goes Wild And The Values Of Trees.,
2015
Design Research Society
How Much For A Tree? How Planning Goes Wild And The Values Of Trees., Gunilla Bandolin, Monika Gora
Nordes Conference Series
This exhibition item contains a book, “How much for a tree” and a 4 channel video installation. The book investigates a planning process in Malmö, that turns out as a disaster. A hundred year old park is destroyed. The investigation of the process is done in the form of a drama, where all the people involved get to tell their version. The question that is posed is: What are the values that are destroyed by this planning disaster? The video installation tries to give an answer to the question from the authors’ point of view. What are the values of …
The City At Play / Co-Designing Games As Eco-Political Agency,
2015
Design Research Society
The City At Play / Co-Designing Games As Eco-Political Agency, Mette Agger Eriksen, Maria Hellström Reimer
Nordes Conference Series
“The City At Play” displays parts of how co-design researchers in collaboration with civil servants practically have engaged in exploring urban ecologies by challenging current collaborative municipal mapping and transition processes through game development. The exhibit is a narrative installation of tangible traces from the participatory prototyping sessions and “animating” interventions into municipal planning contexts - in this case climate transition in the Öresund region. It is argued that a game inspired co-designing mind-set – rather than a problem-solving approach – presents ways to explore and critically reflect upon dynamic urban complexities as eco-political contexts of competition and collaboration across …
Plant Hotel In Nordes 2015,
2015
Design Research Society
Plant Hotel In Nordes 2015, Yiying Wu, Aoi Yoshizawa
Nordes Conference Series
Plant Hotel in Nordes 2015 is a hotel for plants, where the local members of Konstfack check in their plants and the conference participants water the plants. Each plant owner, who would trust the setup of the conference and its participants, brings their plants. In addition each plant giver will be asked to choose the ‘right’ school amongst all the participant schools to specifically water his/her plant, and the reasons would be noted and also exhibited with the plant. The participants from the chosen school are asked to take care of the plant during the conference. With ‘Choose the right …
Urban Mine As Craft Material: Potential Use Of Wastes As Glaze Colorants,
2015
Design Research Society
Urban Mine As Craft Material: Potential Use Of Wastes As Glaze Colorants, Tatsuma Segawa, Daijiro Mizuno
Nordes Conference Series
This research examines the potential use of urban wastes as glaze colorant in the context of ceramic art to explore cultural value of waste beyond the scope of simple efficiency of material recycle.
Vital Materialism Design Methodologies For Social Change,
2015
Design Research Society
Vital Materialism Design Methodologies For Social Change, Ricarda Bigolin, Clemens Thornquist
Nordes Conference Series
Socially responsible design education is often grounded in case-based approaches. The problem with these approaches to socially responsible design is that they are usually based on a given set of design methods. Such methods respond to conditions of practice that are outmoded and don’t respond to the contemporary presence of the image, and it’s affect on materiality and the body in design practice. This is a problem in relation to evolving ecologies where new methods are needed to tackle problems that arise because of the change. In response, this work tries to develop alternative design methods for social change, particularly …
Service Ecosystem: Empowering Textile Artisans’ Communities Towards A Sustainable Future,
2015
Design Research Society
Service Ecosystem: Empowering Textile Artisans’ Communities Towards A Sustainable Future, Francesco Mazzarella, Carolina Escobar-Tello, Val Mitchell
Nordes Conference Series
The global economic and environmental crisis seems to be leading to the end of a ‘linear economy’ based on consumption and waste, while setting the ground for redistributed micro-productions, inspired by new ethics of sustainability and cutting-edge economic models. With this in mind, this paper is focused on exploring textile artisans’ communities, bottom-up and human-centred aggregations embodying the craft atmosphere of a territory due to physical proximity and shared material cultural background. Such communities are engaged in giving form and meaning to local natural fibres and managing the process of making culturally and socially significant apparel. Literature on textile artisanship …
