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Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright
Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The responsibility for sustainable futures extends beyond individual disciplines, necessitating the adoption of diverse approaches across various fields. Water pollution is at epidemic levels, valuable materials go to landfill, ocean detritus grows, many people are disconnected from green space, and biodiversity is plummeting. We need new modes of climate futures, championing citizen agency. Societies require cross-collaborative, inclusive approaches to navigate climate future challenges. We seek to foresee ‘climate futures’ that signpost challenges, unpicking (appropriate) opportunities, benefits, and pitfalls. Through an Ecological Citizenship lens, the authors traverse situations, through preferable futures. It is an entry point for transition design, creating climate …
Asset Based Architectural Design With A Systemic Perspective In Vulnerable Community- Participatory Action Research In Iraq Bersive 2 Refugee Camp, Hei Chan, Peter Hasdell
Asset Based Architectural Design With A Systemic Perspective In Vulnerable Community- Participatory Action Research In Iraq Bersive 2 Refugee Camp, Hei Chan, Peter Hasdell
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Vulnerable communities often lack of basic housing and facilities. However, with more understanding, they not only face housing problem but also with social, economic, environmental, political issues and so on. Traditional building approach often focuses on material needs while the underlying causes could be neglected. In fact, vulnerability is often more in the intangibles: relationships with self, others and environment. With this regard, how could designers develop efficient systemic design strategies responding to the complexity of social systems and empower vulnerable groups to recognize themselves as interrelated actors in community development? Asset based design approach under the community capital framework …
Historical Evolution Of Age-Friendly Transitions In The Yangfangdian Community In Beijing: A Multi-Level Perspective, Lijun Chen, Vladimír Kočí, Haipeng Tian
Historical Evolution Of Age-Friendly Transitions In The Yangfangdian Community In Beijing: A Multi-Level Perspective, Lijun Chen, Vladimír Kočí, Haipeng Tian
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The issue of transition and transformation of communities has a long history. Particularly in today's context of increasing aging trends, cities and communities are facing unprecedented multiple challenges that drive the transition to a more inclusive and sustainable future to enable community stakeholders to have a higher quality of life experience and to fulfil their visions for the future. This paper systemically reveals insights from the past of the ageing issue in the Yangfangdian community in Beijing through a multi- level perspective (MLP) framework created with local residents, a museum and design students to understand the historical foundations of the …
Using Living Labs To Engage Communities And Stakeholders In The Development And Knowledge Exchange Of Urban Health And Sanitation Solutions In The Global South, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Roger Pickup, Manoj Roy
Using Living Labs To Engage Communities And Stakeholders In The Development And Knowledge Exchange Of Urban Health And Sanitation Solutions In The Global South, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Roger Pickup, Manoj Roy
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Engaging communities and stakeholders in developing user-centred urban health solutions, whilst linking the research to their own development, pose major challenges for design researchers working in the Global South. In a number of circular sanitation projects in a community school in Ghana, we co-designed and installed an anaerobic digester delivering electricity and sanitation improvements. To enhance impact we developed and pilot-tested a Living and physical Lab design approach. One project focussed on hand hygiene. We introduced students to ‘making the invisible visible’ by visualising microbes from their hands and assessing handwashing effects. Our findings suggest that visualisation of microbes not …
Show Me What You Mean: The Case For Easy-To-Use 3d Visualizations Of The Built Environment, Noelyn Stephens, Juan Salamanca
Show Me What You Mean: The Case For Easy-To-Use 3d Visualizations Of The Built Environment, Noelyn Stephens, Juan Salamanca
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Visual communication, particularly realistic visualization, has been found to be effective for facilitating constructive discussion on issues related to the built environment. Here, we make the case that a browser-based, intuitively designed 3D visualization interface could widen access to such approaches increasing opportunities for co-creation. Using this type of easy-to-access tool could allow community members to own the process of creating a shared vision for their city.
Towards Empowering Cohousing Communities: Finding Balance With A Group Of Users-Clients Throughout The Architectural Process, Audrey Mertens, Louise Coniasse, Catherine Elsen
Towards Empowering Cohousing Communities: Finding Balance With A Group Of Users-Clients Throughout The Architectural Process, Audrey Mertens, Louise Coniasse, Catherine Elsen
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This paper explores the evolving role of architects in cohousing projects in response to environmental, economic, and social challenges. This research incorporates insights from semi-structured interviews in three Belgian case studies. The foundations and values of cohousing communities are tackled, highlighting shifts in architects' roles and challenges in working with groups of user-clients. In these cohousing processes, we found that the representatives of these user-client groups may not always share the full breadth of their negotiations with architects. Architects seem to miss out on some of the nuances, and some participants found that this approach left their voices unheard. Amidst …
Designing From The Plants' Perspective. A Field Case Study In Urban Forest Of “La Goccia”, Francesco Vergani, Fabio Di Liberto
Designing From The Plants' Perspective. A Field Case Study In Urban Forest Of “La Goccia”, Francesco Vergani, Fabio Di Liberto
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designing by engaging more-than-human agents such as plants is a complex chal-lenge, as they have long been regarded as "ontologically inferior" resources pri-marily serving human needs. Emerging studies in the field of Plant Neurobiology are now breaking down knowledge barriers, gathering extraordinary data that recognize plant actions and behaviors guided by a distinct form of intelligence. Considering this breakthrough findings, this paper describes a 10-day workshop involving 52 international design students from Politecnico di Milano University that focused on experiencing plants in a former industrial area within the city borders. Through the years, this area has gone from desolation to …
Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima
Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima
IASDR Conference Series
Regenerative theories are used in human and non-human dynamics in a sustainable perspective; however, their potential can flourish new applications to deal with other social challenges. This article explores a theoretical approach to possible uses of regenerative theories applied to the gender-based violence (GBV) system and its relevance in social innovation. The answers in GVB are conducted by the government and civil society institutions that collectively act on the field. Despite the efforts to end violence against women, there is a long road to deconstructing inequalities, and social and cultural structures that evidence and contribute to maintaining the phenomenon. Since …
Tools For Opening The Lonely Black Box And Changing Young Adults' Perspectives Of Their Loneliness., Mads Bärenholdt
Tools For Opening The Lonely Black Box And Changing Young Adults' Perspectives Of Their Loneliness., Mads Bärenholdt
IASDR Conference Series
1 Introduction While the pandemic was happening, almost everybody felt the experience of being lonely, which researchers has been described as a “non-pleasant subjective feeling” (Cacioppo & Cacioppo, 2012; de Jong Gierveld et al., 2006; Peplau, 1998). While many only experiences loneliness briefly as a temporality state of an emotional discrepancy, some are experiencing loneliness as a more extended encounter – which can have fatigue consequences for the lonely, e.g. due to sleep loss which can lead to depression, among other consequences (Matthews et al., 2017), and have an impact on how the lonely are perceiving themselves (Jones et al., …
Changing Communities, Susana Gonzaga, Ki-Young Nam, Agnese Rebaglio, Daniela Selloni
Changing Communities, Susana Gonzaga, Ki-Young Nam, Agnese Rebaglio, Daniela Selloni
IASDR Conference Series
Designing with and for communities is a broad and multifaceted topic. In this introductory paper to the track Changing Communities, we discuss a series of studies that employed collaborative processes to tackle urgent public interest issues while empowering communities at the same time. A variety of themes emerged: one main transversal area is about co-creation and co-design methodologies that have demonstrated to have a transformative potential in addressing complex societal challenges. Another theme is about social innovation, considered both as the process of change of social practices and as the outcomes in terms of new products, services and policies. In …
Social Innovation For Climate Neutrality In Cities: Actionable Pathways For Policymakers, Sabrina Bresciani, Cyril Tjahja, Tamami Komatsu, Francesca Rizzo
Social Innovation For Climate Neutrality In Cities: Actionable Pathways For Policymakers, Sabrina Bresciani, Cyril Tjahja, Tamami Komatsu, Francesca Rizzo
IASDR Conference Series
Climate neutrality is an urgent and complex challenge that cannot be solved with technological solutions alone but requires a systemic approach. Social innovation is a key lever of change in socio-technical transformations: promoting social innovation at urban level can empower communities in shaping sustainable behaviour and collective action to tackle climate change. To promote and scale social innovation at urban level for reaching climate neutrality, politicians and policymakers need to be aware of effective practices that can be implemented that match a city’s readiness level. With the aim to develop a framework to support public administrations and policymakers in making …
Systemic Design For Sustainable Community Care For Older Adults: A Case Study In Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Wen Lu, Amina Pereno, Silvia Barbero
Systemic Design For Sustainable Community Care For Older Adults: A Case Study In Turin, Piedmont, Italy, Wen Lu, Amina Pereno, Silvia Barbero
IASDR Conference Series
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various industries across the world, leading to changes in industries and the widespread adoption of teleworking networks. As countries transition from urban lockdowns to community lockdowns, community telemedicine has become a crucial agenda item. The pandemic has posed an unprecedented health challenge, particularly for older adults with chronic diseases due to its highly contagious nature and prolonged duration. The aim of this paper is to explore the impact and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic governance model on older adults care in the Turin A.S.L.TO3 community. This paper was conducted within the methodology framework of …
Sustainable Design Strategy Of Chinese Old Town Community Based On Landscape Ontology：A Case Study Of Daojiao Community In Chongqing, Xingyu Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Xiang Liu
Sustainable Design Strategy Of Chinese Old Town Community Based On Landscape Ontology：A Case Study Of Daojiao Community In Chongqing, Xingyu Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Xiang Liu
IASDR Conference Series
In the process of China's urbanization process, there is a serious separation between new city and old city, The current situation of the old community space urgently needs to be improved,with the increasingly complex development pattern, the community design research is more inclined to favor the abstract category dominated by relationship design, resulting in the disconnection between design and physical space.This study can be an ideal repair technique. By sorting out the evolution law of the community landscape ontology, a set of sustainable development ideas in line with the landscape environment of the old city community.This paper intends to apply …
Domestic Infrastructure Of Food: Thoughts On Community Engagement Through Food, Furniture, And Architectural Exhibition, Leyuan Li
IASDR Conference Series
Over the past decades, the attention towards fresh food ingredients has promoted the emergence of growing vegetables in domestic spaces and sharing homemade ingredients with neighbors. The introduction of producing and exchanging food in domestic territories not only creates new forms of recreation, but also foregrounds inhabitants' anxieties concerning food security and community engagement, especially amidst global unrest during the pandemic. Within this imperative context, the pictorial essay intends to introduce food as a collective medium and a social act. By showing a series of representations and photographs of an installation project, the essay speculates on the performative and spatial …
Proceedings Of Iasdr 2023: Life-Changing Design, Daniela De Sainz Molestina, Laura Galluzzo, Francesca Rizzo, Davide Spallazzo
Proceedings Of Iasdr 2023: Life-Changing Design, Daniela De Sainz Molestina, Laura Galluzzo, Francesca Rizzo, Davide Spallazzo
DRS Conference Volumes
This volume is the proceedings of the 10th biennial congress of IASDR, the International Association for Societies of Design Research, hosted by the Politecnico di Milano, 9–13 October 2023. With its overarching theme of “Life-Changing Design” and its diverse thematic tracks, IASDR2023 presented an exceptional opportunity for researchers, scholars, and practitioners to engage with the dynamic landscape of design research. The conference served as a platform for robust discussions, knowledge sharing, and the exploration of innovative solutions to society’s complex challenges. By examining these thematic tracks and their intersection with the central theme, “Life-Changing Design,” the conference contributed to the …
Collective Dialogues On Motherhood For Feminist Futures, Bree Mcmahon, Dina Benbrahim, Ryan Gibboney, Ashley Hairston Doughty
Collective Dialogues On Motherhood For Feminist Futures, Bree Mcmahon, Dina Benbrahim, Ryan Gibboney, Ashley Hairston Doughty
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This conversation allowed mothers and non-mothers to connect with per- sonal stories and universal struggles during a supportive virtual moment. Some con- venors are design researchers, practitioners, students, and/or educators. This conver- sation also served as a space for designers to reflect on the role and responsibility of design in interrogating reproductive care systems in their current context. The goal of the convenors is to move toward and promote co-designing a preferable feminist fu- ture for mothers. There are few spaces like maternal health care and the experience of motherhood that would benefit simply through qualitative data collection, storytell- ing, …
Incubating Civic Leadership In Design: The Role Of Cross-Pollination Spaces, Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Vera Hale, Sophia De Sousa
Incubating Civic Leadership In Design: The Role Of Cross-Pollination Spaces, Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Vera Hale, Sophia De Sousa
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The paper explores the hypothesis that access to places that enhance capabilities for co-design work across sectors, is an important vehicle for incubating and sup-porting civic leadership. More specifically, the paper reports insights from a study which created ‘cross-pollination’ spaces to bring together academic and non-academic individuals from different backgrounds, disciplines, and sectors to explore the notion of incubating civic leadership and to develop pop-up interventions to test ideas for incubating civic leadership in two locations in the UK. Drawing on the reflections of participants collected through group reflection spaces and through individual interviews, the study identifies a number of …
Method Of Mapping Interdisciplinary Research And Practice At The Intersection Of Biology And Design, Veronika Kapsali
Method Of Mapping Interdisciplinary Research And Practice At The Intersection Of Biology And Design, Veronika Kapsali
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Ubiquitous, multi-meaning terms used to describe new ideas, finding etc, presents a significant barrier for cross-disciplinary discourse especially between the arts and sciences. The research presented in this paper tackles the problem of terminological disharmony specifically within the process of contextualising creative design practice informed by biological science and/or its applications. The study is implemented in three stages; lexical semantic theories and methods are applied to corpus-based investigations to assess the scope of biologically informed disciplines (BID) terminology; results are analysed using statistical and qualitative methods and mapped against known academic domains; the resulting map is evaluated via the analysis …
Remaking The Social: Dialogical, Creative, And Co-Operative Capacities Of Thought At Hull House, Matthew Delsesto
Remaking The Social: Dialogical, Creative, And Co-Operative Capacities Of Thought At Hull House, Matthew Delsesto
DRS Biennial Conference Series
While social research is often positioned as a way to reflect social realities or de-velop theories for specialized fields through analyzing empirical evidence, based on data that is extracted from communities, Jane Addams points to a different mode of inquiry. This chapter introduces the theories and practices of the Hull House as an iterative and experimental process of inquiry— creating new knowledge in and through action, in a process of facing down pressing social chal-lenges. In particular it uses examples from the Hull House— which involved the design of the working people’s social science club, exhibitions on the industrial condition, …
Teixint Superilles: A Grassroots Project Of Participatory Design For Inclusive Public Spaces, Clément Rames, Mireia Lozano Carbassé, Lea Karrasch, Roger Guilemany Casas
Teixint Superilles: A Grassroots Project Of Participatory Design For Inclusive Public Spaces, Clément Rames, Mireia Lozano Carbassé, Lea Karrasch, Roger Guilemany Casas
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper presents the Teixint Superilles project which developed participatory design activities to create more inclusive public space. Our hypothesis was that when citizens have the opportunity to participate in placemaking activities, they gain not only greater awareness of their environment, but also a sense of agency over their city. Through a series of workshops, we have been experimenting with diverse methodologies for civic participation while confronting a wide range of participants with topics of gender, functional diversity, cross-generational inclusivity, and sustainability. We facilitated workshops in three different environments, thus reaching a wide range of participants: a public park, a …
Developing A Design-Based Understanding Of Learning In Transitions: A Multiple Case Study, Elif Erdoğan Öztekin, İdil Gaziulusoy
Developing A Design-Based Understanding Of Learning In Transitions: A Multiple Case Study, Elif Erdoğan Öztekin, İdil Gaziulusoy
Nordes Conference Series
In sustainability transitions, experimentation and learning are addressed as key processes that facilitate implementation, diffusion and scaling of transition mindsets and actions. In this paper, we argue that design acts as a means for this actionbased transition learning. Contributing to design for sustainability transitions literature, this paper proposes a design perspective on learning in transitions which enables analysing the multifaceted ways, depths and scales of learning that design mediates. Through a multiple case study on sustainable community settlement initiatives, we examine and discuss the roles of design in facilitating interactive learning, and thus in orienting and accelerating sustainability transitions.
Scaling Experiments In Urban Space – An Exploratory Framework, Eva Knutz, Kathrina Dankl
Scaling Experiments In Urban Space – An Exploratory Framework, Eva Knutz, Kathrina Dankl
Nordes Conference Series
In this article, we outline an exploratory framework that attempts to capture different types of scaling practices in urban space. "Scaling" in this context is understood as a concept that involves a temporary intervention in public space that negotiates agency among human and nonhuman actors. The aim of this framework is to assist curators and researchers in conceptualizing site-specific interventions or exhibitions in urban contexts.
Discourse, Speculation And Multidisciplinarity: Designing Urban Futures, Ingi Helgason, Michael Smyth, Søren Rosenbak, Ivica Mitrović
Discourse, Speculation And Multidisciplinarity: Designing Urban Futures, Ingi Helgason, Michael Smyth, Søren Rosenbak, Ivica Mitrović
Nordes Conference Series
This paper presents a design case study of a summer school that brought together a multidisciplinary group of early-career professionals to explore ideas relating to new technologies in an urban context. The organisers of the summer school took an explicitly designinformed approach to the event, specifically a ‘critical design’ approach. The aspiration of the organisers was that the school activities would lead to the creation of an exhibition of artefacts and visual media expressing the ideas explored during the school. The expectation of generating exhibition quality outputs influenced the participants’ experience of the event, and this paper describes the process …
Native Products: Nordes 2015 Edition, Costas Bissas, Vasso Asfi, Loukas Angelou
Native Products: Nordes 2015 Edition, Costas Bissas, Vasso Asfi, Loukas Angelou
Nordes Conference Series
Native Products is an initiative that could act as a stepping point towards the exploration of alternative mediums and processes of the production cycle. Papairlines have developed a workshop sequence through which flora is transformed into a paste that can be later used as a raw material to cast objects. The process uses household tools and herbs. During this workshop participants will be part of the different stages of processing the raw materials and create small utilitarian objects, while contributing to a debate on how production takes place today and what alternatives can be developed in the current socioeconomic status.
Spatial And Service Design Meet Up At Coltivando Convivial Garden At The Politecnico Di Milano, Davide Fassi, Giuila Simeone
Spatial And Service Design Meet Up At Coltivando Convivial Garden At The Politecnico Di Milano, Davide Fassi, Giuila Simeone
Learn X Design Conference Series
‘Coltivando’ is the community garden set up by the Politecnico di Milano, a collaborative project that calls for both Spatial and Product Service Design competences, developed by a team of three postgraduate students supervised by researchers and teachers from the same fields. This paper describes the process and the tools used to design this garden: from the first “design studio based” concept (November 2011), to the final solution deployment (October 2012). Both soft and hard components of the project were included in the process, starting with design for social innovation and including Participatory Action Research as a way to test …
Down The Rabbit Hole: A Situated Approach To Design Education That Facilitates Socially Responsible Emergent Designers, Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek, Katrina Sandbach
Down The Rabbit Hole: A Situated Approach To Design Education That Facilitates Socially Responsible Emergent Designers, Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek, Katrina Sandbach
Learn X Design Conference Series
This paper is centred on the progressive curriculum and sustained positive impact of the Rabbit Hole – the University of Western Sydney's Bachelor of Design teaching studio. The award-winning Rabbit Hole is a unique learning environment, incorporating participatory design methods and a work integrated learning framework that facilitates situated learning experiences, where live projects with realworld outcomes bridge the gap between academia, community and industry. Through a series of case studies, this paper demonstrates how the Rabbit Hole utilises the transformative agency of its innovative design pedagogy to inspire and empower socially responsible emergent designers.
Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall
Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall
Learn X Design Conference Series
The rationale behind mass-industrialization, now normalized, is embodied uncritically in the practice of many new designers. What if the industrial past could be explored and experienced as a foreign territory, providing a vantage point from which to critically evaluate contemporary design practices and define new paths? Young American designers are searching for alternate roles, and ways to design and live. Many experiment with models from elsewhere, places where new futures are growing from useful pre-industrial remnants. America, a country synonymous with industrialization, has no such resources upon which to build new practices, and slowing while creating value through quality is …