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Poetics As A Strategy Of Inquiry: Productive Science In Design Practice And Research, Kaja Tooming Buchanan
Poetics As A Strategy Of Inquiry: Productive Science In Design Practice And Research, Kaja Tooming Buchanan
DRS Biennial Conference Series
For many years practicing artists and designers, as well as design researchers, have struggled to find useful models for their creative work. To understand this struggle, we will use a model that gives intellectual strength and direction to research and creative projects, offering an alternative to other approaches such as Design Science, Dialectic and Rhetoric. The strategy is called Productive Science or Poetics, and it is a way of focusing and understanding the struggle of a practicing artist or designer as he or she seeks to develop creative work. There are three central features of the strategy: the identification of …
Seeding Social Technologies: Strategies For Embedding Design In Use, Penny Hagen, Toni Robertson
Seeding Social Technologies: Strategies For Embedding Design In Use, Penny Hagen, Toni Robertson
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper reflects on the changing nature of participation and design in the context of social technologies and, in particular, our evolving understanding of what it means to do design. When designing social technologies we are effectively creating containers or scaffolds; their shape is formed through participation and user driven contributions and that shape changes over time. In designing successful social platforms around which communities grow, evolve and share, our role as designers extends beyond researching, defining, creating and releasing a product. The facilitation of participation by the ‘future community’ also becomes a central concern. In this paper we present, …
Perspectives On Critical Design: A Conversation With Ralph Ball And Maxine Naylor, Matthew Malpass
Perspectives On Critical Design: A Conversation With Ralph Ball And Maxine Naylor, Matthew Malpass
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper features an edited conversation with designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor. It explores their thinking in relation to critical design. In 1985 Ralph Ball formed a design partnership with Maxine Naylor a reputable experimental designer maker. Together they began to challenge the boarders between art, craft and design. They have exhibited work internationally and held teaching positions at colleges in the UK and USA. Over a decade from 1985 Ball taught on Furniture, Jewellery and Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art, where Naylor taught on Furniture Design, directing the course between 1995 and 1998. Today Ball …
The Construction Of Complexity In Design And Public Policy Contexts, Chris Urbina Meierling
The Construction Of Complexity In Design And Public Policy Contexts, Chris Urbina Meierling
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores the nature of complexity and how it is manifest in the practice of design research and public policy given their unique contexts. This comparison is made by examining the tools and approaches that are used in understanding problems and creating outcomes in each field. This paper is based on a recently conducted action research study at a state legislature in the United States and is supported by foundational literature on modern problem theory, decision making, methods, and process in the two fields. Complexity emerges from the many stakeholders that surround and define our issues, the enigmatic nature …
Developing A Pedagogic Framework For Product And Automotive Design, Michael Tovey, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond
Developing A Pedagogic Framework For Product And Automotive Design, Michael Tovey, Karen Bull, Jane Osmond
DRS Biennial Conference Series
An approach to industrial design education based on ‘transformative practice’, which has the ambition of equipping students with a passport to enter the community of professional design practice, is described. This is mapped onto a version of the designerly way knowing which is illustrated as an analysissynthesis model involving a conversation between the two cognitive modes, which are emphasised in various teaching activities. The uncertainty threshold, which is inherent in this, is both essential and routine, but can present problems for some students. The development of a re-designed course programme devised with a more flexible project delivery arrangement to accommodate …
Is Systemic Design The Next Big Thing For The Design Profession?, Anna Valtonen
Is Systemic Design The Next Big Thing For The Design Profession?, Anna Valtonen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design is increasingly used for tackling large and complex problems and this new systemic design thinking is often interlinked with large societal issues. This paper will give the historic background and context to this development; it will show how the overall economic situation affects the design profession as well as exemplify recent development of the design practice. In order to do this it will describe three case examples of recent design usage in large societal issues: the birth of a new university, the municipal commitment of using design to improve society and the national approach of Finland in pushing systemic …
Reframing Business – And Design? – A Critical Look At Co-Creation, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen, Malene Leerberg
Reframing Business – And Design? – A Critical Look At Co-Creation, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen, Malene Leerberg
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The collaborative aspect has become a prominent focus in design discourse and words like user- driven innovation, user studies, participatory design and co-creation are frequently used in the design terminology of researchers, practitioners, not to mention business organizations. This reflects a shift in attention from product and manufacturing to users and experience. Normann (2001) speaks of reframing business and arguably the changing landscape of design as described by Sanders and Stappers (2008) is making designers reframe their practice. (cf. Schön, 1991). Employing user studies, participatory design and co-creation looks like an easy and accessible way towards innovation, unlocking the creativity …
The Value Of Stimulated Dissatisfaction, Nicholas Spencer, Kevin Hilton
The Value Of Stimulated Dissatisfaction, Nicholas Spencer, Kevin Hilton
DRS Biennial Conference Series
“I’m not saying it’s a good quality to have, but my observation is that good designers are never happy, they’re never satisfied, never content” (Adrian Stokes, quoted in Spencer, 2008, p. 145). It seems self-evident that designers, whose raison d’être is to initiate change in man-made things (Jones, 1970), devising courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones (Simon, 1969), will be dissatisfied, at some level, with the way they experience the material world. However, recent research (Spencer, 2008) suggests that expert designers deliberately enhance the pressure and stress of the design situation – stimulating dissatisfaction. By …