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Design Togetherness, Monica Lindh Karlsson, Johan Redström
Design Togetherness, Monica Lindh Karlsson, Johan Redström
Nordes Conference Series
While science typically approaches complexity through analysis, that is, by unpacking a complex whole into distinct and more manageable parts, the challenge of design is typically to do the opposite; to resolve often contradictory issues and bring together a meaningful whole. We think that there are more to forms of doing design together than our current terminology allows us to articulate. In particular, we want to explore if there are forms of design doing that open up for a kind of bringing together that is qualitatively different from collaboration, in the same way as the meaningful whole design deals with …
Embracing Ambiguity In The Teaching Practices Of Peter Eisenman And Colin Rowe, Michael Jasper
Embracing Ambiguity In The Teaching Practices Of Peter Eisenman And Colin Rowe, Michael Jasper
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A central mode of thinking for designers generally and architects in particular is that based on part to whole relationships, the idea that fractional relationships necessarily characterise coherent objects and building ensembles and in turn nature as the basis for beauty. The part-whole relationship can be taken as one index of an anthropocentric mode of thinking and practice. This paper investigates alternate modes of architectural thought which challenge the perceived limits of part-whole logics through select case studies from the work of architects Peter Eisenman (1932) and Colin Rowe (1920-1999). While there is evidence of this sensibility in their practice, …
Precious Materials Of Interaction: Exploring Interactive Accessories As Jewellery Items, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ylva Fernaeus, Martin Jonsson
Precious Materials Of Interaction: Exploring Interactive Accessories As Jewellery Items, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ylva Fernaeus, Martin Jonsson
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In this paper we present a series of design explorations on the theme of wearable and mobile technology through the lens of jewellery design. This is done by looking at properties of traditional fine jewellery in terms of material considerations and crafting processes, as well as considerations related to patterns of wear and interaction. By using jewellery as a point of departure, both theoretically and practically, we discuss four topics: a) the gestalt of electronic artefacts versus jewellery design, b) material preciousness, c) interactive properties of physical materials, and d) jewellery usage as an inspiration for new interactive designs.
Conducting Design Research In Pakistan’S Craft Sector: Opportunities And Limitations, Gwendolyn Kulick
Conducting Design Research In Pakistan’S Craft Sector: Opportunities And Limitations, Gwendolyn Kulick
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Craft production in Pakistan has many facets, from cheap exploitative mass production to exquisite product lines, highlighting the beauty of the handmade. For my current PhD research, a specific field of practice has been identified: craft projects aiming to develop income generation opportunities for poor craft producers. The development of successful strategies towards including them into craft business value chains long term is the aim of the research, presented in this paper. Aspects of the complex relationship between craft tradition, craft production, poverty alleviation and empowerment inform my topic. Research methods like a case study investigation are described. My simultaneous …
Co-Designing Rituals For Transitional Times, Kristen Moegerlein
Co-Designing Rituals For Transitional Times, Kristen Moegerlein
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This PhD research proposes to investigate how newly designed community rituals might provide a means of re-conceiving existing carbon-intense lifestyles and help to imagine alternative social futures that move beyond an anthropocentric perspective. By using a combined multi-sensory ethnographic and design approach, this research seeks to understand how ritualistic activity is meaningfully located within everyday life and how it might be possible to work with ritual as a design ‘medium’. Participatory design methods that explore the potential for ritual as a transformational tool within community settings will be developed, in order to create new forms of social interaction and/or systems …
“Agonistic Design Matter”: Flowers, Pots And Wires, Monika Rosińska, Agata Szydłowska
“Agonistic Design Matter”: Flowers, Pots And Wires, Monika Rosińska, Agata Szydłowska
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This exploratory paper provides an account on the big Polish cities that have recently undertaken major problems of so called revitalization. According to New Urbanism ideas, these projects should involve participation of inhabitants and address needs of different actors which dwell in the cities. We introduce two cases of Warsaw and Poznań where the concept of participation becomes misunderstood and the cities’ authorities’ attitude towards urban green removes it – literally and metaphorically – from the soil and makes it a city property easy to move and remove. These cases show how the cities’ policy towards urban greenery focuses different …
The Andro-Chair: Designing The Unthinkable-Men’S Right To Women’S Experiences In Gynaecology, Cristine Sundbom, Karin Ehrnberger, Anne-Christine Herz, Emma Börjesson
The Andro-Chair: Designing The Unthinkable-Men’S Right To Women’S Experiences In Gynaecology, Cristine Sundbom, Karin Ehrnberger, Anne-Christine Herz, Emma Börjesson
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In this paper we explore how design may be used as a critical and creative tool to discuss how design is gendered in the contemporary gynaecology examination in Sweden. The aim of our paper is to uncover the veiled gender norms in this problem area and discuss the consequences for women. Our methods include a Gender Swapping Approach, centred around the chair currently used in most female gynaecological examinations. We used the results of our conducted interviews together with related previous research, which reveals that a majority of women have negative and sometimes even traumatic experiences of the gynaecology chair. …
Designing For Social Integration: An Ecological Approach To Language Learning, Young-Ae Hahn, Tania Jimena Rodriguez-Kaarto
Designing For Social Integration: An Ecological Approach To Language Learning, Young-Ae Hahn, Tania Jimena Rodriguez-Kaarto
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Cultural knowledge and professional language are key for mid-level second language (L2) learners’ progress and job competency, but in Finland, their needs are not fully met. This paper draws from cognitive and ecological theories for a new approach to L2 learning: activity-based curricula with personalized, multi-sensory materials and dialogical, collaborative tasks. A system with four learning modules (observation, writing, interaction, and speech) that holistically tackles different areas of language competency, while absorbing cultural knowledge, is suggested. The modules, combined with an online space for students, teachers, and participating Finnish citizens to collect and share multi-modal materials, will assist lessons customized …
Design-Politics Nexus: Material Articulations And Modes Of Acting, Mahmoud Keshavarz
Design-Politics Nexus: Material Articulations And Modes Of Acting, Mahmoud Keshavarz
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This paper is a theoretical attempt to formulate an ontological understanding of design as a set of articulations and modes of acting that manipulate the materiality of the world in order to re-direct and re-orient the possible ways of inhabiting, accessing and shaping the world. Such an understanding puts forward a way of approaching the question of politics in, of and for design that design and politics should be understood as a twofold embedded in one environment. This then has consequences both for design and for politics. I argue that these consequences can be understood better through unfolding the political …
Cognitive Redirective Mapping: Designing Futures That Challenge Anthropocentrism, Esbentristan Schultz, Bec Barnett
Cognitive Redirective Mapping: Designing Futures That Challenge Anthropocentrism, Esbentristan Schultz, Bec Barnett
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Humanity is facing, at both global and local levels, unprecedented challenges as the future, a byproduct of modernity, hurtles towards us. These future challenges are complex and world changing and include, but are not limited to, climate change, population growth, increasing poverty, the continuation of colonialism, war and the effects of technology. As designers we need to make use of the power that design holds not just to recognise, consider and design for these futures that we are facing but equally, to design for the ontological redirection of destructive future scenarios. To address these destructive futures and harness the transformative …
Co-Designing And Commoning, Andrea Botero, Sanna Martilla, Frederik Vam Amstel, Anna Seravalli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen
Co-Designing And Commoning, Andrea Botero, Sanna Martilla, Frederik Vam Amstel, Anna Seravalli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen
Nordes Conference Series
This workshop explores the relevance of commons as an objective and commoning as a way of doing and being for design. How can these concepts help us critically support sustainable futures for communities of humans and non-humans?
The Roles Of Sketching In Design: Mapping The Tension Between Functions In Design Sketches, Peter Vistisen
The Roles Of Sketching In Design: Mapping The Tension Between Functions In Design Sketches, Peter Vistisen
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This paper examines how the role of sketching in design process has been disseminated previously through a review of prior perspectives into the field. We identify that the studies of design sketching has been dominated by two perspectives: studies into what is known as ‘visual thinking’ (Goldschmidt 1991, Schön & Wiggins 1992, Tversky et al. 1999), which examines the designers reflective conversation with the sketch, and a second perspective on sketching as way of ‘visual communication’ with others in the design process (Lugt 2005, Schütze 2003, Buxton 2010). We raise the question of whether it is reasonable to combine the …
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 …
Discussion With Three Jackets: Making A Material Ecology, Tania Splawa-Neyman
Discussion With Three Jackets: Making A Material Ecology, Tania Splawa-Neyman
Nordes Conference Series
It is common today for objects and the materials of their making to be swiftly obtained and then inattentively divested, with little regard for the part that they play within living ecologies of artifice. As expressed by Anne-Marie Willis when ruminating over our ontological change imparted via design, “we no longer know how to dwell among things” (Willis 2006, under ‘From Worlding to Thinging’) Through a series of experiments that anthropomorphise and open discussions with materials, connections are cultivated that are not usual within our everyday experiences of our material world. These material conversations are founded within the creative acts …
Engaged Sustainable Design: Creating Moral Agency, Louise St. Pierre
Engaged Sustainable Design: Creating Moral Agency, Louise St. Pierre
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This paper integrates my journeys into the wilderness of northern British Columbia and the Alberta Prairies with my reflections on the relationship of sustainable design theories with an ethical practice of sustainable design. Drawing on deep ecology, Buddhism, and animism, I contend that the drive within research to connect natural systems theories to design practice is inherently instrumental and eludes the truths of the natural world. Within the domain of sustainable design, this instrumentalism reinforces an anthropocentric worldview that, as humans, we are separate from and more important than the unboundaried ecology of animals, plants, minerals and elementals (earth, water, …
The Challenge Of A Sustainability Change: A Designerly Approach, Thomas Dyrmann Winkel, Søren Bolvig Poulsen, Claus A.F. Rosenstand
The Challenge Of A Sustainability Change: A Designerly Approach, Thomas Dyrmann Winkel, Søren Bolvig Poulsen, Claus A.F. Rosenstand
Nordes Conference Series
Changing a company’s role and position in its context towards a more ambitious profile centred on waste minimisation can be challenging due to external factors such as regulations and economic logics, but also internal challenges of transforming visions into supporting activities can hinder the role change. This paper focuses on the waste minimisation project Nulskrald (Zerowaste) initiated by AVV. The project has undergone two phases without fulfilling its vision. A designerly approach was applied in a strategic workshop as the company faced the launch of the third phase. Here the Actantial model and the Strategic Pyramid were applied and conjoined …
Remix Utopia: Eleven Propositions On Design And Social Fantasy, Michael Haldrup, Hobye Mads, Kristin Samson, Nicolas Padfield
Remix Utopia: Eleven Propositions On Design And Social Fantasy, Michael Haldrup, Hobye Mads, Kristin Samson, Nicolas Padfield
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“Dystopian fiction’s popularity is a warning sign for the future” worries renowned author and cultural critic Naomi Klein (2014a). For Klein, human made climate change does not call for adaptation or mitigation; it is a civilizational wake-up call. Confronting the apocalypse is not about “changing light bulbs” - it is about change, about transforming the “social system” causing human extinction, about revolting against capitalism (2014b). Dystopian scenarios do not leave much scope for this. In the face of climatic catastrophe, sci-fi authors tend to affirm the inevitable, leaving room only for either apathy or individualist survivalism, stockpiling food and fuel. …
Press Play: Acts Of Defining (In) Fluid Assemblages, Johan Redström, Heather Wiltse
Press Play: Acts Of Defining (In) Fluid Assemblages, Johan Redström, Heather Wiltse
Nordes Conference Series
Although design continuously has been expanding its scope of concern and intervention from products to processes, experience, and entire product and service ecologies, ‘things’ remain central to how we think about design and use. But ‘things’ have changed. Contemporary materials, technologies and contexts of design and use, we argue, now result in ‘things’ that need to be understood as fluid assemblages rather than traditional objects. These often combine a surface-level simplicity of use with dynamic, sophisticated, and hidden backend complexity. In order to investigate these issues we consider a simple design case and how it has evolved over time and …
The Meaning Of Biotic Artifacts: Studies On Fruit And Vegetables, Johanna Kleinert
The Meaning Of Biotic Artifacts: Studies On Fruit And Vegetables, Johanna Kleinert
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This paper presents the plan of a research project that started in April 2015. The topic of this study are agricultural crops and their property of being both natural and artificial at the same time. To describe such living organisms at the intersection between the natural and the artificial world, one can use the terms “biotic artifacts” or “Biofakte” in German (Karafyllis 2003). This paper defines the state of research that is the basis for my work. Additionally, I explain the research design, the questions, methods and goals of this study. In the end, I give an insight into the …
Beyond Visualization: Exploring New Thinking In Production Team Dynamics For News Websites, Yiyun Zha
Beyond Visualization: Exploring New Thinking In Production Team Dynamics For News Websites, Yiyun Zha
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As part of a larger study aiming at understanding and improving interactive reader experiences through a study of news production team dynamics, as a complex, multi-faceted endeavour, this paper looks at the key factors affecting in-house visual journalists’ view of news production and their ability to think aesthetically. A number of impacts influenced by new technologies will be explored, followed by discussion on the rationale and development of news production processes that proposes a range of challenges for creative workers. I intend to show how these movements call for a radical reconsideration of new thinking about news web site visualization.
Design For Youngsters' Empowerment In Their Sustainable Active Citizenship, Olga Glumac
Design For Youngsters' Empowerment In Their Sustainable Active Citizenship, Olga Glumac
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This paper describes and critically reflects upon case study within an ongoing action research located in Porto (Portugal) that investigates how the empowerment of Portuguese youth can be established through co-design. This long-term study is designed and implemented in Porto‟s public school through weekly sessions where students-participants give their contributions to the topics and ideas of activities to be conducted. The number of participants varies and is based on voluntary involvement of students from 12 to 16 years that are interested in improving the environment for their daily conviviality and learning within school area. Youngsters are in charge for co-design …
Disctinct Approaches To Design Education: Preparing Future Designers For An Amplified Practice Of Design, Mafalda Moreira
Disctinct Approaches To Design Education: Preparing Future Designers For An Amplified Practice Of Design, Mafalda Moreira
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As a century of ‘Fluid Landscapes’ in Alain Touraine’s words, our time shows a scenario of growing complexity, rapid climate changes, wars, global financial crisis, and disruptive demographic changes. It could be said that society responds to this scenario by developing a growing social responsibility, environmental awareness and empathy, thus impacting design practices and education. Literature shows signs of an amplified design practice that demands to be evidenced. Responding to emergent practices, a distinct approach to postgraduate design education intends to help prepare the future workforce to embrace ambiguity in processes, and welcome complex and paradoxical realities in order to …
The Paradox Of Design Methods: Towards Alternative Functions, Kathrina Dankl
The Paradox Of Design Methods: Towards Alternative Functions, Kathrina Dankl
Nordes Conference Series
During the last ten years design has been discussed as a driver for novelty and innovation. Design methods have been applied to challenges ranging from environmental pollution, food to health care and have been used in other disciplines and by people with non-design backgrounds alike. Social Innovation, Design Thinking and Co-Creation are three approaches that are strongly associated with this development. While their borders blur, their toolboxes – the methods they apply - are similar. Sustainability usually requires design methods that enable a participation in the design process of all interested parties. But while typical methods claim to favour multi-disciplinarily, …
Ways Of Talking With (And About) Materials, Anne Louise Bang, Agnese Caglio, Vibeke Riisberg, Karen Marie Hasling
Ways Of Talking With (And About) Materials, Anne Louise Bang, Agnese Caglio, Vibeke Riisberg, Karen Marie Hasling
Nordes Conference Series
In this workshop we are occupied with materials as a means to relate to objects and our environments. We introduce the Repertory Grid technique as a dialogue tool, based on sensorial perception of soft and hard materials. Thus, the aim of the workshop is twofold: firstly, it encourages engagement and conversations about materials on themes such as perception of material qualities. Secondly, it discusses the potential of talking with materials, that is: using the material world as a resource for conversation. The workshop is based on previous research conducted within the field of fashion and textiles where we have identified …
Design For Degrowth: Drawing Ecologies Together, Laura Popplow, Judith Marlen Dobler
Design For Degrowth: Drawing Ecologies Together, Laura Popplow, Judith Marlen Dobler
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In this workshop we will explore design for degrowth in a collaborative manner. In the first part of the half-day workshop we will discuss in a playful way different visual notions of growth and possible future notions of post- or degrowth. The participants are asked to submit visual material enabling us to create a conversational tool. While taking different roles in the discussion, we will select topics together that seem important to be further worked on. In a second session the participants will split up in smaller groups sketching ideas collaboratively on how a degrowth scenario in the Anthropocene could …
Native Products: Nordes 2015 Edition, Costas Bissas, Vasso Asfi, Loukas Angelou
Native Products: Nordes 2015 Edition, Costas Bissas, Vasso Asfi, Loukas Angelou
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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.
Towards Genuinely Inclusive Design, Victoria Gerrard, Floris Vander Marel
Towards Genuinely Inclusive Design, Victoria Gerrard, Floris Vander Marel
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This workshop aims to support a dialogue around Participation and Design. The motivation is not to develop new ‘Participatory Design’ practices but to develop community accepted modes of design decision making which stem from a dialogue about participation, design and social change.
Inorganisms: An Emergent Approach To Sustainability, David Kadish, Aleksandra Dulic
Inorganisms: An Emergent Approach To Sustainability, David Kadish, Aleksandra Dulic
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Inorganisms is a workshop that engages participants in a process of creation through reflective practice as a way of building and understanding complexity. It models a design process aimed at addressing large-scale global issues that asks designers to create solutions on a local scale, while forming interconnections to neighbouring places and designers. The workshop takes a pragmatic approach to learning through design and experience in order to come to a better understanding of complex, emergent systems. Participants are asked to design and create an inorganic organism from provided building blocks. Each inorganism communicates with other inorganisms, ultimately creating an emergent …
Manipulations: Artefact-Site-Space, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Eric Snodgrass, Ola Ståhl
Manipulations: Artefact-Site-Space, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Eric Snodgrass, Ola Ståhl
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This workshop gathers those who are interested in producing a set of responses to the concept of manipulation through a specific framework of design ecologies. The workshop will adapt a methodological approach linking artefact, site and space – an approach we hope will offer ample opportunity to explore manipulation both as a concept and a local and material practice that produces global effects. Participants are invited to contribute with specific case studies of artefacts, sites and/or spaces, reading them up and against the notion of manipulation considered here not merely as an outcome of environments but also as a source …
Unpicking The Fashion System: Practice As Research Workshop, Ruby Hoette
Unpicking The Fashion System: Practice As Research Workshop, Ruby Hoette
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During this workshop participants will experiment with methods of dissection and collage as tools with which to actively engage with the fluid and dynamic relationships that constitute fashion and the shifting role of the fashion designer. Unpicking garments along original seam-lines functions as a metaphor for the unravelling of the mechanisms that constitute pervasive fashion practices and production processes. The resulting loose garment elements will then be rearranged into new formations or mappings - proposals for collective ways of engaging with fashion production and a new fashion ‘collection’. The workshop will draw on the concept of the personal wardrobe, within …