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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Dissonances Of Digitising Personal Finance, Belen Barros Pena, Bailey Kursar, Rachel Clarke, John Vines
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Dissonances Of Digitising Personal Finance, Belen Barros Pena, Bailey Kursar, Rachel Clarke, John Vines
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Financial technologies are often credited with empowering the consumer-citizen. The discourse that surrounds them is overwhelmingly positive, emphasising their contribution to speed, efficiency, availability, competition, quality and affordability. These very same technologies, however, also clash against the meanings that we attach to money, and against the things we value in our interactions with it. Through a review of the design literature on moneywork, and our own research with people experiencing both mental illness and financial difficulty, we discuss a list of dissonances that result from digitising our personal finances. We hope this discussion will encourage designers to reflect and think …
Embodiments Of Compassion In Caring And Non-Caring Products: Exploring Design For Values With A Multisensory Approach, Benedetta Lusi, Geke Ludden, Randy Klaassen, Charlotte Marie Van Lotringen, Matthijs Noordzij
Embodiments Of Compassion In Caring And Non-Caring Products: Exploring Design For Values With A Multisensory Approach, Benedetta Lusi, Geke Ludden, Randy Klaassen, Charlotte Marie Van Lotringen, Matthijs Noordzij
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores how to design for the value of compassion by means of multi-sensory design. It reports on a study with 77 university students, carried out in the context of a design master course. The study, divided in two phases, focuses on: 1) identifying sensory qualities as requirements to design for the value of compassion; 2) embedding these requirements in caring and non-caring products. To describe the design process, we present a student-led case study. Subsequently, we analyse the results of the study and critically reflect on the different expressions of compassion and competing values. This paper provides methodological …
Co-Design As Healing: A Multi-Level Analysis Based On A Project With People Facing Mental Health Problems, Erika Renedo-Illarregi, Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos
Co-Design As Healing: A Multi-Level Analysis Based On A Project With People Facing Mental Health Problems, Erika Renedo-Illarregi, Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The present paper explores the notion of co-design as healing by focusing on a project with participants facing mental health problems, who met once a week, guided by open design processes. Reflecting on semi-structured interview data, as well as relevant literature from different disciplines, the paper offers a conceptual framing of how co-design can be considered as a healing practice, at a systems, social and individual level. At a systems level, co-design allows working with complexity, and approaching mental health problems holistically. At a social level, co-design empowers collectives to negotiate what realities to change and how. At an individual …
Exploring The Complexity And Agency Of Play Through Co-Design And Experiential Design With And For Adults, Lorna Powell
Exploring The Complexity And Agency Of Play Through Co-Design And Experiential Design With And For Adults, Lorna Powell
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper investigates the notion of designing opportunities for adult play in public space. The project responds to a changing landscape of play, within a context of worsening national mental health and a need for building resilience in our current climate. Following a methodology that includes co-design, social innovation and craft, the design intervention is a curated play walk in a local urban environment, inviting participation, exploration and creative expression. Through a qualitative evaluation of the intervention’s impact, there is an emergence of insights related to designing for play in public space, leading to the elaboration of a set of …
Design For Behaviour Change: Taking The Long View Fast, Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Shital Desai, Sander Hermsen
Design For Behaviour Change: Taking The Long View Fast, Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Shital Desai, Sander Hermsen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Design for Behaviour Change Group was established in 2014 and seeks to promote knowledge, understanding and action in how to improve sustainable social and environmental change. It researches ways in which design can support ethical and responsible behaviour change to achieve these goals. The current strand for DRS2022 explores methods to address recent opportunities in the light of environmental and health challenges.