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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
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‘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 …
Learning From Co-Designing, Hua Dong, Shu Yuan
Learning From Co-Designing, Hua Dong, Shu Yuan
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A designer-focused approach is often taken when observing co-design processes and the designers’ learning is reflected rather than the users. This study takes an all-inclusive angle in observing an inclusive design workshop which involved five professional designers, five users from a diverse backgrounds, and five design researchers. Questionnaires were distributed to the designer and user participants, before and immediately after the workshop, to gather data about their opinions on broader issues relating to inclusive design. The design researchers carried out observations during the workshop, gathering detailed notes and audio-visual data. Follow-up interviews were conducted to identify any issues relating to …
Mapping Children’S Experiences: Adapting Contextmapping Tools To Child Participants, Mathieu Gielen
Mapping Children’S Experiences: Adapting Contextmapping Tools To Child Participants, Mathieu Gielen
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Within the area of user-centered design, Contextmapping is an approach to participatory user experience research that provides designers and user researchers with a clear workflow and hands-on toolkit. It acknowledges the user as the expert of his or her own experiences and aims to deliver rich insights to designers: deep, authentic and inspiring views into the personal lives and experiences of prospective users. This approach is originally developed for use with adult participants. As it gets applied with child participants, some adaptations are necessary to meet children’s skills (both cognitively and socialemotionally) and motivations. We conducted a series of research …