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Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler
Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler
Nordes Conference Series
What impact does the act of sketching have on thought processes? How may knowledge through sketching be reflected and lead to new epistemic insights? The workshop addresses these theoretical and methodological questions on the basis of specific drawing experiments. During the workshop the experimental use of sketches as a reflective tool in thinking and design processes is introduced. Experimental sketching is a participatory investigation about how knowledge is gained by drawing and how this process can be methodically, theoretically and practically reflected.
Exploring 'Reflective' Design: An Approach To Digital Archives, Reuben Stanton, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille
Exploring 'Reflective' Design: An Approach To Digital Archives, Reuben Stanton, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille
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In this short paper we discuss our explorations with adopting reflective design as an approach to designing a digital archive for the performing arts. The stakeholders in this project are diverse, comprised of members of the partner organisation, the public, the design team and government funding agencies. Each stakeholder has different expectations and skills to bring to the project. It is proposed that reflective design with its mix of critical reflection with a human centred design and prototyping approach provides a methodological framework that enables the complexities of the project to be integrated into an action orientated design exploration.
Artifice, The Semiosphere, And Counter-Consciousness (Or) A Model For A Counter-Design And Design Research, Joshua Singer
Artifice, The Semiosphere, And Counter-Consciousness (Or) A Model For A Counter-Design And Design Research, Joshua Singer
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If we are to find a future in the practice of design (this paper limits itself to graphic design and design research) which aims to assist in the evolution of culture (as opposed to perpetuating the “closed” stabilizing system of culture and language, the persistent heterogeneity, conventions and givens), design might pivot (a designerly thing, as simple as to turn as a slight of hand or as a playful manipulation as in Détournement) to a critical and discursive practice of counter-design. Abandoning the territory of commercial practice for an experimental counter-practice, design becomes an active agent in the “open” system …
Electronic Sketching: Using Idemobits As Tools For Synthesis In Design Research, Vanessa Carpenter, Mikkel Leth Olsen
Electronic Sketching: Using Idemobits As Tools For Synthesis In Design Research, Vanessa Carpenter, Mikkel Leth Olsen
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Throughout the process of design research, synthesis is an important aspect for bringing together past and current knowledge to facilitate new ideas. In this workshop participants will be challenged to explicitly explore their ideas using IdemoBits. IdemoBits are a tangible tool to be used during the process of design research enabling the designer to explore ideas immediately using electronic materials. This is a very hands-on, active workshop where attendees are expected to participate, contribute, and play; exploring the IdemoBits as tools, and reflecting on the process of synthesis, in order to contribute to a model of ideation.
Experimenting With Design: Playing With Data Derived From Unusual Locations, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison, Aisling Kelliher
Experimenting With Design: Playing With Data Derived From Unusual Locations, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison, Aisling Kelliher
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The field of design research is in a rapid stage of its evolution. As it does so, the methods for undertaking research, and the contexts that these occur in are also evolving. Situated in the space between critical design and design fiction, participants in this workshop will explore new ways for experimenting within design research. The facilitators of the workshop come from three different aspects of design research, three markedly different locations and yet intersect in their interest in exploring and manifesting, new iterations of design research in practice. In this workshop, participants will explore methods for undertaking design experiments, …
Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont
Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont
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This workshop aims to bridge the gap between game-, and product design and the theoretical knowledge of the field of neuropsychology. During the workshop we will design playful experiences to stimulate older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, in order to delay disease progression. Knowledge concerning the progressive course of neuropathology of the disease can substantially contribute to the design of suitable games, or playful products, for this user group. In view of the increasing population of older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, the design of relevant games or playful products by well-informed designers will benefit this group and is urgently needed.
Designing Value And Reframing Challenges, Andrea Augsten, Frederike Beha
Designing Value And Reframing Challenges, Andrea Augsten, Frederike Beha
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Current global challenges need a new way to look at how we design products, services and solutions. One the one hand these global trends influence innovation but on the other hand the user and his individual needs have to be taken into account. This leads to the task of reframing requirements based on empathy, multidisciplinary teams and a learning culture in order to design sustainable products that create values for the users. Participants in this workshop will be guided through a process of designing a new product or service. Special focus will be placed on the experience of how to …
New Ways Of Networking: A Hands On Workshop Exploring The Workspace:Lab And Its Equipment, Christina Lundsgaard, Carolina Souzada Conceição, Johanna Eriksson
New Ways Of Networking: A Hands On Workshop Exploring The Workspace:Lab And Its Equipment, Christina Lundsgaard, Carolina Souzada Conceição, Johanna Eriksson
Nordes Conference Series
Are you interested in designing new ways of networking at the Nordes conference with fellow researchers? Do you want to explore and discuss the so called “workspacelab” as a platform for user involvement? This workshop invites participants to explore a particular version of the design:lab called the workspace:lab. With a focus on methods like probekits, design games and experience prototyping the participants will experience what it is like being part of the design:lab as “users” and they will be exposed to the different equipment and tools used in the “laboratory of change”. Though the main focus of the workshop is …
Experimenting With Design Experiments, Anna Rylander, Bo Westerlund
Experimenting With Design Experiments, Anna Rylander, Bo Westerlund
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This full day workshop intends to explore design experiments to create a deeper understanding of the underpinning mindsets, epistemological assumptions and their implications as well as possibilities within the context of academic research. The participants will contribute with their experiences of conducting design experiments in a variety of settings and contexts. During the workshop the participants will give and get feedback on the experiments presented and explored, and participate in the discussion and development of (new) principles for design experiments in academic research. One aim of the workshop is to develop a conceptual map that categorizes the various design experiments …
Expand Your Design Space With Energy Harvesting, Johan Pedersen, Vanessa Carpenter
Expand Your Design Space With Energy Harvesting, Johan Pedersen, Vanessa Carpenter
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Today design research explores many new ways of interaction, which often requires energyconsuming technology. This limits the design space available and the purpose of this workshop is to open that space and make interaction possible in new scenarios with the possibilities of energy harvesting used as a tool to design in a new field of automated sustainable devices. Energy harvesting can make seamless and almost invisible interaction design possible.
Fungutopia Workshop: Grow It Yourself Design, Laura Popplow
Fungutopia Workshop: Grow It Yourself Design, Laura Popplow
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“FUNGUTOPIA is the design of a social and ecological utopia based on urban mushroom cultivation”. The Project FUNGUTOPIA is a design | research in process. The workshop will work with and about the material of fungal mycelium. We will learn how to cultivate oyster mushrooms with simple kitchen tools and let them grow in self-build forms. To understand how to work with the living material of fungi, we will discuss their properties and characteristics and the potential of mushrooms as building material, recyclers, food and medicine. Apart from the hands-on-approach the workshops goal is also to discuss questions about “design …
Utilizing The Designer Within: A Healthcare Case Study, Alastair Macdonald
Utilizing The Designer Within: A Healthcare Case Study, Alastair Macdonald
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This paper explores the utilization of design skills and approaches by non-designers within the context of rehabilitation in healthcare. The author proposes that within us all is the set of skills, strategies and modes of thinking commonly found in designers that, if recognised, understood and practiced, could potentially be harnessed by nondesigners to assist them in everyday situations. Rather than this usurping the designers’ role, designers may have the potential to help ‘unlock’ these capabilities in others and help change the patient-to-healthcare professional relationship. This idea is explored using a pilot study involving spinal cord injuries patients in rehabilitation.
Story Of Use: Analysis Of !Lm Narratives To Inform The Design Of Object Interactions, Silvia Grimaldi
Story Of Use: Analysis Of !Lm Narratives To Inform The Design Of Object Interactions, Silvia Grimaldi
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Not only is using a product an experience, it is an interaction and it is narrative in nature. This work in progress paper describes the narrative theory background for this statement, in particular schemata theory and the concepts of agency, tellability and narrativity, then describes methods that are being used in the project to analyse film narratives and apply these to the design of tellable physical products.
An Experiment With The Voice To Design Ceramics, Flemming Tvede Hansen
An Experiment With The Voice To Design Ceramics, Flemming Tvede Hansen
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This article is about how experiential knowledge that the craftsmen gains in a direct physical interaction with a responding material can be transformed and utilized in the use of digital technologies. The article presents an experiment with a 3D interactive and dynamic system to create ceramics from the human voice and thus how digital technology makes new possibilities in ceramic craft. 3D digital shape is created using simple geometric rules and is output to a 3D printer to make ceramic objects. The system demonstrates the close connection between digital technology and craft practice.
Articulating Material Criteria, Karen Marie Hasling
Articulating Material Criteria, Karen Marie Hasling
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This paper discusses the experiences and potentials with materials teaching at the Institute for Product Design at Kolding School of Design, using materials teaching as experiments in my PhD project. The project intents to create a stronger material awareness among product design students with emphasis on sustainability. The experiments aim to develop an understanding of, how product design students include materials in their design practice and how tools can be developed that further enhance this. Hence experiments are essential for the progress of the PhD project as they help to observe, imitate and articulate the students’ inclusion of materials. This …
Designing Social Play Through Interpersonal Touch: An Annotated Portfolio, Mads Hobye, Nicolas Padfield, Jonas Löwgren
Designing Social Play Through Interpersonal Touch: An Annotated Portfolio, Mads Hobye, Nicolas Padfield, Jonas Löwgren
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We present five design cases as an annotated portfolio, exploring ways to design for intimate, interpersonal touch and social intimacy in interaction design. Five key qualities are elicited from the cases, including novel connotations sparking curiosity; providing an excuse to interact; unfolding internal complexity; social ambiguity; norm-bending intimacy. The work highlights novel interaction design approaches fostering social play, turning participants into performers of their own narratives.
Translations: Experiments In Landscape Design Education, Anne Tietjen
Translations: Experiments In Landscape Design Education, Anne Tietjen
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How can students be taught an experimental approach to landscape design? New strategic planning tasks require more research-oriented design methods. Using the example of student work for a rural landscape in northern Denmark, this paper discusses landscape design as a process of translation. The landscape project is here essentially understood as spatial interventions aiming at unfolding inherent, place-specific development potential. Comprehending the landscape and dynamics of landscape change and formulating landscape projects thus becomes an integrated, creative process: A translation of an existing into a possible future landscape. Based on actor-network theory the paper outlines, first, a conceptual framework and, …
Postcards From A (Better) Future: Process As Making, Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen
Postcards From A (Better) Future: Process As Making, Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen
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It is hard to imagine a future fundamentally different from what we know, yet increasingly people dream of and agitate for social, cultural and political change. Postcards From a (Better) Future is part of an evolving interrogation into how embodied-thinking-through-making might assist in the imagining of (better) futures that might otherwise elude us. It is a bid to empower people to imagine, through making, so that they may effectuate change. This paper describes the theoretical background and structure of the Postcards From a (Better) Future process. It provides background on the fundamental conceptual shifts; and discusses how and why the …
A Differentiation Of The Notion Of Resistance, Based On Two Ways Of Operationalizing Textiles In Architecture, Elisabeth Heimdal, Astrid Mody
A Differentiation Of The Notion Of Resistance, Based On Two Ways Of Operationalizing Textiles In Architecture, Elisabeth Heimdal, Astrid Mody
Nordes Conference Series
An emerging field of design research deals with the operationalization of materials. In this paper, we present and analyse two approaches to operationalizing textiles in architecture. In our analysis, we focus on how differences in operational design expose different kinds of resistance in textiles. Anna Vallgårda and Cecilie Bendixen define a material’s resistance as what gives us access to knowledge about it (2009). We argue that it is fruitful to compare these two approaches in order to shed light on how to produce sufficient and suitable resistance when operationalizing textiles. As a conclusion we suggest four types of resistance: a …
Double Vision: Researching Fashion Design Practise By Use Of Qualitative Techniques, Ulla Ræbild
Double Vision: Researching Fashion Design Practise By Use Of Qualitative Techniques, Ulla Ræbild
Nordes Conference Series
Present short paper concerns itself with the question of how new ways of understanding the work methods of professional fashion designers can be uncovered. The paper presents two different but interconnected discussions, one relating to the use of interview and video when researching studio practice, the other addressing the practice of analysing through sketching and metaphorical imaging.
The In-Between: An Experimental Venture Into The Position Of The Designer, Susana Cámara Leret, Bas Raijmakers
The In-Between: An Experimental Venture Into The Position Of The Designer, Susana Cámara Leret, Bas Raijmakers
Nordes Conference Series
Increasing interdisciplinary collaborations between art, design and science, draw attention to the need of elucidating the position of the designer. Here this stance is identified as an in-between position, characterised by its exploratory nature, which contributes to the experimental practice of design as a whole. This interstitial position for design, is furthermore identified as an empowering one, which can open up doors to novel opportunities and outcomes, by enabling designers to engage within the processes that construct meaning.
Ageing As Design Culture, Ozge Subasi, Lone Malmborg
Ageing As Design Culture, Ozge Subasi, Lone Malmborg
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This paper discusses emerging themes related to design culture of ageing or in other words ageing as design culture. By looking into existing experiment and exploration practices from different countries on ageing and design, this paper summarizes outcomes from a full day international expert’s workshop. The main outcome is a need for a broader understanding of ageing that goes beyond the definition of ageing by means of age, deficits and needs. We introduce four main issues that emerged from our discussions in our workshop on how to deal with ageing as a subject of design experiments. These four themes can …
Design Experiments For Sustainable Eating In Finland, Young-Ae Hahn, Marja Seliger
Design Experiments For Sustainable Eating In Finland, Young-Ae Hahn, Marja Seliger
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This paper presents two design experiment opportunities on sustainable eating in Finland. First, clarification of scientific concepts is urgent because misconceptions lead consumers to focus on minor issues, or to develop negative perceptions on sustainability. Second, a socio-cultural approach to sustainable eating is proposed, by investigating Finnish consumers’ perceptions on food origins, how their social identities are shaped/expressed with food, and the sustainability of popular Finnish recipes. Future design experiments on consumers’ knowledge, attitudes, or behaviours with public installations and commercial data collection systems are proposed.
Discursive Design Basics: Mode And Audience, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp
Discursive Design Basics: Mode And Audience, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp
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Presented within are four categories of product/industrial design practice, one of which, Discursive Design, is problematized regarding basic operational mode and audience. Two dimensions will be offered that provide fundamental structure for future theorization. Having emerged over the last two decades, increasingly critical practice is being developed within design’s art-based, exhibitive model, and also within the field of design research. Here the dimension of Terminal/Instrumental is posited as an operational modality, while the audience along this dimension is posited in terms of Internal/External participation.
Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher
Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher
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This exploratory paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the use of design experimentation to augment students’ approaches to speculative projects within the context of professional interior design education. By analysing student-based research as integrated into final comprehensive graduate-level design projects at a major North American university, the potential for experimentation to inform design process is articulated. Although the results of such acts are not always easily assessed within the constraints of real-life criteria, it is optimum for generating innovations in design process and hybrid theoretical frameworks that ultimately challenge the profession to define its boundaries in new ways.
Complicating Machines: A Call To Infect Architecture With The Mechanism Of ‘Politics’, Johan Liekens
Complicating Machines: A Call To Infect Architecture With The Mechanism Of ‘Politics’, Johan Liekens
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This paper ventures from architecture’s possible and much needed capacity to provoke through its material manifestation a difference of thought. First, an argumentation is constructed pleading for the infection of architecture with the negotiational mechanism of ‘politics’. This is needed if architecture wants to reach its full capacities of acting in this world – practically; ethically; politically. With this argumentation in mind, the architectural experiment Complicating Machine CoMa02 is screened as a set-up, following its possibilities – both functional and para-functional – to its user, the flâneur, the passer-by.
Making As Using: Design Research That Deciphers Value, Tania Splawa-Neyman
Making As Using: Design Research That Deciphers Value, Tania Splawa-Neyman
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The cultivation of sustainable fashion praxis is challenging when design activity is implemented through the making of objects. Whilst scrutinising the use value of objects yields solutions, framing making as design research positions this process as research enquiry, with inherent usefulness in its own right. Sited within an emergent fashion practice that integrates professional skills with everyday and domestic customs, transformation is explored, via the method of gleaning, to reframe waste as remnants. This affords comprehension of the embedded life within objects and materials as they move into and out of my hands, post and prior to making. I propose …
Experiential Design Landscapes: Design Research In The Wild, Michel Peeters, Carl Megens, Caroline Hummels, Aarnout Brombacher, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn
Experiential Design Landscapes: Design Research In The Wild, Michel Peeters, Carl Megens, Caroline Hummels, Aarnout Brombacher, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn
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Thanks to the emergence of new sensing and behaviour tracking technologies, design research can take place anywhere and anytime in the real world. When doing design research, a trade-off has to be made between experimental control and ecological validity. In this paper, we compare Experiential Design Landscapes (EDLs) with three more traditional research approaches that are frequently used in design research, i.e., Lab Research, Living Lab and design research ‘in the field’, and reflect on this trade-off. By means of an example, we discuss how EDLs deals with issues of ‘generalisability’ to the real world and the potential loss of …
Design Argumentation In Academic Design Education, Peter Dalsgaard, Christian Dindler, Jonas Fritsch
Design Argumentation In Academic Design Education, Peter Dalsgaard, Christian Dindler, Jonas Fritsch
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In this paper we explore design argumentation as a resource when teaching interaction design in a university setting. We propose that design argumentation can help bridge between practicebased design education and theoretical issues from university curricula. Building upon the Toulmin model of argument, we outline the idea of design argumentation and report on initial experiences from interaction design teaching. We discuss how this approach can be instrumental in teaching students how to build up a shared design vocabulary in order to formulate valid claims when arguing for and through their design work based on empirical, theoretical and material grounds.
Designing In The Emergent City: Assemblage, Acts, Performance, Kristine Samson
Designing In The Emergent City: Assemblage, Acts, Performance, Kristine Samson
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The paper seeks to define urban design in relation to the specific challenges of emerging cities. The emergent city is a three month field research project conducted in the winter 2012-13 in Sao Paulo, Rio and Santiago. Through a case study of Mudo Coletivos temporary structure, Bolha Imobiliaria, and the making of it, I wish to outline a design approach for urban design in cities lacking public spaces. Urban design is understood in a broad sense, not as architectural design but also as spatial design and artistic interventions in public space. Through the paper I will address how the designer …