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Systems Oriented Design: The Emergence And Development Of A Designerly Approach To Address Complexity, Birger Sevaldson
Systems Oriented Design: The Emergence And Development Of A Designerly Approach To Address Complexity, Birger Sevaldson
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Designers are especially well suited to cope with the complexity of the real world because of three reasons: they are trained to synthesise solutions from complex and fuzzy material and they are good at visualising which is an enormous advantage for thinking in complexity. Finally they are creative people trained to come up with new solutions. There already exists design practices geared towards dealing with complexity. But such practices need to be systematized and developed further. One way of doing this is to develop its relation to other practices of complexity found in systems thinking and systems practices. This paper …
Rock Paper Scissors: Reflective Practices For Design Process In The Landscape Architecture Novice, Jennifer Seevinck, Thomas Lenigas
Rock Paper Scissors: Reflective Practices For Design Process In The Landscape Architecture Novice, Jennifer Seevinck, Thomas Lenigas
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We describe a pedagogical approach that addresses challenges in design education for novices. These include an inability to frame new problems and limitedto- no design capability or domain knowledge. Such challenges can reduce student engagement with design practice, cause derivative design solutions as well as the inappropriate simplification of design assignments and assessment criteria by educators. We argue that a curriculum that develops the student’s design process will enable them to deal with the uncertain and dynamic situations that characterise design. We describe how this may be achieved and explain our pedagogical approach in terms of methods from Reflective Practice …
Social Design, Ruth Mateus-Berr, Nisrine Boukhari, Florian Burger, Alessia Finckenstein, Tanja Gesell, Marta Gomez, Masha Hupalo, Emer Kinsella, Dieter Lang, Elaine Liu, Teresa Morandini, Marie-Christin Rissinger, Frida Robles, Elisabeth Stephan, Stephan Trimmel, Julian Verocai
Social Design, Ruth Mateus-Berr, Nisrine Boukhari, Florian Burger, Alessia Finckenstein, Tanja Gesell, Marta Gomez, Masha Hupalo, Emer Kinsella, Dieter Lang, Elaine Liu, Teresa Morandini, Marie-Christin Rissinger, Frida Robles, Elisabeth Stephan, Stephan Trimmel, Julian Verocai
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This project aims at the collective definition of social design. The process of exploring this definition is considered a workshop that gets people involved and passionate. In this process there are various elements that represented tangible reference points and draw to defined public spaces in the city and central at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Social Design is a well-established term and has various forms of interpretations. Though this project aims to understand more about these interpretations. To achieve this, individuals were animated to think about the term ‘design’ and involved in defining new paradigms. This was done with …
Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall
Another Future For Designers In America, Kate Catterall
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The rationale behind mass-industrialization, now normalized, is embodied uncritically in the practice of many new designers. What if the industrial past could be explored and experienced as a foreign territory, providing a vantage point from which to critically evaluate contemporary design practices and define new paths? Young American designers are searching for alternate roles, and ways to design and live. Many experiment with models from elsewhere, places where new futures are growing from useful pre-industrial remnants. America, a country synonymous with industrialization, has no such resources upon which to build new practices, and slowing while creating value through quality is …
Ecological Literacy In Design Education: A Foundation For Sustainable Design, Joanna Boehnert
Ecological Literacy In Design Education: A Foundation For Sustainable Design, Joanna Boehnert
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Responsible design in an era of scarcity and risk associated with environmental problems must be ecologically informed. Ecological literacy is necessary in order to both understand the nature of environmental problems and to respond effectively by designing sustainable ways of living. Embedding ecological literacy into design education is happening at the most progressive institutions – and yet for many others, sustainability education is still virtually absent from the curriculum. Progress is slow despite the fact that natural scientists warn that risks will escalate if we do not take dramatic action. Ecological literacy is a severe challenge as it disrupts educational …
Interdisciplinary Connections Between Health Care And Design – A Case Study In A Psychogeriatric Ward In Norway, Arild Berg, Tore Gulden
Interdisciplinary Connections Between Health Care And Design – A Case Study In A Psychogeriatric Ward In Norway, Arild Berg, Tore Gulden
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Interdisciplinary communication can contribute to the development of a sustainable environment. The promotion of interdisciplinary collaboration among specialists and with people in general is an objective in design education described in the second cycle of higher education in the Bologna process. This article introduces a case study of a creative process initiated to explore how the use of material and visual aesthetics contribute to create a health promoting environment. Health professionals were invited into a process of materializing suitable art objects for a geriatric ward in mental health care. A participatory design process illuminated different intentions from the participants and …