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Dualities Of Co-Design In The Context Of Dementia: Can Handover Approaches Provide An Answer?, Lieke Lenaerts, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson
Dualities Of Co-Design In The Context Of Dementia: Can Handover Approaches Provide An Answer?, Lieke Lenaerts, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson
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Is co-design together with people with dementia always feasible? Designing for people with dementia is challenging, and co-design has been widely recognised as an effective approach to design products conform to participants’ needs. The inclusion of people with dementia provides designers with an authentic representation of dementia, regardless of stereotypes and assumptions. However, it is not always easy to implement co-design with people with dementia in practice. This paper examines the feasibility of co-design with people with dementia through reflective practice, semi-structured interviews with designers, and a rapid literature review. The study identifies three dualities of co-design, addressing three benefits …
Towards A Design Observatory In Portugal – Results, Reflections And Future Steps, Nina Costa, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa, Afonso Borges, Marlene Ribeiro
Towards A Design Observatory In Portugal – Results, Reflections And Future Steps, Nina Costa, Vasco Branco, Rui Costa, Afonso Borges, Marlene Ribeiro
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The closure of the Portuguese design center in 2013, left Portugal with no instruments of mediation between the Portuguese design ecosystem and the socio-economic fabric. DesignOBS (Towards a design observatory in Portugal) - a research project aiming to identify, map and interpret the Portuguese design landscape (2019-22), aimed to tackle this issue via the development and application of a distributed and participatory observation approach, that integrated the knowledge of local nuclei, namely, design schools, about certain vectors of the national design ecosystem. The application of this approach to gather and discuss about the different vectors (design companies, education, research, users), …
Mindfulness For Designers. An Integration Of Mindfulness, Design Education And Reflective Practices, Alberto Iberbuden
Mindfulness For Designers. An Integration Of Mindfulness, Design Education And Reflective Practices, Alberto Iberbuden
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How should we educate designers to enable them to address the challenges of a complex, unpredictable, and interconnected future? What are the specific competences that designers need to address these challenges, and what pedagogical approaches are necessary to cultivate these competences? Although educators are shaping multiple paths to explore these issues, the complex nature of these questions demands holistic, multidisciplinary, and empathic approaches, rather than mechanical and outdated ones to envision educational systems that meet their students' needs. Researchers have become interested in mindfulness as a potential tool to improve educational practices. Mindfulness simply means paying attention in a certain …
Utilizing Patent Data For Enhanced Design Creativity And Reduced Fixation In Product Design, Ranzhi Wei, Eric Heng Gu, Cehao Yu
Utilizing Patent Data For Enhanced Design Creativity And Reduced Fixation In Product Design, Ranzhi Wei, Eric Heng Gu, Cehao Yu
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Background: During the early stages of product design, designers often encounter knowledge-based and conceptual fixation, which can limit their capacity to address design problems and solutions innovatively. To surmount this challenge, designers typically rely on visual graphics for inspiration rather than textual forms. A patent data tool is intended to provide designers with graphical presentations of keywords extracted from millions of patent documents, potentially reducing fixation. However, limited studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of this tool and its influence on design creativity and fixation. This study aims to explore how designers interact with the patent data tool and …