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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Reflections Of A Wireless Ruminant, Andrew Morrison
Reflections Of A Wireless Ruminant, Andrew Morrison
Nordes Conference Series
‘Design matters’ is interpreted in this exploratory article via a narrative pastiche that concerns recent developments in ubiquitous computing and their implications for emerging techno-material culture. The article has two research aims: 1) to connect discourses on ubicomp with ones on design fiction, and 2) to motivate design research to expand styles of playful, reflective and interpretative modes, and genres of research writing. A first person narrative perspective is located in bio-cultural contexts of design fiction future use, referring to WiFi, RFID and GPS technologies also of today. The narrative is a ‘tongue in cheek’ critique of hidden voices of …
Recognizing Paradoxical Identities Of Design Managers, Ulla Johansson, Jill Woodilla
Recognizing Paradoxical Identities Of Design Managers, Ulla Johansson, Jill Woodilla
Nordes Conference Series
There is a need for designers with knowledge in business as well as business people with knowledge in design. Master-level education programs for this “in between” area are growing all over the world. We argue that the knowledge and identity of being “in between” is essential but also problematic. There is a danger that, similar to relations between men and (wo)men, the business way of thinking becomes the common ground for (design) management, and the designerly characteristics become decoration, rather than another ground. In order not to suppress the one or the other, we argue for a paradoxical identity of …
Sustainable Innovation And The Issues Of Scale, Pekka Murto
Sustainable Innovation And The Issues Of Scale, Pekka Murto
Nordes Conference Series
Sustainable innovation and eco-innovation have become priorities within the area of sustainable design. Focusing not only on production, also consumption and systemic changes have been addressed in order to handle increasingly substantial issues. Consequently, the focus of sustainable innovation has shifted from products to solutions and systems. However, as design has traditionally been a product-oriented profession, adopting operational models that require greater influence throughout the value chain is not necessarily easy. This article explores the issues that the scale of sustainable innovation poses on design and suggests that the concept of environmentally sustainable innovation should be approached more deeply also …
Missing Link: Designing For Dependency, Eva Eriksson, Peter Ljungstrand, Andreas Lykke-Olesen, David Cuartielles
Missing Link: Designing For Dependency, Eva Eriksson, Peter Ljungstrand, Andreas Lykke-Olesen, David Cuartielles
Nordes Conference Series
In this article, we investigate aspects of interaction design related to the appearance and context of dual-natured design objects, meaning artefacts with physical form and digital behaviour. In interaction design of today there is a focus on isolated artefacts/objects, but does not involve the context in the sense that it is a vital part of its design and expression. We argue for interaction designers to take respect to the dependency of computational design objects to their context in greater extent. We would like to ask interaction designers to look at their work as part of a whole, where their creations …
Visual Inquiry: A Tool For Presenting And Sharing Contextual Knowledge, Fredrik Sandberg
Visual Inquiry: A Tool For Presenting And Sharing Contextual Knowledge, Fredrik Sandberg
Nordes Conference Series
This article presents an inquiry method where the participants create a visual presentation of their experiential knowledge of working. As an example the article describes experiences from using the inquiry method together with small local food producers. The owners use the visual inquiry tool to present their small company's activities, the stakeholders involved, problems, strengths, changes and dreams for the future. Although the food producers never had described their knowledge as one picture before, they had no problem mapping out and visually presenting complex information about their production. The method uses sticky notes as mapping tools, which enables the participants …
Slow Food Slow Homes: Expanding The Role Of Architecture In The North American Housing Industry, John Brown
Slow Food Slow Homes: Expanding The Role Of Architecture In The North American Housing Industry, John Brown
Nordes Conference Series
The North American city is dominated by suburban sprawl, that vast formless, center-less, fragmented urban structure that the Sierra Club calls the ‘Dark Side of the American Dream.’ These places are like fast food. On the surface they appear easy, cheap, and cheerful. However, this marketing veneer masks a world of thoughtless design, careless construction, and waste that is bad for both us and the environment. In the same way that fast food disrupts the historically rich cultural context of cooking; these fast homes replace the experientially deep potential of urban dwelling with a shallow standardized product.
Design For Co-Creation With Interactive Montage, Birgitta Cappelen, Anders-Petter Andersson
Design For Co-Creation With Interactive Montage, Birgitta Cappelen, Anders-Petter Andersson
Nordes Conference Series
Montage in cinema means to mount images and sounds from different sources, that are interpreted together and whose oppositions drive the story further. In this article we develop the montage concept further for co-creation in interactive, tactile, spatial cross-media. As case we use the design of the interactive, tangible, cross-media installation ORFI. ORFI is developed to facilitate collaboration and co-creation between children with severe disabilities and their care persons. In this article we focus on how we have designed for interactive montage. We present two main types of interactive montage, close and shifted in three dimensions (spatial, temporal and actorial). …
Regarding Design As A Constituting Practice Matters, Bo Westerlund
Regarding Design As A Constituting Practice Matters, Bo Westerlund
Nordes Conference Series
This article explores the use of the two concepts representing and constituting in relation to design practice. Representing and representation are often used to describe the relation a model or prototype has to the end result. In this exploratory article we intend to investigate what impact a change from represent to constitute could have. One inspiration is the writing of John Stewart on the post-semiotic approach to communication. The examples used in the article are from practice rooted both in traditional industrial design as well as co-design. This article argues the importance to see design work as a constituting practice …
Navigating In The World Of Services: Visualizing A System Of Systems, Johanna Nieminen, Tuuli Mattelmäki
Navigating In The World Of Services: Visualizing A System Of Systems, Johanna Nieminen, Tuuli Mattelmäki
Nordes Conference Series
Service design is a growing practice. Designers need new tools and frameworks for making sense the intangible and tangible qualities of services. Customer journeys and service blueprints are among those tools. However, they typically address a specific service or a service package and lack of illustrating services as complex and relational systems. The challenge is to understand what kind of combinations services do and can create. This exploratory article attempts to shed light on this challenge by first explaining the current frameworks, then introducing a case in which these combinations were studied and finally presenting a system experience map that …
Matter Matters: Designing Material Encounters As Triggers Of Negotiation, Johan Liekens, Nel Janssens
Matter Matters: Designing Material Encounters As Triggers Of Negotiation, Johan Liekens, Nel Janssens
Nordes Conference Series
This article ventures from a twofold interpretation of this conference’s theme: ‘Making Design Matter!’. An inseparable twin ‘Matter’ materializes. One twin, ‘Matter’ as to be of relevance, folds in a unity with the other, ‘Matter’ as in to become materialized: Matter Matters. This twin pair operates as a lens through which we explore how design operates in between relevance (ethics) and materiality. The lens focuses on the mediation between these two issues. Looking through the lens, the question arises what kind of attitude in designing we consider to be relevant and reviving for today’s people and world? And in addition, …
Why Design Matters More Today Than Ever Before, Håkan Edeholt
Why Design Matters More Today Than Ever Before, Håkan Edeholt
Nordes Conference Series
Sciences have certainly done their best to blow the whistle, warning for an escalating climate disaster. And today seemingly powerful leaders also start to talk boldly about the present need of profound and radical changes. Still, too little seems to change in the directions proposed and if it changes at all, these changes seem to be far too small, far too inconsistent and far too slow to meet the requirements specified by the scientific community. Why is this so? And what could design and design research possible do about it?
Exploring Heat As Interactive Expressions For Knitted Structures, Delia Dumitrescu, Anna Persson
Exploring Heat As Interactive Expressions For Knitted Structures, Delia Dumitrescu, Anna Persson
Nordes Conference Series
This article describes a practice-based research project in which design experiments were conducted to explore how knitted structures can be designed with particular emphasis on various interactive heat expressions. Several heat transformable structures, able to both sense and react to human touch, were developed in the textile collection Knitted Heat. The designed textiles serve as references to reflect further on the role of interactive textiles as materials for potential designs. Specific scenarios defined by shrinking, breaking, stiffening, texturizing and warming expressed by the textile transformations exemplify and discuss their potential as complementary for other design processes.
Designing With Smart Textiles: A New Research Program, Linnéa Nilsson, Anna Vallgårda, Linda Worbin
Designing With Smart Textiles: A New Research Program, Linnéa Nilsson, Anna Vallgårda, Linda Worbin
Nordes Conference Series
No longer is it sufficient to add ‘smart’ to textiles to secure interesting research results. We have surpassed the initial stages of explorations and testing and now need to raise the bar. We have thus specified research program in which we investigate what it means to design with smart textiles. What can we design with smart textiles? And how do we design with smart textiles? We now explore how these complex, often abstract, materials can enter traditional design practices and what role smart textile can play in the design of our environment. In this article, we discuss the challenges we …
Facilitating Service Co-Production: A Dramaturgical Perspective, Zagros Hatami
Facilitating Service Co-Production: A Dramaturgical Perspective, Zagros Hatami
Nordes Conference Series
Unlike products, the production and consumption of service occurs simultaneously with service users acting as co-producers of service. This role is significant as the quantity, quality and experience of service is often reliant on the quality of user efforts. Thus, service designers need to consider the co-productive roles various service actors are required to play at the time of service consumption. This awareness allows designers to facilitate this role taking process by setting the stage for users as well as other service actors to successfully play their part in the production of service. As service interactions are dyadic social interactions, …
Designing Anti-Activism: Apocalypse Faster!, Tatu Marttila
Designing Anti-Activism: Apocalypse Faster!, Tatu Marttila
Nordes Conference Series
This exploratory article reviews literature on design activism and looks into the ways, how design can be used to bring matters to a head in our society. Sustainable design can be perceived as design activism [Fuad-Luke, 2009], as it involves tackling with policies and behaviors, and pursuing of societal benefit. Literature suggests that design activism can be perceived as design exploration [Fuad-Luke, 2009], seeking to provoke, criticize and experiment [Fallman, 2008]. This text studies explorative and participatory design approach in the context of sustainable consumption. Focus of this article is on a participatory web campaign called Apocalypse Faster! that takes …
Magic-Mirror-Spiral: Looking Into The Role Of 'Design Ideal' In Interaction Design Research Projects, Naveen Bagalkot, Elena Nazzi, Tomas Sokoler
Magic-Mirror-Spiral: Looking Into The Role Of 'Design Ideal' In Interaction Design Research Projects, Naveen Bagalkot, Elena Nazzi, Tomas Sokoler
Nordes Conference Series
There is an ongoing discourse arguing for Interaction Design Research to contribute to theory-about-interaction on one hand, and advancement of particular situation on the other. While there is an acknowledgement of the dialectic relation between theory and situation, however, pointers to embrace the dialectic during a research practice are missing. In order to embrace this dialectic, in this article we suggest the formulation of a Design Ideal as the interface between theoretical concept and situation. We support our suggestion by a retrospection of our ongoing exploration of MagicMirrorSpiral, explicating the relation between theory, concept, design ideal, design artefact, and situation. …
Initial Findings On Design And Product Category Expertise In Aesthetic Evaluation, Oscar Person, Dirk Snelders
Initial Findings On Design And Product Category Expertise In Aesthetic Evaluation, Oscar Person, Dirk Snelders
Nordes Conference Series
What appeals to designers does not always appeal to consumers. Still, surprisingly few studies have set out to investigate why designers sometimes favour other designs than consumers. Through an exploratory study on small-sized cars, we found that an effect of design expertise on evaluations of aesthetic appeal was quite different given an individual’s product category expertise. In short, when people knew little about the product category, design expertise demonstrated a positive influence on aesthetic appeal (design experts rating small-sized cars as more beautiful than laymen). However, when people knew a lot about the category, design expertise showed a negative influence …
The Music Sleeve: Fabric As An Electronic Interface Medium, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Katharina Bredies, Rosan Chow
The Music Sleeve: Fabric As An Electronic Interface Medium, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Katharina Bredies, Rosan Chow
Nordes Conference Series
In the area of fabric interaction, (also known as wearables or smart textiles), innovation often comes from technological advances. Interface designers, on the other hand, take the role of exploring fabric as a medium for interaction. In this article, we will describe and analyse the design of the 'Music Sleeve' – a fabric controller for a music player on a mobile phone. The development of the Music Sleeve was an experiment in open-ended design approaches. As a case study, it represents an interface solution that emphasizes the functional fabric qualities in the interaction, complementary to other, either more expressive or …
Designing For Utilization: Putting Design Principles Into Practice, Paula Kassenaar, Katharina Bredies, Elise Van Den Hoven
Designing For Utilization: Putting Design Principles Into Practice, Paula Kassenaar, Katharina Bredies, Elise Van Den Hoven
Nordes Conference Series
Designers do not only create usable products for a predefined purpose, but also to explore new materials and technologies. In doing so, they should not restrict themselves to existing conventions, but develop new ones out of the medium at hand. These new interface forms should encourage users to appropriate an object for their own purposes – i.e. utilize it. In this article, we will describe the development of a fabric interface prototype that should exploit the material properties and encourage utilization of the artefact. First we present how our theoretical perspective was translated into a concrete design. Starting from rather …
Moth Wing Screen, Rab Mcclure
Moth Wing Screen, Rab Mcclure
Nordes Conference Series
Inspired by contemporary Nordic design—characterized by fluidity of form, material innovation, tactile warmth, natural reference, and ties to a strong craft tradition—the Moth Wing Screen is a modular partition and design research project. The following essay describes the work’s goals and origins, beginning with first person reflections by the author on the sensory and tactile lessons of water skiing, a formative childhood preoccupation. Paired with excerpts from essays on seeing, drawing, and sensing by Juhani Pallasmaa, these reflections frame the discussion and provide a means of viewing the work through a lens of tactile warmth and softness. A description of …
Supportive Tools For Collaborative Prototyping, Willem Horst
Supportive Tools For Collaborative Prototyping, Willem Horst
Nordes Conference Series
The development of interactive products requires the integration of different disciplines, such as interaction design, design engineering, marketing and R&D. This article explores how these disciplines can be involved in the prototyping process by introducing a set of tools. In the literature, various tools and toolkits are described that support interaction designers in the design and modification of prototypes in the early stages of a project. Although these make prototyping easier for interaction designers, it remains challenging to involve other disciplines in a collaborative prototyping process.
The Disruptive Aesthetics Of Design Activism: Enacting Design Between Art And Politics, Thomas Markussen
The Disruptive Aesthetics Of Design Activism: Enacting Design Between Art And Politics, Thomas Markussen
Nordes Conference Series
The aim of this article is above all to construct a new conceptual framework for understanding how and why design activism in public space matters. The article sets off by providing a literature review of some of the existing theoretical frameworks in design research for understanding design activism. In so doing, I will identify a theoretical ‘blind spot’ in the research literature, which has blocked our view of how design activism functions as an aesthetic practice and not only a socio-political one. To remedy this shortcoming, I then introduce some notions from Rancière (2004; 2010) that enable design research to …
Integrating Sustainability With A Regional Design Sector, Simon O'Rafferty
Integrating Sustainability With A Regional Design Sector, Simon O'Rafferty
Nordes Conference Series
Recent developments in European design policy are strengthening the links between design and sustainable development. Therefore, it increasingly important to understand evolving perspectives on sustainability and develop new approaches to building competencies amongst designers so they are in a position to respond and remain relevant. The potential mix of competencies is diverse and is challenging traditional perspectives on the role of the designer. This article discusses interventions to build sustainable competencies in the design sector. It does this by presenting some insights from the early stages of developing a knowledge exchange programme in a region that has no existing programmes …
Design Interventions As Multiple Becomings Of Healthcare, Tariq Andersen, Joachim Halse, Jonas Moll
Design Interventions As Multiple Becomings Of Healthcare, Tariq Andersen, Joachim Halse, Jonas Moll
Nordes Conference Series
Research on design of IT traditionally treats the scientific knowledge production and the design of new systems as related, but separate processes. We propose the fruitfulness of practicing a closer relation informed by interventionist design research (appreciating a problem through attempts at solving it) and actor network theory (reality is enacted and constructed through our engagement with it). Through three concrete design interventions with cardiatric healthcare, we illustrate how diverse agendas of sociological inquiry and practical design considerations can coexist and come to enact health care in specific ways. We suggest this as a strategy of multiple becomings, wherein assemblies …
2011 Program Booklet, Rhode Island School Of Design
2011 Program Booklet, Rhode Island School Of Design
Collection (annual runway show) 2007-2017
Official Collection 2011 Program distributed at the event.
Costume Design: The School Of Scandal, Rose Downing
Costume Design: The School Of Scandal, Rose Downing
Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Seeing And Seen: Acts Of The Voyeur In The Paintings Of Francis Bacon, John G. Hatch
Seeing And Seen: Acts Of The Voyeur In The Paintings Of Francis Bacon, John G. Hatch
Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)
There are a number of characters in Bacon's paintings who seem strangely out of place, peeking in on intimate moments and sometimes turning their attention to us, the spectator of the works. These figures are the more literal representatives of a theme that runs throughout Bacon's work, namely that of the voyeur. My research looks at the numerous perspectives of the voyeur presented by Bacon in an attempt to better understand its rationale in his artistic production.