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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
The Gleaning Studio: A Space For Redirection And Reflection, Tania Splawa-Neyman
The Gleaning Studio: A Space For Redirection And Reflection, Tania Splawa-Neyman
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There is a difficult challenge for design practitioners when establishing ways of applying Fry’s (2009) strategy of redirection. Redirection is complex and multifaceted and requires an expansive view of the requirements for future sustainment alongside ways of interpreting these understandings within design process. When redirection demands so much of practitioners, the task can seem insurmountable and a starting point difficult to find. Within this article, I suggest that reflective practice can aid in this pursuit, and through my own practice-based research, offer insights when applying reflective techniques to assist my own redirection. This relational thinking generated the development of an …
Time Travel: A Method For Playful Future-Oriented User Research, Theo Rooden, Paul Eg, Rianne Valkenburg
Time Travel: A Method For Playful Future-Oriented User Research, Theo Rooden, Paul Eg, Rianne Valkenburg
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This article describes the development of a user research method called ‘Time Travel’. The aim of the method is to inform and inspire designers with imagined futures by consumers. The method should give answers to the following question: How do consumers imagine technological and social developments to have an impact on their personal lives (in a certain domain)? An engaging game concept was developed in a research through design process: generative activities alternated with evaluating mini-experiments. The metaphor of time traveling shaped the design vision by presenting elements such as the suitcase (anchoring the imaginations in the here and now), …
Reversing The Co-Design Process: Co-Design Tools For Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Christina Lundsgaard
Reversing The Co-Design Process: Co-Design Tools For Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Christina Lundsgaard
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Visual tools such as probes and design games are used during co-design events to facilitate a common design dialogue. They evoke new ideas and invite users, designers and other stakeholders to explore and rehearse future opportunities. This "toolkit" and working practices is continuously evolving, but the focus is almost always on upcoming design. Based on an experiment this article investigates how co-design tools can be used as a part of a post-occupancy evaluation (POE). As an initial analytical framework, performance studies are used to distinguish and discuss a traditional co-design process as a proto-performance and a POE as a reverse …
Practice Theory And Human-Centered Design: A Sustainable Bathing Example, Lenneke Kuijer, Annelise De Jong
Practice Theory And Human-Centered Design: A Sustainable Bathing Example, Lenneke Kuijer, Annelise De Jong
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Within sustainable design, design researchers and practitioners are developing novel design approaches equipped to influence domestic resource consumption in a variety of ways. However, as it turns out, the outcomes of these approaches in terms of their actual effects on sustainability are not quite as high as the desired effects. This is often taken to be a direct consequence of rebound effects or unpredicted user behaviour. In an attempt to overcome these limitations, this article explores the implications of the combination of two research strands, practice theory and human-centred design that may assist designers by going beyond behaviour towards gaining …
The Images Of The Future Of Craft And Design Professions, Kristiina Soini-Salomaa
The Images Of The Future Of Craft And Design Professions, Kristiina Soini-Salomaa
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Craft and design form a part in the creative industries. Consequent upon the ongoing transformation of creative economy, craft and design sector is looking for new activity models. The growth of experience economy, welfare and leisure services lead to novel customer needs. The craft and design professionals require new professional models, partners and networks to respond the changing customer needs. The transformation from product-oriented model to process-oriented and customer-oriented models presume novel professional skills. Nowadays craft and design students are tomorrow’s professionals. How the craft and design students’ expectations confront the demands of the operational environment in the future? The …
Reflection And Documentation In Practice-Led Design Research, Anna Maarit Mäkelä, Nithikul Nimkulrat
Reflection And Documentation In Practice-Led Design Research, Anna Maarit Mäkelä, Nithikul Nimkulrat
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Practice-led research has been under debate for nearly three decades. One of the major issues of this form of research concerns how the researchers who are also the artists/designers can reflect on and document their creative processes in relation to their research topic. In this article, we review and discuss reflection and documentation in practice-led design research through four doctoral research projects completed at the Aalto University School of Art and Design. The cases come from craft related fields, i.e. from ceramics, glass, jewellery and textiles. This article poses twofold questions: firstly, it examines the role of creative processes and …
New Grounds, New Challenges? Exploring Stakeholder Research In Service Design, Fabian Segelström
New Grounds, New Challenges? Exploring Stakeholder Research In Service Design, Fabian Segelström
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This is a submission for the doctoral consortium at NorDes 2011. The research described herein focuses on how existing design tools and techniques need to be appropriated when used in a new context – in this case service design. It is argued that the nature of services poses new challenges for designers. A theoretical introduction to these challenges is given, presenting a view of service design as the intersection between the user-centred design tradition and thoughts on service from marketing and management. The specific challenges in conducting stakeholder research for service design are introduced. The research objectives of the PhD …
Cultural Variables And Their Impact On Furniture Design Process In Globalization Era, Ahmed Mohammed Abdelrazik
Cultural Variables And Their Impact On Furniture Design Process In Globalization Era, Ahmed Mohammed Abdelrazik
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It's known that human is a product of his environment. His thoughts, desires and needs formed according to his cultural trends which related to his society. These cultural trends differ from one country to another and depending on
Le Corbusier’S ‘Équipement’ As Pattern For Design Language, Liliana Soares, Ermanno Aparo, Fátima Pombo, Dante Donegani
Le Corbusier’S ‘Équipement’ As Pattern For Design Language, Liliana Soares, Ermanno Aparo, Fátima Pombo, Dante Donegani
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This article highlights the autonomy of design language to appropriate concepts such as ‘équipement’ (essential elements for space equipment) by Le Corbusier (1920, L’Esprit Nouveau), interpreted as pattern (subsystems) by Alexander (1963, A Pattern Language). This discussion is involved in a current PhD Research Project in Design, proposing new configurational possibilities for building surfaces in the 21st century. Interpreting the ‘équipement’ rationale, the ‘patterns’ system is presented as design’s response to decline the industrialized city proposal in favour of the liquid modernity (Bauman). As interpretation model we present an analogy between the project 'The Philips Pavilion' (1958) by Le Corbusier, …
Relationships Other Than Use, Janet Kelly
Relationships Other Than Use, Janet Kelly
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The people who use a designed artefact are not the only ones who will experience or be affected by it, yet design discourse and practice are dominated by the concept of the user. This article introduces the notion of relationships other than use as an important consideration for design, in addition to relationships between users and artefacts. It identifies some related issues in design discourse with regard to the concept of use and discusses how the concept has emerged in design practice and discourse, with particular regard to participatory design. Different kinds of design relevant relationships other than use are …
Building The Design Laboratory In A Public Cultural Organisation, Sissel Olander
Building The Design Laboratory In A Public Cultural Organisation, Sissel Olander
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This article presents the research objectives of a design research Ph.D project in the Municipality of Copenhagen. The aim of the project is to explore and develop an open platform of participatory inquiry and dialogue, within the organizational setting of three local cultural administration units (LCAU), consisting of public libraries and cultural centers at three different local sites in Copenhagen. The focus of the research project is to build a design laboratory, that will suit the organizational setting of the LCAUs, in such a way that the lab, and the methods that will be adapted and explored in the lab, …
Design Practice As A Discursive And Interrogating Performance, Li Jönsson
Design Practice As A Discursive And Interrogating Performance, Li Jönsson
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This PhD is focused on how design can play a role in engaging people in potential serious issues, or producing forms of knowledge that are still unstable, or controversial. The research objective is two-fold. At first, to engage my practical skills as a designer to further develop the notion of discursive design, this will be done through a series of hands-on explorations that in different ways aim to mediate and visualise the issue of concern. My role as a designer is meant to reveal new experiences, tell new stories by assuming design is about linking the imagination to material forms. …
The Forming Of Design Things: Reconciling Openness With The Urge For Completion, Maria Foverskov
The Forming Of Design Things: Reconciling Openness With The Urge For Completion, Maria Foverskov
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The article introduces my PhD project Rehearsing and Forming the Future with attention on notions of form and completion. Designers of today have entered many fields and new disciplines have emerged such as design anthropology, service design and social design. The designer is often co-designing in interdisciplinary constellations. My interest concerns the role of the designer, her skills, tools and processes when co-visualising, co-forming and co-representing these intangible design outcomes in co-design. I ask questions like: How to apply the designer’s classical toolbox within co-design to engage stakeholders as actors? How can the co-design process be recognized as drama? How …
Some Notes On Programme-Experiment Dialectics, Johan Redström
Some Notes On Programme-Experiment Dialectics, Johan Redström
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Searching for ways of conducting practice-based design research, we have explored an approach based on the formulation of design programmes as a foundation and framework for carrying out design experiments. Over the years, we have presented a number of such programmes along with experiments that explore and express their potential. There are, however, some methodological issues in this way of working that are rarely addressed. One such set of issues pertains to what we might refer to as a programme–experiment dialectics, that is, how the research process unfolds over time as programme and experiments influence, challenge and transform each other. …
Design At The Front, Otto Von Busch
Design At The Front, Otto Von Busch
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Over the last year, fierce discussion have raged about the trend of socially engaged design, where such projects have been scolded as new forms of “design imperialism” (cf. Nussbaum 2010; Pilloton 2010; Sinclair 2010). Resonating with this discussion, the latest US Army Field Manual has included “design” as a central feature in the core battle doctrine. Are we seeing the birth of a “social design doctrine” employed to wage war? It is tempting to draw parallels between design and the developments of military thinking to reflect some of the issues at stake as design turns to address social, cultural and …
Research And Design Practice: An Exploratory Update Of Donald Schön, Peter Ullmark
Research And Design Practice: An Exploratory Update Of Donald Schön, Peter Ullmark
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The Reflective Practitioner and Educating the Reflective Practitioner, the two most influential books by Donald Schön from 1983 and 1987, have so far been regarded as a self-evident platform for design research. The ideas put forward have been much discussed but not basically questioned. However, during the last years the conditions for design practice has changed fundamentally. To find out if the understanding of Schön can be developed to match the new situation or if other approaches are necessary, a new critical discussion is necessary. This article is a first and explorative attempt to identify important issues for such an …
The Absorption Of Design Management Capabilities In Smes With Little Or No Prior Design Experience, Claudia Acklin
The Absorption Of Design Management Capabilities In Smes With Little Or No Prior Design Experience, Claudia Acklin
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In the past, design support programmes for companies with little or no design experience have focused on match-making between designers and SMEs. In addition, it has been recognised that design support should be about the business and leadership role of design and about promoting design tools as well as design management methods. However, a sustainable introduction of new design knowledge involves a process of organisational learning on the side of the SME. How exactly companies absorb new design knowledge has been underinvestigated. There is also a lack of a tool to analyse or guide such a learning process. Based on …
Political Economies Of Design Activism And The Public Sector, Guy Julier
Political Economies Of Design Activism And The Public Sector, Guy Julier
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In recent years design activism has emerged in alliance with a number of global political issues including responses to Peak Oil, climate change, food shortages, social justice, the digital divide, demographic change, military conflict, sexual equality and orientation, financialisation and global economic recession.
Upon Opening The Black Box Of Participatory Design And Finding It Filled With Ethics, Marc Steen
Upon Opening The Black Box Of Participatory Design And Finding It Filled With Ethics, Marc Steen
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In this essay, I bring together Participatory Design's (PD) tradition of critical reflection on one's own practices, and Science and Technology Studies' focus on specific activities ('opening the black box'), in order to explore the ethic of PD. I discuss three different forms of ethics-relational ethics, pragmatist ethics and virtue ethics-and provide several examples from practice, and argue that PD is 'filled with ethics': PD participants often find themselves in ethical situations and engage with ethics-even if they are unaware of these ethics and if these ethics remain implicit. I propose reflexivity as a way for PD practitioners to cope …
Threads Without Ends: A Mobile Sewing Circle, Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl
Threads Without Ends: A Mobile Sewing Circle, Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl
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In this article the exhibition Threads – a Mobile Sewing Circle is used as an example of a design that travels. To tell the story of how Threads travels we use the concepts of immutable mobile (Latour 1990) and fluidity (de Laet and Mol 2000) – concepts that invite us to think of standardisation and stability on one hand and changes and adaptability on the other. Since Threads is continuously assembled, disassembled and reassembled in different contexts and by different actors, we argue that Threads needs to be able to deal with changes and local conditions and cannot strive for …
Design And Possibility, Mads Nygaard Folkmann
Design And Possibility, Mads Nygaard Folkmann
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A central element in design is the search for the new and not-yet-existing. Thus, design is a matter of the possible, of which kind of products and meanings can be made possible through design. The article attempts to propose a way of theorizing the field of the possible in design. The ability to deal with, mediate and evoke new possibilities and thereby creatively explore new territories of use, meaning and impact is seen as a defining factor of design. Using a phenomenological framework and stating the imagination as a central concept, the article aims at pointing in new directions for …
Scaffolding Co-Design With An Amateur Quality Comic, Robb Mitchell
Scaffolding Co-Design With An Amateur Quality Comic, Robb Mitchell
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This article discusses an experiment in using a homemade comic to facilitate a visually based idea generating co-design activity with young children. The children were provided with an incomplete comic story that they were invited to complete by drawing a design idea in the final frame. The technique appears to have potential not only because of the quantity and range of ideas collected, but also because of the unexpected positive role that the children's drawings played as mediators between members of the design team. Reflections upon the case material draws on literature from a variety of fields such participatory design, …
Existing Prototyping Perspectives: Considerations For Service Design, Johan Blomkvist, Stefan Holmlid
Existing Prototyping Perspectives: Considerations For Service Design, Johan Blomkvist, Stefan Holmlid
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With new design disciplines that challenge the borders of design practice and inquiry comes new possibilities for prototyping techniques and approaches. The basis for such an evolution is a firm understanding of the existing knowledge generated in design and the challenges posed by new design disciplines, such as service design. This study identifies a framework of perspectives for prototyping to reveal what the existing toolbox of prototyping contains based on a literature overview. Going through published literature from the early 1980s and onward, the framework is constructed using the following perspectives; purpose, fidelity, audience, position in the process, technique, and …
Design Of Design Tools: The Creation Of Tools As A Part Of A Personal Theory-Building Process, Tero Juhani Heikkinen
Design Of Design Tools: The Creation Of Tools As A Part Of A Personal Theory-Building Process, Tero Juhani Heikkinen
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This article is a first-hand account of creating one’s own design tools in an art and design context. This practice-led research project investigates the intertwining of a design drawing process and the making of a software artifact for sketching spatial form out of tiles. This approach is compared with other practice-led research into design tools. The premises of the software, which emerge from design drawing, are explained as a part of the author's process of building a personal theory of space. These premises become materialized in the design tool artifact, which again in turn brings new elements to the design …
Blind And Fake: Exploring The Geography Of The Expanded Book, Maria Hellström Reimer, Milica Lapčević, Luca Simeone
Blind And Fake: Exploring The Geography Of The Expanded Book, Maria Hellström Reimer, Milica Lapčević, Luca Simeone
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It seems like we are now rapidly leaving the galaxy of printed matter. As screen-based media is making its entry into our everyday lives, it is pushing aside an object – the book - that has structured our forms of being together for almost six hundred years. This shift is not absolute but successive, and it raises a lot of questions. What kind of mediating practices are developing beyond printed media? And how do these practices structure and organize common spaces and publicities? Even though we are today far into the electronic age, we are still in way suspended in …
Giga-Mapping: Visualisation For Complexity And Systems Thinking In Design, Birger Sevaldson
Giga-Mapping: Visualisation For Complexity And Systems Thinking In Design, Birger Sevaldson
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Designers and design is facing ever growing challenges from an increasingly complex world. Making design matter means to cope with these challenges and to be able to enter new important design fields where design can play a crucial role. To achieve this we need to become better at coping with super-complexity. Systems Oriented Design is a new version of systems thinking and systems practice that is developed from within design thinking and design practice. It is systems thinking and systems practice tailored by and for designers. It draws from designerly ways of dealing with super-complexity derived from supreme existing design …
Living The (Co-Design) Lab, Thomas Binder, Eva Brandt, Joachim Halse, Maria Foverskov, Sissel Olander, Signe Yndigegn
Living The (Co-Design) Lab, Thomas Binder, Eva Brandt, Joachim Halse, Maria Foverskov, Sissel Olander, Signe Yndigegn
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Design research environments are becoming visible in many places, in universities, in design schools, in companies and in public organizations. What most of them have in common is a commitment to the exploration of the possible rather than the factual.
Accounts Of A Critical Artefacts Approach To Design Anthropology, Tau Ulv Lenskjold
Accounts Of A Critical Artefacts Approach To Design Anthropology, Tau Ulv Lenskjold
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This article aims to contribute to a discussion of what design anthropology brings to the deployment of critical modes of engagement and artefacts in design. And, conversely, discuss how this specific framing of design anthropology may add to its disciplinary potential. I propose to do this by discussing how design provocations and critical artefacts, as transitional devices, and at different stages in a design process, can evoke a critical stance or render intrinsic controversies visible, while turning the artefacts into objects of mediation between heterogeneous assemblages of stakeholders, contexts and concerns. By framing design anthropology within a distinctly speculative and …
Dart: New Teaching Methods For Organizing Intuition, Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Dart: New Teaching Methods For Organizing Intuition, Maria Mackinney-Valentin
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DART (Driver Analysis – Reading Trends) is a new approach developed by the author to organizing and developing intuition in the research and development phase of a creative process within the field of fashion and design. At its current stage, the model has been targeted teaching at design schools. The method is based on the author’s Ph.D. dissertation (“On the Nature of Trends: A Study of Trend Mechanisms in Contemporary Fashion”, 2010), teaching experience at design schools and methods from fashion forecasting. DART is intended to support design students on two levels: 1. To qualify the students’ sensibility or hunch …
Experiencing, Exploring And Experimenting In And With Co-Design Spaces, Elizabeth Sanders, Bo Westerlund
Experiencing, Exploring And Experimenting In And With Co-Design Spaces, Elizabeth Sanders, Bo Westerlund
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The concept of design space has been useful to designers in supporting the act of designing and for reflecting on the activity of designing. With the increase in cooperative design practices, it is time to consider the concept of co-design space. Co-design spaces differ from design spaces in that they tend to be situated in the early front end of the design process (also referred to as pre-design), they rely on the collective creativity of designers working together with non-designers, they deal with very complex challenges such as behavioural change and organizational transformation, and they often point to the embodiments …