Energy Babble, 2013 Design Research Society
Energy Babble, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovale, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Alex Wilkie
Nordes Conference Series
Energy Babble is something like an internet radio appliance, designed for domestic and public spaces and dedicated to the topic of energy demand reduction. The devices are networked, drawing content from online sources and allowing responses using a built-in microphone.
An Architecturally Bricolaged Narrative Of Transit, 2013 Design Research Society
An Architecturally Bricolaged Narrative Of Transit, Annelies De Smet
Nordes Conference Series
Nordes2013-exhibition gives me the opportunity to present a part of my on-going PHD research. The research project ‘Wandering off in the urban: to move towards being moved’ is practice based, experimental and situated on the intersection of architecture and visual art. Through the production of multisensory impressions I wonder how we can set up a dialogue with that spatio-temporal entity, what we call ‘the environment’, that subjects us to an -all too often unnoticed- palimpsest of spheres. For Nordes2013- exhibition I will present part of an artistic/design communication-model that includes the communication of its reflections on: how to deal in …
Typinglot, 2013 Design Research Society
Typinglot, Atif Akin
Nordes Conference Series
TypingLot is an ongoing project about urban typography. Project consists of a collection of type photographs showcased online at http:// typinglot.com and a software which allows its users to typeset by using the letters in this collection. There are more than thousand type photographs in the collection taken in urban environments mostly in the New York and New Jersey area. New Orleans, San Francisco, Helsinki, Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir are some other cities happen to be presented with a small number of types in this collection. TypingLot enrolls amateur type design in a serious manner, thus acknowledging that society’s visual …
Time Experiments: Designing For Reflection, 2013 Design Research Society
Time Experiments: Designing For Reflection, Fanni Baudo, Liv Maria Henning
Nordes Conference Series
By researching through designing the Supertid project investigates – in visual and tactile form – the acceleration of Western societies as well as the ephemerality and experience of time. The Supertid exhibition installation is a ‘cabinet of curiosity’; displaying various design experiments and a publication - created to render time experientially available, and thus enable reflection and dialogue among the involved designers, researchers, and participants, in order to challenge the contemporary notion of time.
Vigour: Smart Textile Services To Support Rehabilitation, 2013 Design Research Society
Vigour: Smart Textile Services To Support Rehabilitation, Martijn Ten Bhömer, Oscar Tomico, Caroline Hummels
Nordes Conference Series
“Vigour” is a garment that shows the possibilities of smart textile services for geriatric rehabilitation exercises. It is the result of a collaborative design process between a design researcher, three therapists, an eldercare manager, a textile developer and an embedded systems designer. Vigour embodies the knowledge that was accumulated during the collaborative design process. We contribute to the theme of experimentation in design research by showing the value of experimentation in a participatory setting through the iterations leading to the final garment. Further, we will briefly describe three of the steps that lead to the final prototype.
Fungutopia, 2013 Design Research Society
Fungutopia, Laura Popplow
Nordes Conference Series
The Project FUNGUTOPIA is a design | research in process. It explores the living material of fungal mycelium to grow designs, in a way that is situated in a participatory community process. It is inspired by the concept of the three ecologies by Félix Guattari, what means that it tries to combine actions that address a mental, social and natural idea of ecology. The project is experimenting with modes of working with living, growing materials and the aesthetics they create. It tries to establish a practical understanding how design can change when we think in lifecycles of creation, use and …
Light Is History, 2013 Design Research Society
Light Is History, Karthikeya Acharya, Jussi Mikkonen, Samir Bhowmik
Nordes Conference Series
Light is History is a collective energy consumption display artifact that was installed in a public square in Helsinki in November 2012. The lamps of the installation, made from old recycled electricity meters were designed to function as bright therapy lights. Sixteen participating families from in and around the Kallio neighbourhood published their daily energy use on a web portal. The difference in their daily energy reading was used to determine the brightness of individual lights that was assigned to each family on the light installation. Each of the lamps brightened if the corresponding family’s energy use was lesser than …
The Andro Chair, Designing The Unthinkable: Men’S Right To Women’S Experience In Gynaecology, 2013 Design Research Society
The Andro Chair, Designing The Unthinkable: Men’S Right To Women’S Experience In Gynaecology, Cristine Sundbom, Anne-Christine Hertz, Karin Ehrnberger, Emma Börjesson
Nordes Conference Series
In this project we have explored how design may be used as a critical and creative tool for discussing how design is gendered in the contemporary gynaecology chair examination in Sweden. The aim of our design concept is to uncover the veiled gender norms in this problem area and discuss its consequenses for women. Our method to do so includes swopping the gender context (Ehrnberger, et al. 2012), which is used to make visible the accepted hidden norms in this specific case. By doing so we wanted to explore if the same situation would be accepted if applied to men. …
Introducing Nordes 2013, 2013 Design Research Society
Introducing Nordes 2013, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
Nordes Conference Series
Welcome to Nordes 2013 the 5th biannual Nordes conference; welcome to Malmö and Copenhagen! Since its establishment in 2005, the Nordic design research conference, Nordes, has established itself as perhaps the most impor- tant scholarly event in the field in the Nordic countries, and over the years, Nordes has attracted still more participants from the rest of the world. The ambition of the Nordes design research conference is to develop into an inter- national conference of the highest academic standards with close reference to design practice as well as to the more traditional research approaches to design; a conference which …
Committee, Review Committee, Venue Copenhagen, Venue Malmö, 2013 Design Research Society
Committee, Review Committee, Venue Copenhagen, Venue Malmö, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
Nordes Conference Series
General Chairs; Program Chairs; Exhibition Charis; Workshop Chairs; Doctoral Consortium Chairs; Review Committee; Venue Copenhagen; Venue Malmö
The Fat Factory: Chewing The Fat, 2013 Design Research Society
The Fat Factory: Chewing The Fat, Mike Thompson, Danielle Arets
Nordes Conference Series
In 2005, the global adult biomass hit around 287 million metric tons, 15 million metric tonnes of which being caused by an overweight global population (a body mass of 25 or greater). As the worlds population continues to soar (the UN estimates the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050) there will be considerably more mouths to feed, and energy needed to sustain this rate of development. Paradoxically then, fat is both a waste of resources and a valuable resource in its own right. The Fat Factory is a Critical Design Research project investigating the full, untapped potential of …
Creative Communities, Creative Assets: Exploring Methods Of Mapping Community Assets, 2013 Design Research Society
Creative Communities, Creative Assets: Exploring Methods Of Mapping Community Assets, Catherine Greene, Gail Ramster, Katerina Alexiou, Theo Zamenopoulos, Giota Alevizou, Alan Outten, Cristina Gorzanelli
Nordes Conference Series
Asset mapping, a method for unearthing and visually representing an individual’s or a community’s assets, has been used in the context of planning and creative industries. The goal of this workshop is to bring together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and practices to discuss and generate outcomes that make use of different perspectives of asset mapping methodologies. At the core of activities, facilitators will demonstrate the ways in which asset mapping has been used with community groups within an area or neighbourhood in the Creative Citizens research project - a project which explores how different types of creativity and civic engagement …
An Experiment Of Refection On Design Game Qualities And Controversies, 2013 Design Research Society
An Experiment Of Refection On Design Game Qualities And Controversies, Mette Agger Eriksen, Maria Hellström Reimer, Eva Brandt, Kirsikka Vaajakallio
Nordes Conference Series
How do various design games format and stage different collaborative inquiry, learning and reflection? At this hands-on workshop, we will collaboratively explore, relate and meta-reflect upon how different design (and learning) games can form part of experimental, co-design (research) processes and practice. Some shared playing of mainly analogue games brought by the workshop organizers and participants will provide the basis for engaging in a game-inspired experiment of collaboratively relating and reflecting upon qualities and controversies of different design games. This reflection experiment will be shaped around predefined and emerging topics.
Ageing & Ingenuity: What Is Your Design Story?, 2013 Design Research Society
Ageing & Ingenuity: What Is Your Design Story?, Yanki Lee, Sara Hyltén-Cavallius, Virginia Tassinari
Nordes Conference Series
This collective design workshop aims to provoke and test new design approaches towards ageing. We are looking for design stories/narratives that show how design thinking and collaborative working can enable the world to respond differently to the challenges of ageing. Can designers change our inherent ageism through the engagement of older people in the design and delivery of services and products with them? Can we change our current strategies towards ageing, turning its potential challenges into opportunities to engage, empower and improve the lives of the elderly? Together, we aims to build a collective design approach with ingenious older people …
Learning Problems And Resources Usage Of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students In Studio Courses, 2013 Chang Gung University
Learning Problems And Resources Usage Of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students In Studio Courses, Wenzhi Chen, Hsien-Hui Tang
Learn X Design Conference Series
Design students face certain learning problems and difficulties as they explore the design problems space. The purpose of this study is to understand those learning problems and the resources that undergraduate industrial design students need in studio courses. To collect the data, a questionnaire was designed according to the preliminary studies. A total of 334 students from 4 Taiwanese universities participated in the survey. The results demonstrated that the most difficult design tasks for students included concept generation, design presentation and design decision. The main problems that the students experienced included the cost issue in design presentation, time pressure in …
Discursive Structures Of Informal Critique In An Hci Design Studio, 2013 Purdue University, USA
Discursive Structures Of Informal Critique In An Hci Design Studio, Colin Gray
Nordes Conference Series
Critique has long been considered a benchmark of design education and practice, both as a way to elicit feedback about design artifacts in the process of production and as a high-stakes assessment tool in academia. In this study, I investigate a specific form of critique between peers that emerges organically in the design studio apart from coursework or guidance of a professor. Based on intensive interviews and observations, this informal peer critique appears to elicit the design judgment of the individual designer in explicit ways, encouraging peers to follow new paths in their design process, while also verbalizing oftenimplicit design …
New Ways Of Networking: A Hands On Workshop Exploring The Workspace:Lab And Its Equipment, 2013 Design Research Society
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 …
Fungutopia Workshop: Grow It Yourself Design, 2013 Design Research Society
Fungutopia Workshop: Grow It Yourself Design, Laura Popplow
Nordes Conference Series
“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 …
Inspiring And Investigating Imaginative Capability Of Design College Student, 2013 National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
Inspiring And Investigating Imaginative Capability Of Design College Student, Hsiang-Tang Chang, Pei-Chin Hsieh, Tung-I Lin
Learn X Design Conference Series
One’s imaginative capability will influence his/her design idea and final product, therefore the imaginative capability is important to a designer. People always considered that the imaginative capability is natural endowment; however, the authors considered that it could be inspired by the family and school education. The purpose of this research was to find a feasible way to inspire students' imaginative capability, and investigate the relationship between the students' imaginative capability to their family education and school education respectively through a devised experimental teaching. For this purpose, some reasonable influential factors of imaginative capability were selected by references and experts’ suggestions, …
Practices And Attitudes Towards Early User Involvement In Information Symbol Design Process: An Implication For Teaching, 2013 Hong Kong Design Institute &Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee), Vocational Training Council
Practices And Attitudes Towards Early User Involvement In Information Symbol Design Process: An Implication For Teaching, Wai Yi, Annie Ng, Kin Wai, Michael Siu, Che Hin, Chetwyn Chan
Practical Social and Industrial Research Symposium
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