The Penetration Of Social Media In Governance,Political Reforms And Building Public Perception,
2011
India Today Group
The Penetration Of Social Media In Governance,Political Reforms And Building Public Perception, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr
Ratnesh Dwivedi
Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue. While we know that social media can play an important role in publicizing political activities such as protests, do we have evidence that such actions have led to substantive political change? Is it possible to develop a set of indicators to more effectively gauge the impact of new technologies and media on questions of political change? That social media can help coordinate large and discrete activities, such as protests and …
Creative Consciousness: Becoming A Reflective Designer,
2011
University of Massachusetts Boston
Creative Consciousness: Becoming A Reflective Designer, Renessa Ciampa Brewer
Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection
As a graphic designer, I was drawn to the CCT Program in part because I desired to strengthen my thinking skills as a creative professional. Through being reflective, I aimed to “get more in touch” with my process to better understand it and see how I might improve my approaches. Scholarship on reflective practice in design education and design practice is a growing body of literature, which inspired this synthesis project. This paper looks at Schön’s theories of reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action, models for reflection in the design process provided by Ellmers, Brown, and Bennett, and Reymen, and various reflective practice …
The Gleaning Studio: A Space For Redirection And Reflection,
2011
Design Research Society
The Gleaning Studio: A Space For Redirection And Reflection, Tania Splawa-Neyman
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Time Travel: A Method For Playful Future-Oriented User Research, Theo Rooden, Paul Eg, Rianne Valkenburg
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Reversing The Co-Design Process: Co-Design Tools For Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Christina Lundsgaard
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Practice Theory And Human-Centered Design: A Sustainable Bathing Example, Lenneke Kuijer, Annelise De Jong
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
The Images Of The Future Of Craft And Design Professions, Kristiina Soini-Salomaa
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Reflection And Documentation In Practice-Led Design Research, Anna Maarit Mäkelä, Nithikul Nimkulrat
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
New Grounds, New Challenges? Exploring Stakeholder Research In Service Design, Fabian Segelström
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Cultural Variables And Their Impact On Furniture Design Process In Globalization Era, Ahmed Mohammed Abdelrazik
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Le Corbusier’S ‘Équipement’ As Pattern For Design Language, Liliana Soares, Ermanno Aparo, Fátima Pombo, Dante Donegani
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Relationships Other Than Use, Janet Kelly
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Building The Design Laboratory In A Public Cultural Organisation, Sissel Olander
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Design Practice As A Discursive And Interrogating Performance, Li Jönsson
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
The Forming Of Design Things: Reconciling Openness With The Urge For Completion, Maria Foverskov
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Some Notes On Programme-Experiment Dialectics, Johan Redström
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Design At The Front, Otto Von Busch
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Research And Design Practice: An Exploratory Update Of Donald Schön, Peter Ullmark
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
The Absorption Of Design Management Capabilities In Smes With Little Or No Prior Design Experience, Claudia Acklin
Nordes Conference Series
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,
2011
Design Research Society
Political Economies Of Design Activism And The Public Sector, Guy Julier
Nordes Conference Series
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.
