The Challenge Of A Sustainability Change: A Designerly Approach,
2015
Design Research Society
The Challenge Of A Sustainability Change: A Designerly Approach, Thomas Dyrmann Winkel, Søren Bolvig Poulsen, Claus A.F. Rosenstand
Nordes Conference Series
Changing a company’s role and position in its context towards a more ambitious profile centred on waste minimisation can be challenging due to external factors such as regulations and economic logics, but also internal challenges of transforming visions into supporting activities can hinder the role change. This paper focuses on the waste minimisation project Nulskrald (Zerowaste) initiated by AVV. The project has undergone two phases without fulfilling its vision. A designerly approach was applied in a strategic workshop as the company faced the launch of the third phase. Here the Actantial model and the Strategic Pyramid were applied and conjoined …
Press Play: Acts Of Defining (In) Fluid Assemblages,
2015
Design Research Society
Press Play: Acts Of Defining (In) Fluid Assemblages, Johan Redström, Heather Wiltse
Nordes Conference Series
Although design continuously has been expanding its scope of concern and intervention from products to processes, experience, and entire product and service ecologies, ‘things’ remain central to how we think about design and use. But ‘things’ have changed. Contemporary materials, technologies and contexts of design and use, we argue, now result in ‘things’ that need to be understood as fluid assemblages rather than traditional objects. These often combine a surface-level simplicity of use with dynamic, sophisticated, and hidden backend complexity. In order to investigate these issues we consider a simple design case and how it has evolved over time and …
Precious Materials Of Interaction: Exploring Interactive Accessories As Jewellery Items,
2015
Design Research Society
Precious Materials Of Interaction: Exploring Interactive Accessories As Jewellery Items, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ylva Fernaeus, Martin Jonsson
Nordes Conference Series
In this paper we present a series of design explorations on the theme of wearable and mobile technology through the lens of jewellery design. This is done by looking at properties of traditional fine jewellery in terms of material considerations and crafting processes, as well as considerations related to patterns of wear and interaction. By using jewellery as a point of departure, both theoretically and practically, we discuss four topics: a) the gestalt of electronic artefacts versus jewellery design, b) material preciousness, c) interactive properties of physical materials, and d) jewellery usage as an inspiration for new interactive designs.
Utopia And Design Of Society,
2015
Design Research Society
Utopia And Design Of Society, Kari-Hans Kommonen, Mia Muurimaki, Régis Frias
Nordes Conference Series
This intensive full day workshop will engage its participants in a two stage process of 1) discussion of societal designs and 2) an exploration of using utopia as a method for discussing desirable futures.
Different Data Detroit (+ Stockholm),
2015
Design Research Society
Different Data Detroit (+ Stockholm), Patricio Davila, Daniel Mccafferty, Rachele Riley, Joshua Singer
Nordes Conference Series
Different Data is a collaborative critical design research project by which we collect, manipulate, and display data in location-specific, and theme- driven scenarios. As research through-design and practice-based research, we investigates place and explore methods for generating and collecting data, developing an experimental approach to visualizing connections and meaning. We map hidden, overlooked and silent aspects of the urban cultural ecology. We collect narratives of cities using standard datasets transforming it to ‘different data’—that which is affective, emotional, and subjective; marginal and little-valued; esoteric and ephemeral; idiosyncratic and absurd; questionable and inappropriate. Work is executed publicly into a seamful artifact …
The City At Play / Co-Designing Games As Eco-Political Agency,
2015
Design Research Society
The City At Play / Co-Designing Games As Eco-Political Agency, Mette Agger Eriksen, Maria Hellström Reimer
Nordes Conference Series
“The City At Play” displays parts of how co-design researchers in collaboration with civil servants practically have engaged in exploring urban ecologies by challenging current collaborative municipal mapping and transition processes through game development. The exhibit is a narrative installation of tangible traces from the participatory prototyping sessions and “animating” interventions into municipal planning contexts - in this case climate transition in the Öresund region. It is argued that a game inspired co-designing mind-set – rather than a problem-solving approach – presents ways to explore and critically reflect upon dynamic urban complexities as eco-political contexts of competition and collaboration across …
Designerly Influence On Politics And The Press: Changing A Deadlocked Relationship,
2015
Design Research Society
Designerly Influence On Politics And The Press: Changing A Deadlocked Relationship, Sune Gudiksen
Nordes Conference Series
In recent years, political communication and political television debates have become farcical because of the professionalization of political communication. This has resulted in a deadlock between politicians, journalists and citizens, who appear to have fundamentally different goals. Consequently, television debates have become predictable, less focused on political argument, and far removed from their consequences in the daily lives of citizens. Drawing on empirical data from a workshop attended by a diverse set of stakeholders - journalists, producers, politicians, and media students - this paper presents the initial findings on how co-design and design games can take part directly in the …
“Agonistic Design Matter”: Flowers, Pots And Wires,
2015
Design Research Society
“Agonistic Design Matter”: Flowers, Pots And Wires, Monika Rosińska, Agata Szydłowska
Nordes Conference Series
This exploratory paper provides an account on the big Polish cities that have recently undertaken major problems of so called revitalization. According to New Urbanism ideas, these projects should involve participation of inhabitants and address needs of different actors which dwell in the cities. We introduce two cases of Warsaw and Poznań where the concept of participation becomes misunderstood and the cities’ authorities’ attitude towards urban green removes it – literally and metaphorically – from the soil and makes it a city property easy to move and remove. These cases show how the cities’ policy towards urban greenery focuses different …
Sharing Eco-Soap Knowledge: Joosoap Studio,
2015
Design Research Society
Sharing Eco-Soap Knowledge: Joosoap Studio, Ying-Ju Lin, Andrea Botero
Nordes Conference Series
In this paper we document some of the experiences gained while designing and prototyping JooSoap Studio. JooSoap Studio aims to make it easy for people to gather and make eco-soap products together, anywhere in the world. The Studio is part of a larger project that aims to spread sustainable knowledge around making ecological cleaning soap (eco-soap) from recycled used (kitchen) cooking oil pioneered by activist communities in Japan and Taiwan. JooSoap Studio experiments with tools, practices and infrastructures that will help spreading this knowledge to more communities, through local engagement, aiming at sustainability and replicability of the information.
Ways Of Seeing Service: Surrogates For A Design Material,
2015
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Ways Of Seeing Service: Surrogates For A Design Material, Johan Blomkvist
Nordes Conference Series
One ongoing debate in service design concerns what can and/or should be designed when working with services. I argue that, as service design grows both academically and in practice, the material of service design is collectively created by individual contributions to service development and design research. This paper looks at such contributions by examining representations, or surrogates, that designers make and use to visualise and prototype services. These representations inform us about what is considered part of service as a design material, including service concepts, processes and systems.
De-Computation: Programming The World Through Design,
2015
Design Research Society
De-Computation: Programming The World Through Design, Kevin Walker, John Fass
Nordes Conference Series
We describe a developing methodology called ‘de- computation’ which combines design making and computational thinking in a two-way exchange aimed at understanding and reacting against increasing computational control of humans’ natural, artificial and social systems, by using the tools and methods of computation in the design process. The steps of de-computation are detailed, its relation to similar approaches is explained, examples are given, and we explain its relevance for design research, theory construction and practical design work.
Environmental Aesthetics: Notes For Design Ecology,
2015
Design Research Society
Environmental Aesthetics: Notes For Design Ecology, Connie Svabo, Kathrine Ekelund
Nordes Conference Series
The philosophical subfield environmental aesthetics can contribute to the design of sustainable futures. Environmental aesthetics provides a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between nature and culture. Current positions in environmental aesthetics are lined out and used as backdrop for contributing an ecological approach to design. Three green aesthetic design strategies are sketched: Coated Green, Green Core and Green Stream.
Discussion With Three Jackets: Making A Material Ecology,
2015
Design Research Society
Discussion With Three Jackets: Making A Material Ecology, Tania Splawa-Neyman
Nordes Conference Series
It is common today for objects and the materials of their making to be swiftly obtained and then inattentively divested, with little regard for the part that they play within living ecologies of artifice. As expressed by Anne-Marie Willis when ruminating over our ontological change imparted via design, “we no longer know how to dwell among things” (Willis 2006, under ‘From Worlding to Thinging’) Through a series of experiments that anthropomorphise and open discussions with materials, connections are cultivated that are not usual within our everyday experiences of our material world. These material conversations are founded within the creative acts …
Remix Utopia: Eleven Propositions On Design And Social Fantasy,
2015
Design Research Society
Remix Utopia: Eleven Propositions On Design And Social Fantasy, Michael Haldrup, Hobye Mads, Kristin Samson, Nicolas Padfield
Nordes Conference Series
“Dystopian fiction’s popularity is a warning sign for the future” worries renowned author and cultural critic Naomi Klein (2014a). For Klein, human made climate change does not call for adaptation or mitigation; it is a civilizational wake-up call. Confronting the apocalypse is not about “changing light bulbs” - it is about change, about transforming the “social system” causing human extinction, about revolting against capitalism (2014b). Dystopian scenarios do not leave much scope for this. In the face of climatic catastrophe, sci-fi authors tend to affirm the inevitable, leaving room only for either apathy or individualist survivalism, stockpiling food and fuel. …
Ways Of Talking With (And About) Materials,
2015
Design Research Society
Ways Of Talking With (And About) Materials, Anne Louise Bang, Agnese Caglio, Vibeke Riisberg, Karen Marie Hasling
Nordes Conference Series
In this workshop we are occupied with materials as a means to relate to objects and our environments. We introduce the Repertory Grid technique as a dialogue tool, based on sensorial perception of soft and hard materials. Thus, the aim of the workshop is twofold: firstly, it encourages engagement and conversations about materials on themes such as perception of material qualities. Secondly, it discusses the potential of talking with materials, that is: using the material world as a resource for conversation. The workshop is based on previous research conducted within the field of fashion and textiles where we have identified …
Manipulations: Artefact-Site-Space,
2015
Design Research Society
Manipulations: Artefact-Site-Space, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Eric Snodgrass, Ola Ståhl
Nordes Conference Series
This workshop gathers those who are interested in producing a set of responses to the concept of manipulation through a specific framework of design ecologies. The workshop will adapt a methodological approach linking artefact, site and space – an approach we hope will offer ample opportunity to explore manipulation both as a concept and a local and material practice that produces global effects. Participants are invited to contribute with specific case studies of artefacts, sites and/or spaces, reading them up and against the notion of manipulation considered here not merely as an outcome of environments but also as a source …
Unpicking The Fashion System: Practice As Research Workshop,
2015
Design Research Society
Unpicking The Fashion System: Practice As Research Workshop, Ruby Hoette
Nordes Conference Series
During this workshop participants will experiment with methods of dissection and collage as tools with which to actively engage with the fluid and dynamic relationships that constitute fashion and the shifting role of the fashion designer. Unpicking garments along original seam-lines functions as a metaphor for the unravelling of the mechanisms that constitute pervasive fashion practices and production processes. The resulting loose garment elements will then be rearranged into new formations or mappings - proposals for collective ways of engaging with fashion production and a new fashion ‘collection’. The workshop will draw on the concept of the personal wardrobe, within …
Stories From Fragments: Workshop Of The Desis Philosophy Talk - Design For Social Innovation And Storytelling,
2015
Design Research Society
Stories From Fragments: Workshop Of The Desis Philosophy Talk - Design For Social Innovation And Storytelling, Elisa Bertolotti, Heather Daam, Francesca Piredda, Virginia Tassinari
Nordes Conference Series
The German philosopher Hannah Arendt speaks of storytelling as the act to collect the fragments of the destruction of the mainstream and wave them together in a narration. Arendt believes this act of telling stories is the real political action of opening up the common realm. This workshop aims at exploring the role for storytelling, as described by Arendt, in design for social innovation. Grassroots social innovation are examples of alternatives to the mainstream which are emerging in our society. They require new forms of narratives in order to be fully understood and amplified. Participants in this workshop are triggered …
Designing Learning Scenarios For Futures Of Sustainability,
2015
Design Research Society
Designing Learning Scenarios For Futures Of Sustainability, Hannah Jones, Anette Lundebye
Nordes Conference Series
Understanding sustainability in terms of our complex, dynamic and inter-connected socio-ecological systems requires a different mindset or paradigm to the industrial mode of thinking that has influenced educational practice for the last century (Orr, 2004, Wood, 2007). Rather than fragmenting the world into separate disciplines for the sake of efficiency, an alternative whole systems approach to sustainability education aims to join-up different skill-sets and types of knowledge to improve effectiveness (Sterling, 2001). This requires a shift from the delivery of knowledge via top-down pedagogic methods, to designing the conditions for a critical co-learning to take place. Here, co-learners work together …
Re/Framing Design Trends: A Burkean Meta-Rhetorical Approach,
2015
Design Research Society
Re/Framing Design Trends: A Burkean Meta-Rhetorical Approach, Anneli Bowie
Nordes Conference Series
In this PhD research project I aim to investigate the rhetorical framing of communication design trends, by employing the theory of American rhetorician, Kenneth Burke. Although Burke is relatively unknown in design research circles, this study argues that he may provide valuable new perspectives on the rhetorical nature of design products, processes and discourses. Visual rhetoric is considered an important yet underdeveloped area of design inquiry, and an application of Burke’s rhetorical theories may prove valuable in addressing this need. Furthermore, I intend to show how Burke’s dialectical approach, as seen in his interrogations of historical transitions, may prove particularly …
