Characteristics And Interferences Of Experiments In Science, In The Arts, And In Design Research,
2013
Design Research Society
Characteristics And Interferences Of Experiments In Science, In The Arts, And In Design Research, Dagmar Steffen
Nordes Conference Series
Commonly the term “experiment” is in the first place associated with science, systematic methods and strict principles for the sake of knowledge creation. Nonetheless, the term is widely used across the boundaries of science. The arts attribute artworks likewise as experimental – a usage that is often claimed to be metaphorical, since experiments in the arts (including design) lack the essential attributes that define a scientific experiment. Currently, research in the fields of science studies and literary science has revised these established conceptions as well as the primacy of the scientific experiment. The philosophical approach of New Experimentalism relativizes the …
Enstasy: Immersive Drawing As A Design Process,
2013
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Enstasy: Immersive Drawing As A Design Process, Welby Ings
Nordes Conference Series
This paper considers the means by which the short film Munted (Ings 2011) was drawn into being. It discusses drawing and interior dwelling as enstasic methodological practices. In so doing, it suggests that such approaches to the design of filmic narratives might enable the designer to reach into ideation and outwards into the communicative appearance of the text.
Multimodal Experiments In The Design Of A Living Archive,
2013
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Multimodal Experiments In The Design Of A Living Archive, Laurene Vaughan, Reuben Stanton, Lukman Iwan, Jeremy Yuille, Jane Mullett, David Carlin, James Thom, Adrian Miles
Nordes Conference Series
Designing a ‘living archive’ that will enable new forms of circus performance to be realised is a complex and dynamic challenge. This paper discusses the methods and approaches used by the research team in the design of the Circus Oz Living Archive. Essential to this project has been the design of a responsive methodology that could embrace the diverse areas of knowledge and practice that have led to a design outcome that integrates the affordances of the circus with those of digital technologies. The term ‘living archive’ has been adopted as a means to articulate the dynamic nature of the …
Designing For Self-Leadership,
2013
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Designing For Self-Leadership, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen
Nordes Conference Series
This paper argues generative tools can be used not only as ‘a language for co-creation aimed at the collective creativity’ as stated by pioneer E.B. Sanders (2000), but as ‘a visual making-language for self-dialogue and value clarification’, paving the way to self-leadership. In a Danish bank this ‘making-language’, was offered banking customers, who wanted to change their ‘money-behaviour’. They created visual ‘hand-made’ strategies which proved to be strongly self-persuasive: six weeks later the participants had changed their behaviour - and in accordance with their new strategies. Additionally they stated they felt increasingly empowered by taking action and leadership. Designing for …
Towards A Manifesto For Methodological Experimentation In Design Research,
2013
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Towards A Manifesto For Methodological Experimentation In Design Research, Henry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison
Nordes Conference Series
This paper argues that design research may benefit from investigations, explorations and innovations in the means of conducting and of conveying design research from qualitative methods in the social sciences. The paper examines how inter-disciplinary and intermethodological experimentation as a mode of knowledge building. At the end of the paper we draw out a manifesto that proposes potential actions concerning design research methods which ought to be applicable for designers and design researchers, but also for social scientists engaging with the changing nature of production-related inquiry and critique in which design increasingly features.
Experimentation As Making Knowledge: Two Models Of Research In The Design Studio,
2013
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Experimentation As Making Knowledge: Two Models Of Research In The Design Studio, Michael Jasper
Nordes Conference Series
Two propositions underpin the paper. The first is that studio-based research contributes to architectural knowledge in a manner no less vital or effective then more traditional research methods. The second proposition is that experimentation undertaken in the design studio at its most effective blurs distinctions between the activities of the practicing architect, academic theoretician, and the historian. An analysis of two approaches to the architecture design studio in the university setting will lead to a preliminary response to these propositions. The introduction provides an overview of the guiding questions, approach, and data sources. In the second part I analyse two …
Demonstrating Color Transitions Of Leuco Dye-Based Thermochromic Inks As A Teaching Approach In Textile And Fashion Design,
2013
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Demonstrating Color Transitions Of Leuco Dye-Based Thermochromic Inks As A Teaching Approach In Textile And Fashion Design, Marjan Kooroshnia
Nordes Conference Series
Although there are a lot of interest concerning the use of leuco dye-based thermochromic inks in Textile and Fashion Design, there is still a lack of teaching approach to help students arrive at a better understanding of the color transitions of leuco dye thermochromic inks. This paper aims to share a systematic approach for teaching the behavior of leuco dye-based thermochromic inks to students in Textile and Fashion Design. Printed colorswatches and exercises were used as the central part of the approach. Through the approach it was described what printed color-swatches were and how to use them effectively to make …
The Travelling Transect: Capturing Island Dynamics, Relationships And Atmospheres In The Water Landscapes Of The Canaries,
2013
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The Travelling Transect: Capturing Island Dynamics, Relationships And Atmospheres In The Water Landscapes Of The Canaries, Ellen Braae, Lisa Diedrich, Gini Lee
Nordes Conference Series
The practice of landscape architecture is most often a cultivation of open space alongside an open-ended dialogue with the presence and complexities of the cultural and natural features of places, usually resulting in projects generating site resolution rather than pure invention ex nihilo. However, when working with the more unpredictable qualities of sites as in water-made landscapes, designers often lack mapping and representational tools capable of capturing and expressing ephemeral qualities - dynamics, relationships and atmospheres. These abstract qualities, that exist over physical site conditions, correspond to the fields of natural sciences and to spatial aesthetics. The Travelling Transect method, …
Can Design Go Beyond Critique? (Trying To Compose Together In Opening Production),
2013
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Can Design Go Beyond Critique? (Trying To Compose Together In Opening Production), Anna Seravalli
Nordes Conference Series
This paper aims at contributing to the emerging field of design for social innovation (D4SI) discussing the insights from the author’s long-term involvement as a design researcher in a social innovation project. In order to discuss this experience a particular perspective is introduced, according to which D4SI can be considered an attempt of design to go beyond critique, and, specifically, of composing together (Latour 2010). In this understanding D4SI can be considered as a collective effort towards the construction and exploration of alternative ways of living and working. In deepening how D4SI can be understood as composing together, some reflections …
Experiments All The Way: Diagrams Of Dialectics Between A Design Research Program And Experiments,
2013
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Experiments All The Way: Diagrams Of Dialectics Between A Design Research Program And Experiments, Mette Agger Eriksen, Anne Louise Bang
Nordes Conference Series
Experiments take various forms, have various purposes, and generate various knowledge, depending on how and when they are integrated into a design research study. In this paper, as reflective (co-) design researchers/practitioners, we exemplify and argue ways in which different experiments can be at the core of a research project throughout the study. As former PhD scholars, with design backgrounds, both of us were engaged in the XLab project (2006), proposing a programmatic approach to experimental design research. This paper reflects our experiences of adapting this approach in PhD studies. Furthermore it exemplifies, discusses, and adds to the understanding of …
Designing Sustainable Futures,
2013
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Designing Sustainable Futures, Sara Ilstedt, Josefin Wangel
Nordes Conference Series
This paper discusses how future studies and design could enable a more conscious and participatory engagement in our common future. The starting point being that representations of the future are often done in an abstract and quantitative manner, which hinders a broad engagement, and understanding of the implications of the scenarios presented. We discuss how on-going research including experimental design methodologies can be used to make images of the future more concrete and accessible. Finally, we argue, not only for prototyping as a method to make the ungraspable future more concrete, but foremost for a designerly approach to the most …
Open Wearables: Crafting Fashion-Tech,
2013
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Open Wearables: Crafting Fashion-Tech, ValéRie Lamontagne
Nordes Conference Series
This paper investigates the role of the designer in the “opening” of culture in fashion and technology. In particular it explores the convergence of “open practices” at the vanguard of technologies and fabrication processes found in the history of Modernist fashion, as well as recent popular uses of rapid prototyping technologies, engineering, and more specifically wearables design practices.
Sustainable Infrastructure For Ad Hoc Social Interaction,
2013
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Sustainable Infrastructure For Ad Hoc Social Interaction, Lone Malmborg, Signe Yndigegn
Nordes Conference Series
We explore how to design sustainable infrastructure for ad hoc social interaction based on the conception of infrastructuring, meta-design and Living Labs. The exploration is based on a design experiment of establishing a Network Zone (a Living Lab setup) with support of a smart phone app. The objectives of our design program were to create connections and design possibilities for letting social interaction emerge through use that could continue beyond the project period. The experiment was part of a project in collaboration with a larger urban municipality (Copenhagen) to rethink the way we can offer services to senior citizens in …
Sacred Services: The Potential For Service Design Of Theory Relating To The Sacred,
2013
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Sacred Services: The Potential For Service Design Of Theory Relating To The Sacred, Ted Matthews
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As we move deeper and into a service economy, differentiation of service offerings occurring through the customer experience is becoming central to the success of service providers. The emerging discipline of service design must find new ways to orchestrate settings for customers that will result in favourable and memorable service experiences allowing for differentiation to take place. Services are defined through their intangibility where customer’s efforts are deemed inseparable from creating favourable experiences. The temporal nature of services mean that time is an important dimension. These factors can be a challenge for the service designer. Around the sacred, rituals and …
The Social Fabric: Exploring The Social Value Of Craftsmanship For Service Design,
2013
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The Social Fabric: Exploring The Social Value Of Craftsmanship For Service Design, Michelle Baggerman, Kristi Kuusk, Daniëlle Arets, Bas Raijmakers, Oscar Tomico
Nordes Conference Series
This paper addresses the social component of craftsmanship in relation to service design. The transferal of crafting skills and knowledge can be considered a service that is co-created between master and apprentice. The social aspects of learning craftsmanship will be discussed in the light of how they could benefit designers in the development of Product Service Systems. Workshops in bobbin-lace making that took place as part of a research project about smart-textile Product Service Systems serve as the foundation of this analysis. A group of designers assumed the role of apprentices in these workshops. The aim was not only to …
Becoming The Energy Aware Clock: Revisiting The Design Process Through A Feminist Gaze,
2013
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Becoming The Energy Aware Clock: Revisiting The Design Process Through A Feminist Gaze, Karin Ehrnberger, Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff*
Nordes Conference Series
This paper explores the border between technology and design (form giving) from a feminist perspective. Looking at the energy system and how it has been integrated in the household, we want to address the underlying structures that have been built into the ecology of electrical appliances used in daily life, preserving certain norms that could be questioned from both a gender and a sustainability perspective. We have created an alternative electricity meter, the Energy AWARE Clock, addressing design issues uncovered in an initial field study. In this paper, we will make parallels to these issues. We also use feminist technoscience …
The Ingenuity Of Ageing: An Experiment To Explore The Role Of Designers As A Moral Subject,
2013
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The Ingenuity Of Ageing: An Experiment To Explore The Role Of Designers As A Moral Subject, Denny Ho, Yanki Lee
Nordes Conference Series
As a dialogue with the advocates of the idea of ‘design process as Things’ of which designers become facilitators and supporters for design process, we attempt to argue that designers should understand their role as a moral subject and their values in design should be revealed and discussed with design participants. Regarding the ways of deliberating values in design process, we employed Ricoeur’s ideas of utopia and ideology as the key concepts guiding the design of our experiment with a group of retired academics in China. We argue that designers could accomplish this task through a critique of ideology and …
Invisible Man: Literature And The Body In Design Practice,
2013
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Invisible Man: Literature And The Body In Design Practice, Tarryn Handcock
Nordes Conference Series
As a culturally produced text, literature is seen as a lens with the potential to draw attention to the values, ideas, and beliefs that underlie a society. In this paper three key themes in H.G. Wells’ novel The Invisible Man (1897), are discussed: firstly, the ways that the body may be fashioned through dress and individual practices; secondly, how wearable artefacts may socialize bodies and symbolically communicate; and thirdly, how the fashioned body may challenge personal and cultural boundaries. Collectively, these issues draw attention to the relational network of body, culture, and dress. These relationships are highly relevant to design …
Cardboard Hospital: Prototyping Patient-Centric Environments And Services,
2013
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Cardboard Hospital: Prototyping Patient-Centric Environments And Services, Juha Kronqvist, Heini Erving, Teemu Leinonen
Nordes Conference Series
Cardboard hospital is a co-design method and prototyping environment for creating patientcentric hospital spaces and services. The method development was situated within a building project of a hospital wing in which the aim was to find new ways for including patients in the design process. The method was developed through combining participatory design methodology with the professional capabilities of a set designer. Cardboard hospital provides an environment that supports participatory design processes and guides participants towards participation as an artistic practice. The paper is situated in the theoretical framework of pragmatic aesthetics and builds on the notion of an aesthetic …
A Foray Into Not-Quite Companion Species: Design Experiments With Urban-Animals As Signi!Cant Others,
2013
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A Foray Into Not-Quite Companion Species: Design Experiments With Urban-Animals As Signi!Cant Others, Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Li Jönsson
Nordes Conference Series
This paper examines the project, Urban Animals and Us, as a journey - or foray - into the ‘terrain vague’ between people and (other) animals with whom we share urban space. Through three design experiments developed around speculative prototypes and co-design tools, we attempt to bring ’wild’ urban animals - like magpies and gulls into contact with the residents of a senior retirement home, to explore what new practices can arise between, otherwise, unconnected life-worlds. We expand the notion of companion species from philosopher of science Donna Haraway and begin to position the current project within a growing interest in …
