Printed Material And Fabric,
2013
Design Research Society
Printed Material And Fabric, Jussi Mikkonen, Reetta Myllymäki, Sari Kivioja, Santeri Vanhakartano, Helena Suonsilta
Nordes Conference Series
As wearables get more complex and closer to the skin, so do the requirements for the packaging and the placement of the electrical components. The advent of 3D-printers and flexible printing materials provide means of building fabric-like structures. We tested a flexible material without moving micro- or meso-structures, as the material itself would be fabric-like. Tests were conducted according to SFS-EN ISO 13934-1, suggesting directions for using printable materials. In the end, we created a corselet and a corset, along with a connector suited for attaching various materials together.
Design Experiments With Social Media And Museum Content In The Context Of The Distributed Museum,
2013
Design Research Society
Design Experiments With Social Media And Museum Content In The Context Of The Distributed Museum, Dagny Stuedahl, Sarah Lowe
Nordes Conference Series
The relationship of digital technology to museum practices is a field that continues to grow and acknowledge the potential of development. Development that will require new understandings related to museum content travelling across contexts, participatory methods suitable to designing digital technology into museum communication and new forms of relationships with visitors and citizens. In this paper we explore the use of a small-scale prototype experiment as the basis for exploring mobile social media based practices related to the distributed museum within the city. The design experiment is staged with inspiration from critical design, in which design thinking and cultural investigation …
‘Designerly’ Analysis Of Participation Structures,
2013
Design Research Society
‘Designerly’ Analysis Of Participation Structures, Jacob Buur, Marie Rosa Beuthel, Agnese Caglio
Nordes Conference Series
With the inclusion of not only users but stakeholders of many different kinds, design processes turn into complex collaborative challenges. Thus, improving design practices requires research into how people participate and contribute in social interaction. But research methods for understanding such activities tend to be highly analytical and hence difficult for design researchers to engage with, if results are meant to be actionable. Through a series of experiments we develop tangible support for a ‘designerly’ interaction analysis of one important aspect of collaborative design activities: the participatory structures.
The Role Of !Ction In Experiments Within Design, Art And Architecture,
2013
Design Research Society
The Role Of !Ction In Experiments Within Design, Art And Architecture, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Poul Rind Christensen
Nordes Conference Series
This paper offers a typology for understanding design fiction as a new approach in design research. The typology allows design researchers to explain design fictions according to 5 criteria: (1) “What if scenarios” as the basic construal principle of design fiction; (2) the manifestation of critique; (3) design aims; (4) materializations and forms; and (5) the aesthetic of design fictions. The typology is premised on the idea that fiction may integrate with reality in many different ways in design experiments. The explanatory power of the typology is exemplified through the analyses of 6 case projects.
Digital Lace: Procedurally Created Design,
2013
Design Research Society
Digital Lace: Procedurally Created Design, Ellen Schofield
Nordes Conference Series
Digital Lace is a set of laser-cut paper panels that explores the intersection of intentional decisionmaking and computer-created randomness. The project uses a set of illustrated symbols, a computer program that randomly places the symbols and rearranges them based on a simple algorithm, and laser cut paper panels that are created from the computer-generated file. The final pieces exemplify the kind of modular design present in digital design while celebrating the materiality and tactile quality of traditional art.
Spherical Harmonics: Experiments In 3d Printed Ceramic Form,
2013
Design Research Society
Spherical Harmonics: Experiments In 3d Printed Ceramic Form, Jonathan Keep
Nordes Conference Series
This research is twofold – first it is about exploring the mathematical shape of Spherical Harmonics in computer code to extend the vocabulary of ceramic form. Secondly to develop techniques to 3D print these computers generated forms using DIY 3D ceramic printing techniques.
Lines & Models. Embodied Drawing Acts,
2013
Design Research Society
Lines & Models. Embodied Drawing Acts, Judith Marlen Dobler
Nordes Conference Series
Lines & Models is a ongoing series of analogue, digital and hybrid drawing experiments. The project explores tacit approaches to sketching and drawing by experiments using the body as a drawing tool. In the research project, theory and practice are closely linked. The experiments serve as drawing artifacts and as material for reflections in design research. In this context, the project evolved into an investigation about the involvement of the body while drawing and sketching, and how the knowledge gained can be visualized.
Aesthetic Experimentations On Ceramic Materials,
2013
Design Research Society
Aesthetic Experimentations On Ceramic Materials, Priska Falin
Nordes Conference Series
Aesthetics like sound of ceramics is common in the context of making but not usually presence when perceiving an object. Most of the material aesthetics are knowledge of the maker and happens during the process of making. These aesthetics are potential material for artistic use. Focusing on the aesthetics of the ceramic materials I try to develop new solutions in the context of art. These experimentations are the beginning of a research where the goal is to bring out new artistic potentials from ceramic materials. The used raw materials are fluxes, feldspar, quartz, colemanite, cobalt oxide and copper oxide. To …
Intelligent Clothes For Everyday Fashion,
2013
Design Research Society
Intelligent Clothes For Everyday Fashion, Marie Olofsen
Nordes Conference Series
What are the reasons that wearables have not caught on and why do we hardly see these new aesthetic and functional expressions outside exhibitions, conferences, and stage performances? I propose that one reason is the aesthetic expression of wearables. Prototypes and commercially available wearables tend to be aesthetically and material wise quite far from the aesthetics and the material (fabric) of the clothes we normally wear. Many wearabes e.g. use LEDs as an aesthetic expression, which, however beautiful it might look, is quite far from what everyday clothes look and feel like, seeing that everyday clothes are mostly based on …
Built Drawings,
2013
Design Research Society
Built Drawings, D. Scott
Nordes Conference Series
Digital fabrication technologies have the ability to confound ideas of control and indeterminacy. Apt to produce sterile and “perfect” forms, computergenerated constructs are finding their home within art and design communities-perhaps as mediator between concept and product. Although laser cutters are commonly employed to provide precision and controlled outcomes, I experiment with the indeterminate visual and structural potential in material layering and laser cut drawings on/in surfaces in order to better understand the potential of the tool and its tangential applications.
Abort N' Go: Designing For Women’S Right To An Autonomous Abortion,
2013
Design Research Society
Abort N' Go: Designing For Women’S Right To An Autonomous Abortion, Cristine Sundbom
Nordes Conference Series
ABORT ‘n GO is a design project within the crossing boundaries of critical design and industrial design. The aim of this project was to investigate and problematise the contemporary discourse on abortion in Sweden by using design as a discussion tool. (Sundbom, 2009) The design concept, a home a abortion product, is based upon conducted in-depht interviews and a study by Anneli Kero. (2005) Keros study concludes that 67%, ie. the majority of women felt a relief after the abortion, but that they didn’t feel free to express positive feelings. (Kero, 2005) The abortion discourse in Sweden is problematic since …
Thinking Through Drawing: Sites Of Exchange,
2013
Design Research Society
Thinking Through Drawing: Sites Of Exchange, Belinda Mitchell, Trish Bould
Nordes Conference Series
Drawing is like note taking it creates an embodied dialogue between thought, hand and paper, it makes explicit the way we think and view the world from our disciplinary perspective and our human experience; it creates an active engagement between ourselves and the world. This work uses drawing as a site of exchange to document a conversation between a visual artist, a spatial interior designer, and archaeologist. The conversation was notated through diagrams, written notes, photography and drawing. The work opens up practice based methods through the to and fro of conversations to reimagine representations of interior space.
Bedtime Stories: Weaving Traditions Into Digital Technologies,
2013
Design Research Society
Bedtime Stories: Weaving Traditions Into Digital Technologies, Kristi Kuusk, Geert Langereis, Oscar Tomico
Nordes Conference Series
Bedtime Stories is a proposal for a long-lasting - environmentally, economically and societally sustainable smart textile service. It is a set of woven bed linen with images that can be recognized by a custom made fairy-tale application. This new way of story creation is an opportunity to share personal experiences and pass that wisdom through generations. Therefore contributing to a better quality of life. Bedtime Stories is part of a research-throughdesign project. It involves crafts (methods and values) in the environmental load of textiles and garments production, selling, wearing and disposing area. Multiple iterations of Bedtime Stories gives insight into …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease,
2013
Design Research Society
Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont
Nordes Conference Series
This workshop aims to bridge the gap between game-, and product design and the theoretical knowledge of the field of neuropsychology. During the workshop we will design playful experiences to stimulate older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, in order to delay disease progression. Knowledge concerning the progressive course of neuropathology of the disease can substantially contribute to the design of suitable games, or playful products, for this user group. In view of the increasing population of older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, the design of relevant games or playful products by well-informed designers will benefit this group and is urgently needed.
