Design For Balance: Reimagining Processes And Competences For Sustainable Futures,
2024
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Design For Balance: Reimagining Processes And Competences For Sustainable Futures, Paola Bertola, Erminia D'Itria, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Carmen Bruno, Ruta Valusyte, Luca Simeone, Rike Neuhoff Neuhoff
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The 6th Assessment Report (2021) claims that the most ambitious threshold of the Paris climate agreement will be reached and exceeded by 2040: climate change and climate diplomacy do not coincide. The adaptation and mitigation failure indicates a certain increase in inequalities at the intra-state and global levels and substantial economic damage. Design for Balance stimulates the reimagination of our productive, technological, societal and cultural systems, moving away from compensation strategies, which focus on balancing their negative impacts, to embrace systemic change, which focuses on establishing new balance within their components. Design principles, processes and competences have highly contributed to …
Polyphonic Speculations,
2024
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Polyphonic Speculations, David Philip Green, Spyros Bofylatos, Mayane Dore, Veronica Ranner
DRS Biennial Conference Series
'Polyphonic Speculations' unites plurality and possibility; two powerful concepts for Design Research. 'Polyphony,' in the Bakhtinian sense, encourages a dynamic, dialogical interplay of voices, viewpoints, and ideologies. Different perspectives, positions, politics. Different values, ethics, aesthetics. Multiple forms, multiple disciplines, even multiple identities. While ‘Speculation' alludes to what we don't know about the future, the present, or the past, here it recognises plurality in the rich histories of speculative design research, multiple interpretations of the present, and a multiplicity of possible futures. As a practical apparatus, Green et al (2023) refer to Polyphonic Speculation as, “a tool for collectively speculating in …
Past, Present, And Future: Understanding The Expanse Of Design For Policy And Governance,
2024
Georgetown University, United States of America
Past, Present, And Future: Understanding The Expanse Of Design For Policy And Governance, Scott Schmidt, Marzia Mortati
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Sponsored as the official track of PoGoSIG, this track aims to critically explore and define the relationship between policy and design. Further, this track will serve as an initial call for papers for the upcoming edited volume of the same subject in the Routledge series ‘Design for Social Responsibility’ edited by Rachel Cooper. The track can be divided into an expanse of three key areas: 1. Past: Resistance Where did design for policy emerge from? Papers that can provide historical overviews of key initiatives that have demonstrated the value of and challenges for design for policy. The papers will provide …
Design For Manufacturing: Rehumanising Digital Manufacturing,
2024
Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
Design For Manufacturing: Rehumanising Digital Manufacturing, Mersha Aftab, Rebecca Grant, Mey Goh Goh, Iryna Yesseyeva
DRS Biennial Conference Series
What role is design research playing in the re-humanisation of digital manufacturing? This theme track aims to bring transdisciplinary researchers together, looking at how design explores, supports, and leads digital transformation within the manufacturing sectors worldwide to be more people-centred. Design research significantly contributes to digital transformation within the private and public sectors. Regarding manufacturing, existing literature provides measurable readiness levels, such as the technology readiness index (TRI) (Parasuraman, 2000; Parasuraman & Colby, 2015; Tsikriktsis, 2004) or the Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). However, these models do not consider people and their perceived efficacy for new technologies. Design research and human-centred …
Play Design: Initiating Transformation Through Imagination,
2024
Kolding School of Design, Denmark
Play Design: Initiating Transformation Through Imagination, Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Sofie Kinch, Sune Gudiksen, Shanti Sumartojo, Lisa Grocott, Colleen Macklin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
There is a growing interest in the new design field, play design. By applying qualities from play, play design can help create opportunities to meet an unknown future with curiosity, empowering designers to make decisions and to keep a shared hope. As a fundamental aspect of human existence, play has been a source of expression, social interaction, and transformative growth across various cultures for thousands of years. Play design can connect and transform us to keep imagining and reimagining the future - together. In this theme track we explore the transformative power of play and how play design and designers …
Systemic Citizens: Equity, Power, And Relational Autonomy,
2024
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Systemic Citizens: Equity, Power, And Relational Autonomy, Cecilia Landa-Avila, Shichao Zhao, Sine Celik, Pushpi Bagchi, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Citizen-led design approaches enable spaces for communities to explore and negotiate their priorities into actionable strategies. Digital technologies have played a paramount role in encouraging them to have a stronger voice in public services, local democracy and their wellbeing. However, these approaches might exacerbate barriers to equity and just participation. Moreover, in some domains (e.g., education, healthcare or urban planning), those stakeholders that "hold the power" are reluctant to partake in genuine participatory approaches. Given this situation, systemic design can transform citizen engagement practices to strengthen the connectedness among citizens and create awareness of the relational attributes of societal issues. …
Through The Megascope: Reimagining Design Education,
2024
University of Iliinois at Urbana Champaign, United States of America
Through The Megascope: Reimagining Design Education, Nekita Thomas, Lisa Mercer, Teressa Moses, Angelica Sibrian
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Addressing global challenges like racial tension and health inequalities, this paper urges a reimagining of design education's core principles. Four educators from diverse, often marginalized backgrounds collaboratively investigate design education's future, moving beyond mere reflection. Their insights fuel a broader initiative to envision inclusive design education. Drawing inspiration from W.E.B. Du Bois’ 'Megascope', this concept resists conventional paradigms, sheds light on overlooked narratives, and challenges ingrained epistemologies. The Megascope acts as a dynamic discourse tool, pushing the boundaries of design education. The educators, influenced by the Megascope's principles and their backgrounds, emphasize their dedication to anti-racist, equity-driven education, underscoring the …
Eye-Tracking: Understanding The Why Behind Shopping Behavior,
2024
Hasselt University, Belgium
Eye-Tracking: Understanding The Why Behind Shopping Behavior, Katelijn Quartier, Charlotte Beckers
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper discusses a mixed method study in which we combine eye-tracking with semi-structured in-depth interviews, conducted at two similar stores of a re- tailer in the cosmetics sector. With this study the retailer wanted to investigate, on the one hand, how customers navigate and move around the store and, on the other hand, what they think of the design and experience of the two stores. Through this qualitative research method, you get a very rich set of information that mainly provides insights into the "why" behind shopping behavior. The results concerning shop- ping behavior indicate that in this store …
Benefitting Systemic Citizens And Sustainable Knowledge Heritage: Building A Digital Platform Ecosystem And Community For Knowledge Co-Creation,
2024
Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
Benefitting Systemic Citizens And Sustainable Knowledge Heritage: Building A Digital Platform Ecosystem And Community For Knowledge Co-Creation, Ulrich Schmitt
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Advancing collective capacities relies on innumerable small ‘nano’-actions by individuals which govern, if effectively combined, any institutional (knowledge economy) and societal performance (knowledge society). In this endeavor, scaling people and knowledge connectedness present a key systemic strategy. Successive evolutionary ceilings have been overcome by general-purpose technologies such as language, toolmaking, writing, printing, computerization, and the web. But, as digitization is spreading, digital dividends are not. Facing widening opportunity divides, the elephants in the room are the entropy caused and the attention squandered by today’s ever-accelerating abundance of replicated, fragmented, outdated, and unvetted content. Any solution to this unsustainable wicked state …
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Discourse Of Conduct And Ethics In Professional Design,
2024
University of South Australia, Australia
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Discourse Of Conduct And Ethics In Professional Design, Veronika Kelly, Meghan Kelly
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Knowledge of professional design is (re)produced through discourse and its culture of use: from the language used, interactions with others and objects created, to the techniques and procedures that connect and distribute professional design knowledge. Here, discourse both shapes and is shaped by social practices and communicated through structures such as codes of conduct and codes of ethics. This paper explores the discourse of codes of conduct and codes of ethics for professional design developed by peak design organisations. We argue that such codes serve as forms of industry self-regulation encapsulating designers’ responsibilities and the ethics of their practices. However, …
Sharing Instead Of Being Infringed: How To Build A Responsible Community For Online Artwork Sharing?,
2024
Hunan University, China, People's Republic of
Sharing Instead Of Being Infringed: How To Build A Responsible Community For Online Artwork Sharing?, Shenglan Cui, Fang Liu, Biyao Li, Xiang Yuan
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The development of internet and artificial intelligence technology promotes the dissemination of artworks but also increases the possibility of infringement. Designers who selflessly share their work risk having it stolen, plagiarized, sold, used directly as NFT, or used for AI training. In this paper, we conducted an exploratory study to investigate desingers' needs and solutions when faced with online artwork-sharing infringement. We held two workshops to discuss design plagiarism and illegal AI-art data training. Ultimately, the team arrived at seven solutions for addressing potential infringement issues that arise when sharing artwork online. Synthesizing the participants' evaluations and related research, we …
Fostering A Patient-Led Culture Of Care Through Data Physicalization: A Design Approach To Create Awareness And Promote Data Collection On Antimicrobial Resistance,
2024
SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland;
Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Fostering A Patient-Led Culture Of Care Through Data Physicalization: A Design Approach To Create Awareness And Promote Data Collection On Antimicrobial Resistance, Ginevra Terenghi, Serena Cangiano, Antonella Autuori, Cristina Margarida Corti
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The paradigm shift in healthcare delivery models is leading to individuals assuming greater responsibilities and control, as the agency is moving from doctor-centric to patient-centric. To foster a patient-led culture of care, health and data literacy are essential, especially in the context of global challenges, where citizen awareness is fundamental to play actively in co-creating knowledge. This paper outlines a methodological approach and the outcomes of a design research project focused on promoting engagement and literacy to facilitate citizen and patient participation in addressing the antimicrobial resistance threat. The approach is tested in the format of an experimental workshop, inspired …
Contextualizing Comedy Techniques For Speculative Design: Unraveling Futures Cone From Sketch Comedy Series, ‘2032/2033 Futures',
2024
Human Life and Innovation Design, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Contextualizing Comedy Techniques For Speculative Design: Unraveling Futures Cone From Sketch Comedy Series, ‘2032/2033 Futures', Eun Sun Park, Hyunjae Daniel Shin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Speculative design stretches the boundaries of future plausibility, enabling creators to engage audiences by evoking empathy and provoking debate. Designers often use satire and humor, techniques that comedians have employed for centuries, to engage the public. We examined the popular YouTube comedy series '2032/2033 Futures', which depicts near futures, to understand how comedy can broaden future plausibility and challenge viewers to think critically about preferred futures. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with the creators to contextualize their comedic techniques, such as humor, satire, irony, and wit, within future-oriented narratives and prototypes. Our findings illustrate how comedy can revitalize …
Gender Code – A Narrative Ethical Glance At Women Developers In Finnish Information Technology,
2024
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Gender Code – A Narrative Ethical Glance At Women Developers In Finnish Information Technology, Aila Johanna Kronqvist, Rebekah Rousi
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Information Technology (IT) sector is the current Athens of all industry. It is no longer geeky, but chic, defining the modes and limits of modern civilization. IT in its numerous forms provides the vehicle of expression and citizenship in contemporary times. While more women designers and developers enter the field are they experienc-ing a stronger sense of equality? This paper reports a narrative inquiry that probed the experiences of women professionals in the IT field. Particular attention was placed on how females entered the field, the roles and tasks that they often found themselves undertaking, and social factors in …
The Challenges Of Involving Child-Patients In The Development Of A Mobile Application For Their Participation In Pediatric Brain Care,
2024
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Department of Health Services Management and Organisation, Netherlands
The Challenges Of Involving Child-Patients In The Development Of A Mobile Application For Their Participation In Pediatric Brain Care, Claire Verkijk, Kasia Tabeau, Kees Ahaus, Mathieu Gielen, Marie-Claire De Wit, Marie-Lise Van Veelen-Vincent
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Prior research shows that involving children in the development of technology is valuable, though challenging. Involving child-patients may come with additional difficulties, but as technology is gaining importance in (pediatric) care, it is important to uncover these difficulties. This paper identifies the difficulties of involving child-patients in the development of technology. We do so by reflecting on a project at the Sophia Children’s Hospital, where we involved 17 children (of which 12 child-patients) in developing a mobile application for their participation in pediatric brain care. Our identified challenges are related to the recruitment of child-patients and the need to adapt …
Unraveling The Sensorial Properties In Material Identity Innovation: A Study On Mycelium-Based Composite,
2024
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Unraveling The Sensorial Properties In Material Identity Innovation: A Study On Mycelium-Based Composite, Jiahao Wang, Sylvia Xihui Liu, Kun-Pyo Lee
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Mycelium-Based Composites (MBCs) are promising bio-based materials. However, negative public perception of fungus-derived products due to fear of fungus and irregularity in surface and color remains a challenge. This paper explores the potential of MBCs in material driven design (MDD). It employs a comprehensive approach to examine the potential of sensorial properties for innovating material identity. The study utilized interviews and questionnaires conducted in a workshop setting, applying the Ma2E4 toolkit framework (Camera & Karana, 2018). The workshop had a diverse range of 27 participants from various disciplines. The research findings are used to enhance product design. The study affirms …
A Design-Stage-Oriented Framework To Introduce Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Design Education,
2024
SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
A Design-Stage-Oriented Framework To Introduce Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Design Education, Massimo Botta, Antonella Autuori, Ginevra Terenghi, Matteo Subet
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are technologies that impact the skills and practices of the next generation of designers, presenting the chance to reimagine 21st-century design education. Having a structured knowledge that stands as a multidisciplinary reference for design education is still a challenging aspect of this re-imagination. The paper presents a design-stage-oriented framework for introducing AI and ML into design education. The framework structures taxonomies of AI tools, data types performed by these systems, AI capabilities and the stages of a design process. It leads to an interactive user workflow, serving as a foundational component that enables …
Modelling Reflection In Descriptions Of Design Practice Using Linguistic Inquiry,
2024
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Modelling Reflection In Descriptions Of Design Practice Using Linguistic Inquiry, Nupura Kulkarni, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Reflection plays a vital role in the development of designers, enabling them to evaluate their experiences, enhance their learning, and foster professional growth. This research analyzed reflections of 56 design students, as part of graded coursework, using content and dictionary-based approaches (LIWC). Building on an existing model of reflection with eight components (experience, belief, difficulty, perspective, feeling, learning, intention, and descriptive) we identify, using descriptive statistics, the linguistic features associated with each component and correlate these to grades achieved. We distinguish two types of reflections associated with higher grades: those emphasizing personal experiences that we term holistic narrators, and those …
The Evolving Roles Of Modern Designers: Through The Lens Of Design Behavioral Patterns Within Work Environments Enhanced By Generative Ai,
2024
Modern Industrial Design Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
The Evolving Roles Of Modern Designers: Through The Lens Of Design Behavioral Patterns Within Work Environments Enhanced By Generative Ai, Xinyu Li, Huiting Liu, Xiyuan Zhang, Ruiyi Cai, Yang Yin, Sisi Wu, Chunlei Chai
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In the rapidly advancing landscape of generative AI, the role of designers is constantly being reshaped amidst the choice between traditional tools and emerging technologies. To comprehend this transformation, we developed a platform integrating multiple generative AI models and allowed for unrestricted search and sketching to emulate a realistic working scenario. Within this setting, we analyzed the design behavioral patterns exhibited by experienced designers: through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, we examined the cause and effect of generation patterns and iteration patterns. This exploration inspired insights into the designer's evolving role, transitioning to a continuous learner and being more than …
The Road To Cooptation Is Paved With Good Intentions: An Anarchafeminist Critique Of Empowerment Ambiguity In Dsi,
2024
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
The Road To Cooptation Is Paved With Good Intentions: An Anarchafeminist Critique Of Empowerment Ambiguity In Dsi, Valentina Volpi, Val Mitchell, Stuart Cockbill, Ksenija Kuzmina
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This theoretical paper critically examines the relationship between design for social innovation and the concept of empowerment. It questions to what extent current empowerment discourses in design genuinely amplify marginalized voices or rather reinforce and hide existing structural inequalities. With the aim of unveiling the emptiness of signifiers, such as empowerment, much like the contested concept of ‘social innovation’, this contribution aims to encourage a critical reflection on power dynamics through an anarchafeminist lens. Rather than striving for definite answers or providing blueprints, this lens aims to be an open and dynamic invitation to scholars and practitioners to continue exploring …
