What Is Next For Civic Design?,
2024
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
What Is Next For Civic Design?, Mike De Kreek, Ferry Ferry Van De Mosselaer, Katrina Newell, Martijn De Waal, Eric Gordon, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Andrea Hamm, Gabriele Ferri, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Wina Smeenk, Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi
DRS Biennial Conference Series
No abstract provided.
Joyful Complexity: Queering, Intersecting, And Navigating Alternate Futures,
2024
DePaul University (DPU), Chicago, IL, United States of America
Joyful Complexity: Queering, Intersecting, And Navigating Alternate Futures, Jess Paris Westbrook, Coraline Ada Ehmke
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Queering imagines the end of rigid binaries, norms, traditions, assumptions, and impositions of the dominant culture. Intersectionality multiplies connections and amplifies perspectives. Affordances like these can free us to navigate our timelines on our own terms, to rethink our pasts and reframe our futures. This track explores how complexities of positionalities improve our ability to design models, methods, practices, and strategies compatible with more equitable futures across all our identities.
Design For Longevity (D4l): Project Your Future Self Through Service And Technology,
2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab
Design For Longevity (D4l): Project Your Future Self Through Service And Technology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Anna Meroni, Carla Sedini
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Amid the advancement of technologies, robust socioeconomic systems, transformational healthcare systems, and sustainable wealth management, people not only live longer but want to live better: with purpose, delight, and respect (Coughlin, 2017). As lifespans extend, the traditional stages of life – learning, earning, and retiring – have transformed into multi-generational stages (Golden, 2022). The demographic shift and social-economical context have inspired and generated the concept of Design for Longevity (D4L), which emphasizes a sustainable life-long cycle (Lee et al., 2023; Ulrich et al., 2020; Sedini et al., 2020; Justice, 2019). One key factor to maintaining a better quality of life …
Retail, Hospitality, And Service Design Futures,
2024
Hasselt University, Belgium
Retail, Hospitality, And Service Design Futures, Katelijn Quartier, Mia Münster, Rebekah Matheny
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The value of design in the commercial sector has been studied for years across various disciplines, but in fragmented ways, each employing their own research methods. In the Special Interest Group ‘Designing Retail and Service Futures’, linked to this track, we strive to better understand the value of design in the commercial sector, including closely linked disciplines, such as retail and hospitality design, service design, product and fashion design, branding and graphic design, marketing and business economics, design management, environmental psychology, interior design and architecture. Why? Recent developments, accelerated by the pandemic, demonstrate a growing convergence between retail, hospitality, and …
More-Than-Human Design In Practice,
2024
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
More-Than-Human Design In Practice, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Cristina Zaga, Arne Berger, Laura Forlano, Elisa Giaccardi
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The field of design is currently undergoing a more-than-human turn. This shift is driven by pressing global challenges such as the climate crisis, alongside the increased agency of technologies in everyday life and a growing interest in advancing inclusive and sustainable agendas. This track invited submissions reporting on practical experiments within this emerging space. The contributions highlight diverse ways in which more-than-human thinking can be enacted across various contexts and emphasize the importance of forging new alliances –between humans and nonhumans, theory and practice, and research and industry. This editorial unpacks the track’s motivation and summarizes the contributions received, examining …
Spatial Justice In Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse,
2024
Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland
Spatial Justice In Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse, Miriam Tedeschi, Jules Rochielle Sievert
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Our research track, "Spatial Justice in Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse," embarks on an in-depth exploration of spatial justice, interweaving its multifaceted elements with broader themes of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. This comprehensive approach probes spatial justice through its tangible embodiments and digital manifestations, underlining its profound influence on resource allocation, opportunities, and service provision. With an ambitious goal to challenge systemic socio-economic imbalances, the track formulates tangible design interventions, incorporating policy reform, urban planning, and community empowerment. We foster a collaborative environment, inviting a spectrum of professionals - designers, technologists, researchers, legal advocates, and policymakers - to …
Liveable Cities: Reimagining Design For Healthy Cities And Communities,
2024
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Liveable Cities: Reimagining Design For Healthy Cities And Communities, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Jen Ballie, Cláudia De Souza Libânio, Blaise Nguedo-Yongsi, Marilyz Soto Hormazábal, Juan Montalvan, Leigh-Ann Hepburn Hepburn
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Theme Track explores the intersection of design and urban health, aiming to create healthier, more liveable cities for all. This track welcomes design researchers, practitioners, passionate about addressing the complex health challenges faced by urban populations. We invite researchers to share their insights, case studies, and best practices, promoting the exchange of knowledge and fostering the creation of healthier urban environments. Key Areas: Healthy Urban Spaces: Creating inclusive and sustainable public spaces that promote physical activity, social interaction, and well-being. Designing resilient, efficient, and responsive healthcare systems and facilities in urban contexts. Also, exploring the role of design in …
Translational Design: Enabling Impact In Complex, Multi-Stakeholder Research Projects Through Design,
2024
Monash University, Australia
Translational Design: Enabling Impact In Complex, Multi-Stakeholder Research Projects Through Design, Rowan Christopher Page, Rosie Hornbuckle, Leah Heiss, André Nogueira
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Translational research converts the knowledge generated through basic research into tangible innovations, solutions, and interventions that directly impact people and the planet. As universities increasingly seek to maximise research impact, the applied, action-oriented, epistemology of design is well-positioned to support translational research. Successful translation requires strong communication and collaboration between different disciplines, industry partners, policy, and research end-users. Multi-stakeholder collaborations foster holistic approaches, leading to more effective and contextually relevant solutions. Designers are well-positioned to facilitate complex entanglements, integrating the needs and values of diverse perspectives. However, the emerging role of design as an enabler of translational research needs to …
Editorial: Language In Design,
2024
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The
Editorial: Language In Design, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Tania Allen, Sara Queen, Peter Lloyd
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The role of language is central to the practice of designing, though our understanding of this role has evolved from more formal-language representations to more natural-language representations. Language plays a central and critical role in all aspects of design including: collaboration, problem understanding and framing, modelling, decision-making, creativity, and marketing. With textual data relating to design widely available, and recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), we are poised at an interesting stage in our understanding of the role of language in designing. The last few years have seen what is being called a Cambrian Explosion in large language models (LLMs) …
Reimagining Care Through Evidence: Design Research, Patient Centered Solutions, And A Culture Of Care For Healthy Societies,
2024
Drexel University, United States of America
Reimagining Care Through Evidence: Design Research, Patient Centered Solutions, And A Culture Of Care For Healthy Societies, Diana Susan Nicholas, Minou Afzali, Ajla Aksamija, Nora Coleman, Angela Mazzi, Elizabeth Sanders, Isil Oygur Ilhan
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This session will explore patient centered evidence based design in healthcare, as a model of recovery, resistance, reflection, and reimagination. We are particularly interested in works of practice, scholarship, and research that put patients at the center of their care. Central to this session will be practices that invoke a culture of care and health both for patients and those that are caregivers (Evan & Fischer, 2022; Fuentes, 2020; Lightburn et al., 2005; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2020) Culture of care is a form of reimagination that calls on all actions to put care at their center for those in …
Design For Wellbeing And Happiness,
2024
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
Design For Wellbeing And Happiness, Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Ann Petermans, Rebecca Cain, Anna Pohlmeyer, Tiiu Poldma, Deger Ozkaramanli, Pieter Desmet, Matthias Laschke, Marc Hassenzahl
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The influence of design on wellbeing and happiness is a subject of growing research across various design domains, including products, services, systems, and environments. However, a challenge remains in grounding research on solid theories and methods that can unveil how design impacts people's wellbeing, enabling evidence-based approaches to design. This theme track focuses on contributions from design in fulfilling the societal need to promote wellbeing and happiness, aligned with the conference theme: Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination. The conference encourages us to expand our design horizons by reflecting on how the world is challenging the prevailing focus of design, which is …
Resisting, Recovering, Reflecting, And Reimagining Design Education,
2024
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Resisting, Recovering, Reflecting, And Reimagining Design Education, James Corazzo, Violeta Clemente, Derek Jones, Nicole Lotz, Naureen Mumtaz, Lesley-Ann Noel
DRS Biennial Conference Series
New, ongoing, and unremitting urgencies are aggregating at a furious rate – climate, inequality, populism, poverty, artificial intelligence, and unchecked capitalism. This uncertainty is daunting, but as bell hooks reminds us, “[t]he classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility” (1994: 207). The DRS EdSIG invites contributions that explore design education and its limitations and possibilities in the following ways: Resisting Education / The Education of Resistance What forms of design education should be resisted? How has design education been complicit in supporting existing orders? / What does it mean to educate future designers and design researchers for …
Making In The Digital Era,
2024
OCAD University, Canada
Making In The Digital Era, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group (EKSIG) focusses on the understanding of ‘knowledge’ and ‘contribution to knowledge’ in design research, especially in the areas where designing forms part of the research process. The EKSIG strand at DRS2024 takes a closer look at the new and changing materiality of design practice that we, designers, face, due to digitalization and its challenges and benefits. Several areas of design practice and research involve processes of making things. More often such processes unfold in a hybrid form combining both making by hand and with tools, both analogue and digital. This year’s EKSIG strand focusses on …
Co-Design Towards Positive Change,
2024
Tilburg University
Co-Design Towards Positive Change, Gubing Wang, Haiou Zhu
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Founded in 2014, the Design for Behavior Change Group (now the Designing Change Group) has been promoting knowledge, understanding and actions on how to initiate and maintain positive societal change for the wellbeing of mankind and the planet. Its research focuses on leveraging design to facilitate ethical and responsible behavioral, organisational and societal changes in pursuit of these objectives. Co-design, by actively engaging end-users and other key stakeholders in the design process, offers a promising approach to creating more effective and responsible change interventions. The current strand for DRS2024 explores theories and empirical cases that adopt or reflect co-design on …
Designing For Just And Sustainable Policies In The Space Between Institutions And Experimental Government Practices,
2024
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Designing For Just And Sustainable Policies In The Space Between Institutions And Experimental Government Practices, Francesco Leoni, Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez, Sofía Bosch Gómez, Federico Vaz, Luis Garcia, Natalia Villaman
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This track explores design’s role in the making of public policy by examining how it bridges the gap between actors within and outside institutions. Papers for this track advance new knowledge on design's contribution and interplay with policymaking processes and practices through methodological diversity and detailed descriptions of different policy contexts. The contributions discuss specific public initiatives, such as the New European Bauhaus, and general approaches to public sector innovation, like public sector innovation labs, thus ranging from highly contextualized to general views. Further, the works presented expand “design for policy” with perspectives emphasizing co-design, public service design, public organizations' …
Design Sketching And Visualization, Futures & Research,
2024
Brigham Young University, United States of America
Design Sketching And Visualization, Futures & Research, Bryan Howell, Janwillem Hofftjzer, Mauricio Novoa Munoz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design sketching in analogue, tablet, and immersive technologies, combined with artificial intelligence, is rapidly evolving and is primed for reinterpretation and further contextualisation. Discussions about analogue and digital sketching, live and online education, traditional and emerging visual contexts, generative and explanatory visual knowledge, emerging technology and methods, and the visual power and speed of sketching with artificial intelligence have seeded the ground to reassess our relationships with the role of sketching, and visual knowledge. The “Design Sketching and Visualization, Futures & Research” track welcomes visual or written research papers from industry professionals and academics on three topics: 1- Analogue and …
Designing Resilient Food Futures: Food Commons, Transitions, And Sovereignty,
2024
Riverlife Pittsburgh, USA
Designing Resilient Food Futures: Food Commons, Transitions, And Sovereignty, Chun Zheng, Francis Carter
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design researchers and practitioners, please join us to explore the transformative potential of design in shaping sustainable and equitable food futures! In the face of pressing challenges within our current food systems, including waste, resource depletion, inequitable access, and cultural erosion, conventional and commodified food models have demonstrated their inadequacy. However, the rise of food-based movements like food commons, food transitions, and food sovereignty has sparked a renaissance in the design community, inspiring a collective commitment to co-creating resilient and regenerative global food landscapes. Food commons, transitions, and sovereignty encompass community and cultural-based knowledge of food resources, production, management, systematic …
Designing (For) Transitions And Transformations: Imagination, Climate Futures, And Everyday Lives,
2024
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Designing (For) Transitions And Transformations: Imagination, Climate Futures, And Everyday Lives, Femke Coops, Dan Lockton, İdil Gaziulusoy, Cameron Tonkinwise, Joanna Boehnert, Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Anja Overdiek, Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Alma Leora Leora Culén, Silvana Juri
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The urgency of crises in planetary health—climate, biodiversity loss, inequality, and others—has made design’s role in transformative change ever-more important in the pursuit of sustainable, just and resilient futures. Arising from distinct disciplinary traditions within academia, design, futures, transitions, sustainability science and allied approaches (with their own norms, frameworks, and methods) are increasingly converging. Emerging from this space are new configurations and integrations, especially in practical applications where policymakers, communities, businesses, and new forms of organisation are engaging with challenges we face—often situated and local, but interdependent within complex systems of society and the environment. In design research, approaches such …
How Do You Sound Design? Articulating Experiences And Cultures Via Listening,
2024
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
How Do You Sound Design? Articulating Experiences And Cultures Via Listening, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan, Daniel Hug, Sara Lenzi, Sandra Pauletto, Davide Rocchesso, Simone Spagnol
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The SIG on Sound-Driven Design invites researchers and practitioners to delve into the multifaceted nature of sound, unraveling its physical, perceptual, emotional, and socio-technological dimensions, and contribute to the discovery and development of design methods and tools. In the sound-driven perspective, listening emerges as element that adds depth and richness to the design space, adding to the role of the senses in the experience of the form quality of products, services, and systems. We propose to reflect on the holistic and inclusive character of “sound-driven” as it combines the diverse sonic, experiential, technical, and cultural manifestations of sound with the …
Pluriversal Design As A Paradigm,
2024
Cornell University, USA
Pluriversal Design As A Paradigm, Renata M. Leitao, Lesley-Ann Noel, Maria Rogal, Nicholas B. Torretta, Juan Montalvan, Sucharita Beniwal, Mariana Fonseca Braga, Dimeji Onafuwa, Maria Cristina Ibarra
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The concept of the Pluriverse refers to a world where many worlds fit. But what is pluriversal design? While it has been used as a synonym for initiatives around diversity, equity, and inclusion, this track argues that pluriversal frameworks represent a distinct paradigm — in contrast with the universal design paradigm. These two paradigms, while important in their own right, deal with diversity and plurality in fundamentally different ways. The term ‘universal’ is grounded in the belief that we all live in one single world, with one right (or “developed”) way to live, with a dominant narrative in which the …
