Harmonizing With Nature: Unpacking The Neurophysiological Impacts Of Biophilic Sound In Virtual Classroom Design,
2024
The Catholic University of Korea, Republic of Korea
Harmonizing With Nature: Unpacking The Neurophysiological Impacts Of Biophilic Sound In Virtual Classroom Design, Nayeon Kim, John S. Gero, Dawoon Jung
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper presents the results of an experiment on the effects of biophilic sound on electroencephalography (EEG) activations by comparing two virtual classroom designs: one non-biophilic and one biophilic. The results reveal significant inter-hemispheric interactions in theta, alpha, and gamma frequency bands. The presence of biophilic sound in conjunction with other biophilic elements decreases beta power, compared to its absence. These findings underscore the influence of auditory biophilic experiences on neurophysiological responses, providing insights for evidence-based design strategies to enhance biophilic environments.
Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making,
2024
Pratt Institute, United States of America
Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design researchers have previously sought to describe, model, and represent the cognitive processes of designers. In parallel, researchers in HCI and STS have identified a range of frameworks to describe the ethical and value-related char-acter of design activity. We have identified a productive gap between these two sets of literature—namely, the role of analytic methods in describing ethical de-cision-making as one aspect of design complexity. In this paper, we describe and explore an approach for quantifying the ethical character of design decision-making, building upon existing critical approaches from HCI and STS literature. Through a series of visualizations at varying temporal …
Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing,
2024
Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal
Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Disabled people, from younger to older adults, are at comparative disadvantage regarding work. Design for inclusion at work tends to focus on individual adaptations (often stigmatising) or general accessibility guidelines (often insufficient). Furthermore, there is a tendency to focus on inability rather than on extreme abilities, which seem to be the ones enabling workers to appropriate existing products and create their own designs. Therefore, design research requires more input from diverse workers as users to inform the design inclusive industrial workstations. Departing from theory and ending with analyses of workers' designs, this paper argues that the articulation of the concept …
Grand Narratives Of Value And Their Relationship With Design,
2024
The University of Sydney, Australia
Grand Narratives Of Value And Their Relationship With Design, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn
DRS Biennial Conference Series
We all use value speak in our everyday conversations. Within the field of design, the implications of value are even more integral: we expose and negotiate value in order to create “desirable” experiences and avoid “bad” products, and our respective ideas of value guide our actions and judgements of what is “worthwhile” or “important”. Yet despite its prevalence, our understanding of each respective value referent is often ambiguous and subjective. In this research, we examine three grand narratives of value and ascertain how each representation relates to design. We argue that the strengths and limitations inherent in theories of sociological, …
Customer-Centric Luxury Fashion Store Experiences: A Case Study Approach,
2024
London College of Fashion, UAL, United Kingdom
Customer-Centric Luxury Fashion Store Experiences: A Case Study Approach, Bethan Alexander, Holly Rose Thompson
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores current approaches to customer-centric experiential strate-gies in a luxury fashion context, through an analysis of two UK luxury retailer case studies: Anya Hindmarch and MatchesFashion. While earlier studies have shown the importance of the physical luxury store, emphasis on customer experience (CX) and aspects related to service interactions that lead to pleasurable experi-ences remain nascent. Underpinned by interrelated theoretical constructs – cus-tomer experience, store atmospherics and retail design – and taking an explora-tory, qualitative approach (including documents, expert interviews and store ob-servation), the research promulgates the dimensions comprising customer-centric physical store experiences in luxury fashion. In doing …
Designing 3d Printed Ceramics From A Clay With Tunable Shrinkage,
2024
Derpartment of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, United States of America
Designing 3d Printed Ceramics From A Clay With Tunable Shrinkage, Fiona Bell, Erin Mcclure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, Leah Buechley
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Clay 3D printing is a rapidly growing hybrid craft practice in which physical ceramic artifacts are designed and fabricated with digital technologies. In this work, we bring attention to the material element of this hybrid practice by presenting a collection of 3D printable clay materials with tunable shrinkage called clay-dough. Clay-dough materials are made up of varying ratios of stoneware clay to bio-based dough. As we fire these materials in a kiln, the dough burns away, resulting in the remaining clay shrinking dramatically as it chemically transitions into a ceramic. We leverage our ability to control the shrinkage properties of …
A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education,
2024
Offenburg University, Rapid Prototyping Lab, Germany
A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The modern world of design is one of constant change and technological progress. One emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the design is additive manufacturing. This innovative technology challenges existing manufacturing processes to reflect and enable the efficient production of complex and customized objects through reimagination. Design education for additive manufacturing plays a crucial role in educating future designers to resist the adherence to conventional processes and to promote the recovery of innovative thinking. Therefore, it is significant to explore the integration of this emerging technology in academic education and identify the associated chances and challenges to ensure …
Anticolonial Prospects For Overcoming The Coloniality Of Making In Design,
2024
Loughborough University London, United Kingdom
Anticolonial Prospects For Overcoming The Coloniality Of Making In Design, Carmem Saito, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Frederick Van Amstel
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design has been instrumental in preserving the coloniality of making – a set of ideological, cultural, political, market and relational processes that operate to identify, categorise and hierarchise different making practices that benefit the metropolises at globalised production structures. This paper presents a theoretical examination of the coloniality of making based on the anticolonial scholarship of the Design & Oppression Network. The examination proceeds with three prospective studies to overcome this form of coloniality in fashion, interaction, and graphic design. The first part of each study denounces how design reproduces the hierarchy between intellectual and manual labour and justifies class, …
“Bejay (Water) Is Our Sister”: Wearable Speculations To Entangle Collectively.,
2024
Aalto University, Universidad de Los Andes
“Bejay (Water) Is Our Sister”: Wearable Speculations To Entangle Collectively., Andrea Botero, Eliana Sanchez-Aldana, Alexandra Cuaran Jamioy, Susana Patricia Chicunque Agreda
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Inspired by the feeling-thinking-making of the tšombiach, a traditional belt or sash woven by the Kamëntŝa people (authors 2023) this paper explores the potential of a collection of wearable speculations to entangle collectively in matters of care (Puig de la Bella Casa 2017) relating to water in a territory. Through five speculative, hand-woven garments we (2 Kamëntŝa and 2 sn̈ená/foreign women) open dialogues on how wrapping/involving, in a tšombiach logic, can be a practice of care: of the body and of the territory. The pieces are speculative in the sense that they are not actual garments, nor are they tšombiachs, …
Transforming Food Waste Into Natural Pigments: Raising Community School Awareness Of Food Waste Recycling Opportunities Through Co-Design Methods,
2024
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States of America
Transforming Food Waste Into Natural Pigments: Raising Community School Awareness Of Food Waste Recycling Opportunities Through Co-Design Methods, Yoon Jung Choi, Hiromi Okumura, Brook Kennedy, Chang Hee Lee, Avery Gendell
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In a world grappling with ongoing food scarcity, the issue of food waste in US school cafeterias remains a pressing concern, often without sufficient attention given to recycling. School communities play a pivotal role in shaping behaviors, as individuals are significantly influenced by their peers' actions and opinions, making them more open to positive reinforcement. This research explores design opportunity to raise awareness and encourage food waste recycling behaviors through a co-design approach. Students are invited to participate in the interactive exhibitions, where they learn and provide feedback about the pigment-making process from food waste using a toolkit for art …
Design Terroir: An Eco-Social, Relational, Bioregional Approach To Design,
2024
Chair for Biohybrid Architecture, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
Design Terroir: An Eco-Social, Relational, Bioregional Approach To Design, Adrien Rigobello, Joshua David Evans
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design practices grounded in the modernist yearning for universalism have often been oblivious to forms of local knowledge, and the situated webs of relations, among humans and with other species, they emerge from. In response to the destructive effects of this inattention, growing research has established that ecology and society must be considered together to ensure fair and resilient development. Here, we develop the concept of ‘design terroir’ to describe existing forms of eco-social design and help designers theorise and realise work that contributes to a relational bioregionalist approach. To inform this description, we extend considerations within the food domain …
Rethinking Design: Prototyping Sustainable Futures In Everyday Life,
2024
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rethinking Design: Prototyping Sustainable Futures In Everyday Life, Mia Hesselgren, Sara Ilstedt, Martin Sjöman
DRS Biennial Conference Series
To support sustainability transitions, several different design approaches are required. In a series of Designerly Living Labs, we have prototyped possible sustainable futures in the context of people’s everyday lives to explore the complexities of lifestyle changes and socio-technical system shifts. Together with us-ers engaged as reflexive co-researchers, we have explored potential new practices and uncovered system-level tensions and deficiencies. System changes have been initiated by engaging relevant actors in learning processes and by bridging learning to decision-makers. However, the approach requires some rethinking of design as a practice. Instead of supporting people’s current needs and lifestyles, we design for …
Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin,
2024
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Product-Service Digital Twins are an emerging field about which little information is available. To overcome this deficit personas were utilized to elicit domain and user information requirements. As no user data exists for this domain, persona profiles were developed for the domain based on types of decision maker. Control task analysis was applied to the personas as a means of applying a people-centered approach to information gathering. A description is provided of how the control task analysis methodology is modified for use with the personas. Examples of the personas developed and the information gathered are given. This approach is shown …
Exploring Travel Demands In Vertical Cities: A Collaborative Design And User Behavior Experiment Using Minecraft,
2024
Shanghai International College of Design and Innovation, TongJi University
Exploring Travel Demands In Vertical Cities: A Collaborative Design And User Behavior Experiment Using Minecraft, Mengshi Yang, Ruochen Hu, Tanhao Gao, Hongtao Zhou
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The rapid expansion of modern cities has created an urgent need to explore innovative approaches to development to address sustainability challenges. Vertical cities are one of the potential solutions to optimize the lives of residents by using space efficiently and introducing advanced transportation. Leveraging Minecraft's multiplayer online game, we constructed a prototype multi-level city and conducted a behavioral simulation experiment. In this experiment, 30 participants devoted over 5,000 hours to creation, experience, and observation. This study investigates the viability of Minecraft as a collaborative design and behavioral research platform, focusing on constructing vertical cities and exploring their travel needs. It …
Designing With The Challenges Of The Anthropocene,
2024
University of Vale dos Sinos, Brazil
Designing With The Challenges Of The Anthropocene, Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer, Carl Disalvo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Anthropocene is a concept that has been stimulating several initiatives among theorists and practitioners in Design. This paper explores how Design has been coping with this concept. It builds from a literature review to elaborate three challenges with themes related to the Anthropocene. They are: unsettling Modernity; noticing neglected multiplicity and creating new imaginaries. We share 12 projects related to these challenges were selected. The projects were analyzed considering how they address the theme they were attached to, and how they elaborate tactics and mechanisms to cope with the challenges. Based on such analyzes, the paper presents a matrix …
Fostering Pluriversal Perspectives In Theory Of Change: A Case Of An Urban Regeneration Project,
2024
Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
Fostering Pluriversal Perspectives In Theory Of Change: A Case Of An Urban Regeneration Project, Hadas Zohar, Luca Simeone, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper chronicles how we used a Theory of Change visual map to support pluriversal perspectives in urban regeneration projects. The map was tested in four cities under regeneration as part of the T-Factor project. Unlike most Theory of Change maps, it supported city stakeholders in three main aspects: 1) planning interventions to operate within multiple time horizons, 2) considering multiple actors, both human and non-human, in the decision-making process, and 3) reflecting on planned interventions to ensure a long-term impact beyond project scope. In addition, the Theory of Change map led towards a new approach for portfolio-based interventions in …
Is Pen-To-Paper The Buggy Whip Of Design? Assessing The Use Of Ai Tools For Design Sketching,
2024
University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Is Pen-To-Paper The Buggy Whip Of Design? Assessing The Use Of Ai Tools For Design Sketching, Alexander “Freddie” Holliman, Ross Brisco
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Sketching is quick and effective, however with the advent of generative AI, do the current generation of novice designers have an alternative? This paper compares the use of sketching and text-to-image generative AI tools to produce initial concept images (“sketches”) by novice designers. This will identify the viability and potential adoption of AI as a replacement, and gauge the adoption willingness of novice designers, replacing sketching. This study compares conventional sketching and AI image generation using first year product design students to record brainstormed initial concepts using both sketching and generative AI tools, this study compares various attributes of both, …
Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy,
2024
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Futures thinking, and doing, has been the domain of the privileged majority for centuries. The very idea of ‘the future’ (singular) was fundamental to the crea-tion and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity. To this day, mainstream media readily emits the narrow and repetitive science fic-tion tropes void of (realistic, fair) representation of a wider inclusive society, specifically absent of queerness. This paper builds on the work of Alexis Lothian’s ‘Old Futures: speculative fiction and queer possibility’ in which she explores the forces queer people (and other marginalised communities) invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way …
How Can We Measure Human Cognition And Emotion For Human Centric Design In Interior Urban Spaces?,
2024
The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)
How Can We Measure Human Cognition And Emotion For Human Centric Design In Interior Urban Spaces?, Hee Sun Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Wang Zhang, Tian Cheng, Saijal Sharma
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Understanding the impact on individuals and the socio-psychological effects of residing in continuously developed high-rise and densely populated urban areas is a crucial part of assessing the quality of interior spaces, particularly in how this may feed into a human-centred urban design process. This research offers a novel, neuro-scientific research approach using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to establish a connection between emotions and the spatial conditions of urban environments. The study utilises data collected through fMRI to shed light on the intricate relationship between urban design and psychological well-being, underscoring the value of incorporating neuroscientific approaches into urban studies. …
Future In Place: Participatory Future Scenario Planning For Place-Based Local Policymaking,
2024
Lancaster University, Management School, United Kingdom.
Future In Place: Participatory Future Scenario Planning For Place-Based Local Policymaking, Radka Newton, Jekaterina Rindt, Mirian Calvo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
An increasing body of evidence suggests that the global emergence of Policy Innovation Labs over the last twenty years has marked a significant milestone in promoting-facilitating design-driven innovation in policymaking. However, the challenges associated with confining design expertise to the periphery of labs, and the focus of Policy Innovation Labs on national government, leaves regional and local policymaking in the trenches of legacy systems, processes, and skills. This limitation is problematic as it hinders the adaptation of local policies to address the unique challenges they face. Learning from, and moving beyond Policy Innovation Labs (considering their low cost-effectiveness), this paper …
