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A Recommender System Against Social Media Addiction Among Adolescents, Adrian Rafael Dc. Bernandino, Karl Dominic L. Rodrigo, Shirley B. Chu
A Recommender System Against Social Media Addiction Among Adolescents, Adrian Rafael Dc. Bernandino, Karl Dominic L. Rodrigo, Shirley B. Chu
DLSU Senior High School Research Congress
Social media is a dominant and an ever-expanding platform for social interaction and communication. In its popularity, Social Media Addiction (SMA) emerged as an unintended consequence, affecting a handful of users. Recommender Systems (RS) have been proven to be useful in domains such as health and alcoholism prevention. This study develops a prototype RS against SMA using a user’s personality dimensions and status of SMA. The prototype used a user-based collaborative filtering (CF) approach in recommending items. The prototype will also undergo an evaluation phase but this will not be included in the scope of this paper. The RS prototype …
Mobile Interfaces For Caregivers And Older Adults: Iterative Design Of The Lifetomorrow Ecosystem With Aesthetic And Functional Considerations, Matthew Charles Milton, Céline Madeleine Aldenhoven, Chaiwoo Lee, Lisa D'Ambrosio, Elisabeth André, Joseph Coughlin
Mobile Interfaces For Caregivers And Older Adults: Iterative Design Of The Lifetomorrow Ecosystem With Aesthetic And Functional Considerations, Matthew Charles Milton, Céline Madeleine Aldenhoven, Chaiwoo Lee, Lisa D'Ambrosio, Elisabeth André, Joseph Coughlin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
As the population of older adults increases, so does the demand for technology that supports caregiving and aging in place. Smart home technology, wearable health trackers, and mobile applications have all been identified as possible methods of support. Studies on the user interfaces of these technologies have predominantly explored how well their features and functions address the complex needs of older adults and caregivers. However, many of these applications lack adequate consideration of visual design principles and aesthetics. The present study aims to illustrate the iterative design process of the LifeTomorrow Ecosystem which includes two applications: one for caregivers and …
Towards Active Aging: Investigating Innovations Within Intelligent Communities, Gabriela Branco, Manuela Quaresma
Towards Active Aging: Investigating Innovations Within Intelligent Communities, Gabriela Branco, Manuela Quaresma
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Intelligent communities can nurture environments conducive to fostering positive and meaningful relationships among the elderly. This systematic literature review examines the role of these communities in the aging population’s social relations. Through the review of studies and interventions via the Scopus database, we investigate how some innovative approaches are positively impacting the quality of life for the elderly. We identified examples of initiatives, technological solutions, and a social project successfully implemented in communities to strengthen older adult support networks. The contributions of this article lie in providing a comprehensive view of how smart technologies are shaping support for the senior …
A Participatory Approach To Healthcare Service Improvement Focused On Staff Behavior Change, Fernando Carvalho, Val Mitchell, Gyuchan Thomas Jun
A Participatory Approach To Healthcare Service Improvement Focused On Staff Behavior Change, Fernando Carvalho, Val Mitchell, Gyuchan Thomas Jun
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Healthcare systems are complex social systems wherein improvements related to staff practice and behavior can be difficult to implement. Knowledge and practice can be uneven between various specializations, hierarchical imbalances limit the degree of agency of different professionals, and evidence-based guidelines may be interpreted or implemented according to context-specific factors. When changes are imposed from a top-down perspective, invaluable insight and know-how from frontline staff are usually left out, making it further difficult (if not altogether impractical) to implement interventions. The current paper presents a case study focused on improving urinary tract infection diagnosis and treatment, in the emergency department …
Participatory Design Research, Documenting The Experience Of Gainesville Local Drag Performers., Gilberto Corona
Participatory Design Research, Documenting The Experience Of Gainesville Local Drag Performers., Gilberto Corona
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This case study documents the process of research, identification, and co-creation —with members of the drag community— a visual ethnography of Gainesville's drag culture. This study documented drag performance as an integral element of public-facing queer communities and took place during 2021 and 2022. Drag GNV aim is to contextualize the importance and nuance of drag as an activity supporting LGBTQ+ individuals and communities and as a publicly visible format for sharing elements of LGBTQ+ community identity with broader audiences. This research focused on conversations with the queer community (performers and allies) and centered reflections on drag venues as safe …
Product Creative Content Generation Based On Speech Recognition In E-Commerce, Haoran Wei, Yixiao Jin, Huawen Wang, Weiqiang Xiao, Jiawen Shi, Chunlei Chai
Product Creative Content Generation Based On Speech Recognition In E-Commerce, Haoran Wei, Yixiao Jin, Huawen Wang, Weiqiang Xiao, Jiawen Shi, Chunlei Chai
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Electronic commerce has significantly transformed the modern economy, efficiently connecting production and consumption while altering people's consumption patterns. While artificial intelligence has found extensive application in creative production, its application in creating innovative content for e-commerce is still in its early stages. The progressively refined e-commerce industry demands a significant amount of creative content to attract consumers, thus increasing the demand for designers and further elevating the operational costs for businesses. This paper focuses on creating creative content for products in an e-commerce context. It proposes a design paradigm integrating speech recognition and image generation technology, supplementing existing design theories …
Imagination Meets Algorithm: Redefining Design Practices In The Coming Ai Age, Mario Ciaramitaro, Pietro Costa
Imagination Meets Algorithm: Redefining Design Practices In The Coming Ai Age, Mario Ciaramitaro, Pietro Costa
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The summer of 2022 marked the advent of accessible text-to-image tools, revolutionizing image rendering with distinctive styles swiftly. This generated a creative shift among designers, generally addressed as “prompt design”, although this expression scarcely captures the profound interaction between design and digital tools. This paper elucidates the potential synergy between designers and AI through two pragmatic exercises engaged by university students. Our approaches were polarized: in one exercise we fostered a rich imaginative process before the text-to-image creation; secondly we asked students to elaborate a possible user interface over an artifact drawn by AI, following a very simple textual description. …
Urban And Peri-Urban Food Systems: Exploring Proximity And Care In Alternative Food Networks, Marta Corubolo, Daniela De Sainz Molestina, Anna Meroni, Lucia Viganego Ballesteros
Urban And Peri-Urban Food Systems: Exploring Proximity And Care In Alternative Food Networks, Marta Corubolo, Daniela De Sainz Molestina, Anna Meroni, Lucia Viganego Ballesteros
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Basing on the European and Milanese context, the paper develops and presents a preliminary reflection on urban food systems, specifically related to local Alternative Food Networks (ANFs) and how their relational and geographical proximity, that might facilitate or prevent forms of care through collaboration. The authors introduce the Food System Matrix that analyses 16 case studies to investigate the main issues connected to the territorial scope and the purpose of the selected cases. Finally, the paper proposes the concepts of 'proximity' and 'care' as a framework for understanding systemic and sustainable change in food-related services, emphasizing relationships, inclusiveness, and resilience. …
Utilising Sharing Economy To Address Impact-Centred Approach In Design Education, Aslı Günay, Sedef Süner-Pla-Cerdà
Utilising Sharing Economy To Address Impact-Centred Approach In Design Education, Aslı Günay, Sedef Süner-Pla-Cerdà
DRS Biennial Conference Series
To confront the growing uncertainties and challenges on a global scale through design, this paper recommends using the sharing culture as a starting point. It establishes a connection between the sharing economy and impact-centred design by examining the components and scope of the sharing economy in existing literature. Exploring how this framework can be integrated into design education, the paper offers a comprehensive account of a course on impact-centred design, grounded on sharing economy. Throughout four years, this framework was applied to explore design solutions for addressing themes related to crisis response, disaster management, and collaborative consumption. We provide methods …
Relationality In Design: What Can Be Understood?, Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
Relationality In Design: What Can Be Understood?, Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper addresses the inclusion of relationality as a concept in design. Relational-ity is primarily brought into design from adjacent disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, where the concept helps understand aspects of kinship, care, and belonging. The concept is also infused with elements of associative thinking. The paper narratively reviews examples of relationality in literature from design-related scholarly discourse. The literature sample covers papers addressing relationality through case studies or conceptual calls for practice change. The results from this review provide three understandings of relationality: 1) The utilitarian that unpacks social relations as an epistemic and functional source …
Hybrid Ecologies Of Artificial Intelligence: Prototyping Terrestrial Practices Through A Design Installation, Martin Tironi, Manuela Garretón
Hybrid Ecologies Of Artificial Intelligence: Prototyping Terrestrial Practices Through A Design Installation, Martin Tironi, Manuela Garretón
DRS Biennial Conference Series
If AI is usually represented as an immaterial and deterritorialized agency, this paper seeks to rematerialize the development of this technology, making visible water consumption in AI model generation. Drawing on studies of post-anthropocentric design and the notion of more-than-human interdependencies, we describe Hybrid Ecologies, an installation that problematizes the relationship between AI and the more-than-human agency of water. The installation is a design exploration to overcome the dichotomy between nature and technology, evidencing how AI inhabits a hybrid ecology, made of interdependent relationships between human agencies and terrestrial ecosystems. We try to move the reflection on AI from a …
Learning In Place: Reimagining Design Practice As Ecological Literacy, Nick Logler
Learning In Place: Reimagining Design Practice As Ecological Literacy, Nick Logler
DRS Biennial Conference Series
What does it mean to practice design in a world without human beings at its center? How can designers take meaningful action in a world in crisis? In this paper, I present initial findings from an experimental month-long immersion in a place humans and more-than-humans meet—a coastal wildlife refuge in the northeastern United States. I report on my experience in the field (notes, observations, and photos), reflections on my trajectory as a designer and researcher in the refuge, my evolving understanding of what it means to design with a more-than-human lens, and how my search for meaningful action led me …
Eye-Tracking: Understanding The Why Behind Shopping Behavior, Katelijn Quartier, Charlotte Beckers
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 …
An Alternative Design Ethics Of Otherness-Centered: Caring For Intelligent Artifacts, Li Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Yujia Liu
An Alternative Design Ethics Of Otherness-Centered: Caring For Intelligent Artifacts, Li Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Yujia Liu
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The advent of emerging technologies has introduced intelligent artifacts as distinctive moral agents. While care ethics has expanded to include animals, ecology, and public policy, it remains silent on the ethical dimensions of caring for intelligent artifacts. Intelligent artifacts and their digital remnants highlight uncertainties in the human-machine relationship and accentuate the "otherness" of objects. Given the inherent "otherness" of objects, there is a clear need to clarify this new ethical relationship between humans and objects. This paper advocates for otherness-centered design ethics, an extension of traditional care ethics to incorporate intelligent artifacts as non-human Others. Based on object-turn ethics, …
Expanding Participatory Design: Reflections On Current Epistemological Framework In Dark Time, Zi Yang, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Xinzhe Zhao
Expanding Participatory Design: Reflections On Current Epistemological Framework In Dark Time, Zi Yang, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Xinzhe Zhao
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Participatory design is a quintessential representation of human-centeredness. The recent climate crisis and threats to survival have pushed designers to consider the well-being of non-human entities. Many designers have already attempted to incorporate non-human entities (including animals, forests, and rivers) into the design process. They have strived to refine and readjust design thinking and practice within the participatory design framework. However, most practices resemble the 'pseudo-participation' of human subjective imagination. This study raises ethical and ontological epistemological issues based on Latour's profound philosophical insights. Specifically, in the case of non-human entities participating in our future becoming, how will the role …
Bridging The Gap: Data-Driven Design For Smart Cities, Raquel Corrêa Cordeiro, Manuela Rupp Quaresma
Bridging The Gap: Data-Driven Design For Smart Cities, Raquel Corrêa Cordeiro, Manuela Rupp Quaresma
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The concept of smart cities encompasses not just technological advancement but also citizen well-being and sustainability. However, the increasing data availability often leads to a technology-centric focus, neglecting integration with citizen participation. The design could bridge this gap by facilitating data translation and accessibility. Therefore, this study aimed to test a process for co-analyzing mixed data through collaborative activities and data visualization tools, immersing participants in the impact of weather on urban mobility. The data sources included quantitative data from the transport providers, social networks, and qualitative data from a diary study. The process revealed significant potential, with participants reporting …
Towards Empowering Cohousing Communities: Finding Balance With A Group Of Users-Clients Throughout The Architectural Process, Audrey Mertens, Louise Coniasse, Catherine Elsen
Towards Empowering Cohousing Communities: Finding Balance With A Group Of Users-Clients Throughout The Architectural Process, Audrey Mertens, Louise Coniasse, Catherine Elsen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores the evolving role of architects in cohousing projects in response to environmental, economic, and social challenges. This research incorporates insights from semi-structured interviews in three Belgian case studies. The foundations and values of cohousing communities are tackled, highlighting shifts in architects' roles and challenges in working with groups of user-clients. In these cohousing processes, we found that the representatives of these user-client groups may not always share the full breadth of their negotiations with architects. Architects seem to miss out on some of the nuances, and some participants found that this approach left their voices unheard. Amidst …
Chatgpt: Mediating Complex Design Processes, Alma Leora Culén, Amela Karahasanovic, Joseph Makokha, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Yangyang Zhao
Chatgpt: Mediating Complex Design Processes, Alma Leora Culén, Amela Karahasanovic, Joseph Makokha, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Yangyang Zhao
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This study explores the integration of ChatGPT as a facilitative tool in complex design processes within a project-based Transformative Design course. Student teams collaborated with external partners on projects concerning democratization of trading, democratization of local manufacturing processes, and promoting social inclusion. The inquiry observed if ChatGPT positively contributes to such processes and, if so, in what ways. We focused on its impact on teamwork, creativity, and informed decision-making. Data collection involved recording design sessions with automatic transcription, conversation logs from ChatGPT, semi-structured team interviews, observations and an anonymized questionnaire. Our findings point to ChatGPT’s ability to offer better assistance …
Designing [The, With, Against] Sound [For]: Towards A Semantic-Oriented Coding Scheme For Protocol Studies In Sound-Driven Design, Stefano Delle Monache, Elif Özcan, Nicolas Misdariis
Designing [The, With, Against] Sound [For]: Towards A Semantic-Oriented Coding Scheme For Protocol Studies In Sound-Driven Design, Stefano Delle Monache, Elif Özcan, Nicolas Misdariis
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Sound-driven design is a collaborative and multidisciplinary design activity which uses sound as catalyst of the design approach. We present a semantic-oriented methodology and coding system to capture the diversity of sound-driven concepts that support the design process. We evaluate the methodology in a protocol study of a design team, composed of one sound designer, one acoustic engineer, one designer, and one expert user, engaged in exploring the listening dimension in the caregiving experience. We use linkographic analysis to integrate and evaluate our coding scheme. The methodology proves to be effective in revealing the semantic models of the participants and …
More-Than-Human Design In Practice, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Cristina Zaga, Arne Berger, Laura Forlano, Elisa Giaccardi
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 …
Co-Design Towards Positive Change, Gubing Wang, Haiou Zhu
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 …
Envisioning Transformation Structures To Support Ethical Mediation Practices, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray
Envisioning Transformation Structures To Support Ethical Mediation Practices, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Ethics is complex and situated, involving many stakeholders that impact the design of technology systems. Numerous methods and tools have been proposed to enable practitioners to address ethical issues in the workplace. However, little work has described how designers themselves understand and seek to respond to that ethical complexity. In this short paper, we present five transformation structures that visually and relationally depict how ethics might be addressed in a workplace setting. We base these structures on analysis of plans that 39 practitioners and students created in a co-design workshop to address an ethical concern in their job role. We …
Grand Narratives Of Value And Their Relationship With Design, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn
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, …
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
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 …
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
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 …
Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray
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 …
Developing A Tool To Empower The Disempowered: The Components Of The Feeling Of Home, Eszter Hegymegi, Victoria Haines, Rebecca Cain, Antonia Liguori
Developing A Tool To Empower The Disempowered: The Components Of The Feeling Of Home, Eszter Hegymegi, Victoria Haines, Rebecca Cain, Antonia Liguori
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The rate of homelessness is rising, resulting in a need for better-designed services to support those affected. Building on the sector's acknowledgement that personalised support is needed to reverse this trend and based on the psychological concept of the emotional home, we propose a tool that helps those experiencing housing issues feel empowered to better express their housing needs to support teams. The tool breaks down the complex concept of 'home' into tangible components of the feeling of home, developed through qualitative studies. Here, we discuss the process of working in partnership with a local charitable service provider to refine …
Ai-Designed Creative Products: Consumption, Creativity, And Consumer Value, Luo Wang, Xinrui Zhang, Tie Ji
Ai-Designed Creative Products: Consumption, Creativity, And Consumer Value, Luo Wang, Xinrui Zhang, Tie Ji
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely employed to empower creative industries. Many enterprises have adopted AI to design creative products (CPs). This study investigates the determinants of purchase behavior and consumer attitudes towards AI-design CPs. Two studies were conducted. Study 1, with 764 participants, aims to determine if consumers have a positive view of AI design. Results indicate recognition of AI's creative abilities, with the designer's identity significantly affecting creativity evaluation. Study 2, based on 328 surveys, explores consumer evaluations of AI-designed products, purchase intentions, and attitudes. The result indicates that the impact of social relationship value on consumer purchase intention …
Exploring The Role Of Design In The New Product Development Process Towards Circular Business Innovation: Systematic Literature Review And Future Directions, Benedetta Rotondo, Venanzio Arquilla
Exploring The Role Of Design In The New Product Development Process Towards Circular Business Innovation: Systematic Literature Review And Future Directions, Benedetta Rotondo, Venanzio Arquilla
DRS Biennial Conference Series
To safeguard our planet from the threats of resource depletion, pollution and climate change, a fundamental change in our production, consumption and lifestyle choices is required. Companies and designers play a central role in this transformation and are called to action by implementing New Product Development (NPD) processes for sustainable innovation. This systematic literature review investigates the intersection between product design, new product development process and sustainability, addressing critical questions: How does design influence the NPD process, driving companies towards circular innovation? What circular design practices have been integrated into NPD processes and how? The study provides a comprehensive examination …
Proximity-Based Urban Planning Models As The Inter-Face Between Governments And Makers, Designers, And Citizens Towards Distributed Economies, Massimo Menichinelli, Luca D'Elia, Silvia D'Ambrosio, Carla Sedini
Proximity-Based Urban Planning Models As The Inter-Face Between Governments And Makers, Designers, And Citizens Towards Distributed Economies, Massimo Menichinelli, Luca D'Elia, Silvia D'Ambrosio, Carla Sedini
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Standard urban planning models are nowadays being redefined with a renewed focus on reducing mobility times: proximity, walkability, self-sufficiency. Recon-figuring how cities, their flows, and services are organized also requires designers and citizens, with a potential role for the Maker Movement and Distributed Economies. We focus here on how urban creative communities and maker labor-atories could become public empowerment services by, for and with citizens within proximity of urban planning models. We propose a framework for such Proximity-based Making and Community Services based on 1) defining them as connecting makers, designers, citizens, and maker laboratories, 2) via digital technologies network …