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Beauty Or Brains, Cautious Or Courageous? Gender And Power In Online Visual Designs, Nina Lysbakken
Beauty Or Brains, Cautious Or Courageous? Gender And Power In Online Visual Designs, Nina Lysbakken
Nordes Conference Series
Gendered visual communication is a major part of contemporary, mediated discourse, yet these expressions are seldom reflected upon from a designers' perspective. Whose voices are empowered in tabloid newspapers and gendered magazines? In what ways can we express gender? In this visual essay, I provide an auto-ethnographic perspective, and use personal reflections and visualisations to show a process of deconstructing, shaping and encoding gendered expressions on mobile platforms from my point of view, as a designer and a woman. The essay contributes to research writing methodologies, by questioning conventional ways in which scholarly research is presented. I draw on concepts …
Futures Speculations On Time, Design And Thinking, Michael Haldrup
Futures Speculations On Time, Design And Thinking, Michael Haldrup
Nordes Conference Series
Currently both design thinking and critical social science experience an increased interest in speculating in alternative future scenarios. This interest is not least related to the challenges issues of global sustainability present for politics, ethics and design. This paper explores the potentials of speculative thinking in relation to design and social and cultural studies, arguing that both offer valuable insights for creating a speculative space for new emergent criticalities challenging current assumptions of the relations between power and design. It does so by tracing out discussions of ‘futurity’ and ‘futuring’ in design as well as social and cultural studies. Firstly, …
Who Wore It Best? Understanding Mediated Fashion As Design, Synne Skjulstad
Who Wore It Best? Understanding Mediated Fashion As Design, Synne Skjulstad
Nordes Conference Series
How interdisciplinary design practices intersect as a powerful communicational core in fashion is given little attention in design studies. Even as fashion design is a design domain in its own right, this paper argues that our conceptions of power in fashion need to more fully include fashion as a matter of communication design. This paper argues that power is enacted via combinations of material and immaterial articulations of design practices in fashion. Design practices are essential in shaping the tastes, styles, and desires at the heart of fashion, thus rendering fashion design as an expanded field that reaches far beyond …
Privileged Participation: Design, Allyship And Decoloniality, Dimeji Onafuwa, Joshua Bloom
Privileged Participation: Design, Allyship And Decoloniality, Dimeji Onafuwa, Joshua Bloom
Nordes Conference Series
This intensive three-hour workshop will engage participants in exploring the role of the design community in platforming allyship at the intersections of coloniality, race, and culture in contemporary society, and in light of our current sociopolitical climate.
What Is Your Critical Approach? Design, Power And Proximity, Shana Agid, Sissel Olander
What Is Your Critical Approach? Design, Power And Proximity, Shana Agid, Sissel Olander
Nordes Conference Series
This workshop explores strategies and tactics for “doing” critique in and through design research, The workshop invites design researchers from both descriptive-analytical fields and practise based and experimental fields to discuss the possibilities of critique and critical approaches in design research. The workshop invokes notions of critical distance and proximity through discussions of empirical examples provided by the organisers and participants in tandem. Participants will introduce themselves through a short, informal presentation of their work and its critical questions. Together, these case examples and questions will provide a frame for thinking about the critical capacities of descriptive-analytical and constructive design …
Mixing Up Everyday Life - Uncovering Sufficiency Practices Through Designerly Tools, Miriam Lahusen, Susanne Ritzmann, Florian Samentinger, Gesche Joost, Lars-Arvid Brischke
Mixing Up Everyday Life - Uncovering Sufficiency Practices Through Designerly Tools, Miriam Lahusen, Susanne Ritzmann, Florian Samentinger, Gesche Joost, Lars-Arvid Brischke
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Sustainability and its subsequent transformations are a global challenge. In this paper, the focus lies on demonstrating a way to break down these global issues into its micro-elements which can be dealt with in the individual’s private sphere. Everyday life has always been where practices and its inherent conflicts between ‹rational and irrational› can be rooted. Design can provide the tools to make the familiar visible and the intuitive communicable through questioning the ‹normal› and offering alternative scenarios. We add to this, that a mixture of participatory and qualitative methods can guide an investigation, producing an array of multi-faceted information. …
Towards Translation Design A New Paradigm For Design Research, Giovanni Baule
Towards Translation Design A New Paradigm For Design Research, Giovanni Baule
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In this paper we explore the concept of translation, starting from the assumption that it constitutes an essential reference for design culture. We assume that a designer (and in particular a communication designer) is a “translator”, since he realises a continuous process of mediation, transfer and re-transcription between the systems of departure and arrival. This perspective leads us to suppose that the application of the “translational paradigm” within the design domain can generate new design sensitivities and new research opportunities into language and into the processes of transferral between different supports and media. We believe that design has specific affinities …
Introduction: Objects, Practices, Experiences And Networks, Tom Fisher, Lorraine Gammanb
Introduction: Objects, Practices, Experiences And Networks, Tom Fisher, Lorraine Gammanb
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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Introduction: Design Research – History, Theory, Practice: Histories For Future - Focused Thinking, Harriet Atkinson, Maya Rae Oppenheimer
Introduction: Design Research – History, Theory, Practice: Histories For Future - Focused Thinking, Harriet Atkinson, Maya Rae Oppenheimer
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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“Dis - Course Is Killer!” Educating The Critically Reflective Designer, Veronik Kelly
“Dis - Course Is Killer!” Educating The Critically Reflective Designer, Veronik Kelly
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design practice knowledge is culturally and socially mediated, and historically situated. It is a discourse. Discourse, when conceived as a social practice, is simultaneously a method of understanding and signifying the world, a mode of acting upon the world and other persons, and also a means of transforming these operations (Fairclough, 1993). The significance of conceiving of design as a discursive practice is that it draws attention to the ways in which design knowledge is (re)produced by a particular culture and tied to human conduct. In these terms, a critical approach to analysing discourse as a social practice can be …
On Presenting A Rich Picture For Stakeholder Dialogue, Abigail C. Durrant, Wendy Moncur, David S. Kirk, Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Kathryn Orzech
On Presenting A Rich Picture For Stakeholder Dialogue, Abigail C. Durrant, Wendy Moncur, David S. Kirk, Diego Trujillo Pisanty, Kathryn Orzech
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In this paper we describe the design and use of a polyphonic picture book for engaging public sector and industry stakeholders with findings from an academic research project. The project combined interdisciplinary expertise to investigate how UK citizens create and manage online digital identities at three significant life transitions, aiming to deliver social, cultural and technical findings to inform policy- making and service innovation for enhancing digital literacy in online self- representation. The picture book communicated empirical insights through the presentation of multi-perspectival, fictional scenarios about individuals’ experiences at the life transitions studied. We deployed the book with our project …
A Case Based Discussion On The Role Of Design Competences In Social Innovation, Tamami Komatsu, Manuela Celi, Francesca Rizzo, Alessandro Deserti
A Case Based Discussion On The Role Of Design Competences In Social Innovation, Tamami Komatsu, Manuela Celi, Francesca Rizzo, Alessandro Deserti
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Thus far, many contributions in the field of design have described design’s role in the life cycle of a successful Social Innovation (SI). Design, in fact, has been proposed by many authors to be the most suitable approach to developing SI initiatives from their start-up to release. In particular, some authors have proposed Design Thinking as the best methodology for the development of new SIs; while others, promote Participatory Design as the best method to support SIs, heralding its process of collaboration, networking and coproduction. Nevertheless, many research results have demonstrated that the need to find a balance between social …
User Design : Constructions Of The “User” In The History Of Design Research, Theodora Vardouli
User Design : Constructions Of The “User” In The History Of Design Research, Theodora Vardouli
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Over the past 50 years of design research, the “user” has been consistently invoked as a measure of good design and as driver of design decisions. As scholars have variously recognized, the focus of design has in turn been displaced fromphysical objects to relationships between things/environments and their future users/occupants. In this paper I identify, compare, and critically analyse different techniques for anticipating or understanding such relationships drawing from original material produced in the context of the design methods movement, the Design Research Society (DRS), and the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). I combine this material with histories of ergonomics …
Responsibility In Design: Applying The Philosophy Of Gilbert Simondon, Sander Mulder
Responsibility In Design: Applying The Philosophy Of Gilbert Simondon, Sander Mulder
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The notion of technical mentality and transductive reasoning described by the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon is applied on a concrete design case in order to investigate responsibility and design. The design case relates to the development of a portable artificial kidney. The historic invention of the artificial kidney is woven into the philosophy of Simondon in order to mobilize his work. For designers, the risk of reduction is at stake when applying the technical mentality to domains beyond the technical such as the psycho-social. This risk can be avoided by transductive reasoning, i.e. reasoning by means of analogy, but this …
A User Centred Approach To Developing An Actionable Visualisation For ‘Balance Health’, Shruti Grover, Simon Johnson, Ross Atkin, Chris Mcginley
A User Centred Approach To Developing An Actionable Visualisation For ‘Balance Health’, Shruti Grover, Simon Johnson, Ross Atkin, Chris Mcginley
DRS Biennial Conference Series
More than a third of people over the age of 65 fall every year in the UK (Department of Health, 2009). General gait problems and weakness are amongst the most common specific precipitating causes for falls. (Rubenstein, 2006). Qualitative research conducted by the investigators (Jan - May 2014) indicates that people do not consider balance health to be an actionable component of their overall health. This is because they do not have the vocabularies or tools to objectively define it on an everyday basis. We designed an application which can be used to quantify postural sway in the home setting, …
Critically Exploring The Development Of A Conceptual Framework For Building Innovative Brands, Xinya You, David Hands
Critically Exploring The Development Of A Conceptual Framework For Building Innovative Brands, Xinya You, David Hands
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The success of today's brands increasingly relies on consumer-centred co- innovation. In this context, brands must play a role that is more proactive than their traditional one of serving as a communication tool. Based on an extensive review of the literature, this paper defines the new role of brands as a driving force for innovation and, to illustrate the potential of that new role, proposes a conceptual framework for building innovative brands that comprises the following five dimensions: (1) the command centre—the brand management team; (2) the strategic vision—the context of building innovative brands; (3) the organisational foundation—the organisation's innovation …
Design Research In The East – At Universities And The Board Of Industrial Design Of The Gdr Between The 1960s And 1990, Sylvia Wölfel, Christian Wölfel
Design Research In The East – At Universities And The Board Of Industrial Design Of The Gdr Between The 1960s And 1990, Sylvia Wölfel, Christian Wölfel
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper focuses on design research in the GDR. There, the Board of Industrial Design (Amt für industrielle Formgestaltung, AIF), a commission reporting directly to the government, promoted and subsidized design research that was adequate to the policy of the board. Besides, the (state-owned) industry, universities as well as art and design schools closely cooperated on design research projects. The economic design policy of the GDR has largely been developed in the PhD thesis of the board's head Martin Kelm, who pursued his functionalist approach to design at different levels. On the other hand, there was critique and a public …
Juxtaposing Chinese And Western Representational Principles: New Design Methods For Information Graphics In The Field Of Intercultural Communication, Ruedi Baur, Ulrike Felsing
Juxtaposing Chinese And Western Representational Principles: New Design Methods For Information Graphics In The Field Of Intercultural Communication, Ruedi Baur, Ulrike Felsing
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This article examines knowledge graphics from the Chinese and Western cultures, which, in the course of globalization, are being increasingly loosened from their original cultural references. If it is assumed that at most pictographs, but not complex graphics, are universally understandable, “visual translations” must be developed for knowledge graphics if we are to transfer them into another cultural reference system. Using the example of a widespread graphic form-the tree diagram-the research presented here will explain specific representational principles and the cultural concepts on which they are based. Here, on the visible surface, formal correlations can indeed be observed. However, if …
Data Visualisation Does Political Things, Joanna Boehnert
Data Visualisation Does Political Things, Joanna Boehnert
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In this paper I advance the theory of critical communication design by exploring the politics of data, information and knowledge visualisation in three bodies of work. Data reflects power relations, special interests and ideologies that determine which data is collected, what data is used and how it is used. In a review of Max Roser’s Our World in Data, I develop the concepts of digital positivism, datawash and darkdata. Looking at the Climaps by Emaps project, I describe how knowledge visualisation can support integrated learning on complex problems and nurture relational perception. Finally, I present my own Mapping Climate Communication …
From Nano To Macro: Material Inspiration Within Ubiquitous Computing Research, Isabel Paiva
From Nano To Macro: Material Inspiration Within Ubiquitous Computing Research, Isabel Paiva
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Technological disruption grants continuous inspiration for design innovation. In particular, current paper focuses on the emergent interaction between the fields of ubiquitous computing (U.C.) and design. The interdisciplinary character of U.C. research requires knowledge from art, design, and architecture (A.D.A.) and as such, presents opportunity for cross-fertilization and future design. Within U.C., the inquiry labelled as material turn frames a particular dialogue between nanotechnology and traditional materials. Nanotechnology opened new material avenues and has impacted methodologies of design and drives the discussion throughout this paper. In addition, the way these new technologies might address human centred design approach are considered. …
Design Tools For Enhanced New Product Development In Low Income Economies, Timothy Whitehead, Mark Evans, Guy Bingham
Design Tools For Enhanced New Product Development In Low Income Economies, Timothy Whitehead, Mark Evans, Guy Bingham
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In order to alleviate poverty throughout the World government and non‐ government organisations provide aid in the form of essential household products. These products typically include cook stoves, water filters and LED lights. However, evidence suggests that these products are not always suitable for Low Income Economies (LIEs) which has resulted in a number of high profile product failures. In response to the growing need for appropriate New Product Development (NPD), this paper presents the development of a tool to assist industrial designers create appropriate and long lasting solutions for those in poverty. Data was collected from the analysis of …
Making Sense Of Dress: On Sensory Perspectives Of Wardrobe Research, Else Skjold
Making Sense Of Dress: On Sensory Perspectives Of Wardrobe Research, Else Skjold
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
In this paper, I wish to exemplify how research on bodily experiences of dressing within research on fashion and dress research might be combined with user-oriented approaches from design research. By doing so, I wish to point my finger at the unfortunate wall between these two scholarly areas which to my mind has created a limited understanding of the connection between dress design, the body, and people's day-to-day routines of getting dressed. The case through which I wish to debate this is a wardrobe study of men in the age of 40-50 years old that I conducted in the period …
Why Making Matters: An Exploration Of Neuro- Biological Perspectives On Woodcarving, Marte S. Gulliksen
Why Making Matters: An Exploration Of Neuro- Biological Perspectives On Woodcarving, Marte S. Gulliksen
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
In this paper I begin unpacking the woodcarver’s experiences of working in green wood from a neurobiological perspective. The woodcarver’s experiences are often characterized as having an intense internal focus and an urge to overcome resistance. Previous research hasdiscussed this overcoming of resistance as a preconscious and a conscious negotiation between maker and material. Recent research on neurobiology has increased our knowledge on the basic nervous system in humans. The aim of this paper is to try to bring together current neurobiological descriptions of the basis of what the wood carver do and experience. It is asserted that neurobiological knowledge …
Towards A Post-Anthropocene Perspective On The Welfare City: Public Landscapes As Green Heritage, Ellen Braae, Signe Sophie Bøggild
Towards A Post-Anthropocene Perspective On The Welfare City: Public Landscapes As Green Heritage, Ellen Braae, Signe Sophie Bøggild
Nordes Conference Series
The welfare city with its humanistic, anthropocentric and progressive design ideals of the good life and egalitarianism usually signifies the post-war welfare state’s tabula rasa suburbs with evergreen public landscapes as common ground for public happiness. Inspired by the recent discourse of the anthropocene, we examine the welfare city’s materialisation in a wider perspective, as a relational assemblage of culturally significant landscapes, organised and administered by various institutions, legislations and vocabularies, to structure and stage a national vision of the good life. We coin this as ‘the green heritage’; an umbrella term bridging the gap between perspectives of the anthropocentric, …
Press Play: Acts Of Defining (In) Fluid Assemblages, Johan Redström, Heather Wiltse
Press Play: Acts Of Defining (In) Fluid Assemblages, Johan Redström, Heather Wiltse
Nordes Conference Series
Although design continuously has been expanding its scope of concern and intervention from products to processes, experience, and entire product and service ecologies, ‘things’ remain central to how we think about design and use. But ‘things’ have changed. Contemporary materials, technologies and contexts of design and use, we argue, now result in ‘things’ that need to be understood as fluid assemblages rather than traditional objects. These often combine a surface-level simplicity of use with dynamic, sophisticated, and hidden backend complexity. In order to investigate these issues we consider a simple design case and how it has evolved over time and …
Measuring Product Design Preferences With An Affective Stimulus-Response Compatibility Task, Katrina L. Schoen, Nathan Crilly
Measuring Product Design Preferences With An Affective Stimulus-Response Compatibility Task, Katrina L. Schoen, Nathan Crilly
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Researchers often use interviews and questionnaires to measure consumer response to product designs. This practice continues despite the inherent limitations of these “explicit” self-report methods. “Implicit” reaction time tests have been developed in an attempt to overcome self-report biases and to obtain a more automatic measure of attitudes. These implicit methods are often applied to study addictive or phobic responses to stimuli such as drugs or spiders. They have also been used to measure consumers’ brand attitudes. To determine whether implicit testing methods can be used to provide a measure of consumer preferences for product designs, we conducted an implicit …
Agency, Context And Meaning: The Humanities And Design, Mads Nygaard Folkmann
Agency, Context And Meaning: The Humanities And Design, Mads Nygaard Folkmann
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The paper is a meta-discursive contribution to the discussion of how design can be understood as a medium of meaning formation and the questioning of meaning. Further, the paper makes a plea for the role of the humanities in formulating relevant questions in design through a conceptualization of the nature and scope of design. Three fundamental approaches to understanding design from the perspective of the humanities will be proposed: 1) The question of agency in design, i.e. what the role and agency of design can be conceived as in human life, which can be addressed in the historical perspective of …
Verbalising The Silent? Professionals’ Framing Of Implicit In Packaging Design, Toni Ryynänen, Visa Heinonen
Verbalising The Silent? Professionals’ Framing Of Implicit In Packaging Design, Toni Ryynänen, Visa Heinonen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The idea for this article was noticed by the authors during analysis of interview materials collected from 14 professionals working with packaging. The professionals frequently touched themes of creative and implicit activities needed to accomplish design projects. The purpose of this article is to open up discussion about implicit elements in packaging design expressed in verbal form. Drawing on discussions about tacit knowledge (Polanyi, 1974; 2009), reflective practice and practitioner (Schön, 1983; 1995), wicked problems (Rittel & Webber, 1973), and designerly ways of knowing (Cross, 2006) the phenomenon of implicit elements in packaging design is examined. The materials are approached …
Design As Rhetoric In The Discourse Of Resonance, Veronika Kelly
Design As Rhetoric In The Discourse Of Resonance, Veronika Kelly
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design that is effective by way of having an influence and impact on a human subject’s belief, behaviour, or action is a key concern of designers in the field of visual communications. Because of these aspects, one discourse that has grown in scholarly circles over recent decades is that design is a form of rhetoric. Nonetheless, the way that rhetoric has been applied to design practice itself – as a means of analysing the communicative function of designed artefacts and to posit propositions for practice – has remained largely theoretical. The purpose of this paper is to extend an understanding …
Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction Via A Rogue Urban Drone, Andrew Morrison
Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction Via A Rogue Urban Drone, Andrew Morrison
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design fiction is garnering attention as a mode of inquiry on the prospective in design practice and inquiry. This paper addresses design fiction as a potential area for design research to explore communicatively. The paper does so through a performative essayistic research text. Presented are extracts from an online visual-verbal hypernarrative and expository research writing. The performative exploration includes views from the persona of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone policing a near future city. Her perspectives are prospective. However, the urban ‘drone-gone-rogue’ is crafted as a design fictional rhetorical device to comment on topical issues in the hereand- …