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Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 2: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 2: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
DRS Conference Volumes
The proceedings of the 2012 Design Research Society International Conference hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Submissions covered extensive themes and emerging research that is broad in scope and depth, submitted with the conference theme of Re-Search: uncertainty, contradiction and value, in mind. The initial abstract submission was high with approximately 550 initial abstracts submitted. Of the 288 full papers submitted, 183 papers were accepted and of these 154 papers were presented at the conference along with an additional 23 poster presentations.
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 1: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 1: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
DRS Conference Volumes
The proceedings of the 2012 Design Research Society International Conference hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Submissions covered extensive themes and emerging research that is broad in scope and depth, submitted with the conference theme of Re-Search: uncertainty, contradiction and value, in mind. The initial abstract submission was high with approximately 550 initial abstracts submitted. Of the 288 full papers submitted, 183 papers were accepted and of these 154 papers were presented at the conference along with an additional 23 poster presentations.
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 4: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 4: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
DRS Conference Volumes
The proceedings of the 2012 Design Research Society International Conference hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Submissions covered extensive themes and emerging research that is broad in scope and depth, submitted with the conference theme of Re-Search: uncertainty, contradiction and value, in mind. The initial abstract submission was high with approximately 550 initial abstracts submitted. Of the 288 full papers submitted, 183 papers were accepted and of these 154 papers were presented at the conference along with an additional 23 poster presentations.
Doing And Talking: Articulating Craft, Paul Harper
Doing And Talking: Articulating Craft, Paul Harper
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper is based on PhD research, which identifies a problem with researching and theorizing craft, and explores a method, which draws on ethnographic video oral history approaches for gathering data relating to practice. The purpose of the method is to advance understanding of practice and to develop theory that is grounded in the experience of practice. The method involves filming craftspeople working, then interviewing them whilst they watch the film of themselves. The paper outlines the critical context for the research, drawing on the model of Becker’s Art Worlds to assert that a legitimizing infrastructure has evolved to support …
A Case Study: Articulating Embodied Practice With Poise, Todd Robinson
A Case Study: Articulating Embodied Practice With Poise, Todd Robinson
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
In this paper I will examine the role artefacts play in the context of a practice-based research project. Alone artefacts would not constitute research but I will present a Case Study examining how a self-produced single artefact, named PULLEY SAC became a compelling artefact within my design practice. The study revolves around a first person account of the context in which the PULLEY SAC emerged within practice. I pay particular attention to the phenomena of noticing, whereby particular aspects of a current activity show up as significant against a background of ongoing creative practice and articulation, which draws out through …
Recoding Abandoned Products: Student Visual Designers Experiment To Sustain Product Lives And Values, Alison Gill, Abby Mellick Lopes
Recoding Abandoned Products: Student Visual Designers Experiment To Sustain Product Lives And Values, Alison Gill, Abby Mellick Lopes
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This conference paper outlines the development, delivery and evaluation of a student project for visual communicators in a second year teaching unit where students are investigating the communication contexts of contemporary consumer values and the material and symbolic waste to which design contributes. The student exercise is part of a pedagogical strategy to seed education about sustainable design practices and is in response to an ongoing research project investigating the role of visual communications design in supporting more enduring relationships with existing products and the value-creating practices of users. The authors’ research draws in part on the sustainable design theory …
Recognizing Paradoxical Identities Of Design Managers, Ulla Johansson, Jill Woodilla
Recognizing Paradoxical Identities Of Design Managers, Ulla Johansson, Jill Woodilla
Nordes Conference Series
There is a need for designers with knowledge in business as well as business people with knowledge in design. Master-level education programs for this “in between” area are growing all over the world. We argue that the knowledge and identity of being “in between” is essential but also problematic. There is a danger that, similar to relations between men and (wo)men, the business way of thinking becomes the common ground for (design) management, and the designerly characteristics become decoration, rather than another ground. In order not to suppress the one or the other, we argue for a paradoxical identity of …
Design Research: Towards A History, Victor Margolin
Design Research: Towards A History, Victor Margolin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Various starting points might be selected for the origin of design research but this paper will begin with the design methods movement in Great Britain. Two of the leading figures in the movement were Bruce Archer and John Chris Jones. The original conference on design methods was held in London in 1962 and Jones published the first edition of Design Methods: Seeds of Human Futures in 1970. Archer was involved with the establishment of the Industrial Design Research Unit at the RCA in the early 1960s and was also a founder of the Design Research Society in 1976. The DRS …
Dis/Ability Teaches Design!, Tom Bieling
Dis/Ability Teaches Design!, Tom Bieling
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In our paper, we claim that general human and artificial communication systems might be enriched by acknowledging and adding specifics of different ways of communication, perception and locomotion that refer to bodily impairment (Bieling, 2009). Schillmeier (2009, 79ff) sees disability less as an effect of bodily impairment, but more as a phenomenon of social construction. Oriented towards Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) he conceptualizes disability as a “heterogenic, material event”, which connects “social and non-social relations of human and non-human actors, of things, bodies, technologies, sensorical pratices” and becomes able to be experienced in the sense of disabling as …
Speculative Visualization: A New Rhetoric For Communicating Public Concerns, Tanyoung Kim, Carl Disalvo
Speculative Visualization: A New Rhetoric For Communicating Public Concerns, Tanyoung Kim, Carl Disalvo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Speculative design is an emerging rhetorical strategy in design practices and research to raise public awareness in social agendas that have been little explored. As a stream of this type of research, we propose speculative visualization that aims to achieve speculative design by utilizing techniques from data visualization and graphic design. Specifically, speculative visualization represents socially and politically meaningful data in aesthetic ways to provoke viewers’ interpretation and further elicit discussions. In this paper, we report the diverse approaches of speculative visualization by demonstrating three exemplary studies and identifying their visual rhetoric. Based on the argument, we discuss research opportunities …
Design Research And The Complexity Encountered In People’S Critical Thoughts, Yong-Ki Lee, Kun-Pyo Lee
Design Research And The Complexity Encountered In People’S Critical Thoughts, Yong-Ki Lee, Kun-Pyo Lee
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This study focuses on the concept of “Critical Design”, which describes the development and use of design objects for the discussion of social and technological problem areas. “Critical Design” provokes or puzzles the consumer. Instead of offering people merely optimized and constraint action patterns, open situations and questions are created. The arising reactions provide valuable insights for innovative product development and basic design research. This paper assesses the potential of “Critical Design” approaches to be utilized as novel research tools for future challenges to design. The main contributions of this paper are threefold. Firstly, it reviews various ways of user …
Designing Contemporary China: National Design Identity At The Crossroads, Wendy Siuyi Wong
Designing Contemporary China: National Design Identity At The Crossroads, Wendy Siuyi Wong
DRS Biennial Conference Series
China is an ancient civilization rapidly developing in a globalized post-modern context. The country now finds itself at a crossroads, with outside ideologies and forces of “Americanization” and “Westernization” competing against its cultural heritage and communist economic system to form a national design identity for contemporary China. This paper uses the rise of modern design in China, design examples from Hong Kong and Taiwan, the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, and Victoria & Albert Museum’s China Design Now exhibit to investigate questions of national identity as they pertain to design. It argues that, with the whole world watching China’s rise …
Cultural Appropriation In Design And ‘The Cipher’, Burcu Yancatarol Yagiz
Cultural Appropriation In Design And ‘The Cipher’, Burcu Yancatarol Yagiz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Dynamics of globalization redefine objects as agents of cultural exchange in various everyday contexts. Design activity constitutes a significant channel of cultural exchange because it presents objects to a system of social interactions that does not require geographical proximity of cultures. Design’s conceiving a cultural element in a product, thus starting the process of commoditization involves practices of cultural appropriation. Appropriation of cultural elements from their local contexts to be designed or re-designed translates the element’s cultural value into an exchange value that presents ‘negotiated decodings’ (Rogers, 2006) of the ‘different other’. Through design channels, ‘the cipher’ (Ono and Buescher, …
Modélisation Sémiotique Et Systémique De L’Objet Design Comme Signe-Action Complexe, Sarah Belkhamsa, Bernard Darras
Modélisation Sémiotique Et Systémique De L’Objet Design Comme Signe-Action Complexe, Sarah Belkhamsa, Bernard Darras
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Les approches sémiotiques et systémiques du design produit sont à la fois peu nombreuses et peu coordonnées. C’est ce que fait apparaitre l’état de la recherche en ce domaine. Les quelques études sémiotiques disponibles ont par ailleurs tendance à isoler l’objet de ses usages, de ses utilisateurs et de la complexité du système d’objets qui constitue son environnement proche ou des modes et styles de vie qui constituent ses univers. En conséquence, l’objet analysé est le plus souvent réduit à une image figée de lui-même. Seules les études qui relèvent de la sémiotique pragmatique veillent à inscrire l’objet dans l’action, …
Designing For Cultural Diversity: Participatory Design, Immigrant Women And Shared Creativity, Naureen Mumtaz
Designing For Cultural Diversity: Participatory Design, Immigrant Women And Shared Creativity, Naureen Mumtaz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Immigration and multiculturalism are realities of the globalized world that has given rise to subcultures, which possess specialized knowledge. This increasing interaction among people from diverse cultures has produced a complex ethno-cultural mosaic that presents formidable challenges for visual communication designers’ as well as for other designers. Cultural diversity of designers and audience of messages in a design scenario brings complexity in the design research process. This research study explores an effective visual communication language, through the medium of the poster, for culturally diverse audience of immigrant women in Edmonton, Canada. The decision was informed by triangulated results from a …
The Ambivalence Of Engaging Technology: Artifacts As Products And Processes, Cristiano Storni
The Ambivalence Of Engaging Technology: Artifacts As Products And Processes, Cristiano Storni
Nordes Conference Series
In this article, I will discuss several cases in order to explore how technological artifacts engage and are engaged in larger sociotechnical arrangements. I will show how they inscribe a certain relationship between users and designers and a certain level of engagement. At the same time, I intend to show how these relationship and levels of engagement are not intrinsic characters of artifacts per se but rather they are effects that are produced and reproduced within socio-technical assemblages. In this sense, different artifacts entangled within different socio-technical assemblages afford different levels of engagement and different instances of a user/designer relationship. …
Design Research Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 2, Peter Storkerson
Design Research Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 2, Peter Storkerson
Design Research Quarterly (2006 - 2009)
Design Research Quarterly (2006-9) was a hybrid journal-newsletter of the Design Research Society. It contained news of the society, its members and regions and its sister societies, as well as peer-reviewed articles about issues of importance to design research, theory and knowledge.
A Colour Design Tool Based On Empirical Studies, Li-Chen Ou, Ming Ronnier Luo, Guihua Cui
A Colour Design Tool Based On Empirical Studies, Li-Chen Ou, Ming Ronnier Luo, Guihua Cui
DRS Biennial Conference Series
A colour design tool targeted at both unskilled consumers and professional designers is currently under development, on the basis of psychophysical studies into semantic associations of colour, the cultural influences and colour harmony. From experimental results for single-colour associations, 3 underlying factors were identified: 'warm-cool', 'heavy-light' and 'active-passive', which were found to agree well with those identified by earlier research. For colour-combination associations, an 'additive property' of colour association was discovered: the semantic score of a colour combination can be determined by averaging semantic scores of each constituent colour in that combination. According to the experimental results, there were 4 …
What Can Talk Tell Us About Design? Considering Practice Through Symbolic Interactionism And Conversation Analysis, Arlene Oak
DRS Biennial Conference Series
How can scholars conduct rigorous research into the social activities that help constitute design practice? This paper considers this question through exploring how the interactive aspects of design may be fruitfully examined from the perspective of social psychology, especially through the approaches and methods of Symbolic Interactionism (SI) and Conversation Analysis (CA). The social activities of design refer to those situations wherein design is conducted in relation to face-to-face talk, or conversation. Since many aspects of design involve discussion, this paper argues that an SI-informed CA can offer an effective approach that may help us to better understand how communication …
The Return Of The Beehives, Brylcreem And Botanical! An Historical Review Of Hair Care Practices With A View To Opportunities For Sustainable Design, Sabine Hielscher, Tom Fisher, Tim Cooper
The Return Of The Beehives, Brylcreem And Botanical! An Historical Review Of Hair Care Practices With A View To Opportunities For Sustainable Design, Sabine Hielscher, Tom Fisher, Tim Cooper
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper considers hair care as a network of activities and routines which have consequences for environmental sustainability and which may be modified by design. It proposes that together with cultural knowledge, embodied skill and objects, these activities can be thought of as ‘practices' that are reproduced and also change through time (Shove 2006). They consume resources and are therefore implicated in the issue of environmental sustainability. The paper draws on research into hair care practices conducted through in-depth interviews with female participants, as part of the first author's PhD study. The discussion here however centres on historical work and …
Visual Rhetoric In Outdoor Advertising, Marja Seliger
Visual Rhetoric In Outdoor Advertising, Marja Seliger
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The paper presents a research, the aim of which is to find out how graphic expressions and visual language can be used for persuasion. The research material consists of outdoor advertisements photographed in their actual exhibition places in a city environment. Outdoor advertising media, which are used to communicate visual messages from a sender to several addressees, participate in building the visual city culture and open manifold solutions in design. The visual language used in the research material is analyzed in order to find out how advertising messages, their denotations and connotations, are constructed and how arguments used for persuasion …
Affective Sustainability. Is This What Timelessness Really Means?, Kristina Borjesson
Affective Sustainability. Is This What Timelessness Really Means?, Kristina Borjesson
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Sustainability is always about regard to the environment: an intelligent use of resources and not returning to nature what it cannot degrade without long-term damage. Politics, business and thus research have been predominantly concerned with the direct impact on the environment of the diverse human activities in our society. There is of course awareness about all the indirect effects caused by these activities but as these effects are more complicated to identify and calculate, it could reasonably be suggested that these have not got the same attention and hence have not been thoroughly explored. Important resources are required for the …
Media Communication, Consumption And Use: The Changing Role Of The Designer, Leon Cruickshank, Martyn Evans
Media Communication, Consumption And Use: The Changing Role Of The Designer, Leon Cruickshank, Martyn Evans
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Consumers are changing the way in which they create, experience and consume media. User Generated Content (UGC) marks a shift in the way in which ordinary people are now able to contribute to the creation of media. They have become active citizens in what is now a two way conversation. The advent of UGC has created new challenges for communication designers who now need to take on the role of a facilitator in this process. The challenge for communication design is not only to identify appropriate methods for communication, but to understand how best to facilitate connections between users such …
Authorities/Knowledge/Beliefs/Outcomes: 'Governing' In The Profession Of Graphic Design In The Us, Kate Ann B Lamere
Authorities/Knowledge/Beliefs/Outcomes: 'Governing' In The Profession Of Graphic Design In The Us, Kate Ann B Lamere
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This exploratory research examines an under-evaluated aspect of graphic design in the United States: the nature of the profession. Discourse analysis that applies the theory of governmentality is used to assess previously collected, open-ended interviews with graphic designers, as well as other source material. Based on the late work of Michel Foucault, governmentality considers how authorities govern through the creation and dissemination of knowledge, which works through individuals' desires and beliefs and leads to unpredictable outcomes. In this research, two ‘authorities' within the graphic design profession are identified and considered – design competitions and graphic design higher education. Both authorities …
Designing In The Street: Innovation In-Situ, Wendy March, Bas Raijmakers
Designing In The Street: Innovation In-Situ, Wendy March, Bas Raijmakers
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper suggests that taking the design process into the field and constantly engaging with the site to observe, intervene, brainstorm, prototype and create fosters unique forms of inspiration and innovation. How does a consideration of participation of both the designer and the user in the space change the design process? With participation comes understanding of the situation and by elaborating on possible futures with users, designers can find lucid innovations. We describe a project conducted by students from the Interaction Design course at the Royal College of Art in London which used a variety of approaches to speculate on …
Design Research Quarterly Volume 2 Issue 4, Peter Storkerson
Design Research Quarterly Volume 2 Issue 4, Peter Storkerson
Design Research Quarterly (2006 - 2009)
Design Research Quarterly (2006-9) was a hybrid journal-newsletter of the Design Research Society. It contained news of the society, its members and regions and its sister societies, as well as peer-reviewed articles about issues of importance to design research, theory and knowledge.
Participatory Design Of A Cross-Media Community For Societal Action: Lessons From Avatopia, Ylva Gislén, Jonas Löwgren, Ulf Myrestam
Participatory Design Of A Cross-Media Community For Societal Action: Lessons From Avatopia, Ylva Gislén, Jonas Löwgren, Ulf Myrestam
Nordes Conference Series
A cross-media platform was designed for a community of young teenagers oriented towards societal change, a task which motivated a deeply sociotechnical participatory design process. The final outcome involved an interactive web forum featuring creative and communicative collaborative tools in a 3D avatar environment, combined with a weekly show in national public-service television. An assessment of our work indicates that a participatory design process, where participants transition into the role of mentors and norm carriers upon deployment, can be a feasible way to support subcultural community building towards »difficult« topics, even though it entails considerable resource demands. This result is …
Waterfront Development With Web Mediation, Andrew Morrison, Synne Skjulstad, Birger Sevaldson
Waterfront Development With Web Mediation, Andrew Morrison, Synne Skjulstad, Birger Sevaldson
Nordes Conference Series
The term ‘unreal estate’ is coined to refer to online mediations of projected and planned urban developments, especially luxury domestic residency. A related website is studied as a mediation of co-ordinated artifacts and assembled persuasion. The site is also examined as a mediating artifact through which multiple representations are co-articulated. Taking the form of a visual essay, we argue that at tention is needed to mediation in design research.
Visual Rhetoric And The Special Eloquence Of Visual Form, Leslie Atzmon
Visual Rhetoric And The Special Eloquence Of Visual Form, Leslie Atzmon
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Despite the recent flurry of interest in the visual, the written word continues to dominate as both the focus and medium of deep analysis. I suggest that we ought to challenge this paradigm by questioning the privileging of the verbal in western culture in general and the academy in particular. I propose that one way to do so is to elevate visual rhetoric to equal status with verbal rhetoric. Unfortunately, when visual entities are “elevated,” the “elevator” commonly turns to framing strategies that isolate artifacts from the broader cultural contexts in which they are created and used. Not only does …
Are We Designing Female Audiences? The Case Of Beme.Com A Women’S Commercial Online Portal, N M Sadowska
Are We Designing Female Audiences? The Case Of Beme.Com A Women’S Commercial Online Portal, N M Sadowska
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Feminist critique of design practice has drawn attention to continuing problems women have as design practitioners and design consumers. A case study analysis of BEME.com, a commercial online portal design for female Internet users, offers an opportunity to address some of the issues such a critique raises. Notwithstanding that Internet technology and design offer new means of communicating with women, a feminist critique highlights that particularly within a commercial context there is an unwillingness within design practice to problematise its participation in the processes that embody gendered meanings. Instead, gender frequently features as part of design practitioners’ creative toolkit when …