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Navigating Contemporary Complexities In The Design Of Sexuality Education Materials, Louise Moana Kolff
Navigating Contemporary Complexities In The Design Of Sexuality Education Materials, Louise Moana Kolff
DRS Biennial Conference Series
More than ever quality comprehensive sexuality education is needed to help children make sense of increasingly complex and fluid notions of sexuality, gender and relationships. Designers of sexuality education are faced with the task of navigating issues such as earlier onset of puberty, changes to normative family structures, changing ways of conceiving and birthing, and the impact of technology and social media. This paper explores how some of these complexities influence the design of sexuality education by analysing the design of three books aimed at younger children, and through interviews with the Australian, Canadian and Danish creators of the books.
Under Construction: Reimagining Health And Safety Communication For Multilingual Workers In Qatar, Denielle Janine Emans
Under Construction: Reimagining Health And Safety Communication For Multilingual Workers In Qatar, Denielle Janine Emans
DRS Biennial Conference Series
As Qatar races to complete development projects in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the country’s construction sector continues to face criticisms regarding its treatment of migrant workers. This criticism is compounded by nominal safety legislation at the national level and the need for accessible occupational health and safety (OHS) media on worksites. Adding to these concerns, there is currently no comprehensive approach to ensure the effective communication of vital health and safety information to workers with limited English/Arabic proficiency or low literacy skills. In light of these concerns, this paper describes a pilot study that brings together the …
Graphic Design Studies: What Can It Be? Following In Victor Margolin’S Footsteps For Possible Answers, Robert George Harland
Graphic Design Studies: What Can It Be? Following In Victor Margolin’S Footsteps For Possible Answers, Robert George Harland
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Graphic design studies is proposed as a new way to differentiate practice in graphic design from reflection on that practice. Previous attempts to link design studies and graphic design have fallen short of arguing for graphic design studies, and consequently has not been explicit about how graphic design studies may contribute to better understanding the nature of graphic design practice. This has not been helped by the abstruse nomenclature that confuses graphic design’s relationship to and distinction from other visual practices. Victor Margolin called this ‘narrative problems.’ This paper explores the potential to differentiate graphic design practice from graphic design …
Designing Six Dimensions Of Intercultural Teamwork: A Next-Gen Challenge In Co-Creation Processes, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt, Denielle J. Emans, Bruna Oewel
Designing Six Dimensions Of Intercultural Teamwork: A Next-Gen Challenge In Co-Creation Processes, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt, Denielle J. Emans, Bruna Oewel
DRS Biennial Conference Series
By examining remote collaboration as a design problem, this paper provides a rationale for the Six Dimensions of Intercultural Teamwork, a new framework to help teammates understand various differences such as how they build trust, exchange information, and cope with creative abrasion. Collaborative work intensifies when teammates are diverse in mindsets, cultural backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches to problems and projects. Stumbling blocks can also grow when teammates work remotely or are working with each other for the first time. Design processes can help remote teams improve the way they work together by introducing systemic thinking, promoting physical and iterative processes, …
The Space Between Us: How Designers And The General Population See Typographic Emphasis, Claire Louise Timpany
The Space Between Us: How Designers And The General Population See Typographic Emphasis, Claire Louise Timpany
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The typographic emphasis of headings in a document clarifies the structure of the content for the reader as well as assisting them with locating information. The visual presentation of these headings is important so that they are effective visual markers. The typographic methods used to emphasise these headings can vary greatly and are potentially perceived different by those consuming the document compared to those who are designing it. The research presented in this paper investigates through a paired comparison study whether designers perceive the typographic emphasis methods used for headings in the same way as the general population. While the …
Worlds And Words: Interrogating Type And Map As Systems Of Power And Embodied Meaning-Making, Jane Turner, Manuela Taboada
Worlds And Words: Interrogating Type And Map As Systems Of Power And Embodied Meaning-Making, Jane Turner, Manuela Taboada
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This paper responds to the call to move away from the centre and to design from many centres. We need to address cultural colonisation and systemisation; to counter misdirection and deceit in order to reveal – not merely the ‘centre’ but the ‘systems of the underside’: structures and systems that arise in the past and which continue to “cloud our eyes” in graphic design communication. Inspired by the works of Walter Mignolo, Arturo Escobar and Boaventura de Souza Santos, which expose the ‘systems of the underside’ and the notion of ‘ecologies of knowledge’ in order to disentangle (and free) or …
Envisioning A Pluriversal Design Education, Lesley-Ann Noel
Envisioning A Pluriversal Design Education, Lesley-Ann Noel
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Vestiges of the curricula at the Bauhaus and the Hochschule, Ulm, the former designed in the 1920s, and the latter created in the 1950s, can still be seen in design curricula around the world. These curricula focused on the craft of design and were very tied to large industrial economies. More traditional design curricula born out of the Bauhaus and Ulm, focused on graphic and product or industrial design. The design community has placed several calls to re-imagine a future design education. This contribution shares several sketches of design curricula driven by pluriversal issues, epistemologies and ontologies, and not created …
(De)Institution Design: Decolonizing Design Discourse In Uruguay, Lucia Trias Cornú
(De)Institution Design: Decolonizing Design Discourse In Uruguay, Lucia Trias Cornú
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Design is a relatively new discipline in Uruguay. The dominant discourse, linked to Industrial Design-ID, has its beginnings in the foundation of the Centre of Industrial Design-CDI in 1987. This research is an invitation to look further into how ID has played a role in Uruguay -as a global-south country- related to economic and social structures introduced with the implementation of neoliberal production policies. In line with current global-south design discourses, the research aims to understand the role of institutions in the formation of design discourse(s) in Uruguay by approaching the CDI’s foundation from a decolonial worldview. Following the idea …
Bridging Design Prototypes & Autonomous Design, Gloria Gomez
Bridging Design Prototypes & Autonomous Design, Gloria Gomez
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
The bridging design prototype (BDP) approach is a human-centred design method for individual designers and small organisations. BDPs are fully functional rapid prototypes that user communities accept to incorporate in real activities; while designers use them for learning about the community, the context, and the practice. Experimentation should not require the presence of designers. By functional, it means all features should operate. But, BDPs are not necessarily minimum viable products, as the digital or tangible materials with which they are built could have a limited lifespan. Informed by autonomous design, this reflection involved a meta-analysis of a project carried out …
Embracing Many Worlds: The Wixárika Calendar, María Rogal
Embracing Many Worlds: The Wixárika Calendar, María Rogal
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
Fifteen years ago, I began a design collaboration with Sarah Corona Berkin, a professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, and a group of Wixáritari teachers and community leaders in San Miguel Huaixtita, Jalisco, México. My students at the University of Florida and I worked with Corona Berkin in the classroom and with the Wixáritari in San Miguel Huaixtita, to create a new cultural artifact—a calendar—with and for the community. This project started me on a path working with Indigenous groups in various parts of México to bring western design concepts into conversation with Indigenous epistemologies. In subsequent collaborative projects, in …
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 5: Processes, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 5: Processes, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
DRS Conference Volumes
The overall theme for DRS2020 is Synergy – the coming together of people and disciplines in design research to create a positive impact. On the one hand, design research champions the uniqueness of disciplinary knowledge and creativity, yet on the other hand, the complex world we now live in demands a more synergistic approach to creativity and problem- solving whereby different mindsets, backgrounds and perspectives come together to realise transformative visions of the future. DRS2020 celebrates these emerging synergistic approaches to design research and seeks to explore their exciting possibilities for addressing multi-faceted problems, supporting participation, and transforming problematic situations …
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 1: Synergy, Situations, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 1: Synergy, Situations, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
DRS Conference Volumes
The overall theme for DRS2020 is Synergy – the coming together of people and disciplines in design research to create a positive impact. On the one hand, design research champions the uniqueness of disciplinary knowledge and creativity, yet on the other hand, the complex world we now live in demands a more synergistic approach to creativity and problem- solving whereby different mindsets, backgrounds and perspectives come together to realise transformative visions of the future. DRS2020 celebrates these emerging synergistic approaches to design research and seeks to explore their exciting possibilities for addressing multi-faceted problems, supporting participation, and transforming problematic situations …
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 2: Impacts, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 2: Impacts, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
DRS Conference Volumes
The overall theme for DRS2020 is Synergy – the coming together of people and disciplines in design research to create a positive impact. On the one hand, design research champions the uniqueness of disciplinary knowledge and creativity, yet on the other hand, the complex world we now live in demands a more synergistic approach to creativity and problem- solving whereby different mindsets, backgrounds and perspectives come together to realise transformative visions of the future. DRS2020 celebrates these emerging synergistic approaches to design research and seeks to explore their exciting possibilities for addressing multi-faceted problems, supporting participation, and transforming problematic situations …
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 4: Education, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 4: Education, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
DRS Conference Volumes
The overall theme for DRS2020 is Synergy – the coming together of people and disciplines in design research to create a positive impact. On the one hand, design research champions the uniqueness of disciplinary knowledge and creativity, yet on the other hand, the complex world we now live in demands a more synergistic approach to creativity and problem- solving whereby different mindsets, backgrounds and perspectives come together to realise transformative visions of the future. DRS2020 celebrates these emerging synergistic approaches to design research and seeks to explore their exciting possibilities for addressing multi-faceted problems, supporting participation, and transforming problematic situations …
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 3: Co-Creation, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 3: Co-Creation, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
DRS Conference Volumes
The overall theme for DRS2020 is Synergy – the coming together of people and disciplines in design research to create a positive impact. On the one hand, design research champions the uniqueness of disciplinary knowledge and creativity, yet on the other hand, the complex world we now live in demands a more synergistic approach to creativity and problem- solving whereby different mindsets, backgrounds and perspectives come together to realise transformative visions of the future. DRS2020 celebrates these emerging synergistic approaches to design research and seeks to explore their exciting possibilities for addressing multi-faceted problems, supporting participation, and transforming problematic situations …
“Poke It With A Stick”, Using Autoethnography In Research Through Design, Natalia Triantafylli, Spyros Bofylatos
“Poke It With A Stick”, Using Autoethnography In Research Through Design, Natalia Triantafylli, Spyros Bofylatos
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper follows the design and creation of an artifact called “Poke it with a stick”, a promiscuous lighting fixture that invites users to play with its tactile operation switch. This ongoing research investigates how autoethnography could be adapted in the context of research through design while support practitioners regarding the contextualization of their work. Autoethnography, an introspective exploration, enables the emergence of narratives that support the understanding of the tacit aspects of creativity. This ongoing research investigates how autoethnography, as a critical approach (Denshire, 2013), could adapt in research through design methodologies, opening up a space evoking self-reflection while …
Inter-Semiotic Translation In Intercultural Communication Design, Shaima B.A Elbardawil
Inter-Semiotic Translation In Intercultural Communication Design, Shaima B.A Elbardawil
Learn X Design Conference Series
In the late nineteenth century, as new technologies, social needs and commercial opportunities emerged in industrialised societies, communication design evolved in line with them. The massive development of mass media and mass communication brought on by cultural globalisation created various levels of complexity for communication design. Understanding the different kinds of translation that take place between cultures, languages and systems will improve the comprehensiveness, quality and inclusivity of communication in multicultural contexts. This in turn demands new knowledge, competencies and skills that will allow designers to create inclusive intercultural communications to serve the current societal and cultural needs of audiences. …
Transition From Basic Design To Product Design: A New Practical Basis, Dilek Akbulut, Ebru Gedik, Hatice Kesdi, Atakan Baş, Yasemin Oran
Transition From Basic Design To Product Design: A New Practical Basis, Dilek Akbulut, Ebru Gedik, Hatice Kesdi, Atakan Baş, Yasemin Oran
Learn X Design Conference Series
The discipline of industrial design is in a continuous change due to the developments in information and production technologies. As a result of this change, the designers are expected to be equipped with diverse skills and sets of knowledge. Hence the scope of formal design education needs to be enlarged and the theoretical and methodological basis of it needs to be reconstructed according to this new scope. This enlarged scope is embedded to the curriculum on theoretical and practical aspects. On the account of basic design, which is regarded to be the foundation course of industrial design education, this newly …
Facing A Phytosanitary Emergency Through Transdisciplinary Approach Of Systemic Design, Alessandra Savina, Pier Paolo Peruccio
Facing A Phytosanitary Emergency Through Transdisciplinary Approach Of Systemic Design, Alessandra Savina, Pier Paolo Peruccio
Learn X Design Conference Series
Nowadays the designer is called to face increasingly complex problems and multi-faceted challenges of great importance. This factor led him to redefine the boundaries of his profession through interaction with other scientific and humanistic disciplines, in order to integrate a holistic view of reality and achieve higher degree of results completeness. The transdisciplinary approach and the dissemination of research also outside the academic world become important points of this new professional perspective, which encourage the designer to investigate new areas of research and collaborate on several levels with specialized figures belonging to different branches of knowledge. The purpose of this …
How Inquiries Into Craft Generate New Avenues For Multicultural Collaborations In Design, Bettina Minder, Shilpa Das, Praveen Nahar, Karina Kaindl, Sabine Junginger
How Inquiries Into Craft Generate New Avenues For Multicultural Collaborations In Design, Bettina Minder, Shilpa Das, Praveen Nahar, Karina Kaindl, Sabine Junginger
Learn X Design Conference Series
This paper reflects on the STICH research project, an international research cooperation between Switzerland and India that investigated the topic of requirements of future design education by jointly exploring topic issues in the area of craft, design and social innovation. The cultural differences between these two countries allowed for an inquiry into the transformation of craft, design in new contexts of social innovation – and to discover similarities in the re-interpretation and significance of craft and design in the context of entirely different social challenges. The paper builds on existing theories of design education, crafts and design to propose future …
Prototyping A New Economy, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun
Prototyping A New Economy, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun
Learn X Design Conference Series
It is conceivable that capitalism and the new market economy as it currently operates is unsustainable despite the bullish opinions of businessmen and entrepreneurs. There are many obvious concerns surrounding an economy without money the most basic of which is the accounting of productivity. However, if we are seriously engaged in this thought experiment we must also consider two operations of the current system that seem to be most detrimental to societal and more recently, political constructs which are the accumulation, and transferability of money. Moderate restrictions have been placed on both operations but considering the involvement of business in …
Studio-Sustain Urla-Barbaros: A Design Studio Course On Sustainability, Simge Goksoy, Asli Kiyak Ingin
Studio-Sustain Urla-Barbaros: A Design Studio Course On Sustainability, Simge Goksoy, Asli Kiyak Ingin
Learn X Design Conference Series
A series of design studio courses on sustainability and design is initiated in 2017 at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Industrial Design. The series aims to lead the students to think, discuss, get aware of their responsibilities on their decisions, about the environment, living things and resources, in design projects. For this purpose, a design studio course was structured encompassing the processes and methods of sustainable design. The topic was the context of a locality in Turkey, outside campus and within daily life, so students would directly relate with these responsibilities. Similarly, the structure and project briefs of the studio …
Teaching The Critical Role Of Designers In The Data Society: The Densitydesign Approach, Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo, María De Los Ángeles Briones, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Teaching The Critical Role Of Designers In The Data Society: The Densitydesign Approach, Michele Mauri, Gabriele Colombo, María De Los Ángeles Briones, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Learn X Design Conference Series
In the modern 'data society', designers play a key role in the creation of artefacts that mediate our access to data and information. These artefacts include data visualisations and interfaces. Within this context, there is a growing risk of design educators training professionals who are indifferent to, or unaware of, the political power of the devices they contribute to creating. In this paper, we draw on our experiences in the DensityDesign course to identify and formalise a didactical approach providing students with opportunities to critically reflect on their work while gaining the technical skills they need as information designers. The …
Translational Aspects Of Basic Design Exercises, Sarah Klein, Michael Renner
Translational Aspects Of Basic Design Exercises, Sarah Klein, Michael Renner
Learn X Design Conference Series
Among other things, translation is defined as “carrying something across”. With this interpretation, derived from the etymological root of the term, translation is not exclusively bound to the linguistic context. Therefore, a comparison between aspects of translation theory and the transfer of meaning in basic design exercises can be justified. Understanding linguistic translation as an act of cultural negotiation, raises the question to what extent basic design exercises reach across cultural constraints in transferring experience between design teachers and students. With other words: are basic design exercises transferring universal design principles or are they culturally determined the way language is? …
Upside Down: A “Flipped” Design Thinking Course, Can Güvenir, Sevi Merter, H. Hümanur Bağlı
Upside Down: A “Flipped” Design Thinking Course, Can Güvenir, Sevi Merter, H. Hümanur Bağlı
Learn X Design Conference Series
In constructivist learning, learners are responsible of their own learning process in order to acquire certain professional and personal skills. Constructivist learning methods based on prior knowledge of the learner and learning objects (LOs) of the constructivist approach are the conductor and activator of learners’ insider knowledge. In such a learning approach, the planning of effective learning needs to be questioned and restructured. The use of LOs in learning planning is of great importance in encouraging learners to be self-learners. This paper presents a case study conducted in an interdisciplinary Design Thinking course conducted with 16 students, 1 instructor, and …
Taking Care Of Plastic: Discursive Jewellery And Anthropogenic Debris, Synne Skjulstad
Taking Care Of Plastic: Discursive Jewellery And Anthropogenic Debris, Synne Skjulstad
Nordes Conference Series
Tons of plastic waste pile up in our oceans by the minute. This paper discusses a jewellery design project where anthropogenic debris takes centre stage. The project investigates how marine plastic trash literally may be turned into treasures through approaches that transverse design, craft and communication design. The main design material are plastic pieces selected from the shores of Norwegian fiords. Each piece of plastic selected for jewellery is treated as precious. Care is thus a concept that frames this jewellery design project as it both connects to the micro and macro perspectives on plastic. The jewellery is relating aesthetic …
Proceedings Of Learn X Design 2019: Insider Knowledge, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım, Fatma Korkut, Derek Jones
Proceedings Of Learn X Design 2019: Insider Knowledge, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım, Fatma Korkut, Derek Jones
DRS Conference Volumes
The Fifth DRS Learn X Design International Conference for Design Education Researchers took place July 9-12, 2019 with the main theme “Insider Knowledge” at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. A total of 111 paper submissions, 11 workshop proposals, and 28 PhD Pit-Stop applications were received. In all, 86 papers were presented and six workshops were conducted in a variety of topics, ranging from emerging practices in design education to innovative approaches in bridging design education and society. The conference hosted 150 delegates from 81 institutions in 31 countries.
Approaches For Capturing And Communicating Individual Narrative Timelines Reflecting Real Life (Retirement), Chris Mcginley, Rama Gheerawo, Florie Salnot
Approaches For Capturing And Communicating Individual Narrative Timelines Reflecting Real Life (Retirement), Chris Mcginley, Rama Gheerawo, Florie Salnot
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper describes a qualitative design research study investigated through the development and application of novel qualitative research methods and tools, developed to engage research participants, and resulting in an original means of communicating findings. The topic being investigated required working closely with older people to explore their individual experiences around the topic of retirement. The research was designed to engage and empower retirees in reflection, discussion, creation and representation of their experiences. The main project output consisted of seven retirement tales referred to as ‘narrative timelines’ in this paper, which were communication pieces designed to present the more ‘messy’ …
Conversation: The Snug: A Conversation About Design Research. Imagining, Embodying, Assembling, Eva Verhoeven, Paul Bailey, John Fass, Jaron Rowan, Marta Camps Banque
Conversation: The Snug: A Conversation About Design Research. Imagining, Embodying, Assembling, Eva Verhoeven, Paul Bailey, John Fass, Jaron Rowan, Marta Camps Banque
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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The Rhetorical Appeals In Interaction Design: Decolonizing Design For People Of Collectivist Culture, Octaviyanti Dwi Wahyurini
The Rhetorical Appeals In Interaction Design: Decolonizing Design For People Of Collectivist Culture, Octaviyanti Dwi Wahyurini
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework to understand factors that restrain the engagement of users with collectivist culture background to computer technology. Drawing on the intersectionality of Hartson’s Interaction Cycle and the classical rhetoric concept of logos, ethos, and pathos, this paper will discuss briefly the problem of HCI in the City of Surabaya, Indonesia as a case study. The application of rhetorical lenses in this research will aid the understanding Lloyd Bitzer’s “rhetorical situation” that is active in the interaction of human and the machine. Rhetoric will also assist the actualization of designer’s role from a merely …