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Visualizing Transformation, Pia Pedersen
Visualizing Transformation, Pia Pedersen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Transformation, defined as the step of extracting, arranging and simplifying data into visual form (M. Neurath, 1974), was developed in connection with ISOTYPE (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) and might well be the most important legacy of Isotype to the field of graphic design. Recently transformation has attracted renewed interest because of the book The Transformer written by Robin Kinross and Marie Neurath. My on-going research project, summarized in this paper, identifies and depicts the essential principles of data visualization underlying the process of transformation with reference to Marie Neurath’s sketches on the Bilston Project. The material has been …
Design Case Studies: Never Let The Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Story!, Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Design Case Studies: Never Let The Facts Get In The Way Of A Good Story!, Seymour Roworth-Stokes
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper argues that the primary advantage of the case study, its ability to reveal insight into ‘real-life’ contemporary phenomena (the here and now) set against critical incidents, happenings or events over time (cause and effect), could be undermined by a lack of methodological rigor and sound empiricism in design research. Often the ‘one off’ is reported as a ‘case’ without the critical insight or analytical discourse necessary to derive sound theory from practice. A systematic audit of design case studies in four of the leading design research journals has been undertaken along with a detailed analysis of the type, …
Drawing Out: How Designers Analyse Written Texts In Visual Ways, Zoë Sadokierski, Kate Sweetapple
Drawing Out: How Designers Analyse Written Texts In Visual Ways, Zoë Sadokierski, Kate Sweetapple
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper discusses the methods practitioner-researchers use to analyse written texts. Much attention towards the written word in design discourse is directed at typography – how words are used visually to communicate meaning. This paper considers the written word from a different perspective. Here, we aim to reveal how designers analyse written texts for research and ideation. We describe a range of methods we have developed through our own research and practice, as well as analytical approaches other practitioner-researchers use. There are many approaches to the analysis of texts – for example, semiotic (Kress and van Leeuwen 2001, 2006), content …
Embedding Service Design: The Long And The Short Of It: Developing An Organisationand#8217;S Design Capacity And Capability To Sustainably Deliver Services, Stuart G. Bailey
Embedding Service Design: The Long And The Short Of It: Developing An Organisationand#8217;S Design Capacity And Capability To Sustainably Deliver Services, Stuart G. Bailey
ServDes Conference Series
What are the factors affecting how service design methods and practices are embedded within an organisation? How can embedding of design methods be done sustainably; providing lasting benefits? Over a four-year period; the author observed and studied a large public sector organisation as it developed in-house service design capabilities and strove to embed design thinking and processes within its business culture and working practices. The conditions necessary to enable innovation to take place within an organisation are not so dissimilar to those observed for embedding design; and for enabling design to be used effectively in the development and delivery of …
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 3: Re-Search - Uncertainty, Contradiction And Value, Praima Israsena, Juthamas Tangsantikul, David Durling
Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2012. Vol. 3: 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. 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.
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 …
Transformative Learning In Sustainable Design Education, Jody Joanna Boehnert
Transformative Learning In Sustainable Design Education, Jody Joanna Boehnert
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Both designers and educators have a unique role to play in the creation of sustainable futures due to their ability to help people see new realities, develop new cognitive skills for dealing with complexity and create the social capacity to act on the basis of new knowledge. Transformative learning aims to build new cognitive capacities as well the agency to put new knowledge into practice. This learning has the potential to transcend the notorious value/action gap that divides our awareness of environmental threats from our capacity to take appropriate action. Beyond the mere dissemination of information, transformative learning engages participants …
Generating Tacit Knowledge Through Motion: A Vision On The Matter Of Space, Liselotte Vroman, Thierry Lagrange, Luiz Naveda
Generating Tacit Knowledge Through Motion: A Vision On The Matter Of Space, Liselotte Vroman, Thierry Lagrange, Luiz Naveda
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper aims to observe and bring forth the embodied experience of space, while an individual interacts through moving. This research project is about how architecture can be conceived, setting out from the embodied experience of space. There is main focus on dance, because of the level of spatial awareness and expression of the movements. The boundaries of architecture are explored by means of empirical methods. The experienced space is based on the subject’s practice but can this embodied experience be handled and moulded by the architect, the so-called designer of spaces? Movements can be considered as an expression drawn …
Dart: New Teaching Methods For Organizing Intuition, Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Dart: New Teaching Methods For Organizing Intuition, Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Nordes Conference Series
DART (Driver Analysis – Reading Trends) is a new approach developed by the author to organizing and developing intuition in the research and development phase of a creative process within the field of fashion and design. At its current stage, the model has been targeted teaching at design schools. The method is based on the author’s Ph.D. dissertation (“On the Nature of Trends: A Study of Trend Mechanisms in Contemporary Fashion”, 2010), teaching experience at design schools and methods from fashion forecasting. DART is intended to support design students on two levels: 1. To qualify the students’ sensibility or hunch …
Rethinking System Diagrams: From Arranging Components To Organizing Action, Thought, And Possibility, Soojin Jun, Miso Kim, Joonhwan Lee
Rethinking System Diagrams: From Arranging Components To Organizing Action, Thought, And Possibility, Soojin Jun, Miso Kim, Joonhwan Lee
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The use of system diagrams has encouraged information designers to tacitly consider the holistic context. However, because the traditional understanding about the nature of systems has been highly focused on the arrangement of components within a static model, users’ experience is considered little. The goal of this research is to provide a theoretical framework to broaden designers’ conception of the system diagram and enable them to design system diagrams that would prove most effective for different situations, needs, and design problems. Therefore, the key of system diagrams is to understand the relationship of how the system is organized, according to …
On The Impact Of Systemic Thinking In Sustainable Design, Ricardo Sosa, Alberto Dorantes, César Cárdenas, Victor Martínez
On The Impact Of Systemic Thinking In Sustainable Design, Ricardo Sosa, Alberto Dorantes, César Cárdenas, Victor Martínez
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The world faces significant problems of high complexity. The potential of knowledge, methods and tools used in design education and practice are useful for the development of sustainable solutions. Sustainable design is regarded in this paper as the integration of multiple competencies in order to generate and implement creative interventions that trigger positive changes in complex socio-technical systems. In this paper, a multidisciplinary case study is created for experimentation on the way in which different student groups approach complex problems, the type and level of thinking used, and the evaluation of the adequateness of their proposals by experts. The groups …
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 …
Joinedupdesign For Academies: Enhancing Design Learning Through Complexity, John Butcher, Friedemann Schaber
Joinedupdesign For Academies: Enhancing Design Learning Through Complexity, John Butcher, Friedemann Schaber
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper reports on research undertaken on the Sorrell Foundation’s Joinedupdesign for Academies programme, a pilot scheme with four universities in the United Kingdom (UK) aiming to inform the transition of ‘failing’ secondary (11-18) schools into academies (involving substantial re-designs and re-building). From the authors’ university, 12 undergraduate Design students participated in Joinedupdesign for Academies, in partnership with two secondary schools in the Midlands region of England. Like other universities in the UK, it has well-established links with local schools and programmes of community engagement, corresponding with reported US experiences (Lerner & Simon, 1998). The Sorrell Foundation model is an …
Design History Education And The Use Of The Design Brief As An Interpretative Framework For Sustainable Practice, John Calvelli
Design History Education And The Use Of The Design Brief As An Interpretative Framework For Sustainable Practice, John Calvelli
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Over the last several years, designers, researchers and educators have been increasingly concerned with what effect design has had, and could have, on the current condition of unsustainability. If design has had a significant part in materializing unsustainability, then we must try to change its disciplinary parameters and relationships. How can we teach design history in order to engage students in this critical work? This paper will document an ongoing experiment in the teaching of design history to undergraduate students in visual communication in two colleges of art and design. The course asks students to interpret images from the broad …
The Challenges Of Information Transfer Between The Client Organization And The Temporary Multi-Organization (Tmo), Michel De Blois
The Challenges Of Information Transfer Between The Client Organization And The Temporary Multi-Organization (Tmo), Michel De Blois
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The mechanisms required for the transfer of both implicit and explicit information between the client organization and the temporary multi-organization are crucial in the programming process of construction projects. However, the identification and transfer of needs within the conception phase from the client (and eventually the users) towards the project team are rarely direct and easy. (Nadler et al., 1992) The evaluation of the project outcome (“as built”) against the initial project proposal, allows for a better understanding of both the project process and the influence of informal communications in translating client/user needs. This research project, comprised of three phases, …
Human Photographs On Trust In Bank Websites, Seungyeon Ha, Sunghyun R. Kang
Human Photographs On Trust In Bank Websites, Seungyeon Ha, Sunghyun R. Kang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
On the Internet, trustworthiness is an issue and becomes more important as financial transactions continue to grow. According to our analysis of the top 20 largest US banks, fifty-five percent of the banks’ homepages used human photograph(s). The purpose of this study is to examine how image choices of a male, a female, a family, a small group of people in an office, or a diverse group of people in photographs on a bank homepage will have the most positive effect on customers’ perceptions of trustworthiness with regard to the website. For the research method, five mock-ups of a bank …
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 …
A New Atlas For Abstract Spaces. Visual Tools For The Exploration Of Complex Contexts, Marco Quaggiotto
A New Atlas For Abstract Spaces. Visual Tools For The Exploration Of Complex Contexts, Marco Quaggiotto
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In the tradition of research, text is the preferred solution for research and communication. The linear sequence of writing explains reality: it transforms synchronic scenes into a sequence of codes that describe it diachronically. Nonetheless, while textual representation still remains extremely useful in scientific communication, the linearity of writing is lately appearing as inadequate to the latest models of science and to the representation of current knowledge systems. In this context the language of cartography in particular seems to be fit to work as a structural model for the representation of complex systems, and Design can find in the atlas …
Seeing What They Are Saying: Diagrams For Socio-Technical Controversies, Donato Ricci
Seeing What They Are Saying: Diagrams For Socio-Technical Controversies, Donato Ricci
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The opening of enormous databases and the possibility offered by new tools to access the heterogeneous flows of data and information emerging from the Internet could be seen as an innovative mode also to observe and represent social complex systems. The cartography of controversies, the applied version of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), is one of the examples of this new way of exploring and understanding these new information and knowledge domains. The cartography of controversies also aims at overcoming some of the limits of the traditional description of social issues by exploiting the potentialities of the information visualization and of …
Analyzing The Appearance And Wording Of Assessments: Understanding Their Impact On Students’ Perception And Understanding, And Instructors’ Processes, Stacie Rohrbach
Analyzing The Appearance And Wording Of Assessments: Understanding Their Impact On Students’ Perception And Understanding, And Instructors’ Processes, Stacie Rohrbach
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In the context of a design studio, the study presented in this paper investigates the effects that appearance and wording of assessment forms have on design students’ perception and learning. The project is motivated by hypotheses formed by a prior study, which revealed visual and textual components of assessment forms as possible influences on students’ perception and learning. Thus, the goal of this project is to investigate their impact on students and offer the study findings to educators to help them better understand and construct effective assessment tools. This paper argues that the appearance and wording of assessments convey meaning …
A Study On Design Careers And The Impact Of Gender Debra Satterfield, Sunghyun R. Kang, Nora Ladjahasan,, Debra Satterfield, Sunghyun R Kang, Nora Ladjahasan, Andrea Quam, Brytton Bjorngaard
A Study On Design Careers And The Impact Of Gender Debra Satterfield, Sunghyun R. Kang, Nora Ladjahasan,, Debra Satterfield, Sunghyun R Kang, Nora Ladjahasan, Andrea Quam, Brytton Bjorngaard
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Many of those entering the design workforce will at one point in time be affected by life choices. Some of these choices are welcomed, however, others are of necessity and are not reflective of personal preference. Life choices such as childcare, career advancement decisions, marriage, leaving the workforce, making a lateral career move, or becoming an attendant caregiver for an incapacitated family member are only a few examples of situations that can dramatically impact the course of a career in design fields. In addition, women and men may be affected differently by these choices. The purpose of this research is …
A Case Study Of An Andragogical Model In Design Education: Experiments In Interactiveteaching And Learning In Graphic Design Pedagogy, Sang-Duck Seo
A Case Study Of An Andragogical Model In Design Education: Experiments In Interactiveteaching And Learning In Graphic Design Pedagogy, Sang-Duck Seo
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The purpose of this study is to seek an interactive pedagogical model in teaching graphic design in higher education. Malcolm Shepherd Knowles, an American adult educator, adopted the theory of ‘Andragogy’ which focused on self-directed learning theories. This author applied the ‘Andragogical Model’ to upper division design studios and addresses effective instructions and tips through case studies. In terms of the digital academic environment favored by Generation Y, educators in graphic design fields have been faced with difficulties balancing practical and theoretical disciplines for successful academic achievement. The challenge for educators caused by the digital culture is convincing students that …
A Survey Of Definition And Its Role In Strengthening Design Theory, Robert Andruchow
A Survey Of Definition And Its Role In Strengthening Design Theory, Robert Andruchow
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper argues that an essential task for managing complexity in design is clarification of key terms within the field, and most importantly the term that defines the field itself: Design. This position rests on the argument that theory—a key tool for managing complexity in design—is weakened by ambiguous terminology, and crucially, ambiguity of the word design. Although it has been well documented that design is a highly ambiguous term and that this is problematic for the field as a whole, many designers are resigned to this fact since it is unclear how one can resolve differences of opinion about …
Visual Means For Collaboration Across Disciplines, Mercè Graell-Colas
Visual Means For Collaboration Across Disciplines, Mercè Graell-Colas
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The complexity of today’s design problems—the global economy, rate of change in new technologies, the challenges of sustainability development—requires diverse design teams, comprised of multiple disciplines as well as multiple cultures, to look at broader and different perspectives and larger scopes of investigation. Due to the multilayered and multifaceted interactions between team members, effective communication and collaboration among people in multidisciplinary design teams becomes critical to ensure a project’s success, in particular, and for innovation, in general. Research shows that one of the most important aspects of collaboration is effective information sharing—shared knowledge and shared understanding among all team members …
A Proposal For The Web 2.0 Revolution In Online Design Education: Opportunities For Virtual Design Learning Using Social Networking Technologies, Karen Kwan
DRS Biennial Conference Series
New Web 2.0 tools are enabling new avenues for online communication. Social networks that have sprung up from these tools are not only the basis of information dissemination but also a means of sustained learning. Educators are now able to investigate beyond traditional teaching pedagogies and student participation roles. By exploring learning theories and the philosophies of design education, this research proposes a framework for leveraging recent innovations in social networking technologies to facilitate these values in an online environment. Unlike many other subject areas, at the center of design learning is an underlying method of inquiry and dialogue that …
Interactive Tools And Online Communities That Support Media Literacy, Lane Marty Maxwell, Rinnert Gretchen
Interactive Tools And Online Communities That Support Media Literacy, Lane Marty Maxwell, Rinnert Gretchen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Discussions about online media often neglect the engagement and interpretation of these technologies. The Internet has become a primary resource for learning, but schools are often not prepared to train students to understand online content. Outside of the classroom teenagers are active online. Conversely, many schools rely solely on analog tools to teach this already digital generation. This disconnect may result in teenagers who are not prepared to be critical digital citizens. According to research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, teenagers tend to rely on the look of online information to determine credibility. As design software …