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Conversation: Lexicon Live: Performing The Discursive Space Around Keywords, Liesbeth Fit, Fortuyn Irene Droogleever, Paolo Patelli, Yoko Akama, Donato Ricci
Conversation: Lexicon Live: Performing The Discursive Space Around Keywords, Liesbeth Fit, Fortuyn Irene Droogleever, Paolo Patelli, Yoko Akama, Donato Ricci
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The Critical Design Exhibition: An Epistemic Space, Gillian Russell
The Critical Design Exhibition: An Epistemic Space, Gillian Russell
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The overall objective of this paper is to position the critical design exhibition as a context of discovery – a material space for thinking – distancing itself from the more didactic forms of exhibitions that still dominate practice today, and to pose ways to establish a far more dynamic and open relation between critical design and its staging. What will follow will be an examination of critical design as a form of research which seeks not so much to make explicit knowledge production but rather to provide a space for thinking. Consequently critical design is an open undertaking centred on …
How Consumers Read The Visual Presentation Of Food Packaging Design In A Cross-Cultural Context: A Conceptual Framework And Case Study, Linna Hu, Hua Dong
How Consumers Read The Visual Presentation Of Food Packaging Design In A Cross-Cultural Context: A Conceptual Framework And Case Study, Linna Hu, Hua Dong
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How consumers understand products is based largely on their communication with the products, which is significantly influenced not only by the consumers’ cultural background but also by the cultural context where the communication happens. This paper viewed consumers as readers who play active roles in the dynamic structure of communication and discussed how cultural factors affect consumers in reading design. Companies are now striving to create visually desirable products that can be universally recognized in the increasingly global marketplace. ‘Lao Gan Ma’, the most popular chilli sauce brand in China, was introduced as a case study in this paper. In …
Do Professionals With Different Backgrounds Use Distinct Thinking Styles When Designing A Product?, Roberta Rech Mandelli, Valentina Marques Rosa, Flavio Sanson Fogliatto, Priscila Brust-Renck, Leandro Miletto Tonetto
Do Professionals With Different Backgrounds Use Distinct Thinking Styles When Designing A Product?, Roberta Rech Mandelli, Valentina Marques Rosa, Flavio Sanson Fogliatto, Priscila Brust-Renck, Leandro Miletto Tonetto
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A thinking style refers to a person’s preferred way to process and react to different situations. Since they have an impact on performance and should be viewed as fluid, some environments may benefit from specific thinking styles to optimize results and the use of resources. In this paper we present a study indicating which thinking style professionals with different backgrounds (engineers, designers, and architects) favour when designing a product. For that, we used the Concept Design Thinking Style Inventory (CD-TSI). Results showed that engineers favour the conditional thinking style (accepting opinions from others without questioning them), designers prefer the exploring …
Challenges In Barbadian Design Education – When Graphic Design & Product Development Collide, Shelly Mayers
Challenges In Barbadian Design Education – When Graphic Design & Product Development Collide, Shelly Mayers
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The Barbados Community College’s BFA Programme in Graphic Design has been in existence for over 20 years. The year 2009 marked a shift in design application, with pockets of students using graphic design as a catalyst to develop products that are potentially marketable. The current economic climate has made it harder for students to be employed in agencies and studios. One would anticipate that they would follow through in creating new spaces for themselves as designers, i.e. developing products as viable sources of income in a struggling economy, but sadly most do not. Through an exploration of case studies ranging …
Prototyping Multispecies Environments: Attentiveness And Friction As Modes Of Knowing, Martin Tironi, Pablo Hermansen
Prototyping Multispecies Environments: Attentiveness And Friction As Modes Of Knowing, Martin Tironi, Pablo Hermansen
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This article is based on the process of prototyping an environmental enrichment device for gibbons at the National Zoo of Chile (ZNdC). We analyse the capacity of prototyping to make the ontological qualities of the entities involved perceptible while precipitating forms of care and connection. We will show that the very process of prototyping favours the mise en scène of an interspecies environment, sheltering the delicate unfolding of an ‘us’ that is based on mutual care and attention. We argue that this unfolding transforms prototyping into a cosmopolitical place for exercising modes of correspondence between humans, non-humans and environments. In …
Conversation: Transforming Design: Indigeneity And Mestizaje In Latin America, Gabriela Hernández, Maria Rogal, Raúl Sánchez
Conversation: Transforming Design: Indigeneity And Mestizaje In Latin America, Gabriela Hernández, Maria Rogal, Raúl Sánchez
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Conversation: ‘Conversing With Materials’ -How Do We Converse With Materials And Other Beings To Co-Design Equitably?, Jane Norris, Elvin Karana, Nithikul Nimkulrat
Conversation: ‘Conversing With Materials’ -How Do We Converse With Materials And Other Beings To Co-Design Equitably?, Jane Norris, Elvin Karana, Nithikul Nimkulrat
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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
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Critique And Post-Critique In Social Innovation Projects: Between Speculation And Realism, Sissel Olander
Critique And Post-Critique In Social Innovation Projects: Between Speculation And Realism, Sissel Olander
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This paper discusses notions of critique, post-critique, speculation and realism, as it reflects through a practice-based design research project, which worked as part of a bigger Danish public innovation program with the involvement of citizens in the design of a new library and cultural house under construction. Specifically, the paper sets out to challenge what seems to be a dichotomous “either-or” thinking in the descriptions and analyses of practice-based design research projects. Accounts of design research that operates in overlapping landscapes of academia, public sector and business are often depicted as too solution-orientated and therefore not reflexive, too engaged and …
The Beauty Of Making Hot Chocolate - An Enquiry On Designing For Everyday Rituals, Pierre Lévy
The Beauty Of Making Hot Chocolate - An Enquiry On Designing For Everyday Rituals, Pierre Lévy
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The everyday is often mentioned in design, yet hardly inquired. The everyday is about what is banal, infraordinary, not memorable, as well as about the force that makes things habitual, endotic. In the research encompassing this paper, we question the everyday and explore opportunities to enchant it by design. This paper focuses more specifically on the design of everyday rituals, and aims to propose a descriptive framework to ‘read’ and compose such rituals. The elaboration of the framework is done based on a case study: the making of a hot chocolate in the morning. Through an autoethnographical approach, the main …
The Road To Happiness Is Paved With Playful Intentions, Jesper Legaard
The Road To Happiness Is Paved With Playful Intentions, Jesper Legaard
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Through exploring the relation between designing for happiness and designing for play experiences, the paper proposes key elements that constitute meaningful play experiences. The paper proposes that designing for playfulness may also lead to more meaningfully engaging experiences. Meaningful experiences emerge when the activities of the experience comply with the interests, passions and goals of the person having the experience, by which meaningfulness is naturally linked to intrinsic motivation. This is true also for play activities, which are typically defined by e.g. being voluntary activities. Building on conditions for meaningful experiences, the author addresses the element of playfulness as a …
Critical Placemaking: Towards A More Critical Engagement For Participatory Design In The Urban Environment, Tania Allen, Sara Glee Queen
Critical Placemaking: Towards A More Critical Engagement For Participatory Design In The Urban Environment, Tania Allen, Sara Glee Queen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper offers a framework for design research that invites civic participation in the construction of place, and aims to reignite the conversation Nigel Cross raised in 1971 as a part of the first proceeding of the Design Research Society, calling on a need for user participation and intentional boundary-crossing. The need for new methods is no more evident than in the field of urban design. As global populations are migrating at unprecedented rates, new and different ideas and cultures are integrating and colliding at a high velocity. Additionally, the digital tools we use to understand and navigate urban environments …
Design For Profit Or Prosper, Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen
Design For Profit Or Prosper, Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Over the past decade, it has become increasingly popular to position design as an excellent tool for companies and organisations to foster innovation and growth. As an adaptable practice design can be applied to serve many ends, and in the field of sustainable transition design has the potential to create new solutions due to its capacity to ‘reframe’ large-scale problems of a ‘wicked’ nature. However, as we will argue in this paper, the innovation and change promoted through design risks becoming merely a vehicle for promoting the values associated with 20th century neoliberal capitalism. We therefore want to question the …
Culture-Orientated Food Design For Social Issue, Yinman Guo, Tie Ji
Culture-Orientated Food Design For Social Issue, Yinman Guo, Tie Ji
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Cultural globalization threatens cultural diversity, especially for minority cultures and ethnic cultures. In response to the fading of cultural identities, there is rare literature discussing how design can contribute. Through integrating the cultural significance of food and food design methods, the paper proposes a culture-oriented food design model to strengthen cultural identity and create connections. A case study of designing a delivery service of Chinese food for the second-generation Chinese Americans is presented to solve their identity crisis through the process of defining user, content, experience, and design around culture respectively. Feedback from target users shows that the cultural meaning …
Soma-Wearable Design: Integrating Somaesthetic Practice And Fashion Design For Somatic Wellbeing, Heekyoung Jung, Anna Ståhl
Soma-Wearable Design: Integrating Somaesthetic Practice And Fashion Design For Somatic Wellbeing, Heekyoung Jung, Anna Ståhl
DRS Biennial Conference Series
With advanced technologies and raised expectations for the quality of life, research and design attempts are increasing to promote wellbeing. While data-based reflective practice and behaviour change have been a main strategy in supporting technology- mediated wellbeing, we bring the perspectives of somaesthetic practice and fashion design to complement this research scene. Assuming that body consciousness could positively influence self-perception, presentation and performance through clothing, we propose soma-wearable design as an alternative approach to explore qualities that elaborate and promote somatic wellbeing. First, we conceptualize constructive links between design for reflection, somaesthetic practice, and style-fashion-dress; and re- interpret the core …
Have I Got A Proposition For You: Developing The Capability For Compelling Arguments Through Rhetorical Practice Inthe Design Studio, Veronika Kelly, Myra Thiessen
Have I Got A Proposition For You: Developing The Capability For Compelling Arguments Through Rhetorical Practice Inthe Design Studio, Veronika Kelly, Myra Thiessen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designers draw implicitly on rhetorical modes of appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) in the way they talk about their work in terms of its strategic, social, and cultural impact. Rhetorical practice on its own, however, may not align with an ethical position. Yet design’s increasing emphasis on values, behaviours, and social action indicates a practice that requires expertise in formulating compelling design propositions that inspire people to act. This has significance for design education in relation to developing learners’ capabilities in making more compelling arguments for their design work that emphasise the social and ethical impact of design in use. This …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Introduction: Objects, Practices, Experiences And Networks, Tom Fisher, Lorraine Gammanb
Introduction: Objects, Practices, Experiences And Networks, Tom Fisher, Lorraine Gammanb
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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 …
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 …
Responsibility In Design: Applying The Philosophy Of Gilbert Simondon, Sander Mulder
Responsibility In Design: Applying The Philosophy Of Gilbert Simondon, Sander Mulder
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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 …
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. …
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
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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 …