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The Hfg Ulm And Sustainable Design: A Comparative Analysis, Carolina Short, Tomas Garcia Ferrari
The Hfg Ulm And Sustainable Design: A Comparative Analysis, Carolina Short, Tomas Garcia Ferrari
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This article presents a comparative analysis between ideas of the HfG Ulm and the contemporary understanding of Sustainable Design. The Ulmer institution, through an innovative curriculum, an articulated discourse and a significant set of projects, manifested an avant la lettre awareness of social and environmental issues. Through a series of case studies, the research looks at the School’s approach to design problems, focusing on the design for transportation and systems. The purpose is to identify whether the concepts of Sustainable Design were present in these earlier developments. Considering the impact of its legacy, we propose the HfG as a predecessor …
Supporting People With Dementia- Understanding Their Interactions With Mixed Reality Technologies, Shital Desai, Alethea Blackler, Deborah Fels, Arlene Astell
Supporting People With Dementia- Understanding Their Interactions With Mixed Reality Technologies, Shital Desai, Alethea Blackler, Deborah Fels, Arlene Astell
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Emerging technologies such as Mixed Reality Technologies (MRTs) could offer possibilities to support People with Dementia (PWD). This study examined interactions of PWD with two MRTs - HoloLens and Osmo. Ten participants (MoCA = 18 to 23, Age= 63 to 88 years) played a game of Tangram on Osmo. Six of these participants played Young Conker on HoloLens. The study found that PWD used gestural actions in the physical world more correctly than speech. Audio prompts in human voice were more correctly perceived than visual prompts. Physical affordances, embodied actions and familiarity to verbal instructions contribute to this success. Visual …
The Graduate Professional Portfolio As “Synergy Tool”: Navigating The Complex Role Of Portfolios In Future-Focused Design Education, Deanna Meth, Melanie Finger, Dean Brough
The Graduate Professional Portfolio As “Synergy Tool”: Navigating The Complex Role Of Portfolios In Future-Focused Design Education, Deanna Meth, Melanie Finger, Dean Brough
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Development of a new design curriculum at Queensland University of Technology prompted a study to revisit the nature and purpose of portfolios. Always integral to design disciplines, more widely there has been rapid growth of portfolio use for student learning, assessment and showcase, with technological advancements adding impetus for these to move online. This aligns to pedagogic shifts linked to authentic learning, graduate employability, and fostering twenty-first century graduate capabilities such as collaboration and communication. Research findings conceptualise a Graduate Professional Portfolio as a living, digital “universal archive” for students’ storage, presentation of, and reflection on design processes and outputs, …
Fixperts: Models, Learning And Social Contexts, Paul Micklethwaite, Daniel Charny, Maya Alvarado, Julia Cassim, Yumei Dong, Ian De Vere
Fixperts: Models, Learning And Social Contexts, Paul Micklethwaite, Daniel Charny, Maya Alvarado, Julia Cassim, Yumei Dong, Ian De Vere
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Fixperts is a learner-centred, creative-problem-solving and project-based learning programme. In a Fixperts project, participants (Fixperts) team-up with an insight provider (Fix Partner) to identify a daily problem in the Fix Partner’s life that becomes the focus of a project aimed at delivering a solution or Fix. This paper introduces four pedagogic models developed via delivery of Fixperts projects at leading international design universities. It presents four approaches to the challenge of moving from the Person, to the Problem, to the Fix. These four models – Primary, Partnerships, Community, Public - represent the evolution of the Fixperts framework to better enable …
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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
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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
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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 …
The Search Of The Unpredictable – The Process Of Drawing, Michael Renner
The Search Of The Unpredictable – The Process Of Drawing, Michael Renner
DRS Biennial Conference Series
With the aim of shedding light on practical procedures of imagination, this paper is focusing on the analysis of experimental drawing processes. They were conducted in order to provide a basis for the discussion of the relationship between the gesture of drawing and the dispositions of the designer formed by inherited conditions, the socio-cultural framework and individual experiences (Damasio, 1999). With this approach of practice-led iconic research, it is not the goal to develop generalized descriptions for any innovation process as the Design Methods Movement of the 1960s once proposed, but to differentiate between conditions supporting or inhibiting the development …
Mentian: Developing Design Fiction For Dementia Policy, Andy Darby, Emmanuel Tsekleves
Mentian: Developing Design Fiction For Dementia Policy, Andy Darby, Emmanuel Tsekleves
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Acknowledging the challenges placed on healthcare by an ageing population, governments around the world are introducing policies on ageing and age-related illnesses. As emergent technologies and the UK government’s policies mix and shape our futures there are numerous potential consequences and implications for people living with dementia, their carers, families and society at large. The ‘What If?’ project investigated the use of participatory design fictions to explore the future implications of UK dementia policy. A series of codesign workshops were conducted in the UK. The authors facilitated the workshops; participants included staff from a Voluntary Sector Organisation (VSO), a group …
Co-Creating Happy Moments: A Case Study Of Designing For People With Mental Health Challenges, Hong Li, Yiyun Zha, Jie Zhao
Co-Creating Happy Moments: A Case Study Of Designing For People With Mental Health Challenges, Hong Li, Yiyun Zha, Jie Zhao
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We all have to consider the importance of mental health, which just as with physical health can cause us to feel ill, unwell and ostracized from our community. However, the stereotypes and prejudice that result from misconceptions about mental problems appears to form an impassive and invisible barrier between the people with mental health challenges and the public who is less willing to interact with them. As three researchers respectively from service design, visual communication and art education, we undertook collaborative interdisciplinary design as a strategy, in order to explore a participatory approach to engage with our participants, namely, an …
Developing Chilean Teaching Capability Through Design Thinking, Catalina Cortés, Úrsula Bravo, Maritza Rivera, María Jesús Honorato, Peter Lloyd, Derek Jones
Developing Chilean Teaching Capability Through Design Thinking, Catalina Cortés, Úrsula Bravo, Maritza Rivera, María Jesús Honorato, Peter Lloyd, Derek Jones
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The current state of economic development of Chile requires human capital with thinking skills such as, analytical thinking, creative problem solving, and collaboration; all skills deployed extensively during the design process. At the primary and secondary school level, this problem is not solved only with curricular changes, but requires teacher training and support. There is empirical evidence that the international application of design thinking has been successful in education among students and teachers. However, directly importing such models may not be effective given the particularities of the Chilean education system. This paper reports a research project that sought to identify …
Using Design Competencies To Define Curricula And Support Learners, John Fass, Job Rutgers, Mo-Ling Chui
Using Design Competencies To Define Curricula And Support Learners, John Fass, Job Rutgers, Mo-Ling Chui
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This paper presents findings from design research related to a Design Competency Framework (DCF). The DCF is a visually-oriented system for developing curricula in design and is an example of the application of design research to design education. The DCF is divided into a set of sixteen categories including core skills, such as visualisation, and meta competencies such as synthesis. These are presented in the form of a matrix. We see three distinct advantages of using such a system. Firstly the DCF is personalisable at various scales such as individuals, units, courses, and programs. Secondly it is student centred - …
Graphic Design Research: A Cause For The Concerned, Robert George Harland, James Corazzo, Ian Gwilt, Alison Honnor, Steve Rigley
Graphic Design Research: A Cause For The Concerned, Robert George Harland, James Corazzo, Ian Gwilt, Alison Honnor, Steve Rigley
DRS Biennial Conference Series
There is an immediate need to clarify and develop the role of graphic design research for the theoretical underpinning of graphic design education. A report that accompanied the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) described ‘the intellectual and theoretical underpinning of graphic and communication design’ as ‘generically weak’. We report on progress about a project designed to identify and map graphic design outputs from REF2014, involving both a data analysis of the ‘Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory’ submissions, and focus group research with graphic design academics designed to elicit feedback on the emergent themes being addressed by the …
Conversation: Have We Reached Peak Design Thinking? Are We Entering A New Paradigm For How It Is Used Within Practice And Business?, Michelle Douglas, Louise Kiernan, John Spruce, Annmarie Ryan
Conversation: Have We Reached Peak Design Thinking? Are We Entering A New Paradigm For How It Is Used Within Practice And Business?, Michelle Douglas, Louise Kiernan, John Spruce, Annmarie Ryan
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No abstract provided.
Editorial: Ethics, Values, And Designer Responsibility, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, Ann Light, John Vines
Editorial: Ethics, Values, And Designer Responsibility, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, Ann Light, John Vines
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No abstract provided.
Examining The Professional Codes Of Design Organisations, Peter Buwert
Examining The Professional Codes Of Design Organisations, Peter Buwert
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Many of the professional organisations within the various fields of design activity publish professional codes of ethics in one form or another. This paper opens up a discussion of the role which professional codes might play in relation to the ethicality of design activity. A framework for understanding the roles and functions which professional codes may play is constructed using concepts drawn from the literature on professional codes. The content of fourteen professional codes issued by design organisations is presented and examined. There does appear to be a broad consensus across the content of the codes examined. However, the matter …
The Ethics And Values Of Visual Communication Strategies In European Advertisements In 21st Century Western And Islamic Culture, Ilze Loza
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This research analyses interaction of graphic design, advertising and visual communication strategies between Middle East and Europe. Economic, political, and globalization processes from the Middle East have migrated into Europe by way of Muslim immigrants and asylum seekers, while social and cultural integration of minorities has been a primary focus of Western 21st century culture. This research provides an analysis of the ethics and values of visual communication strategies in advertisement design in Europe based on Western and Islamic cultures, taking into consideration the principles and ethics used to communicate with Islamic audiences. Emphasis was placed on advertising design and …
Olivetti’S New Canaan Electronic Laboratory: When Design Meets Computing, Rocha João
Olivetti’S New Canaan Electronic Laboratory: When Design Meets Computing, Rocha João
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The development of computer technology and its application by architectural research centres is a recent area of study. Initial research focused on the early work in design and computation that took place in university centres, their key figures and the theoretical and practical advances. Within this context, this paper aims to unveil the historical role played by the Olivetti Company and its Electronics Research Laboratory in New Canaan, US in shaping the first fully transistorized computer in the world and also in inaugurating multidisciplinary design research within the field. Founded in 1952, the laboratory worked closely with its main headquarters …
Formgiving To Feminist Futures As Design Activism, Maryam Heidaripour, Laura Forlano
Formgiving To Feminist Futures As Design Activism, Maryam Heidaripour, Laura Forlano
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design activism is the enforcement of positive socio-political change by intervening in daily lives. In this paper, we argue that ‘formgiving’ to futures--design interventions such as physical objects, embodied experiences, and affective engagements--is an activist practice with the unique qualities of engaging participants and facilitating the co-creation of alternatives. Central to our exploration is the question of how to participate in the work of generating new ways of conceptualizing, materializing, and experiencing alternative futures. Drawing on feminist theory and, in particular, its profound commitment to social justice, we discuss three core dimensions that are relevant to the practice of ‘formgiving’ …
A Co-Experience Toolkit: Investigating The Issues Of The Pavement Environment And The Relationship With Elderly Pedestrians, Lulu Yin, Eujin Pei
A Co-Experience Toolkit: Investigating The Issues Of The Pavement Environment And The Relationship With Elderly Pedestrians, Lulu Yin, Eujin Pei
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Pedestrian pavements play an important role in assisting or restricting the quality of walking. Poorly designed and maintained pavements may pose a challenge to the walking experience of older adults. This research aims to investigate pavement problems and their effects on elderly pedestrians. An empirical study was conducted in London with 41 older people aged over 60 who were fit to walk. In this study, we classified 16 influencing factors of the pavements and four adverse effects of them and identified 13 behaviours that elderly pedestrians displayed when they encountered the pavement factors. In addition, 17 recommendations were proposed in …
User Empowerment By Design: A New Domestic Electricity Consumption Model. A Case Study Of Young Urban Tenants, Sagit Dominitz, Elad Persov
User Empowerment By Design: A New Domestic Electricity Consumption Model. A Case Study Of Young Urban Tenants, Sagit Dominitz, Elad Persov
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The energy sector paradigm with the power station on the one end, and the passive consumer on the other end, is becoming obsolete. This paper offers a rethink of domestic electricity consumption: from the worldview where the electricity provider is the sole manager of the process via its interfaces, and acting out of self-interest, to a broad view of sustainable development. The domestic electricity consumption management system presented in this paper deals with the Democratisation of managing electricity consumption, and dismantling an information monopoly by transferring knowledge and responsibility to the users, thus increasing the possibility for sustainable consumption. Design …
The Future Of Heuristic Fossils, Simon T. Downs, Claire A. Lerpiniere
The Future Of Heuristic Fossils, Simon T. Downs, Claire A. Lerpiniere
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The authors propose that while many fields of design are involved in reflexive interactions with design research tools, others are strongly heuristic in both their application of historic knowledge bases and in the ways in which they allow themselves to move forward, to construct new knowledge as an extension of craft thinking with user-centred evidence. These historical frames become a limiting factor in both the ways that practice can develop but also, more worryingly, in the ways in which these fields can develop their own research tools.
Designing Inwith Black Box Technologies And Pd, Arthi Manohar, Jo Briggs
Designing Inwith Black Box Technologies And Pd, Arthi Manohar, Jo Briggs
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Building on prior work we examine design research challenges posed by working with new technological applications of Blockchain within multidisciplinary research. Drawing from recent design research of others, we articulate the value – and associated challenges – of Participatory Design creative approaches involving co- design of similar ‘black box’ technologies. We go on to report on three workshops, including one in which we invited technologists and designers to work together to talk through and materially represent their tacit understandings of how two Blockchain applications – BITNATION and Trust Stamp – work. We demonstrate how creative methods are useful in enabling …
Tacit Synthesis: Typography As Research, Jilian Coorey, Aoife Mooney
Tacit Synthesis: Typography As Research, Jilian Coorey, Aoife Mooney
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The designer of today is solving complex problems. Among other skills, the literacy of other disciplines, the ability to be nimble in practice, engage in participatory design, and the capacity to interpret and synthesize research is imperative. For this study, we were intent on fostering a research-driven classroom, specifically in relation to typography. To expand student horizons, we’ve implemented the International Society of Typographic Designers briefs, providing a platform of research, innovation and conceptual thinking. Students typographically interpret a text, curating and authoring content. In implementing an inquiry-based learning methodology, research dictates form, rather than relying on typographic trends. Limiting …
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
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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 …