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Past, Present, And Future: Understanding The Expanse Of Design For Policy And Governance, Scott Schmidt, Marzia Mortati

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Sponsored as the official track of PoGoSIG, this track aims to critically explore and define the relationship between policy and design. Further, this track will serve as an initial call for papers for the upcoming edited volume of the same subject in the Routledge series ‘Design for Social Responsibility’ edited by Rachel Cooper. The track can be divided into an expanse of three key areas: 1. Past: Resistance Where did design for policy emerge from? Papers that can provide historical overviews of key initiatives that have demonstrated the value of and challenges for design for policy. The papers will provide …

The Importance Of Technology, The Impact Of Innovations And Design In Improving Production Quality In Kosovo., Naim Ostergllava, Mevludin Shabani

UBT International Conference

Today the researches of the manufacturing industry are very challenged to find the vital factors in technology. The importance of technology, innovation, design and quality are challenges for manufacturers. The resources of the manufacturing industry are poor and unpredictable in their sustainability due to the fact that Kosovo has a fairly weak factory infrastructure, perhaps the weakest in the region. Human resources are also a serious problem because they are absorbed by the European market and the main reason is the low salaries that further complicate things in Kosovo. According to the survey and research we have done on the …

Redesigning Of The Multifunctional Mixer By The Ashby Chart Material Selection Method, Mevludin Shabani, Zana Kume Tytynxhiu, Vesa Kuçi

UBT International Conference

People engage in creativity for a multitude of reasons and express it in various ways, often by designing or altering products, processes, or systems. This study specifically focuses on modifying a commonly used kitchen tool by changing its physical characteristics. Our investigation involved examining similar items in order to identify crucial questions pertaining to our objective of modifying the material of a mixing bowl. After evaluating a range of possible materials, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and Polyether (PEEK), were selected, that would enable us to achieve our research goals. To aid in our research, we employed the material selection technique known …

3d Printing Of The Bike Frame Prototype, Betim Shabani, Xhemajl Mehmeti

UBT International Conference

Design is the phase where abstract ideas tend to end up with form and function. There have been a lot of improvements in the last decade in design for 3D Printing. From an advanced manufacturing point of view, 3D Printing is a promising technology to come up with prototypes and products whose geometry is relatively complex, and in some cases when the parts are integrated from several pieces to one. This case can be recognized in the bike frame, which is our case study as an example. The problem that needs to be questioned is: Can we 3D Print the …

Dynamic Personalities For Elderly Care Robots: User-Based Recommendations, Daehun Lee, Kwanmyung Kim, Alisher Saduakas, Ulugbek Vahobjon Ugli Ismatullaev, Joongsoo Kim, Bertha Patricia Barrera Garza

IASDR Conference Series

The increasing population of older people worldwide has led to growth in the silver market. In response to this trend, various elderly care robots have emerged in recent years to provide physical assistance and support to the elderly. However, these robots are limited in their functions as they do not cater to the mental, emotional, and social needs of the elderly. Hence, this paper proposes the development of elderly care robots with personalities that can dynamically communicate with the elderly in uncertain situations throughout their lifetime, thus fulfilling their remaining needs. This research analyzed previous studies on social and elderly …

A Production Pipeline For An Ai-Powered Design Course, Gerry Derksen

IASDR Conference Series

We are entering a period of disruption in design which is up ending the process and in turn changing design education. By extension, the practice and profession will also be changed because of artificial intelligent (AI) tools which use machine learning (ML) technology. Current commercial versions of AI tools have already produced novel results sending a signal to design educators to consider the implications and future of design teaching. This paper introduces a new course being developed at our University in Graphic Communications to develop a pipeline which uses only online AI content generators to produce designs based on a …

Longing For: Exploring Intimacy And Sexual Expression In Long-Term Care Through Participatory Design Approaches, Yoni Maartje Lefévre

IASDR Conference Series

Intimacy and sexual expression are often ignored and silenced in long-term care, failing to respect and protect the sexual health needs of older adults. Residents are often perceived as ‘too old’ to be sexually active due to the dominant youthful image ingrained in Western societies and media. As a result, people living in skilled nursing care experience a lack of intimate relationships, unable to explore their self-autonomy and sexuality. In addition, the acceptance of intimacy in an organizational work environment of a care facility depends on staffs attitudes, knowledge and policy guidelines. The multiple barriers to intimacy in long-term care …

Educating The Attention Of Museum Visitors Through Non-Verbal Art Mediation, Christian Sivertsen, Nikita Mathias, Anders Sundnes Løvlie

IASDR Conference Series

The use of technology in art museums is usually limited to communicating verbal information such as interpretive text and audio guides, or to facilitating social experiences. This paper presents a Research through Design study of an immersive room-scale installation in an art museum. The aim was to afford non-verbal art mediation and educate the attention of museum visitors to certain aspects of a series of paintings. The installation was based on recent art historical research and aimed to use this research to facilitate a new perspective on the artworks. The installation was created through a one-year-long iterative process that involved …

Holding Space For Wellbeing: Care And Ethics Of Exclusion, Irene Kaklopoulou, Pedro Sanches

Nordes Conference Series

In this exploratory paper, we consider how an ethics of care can be applied to designing for health and wellbeing. We start from defining design as a careful assembling around absences and attending to things that are excluded, with the explicit intent of finding alternatives to how bodies are made through design. We discuss the potentials and challenges of holding space for idiosyncratic practices of wellbeing. We show how an ethics of exclusion can be deployed to analyse how we hold space in our own design processes and propose future research pathways.

Design Implications Of Feeling Playful: Play Moods + Atmospheres In Dialogue, Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Shanti Sumartojo

Nordes Conference Series

Based on a research project Play Stories the aim of this paper is to explore how a combination of theories about play moods and concepts of atmosphere can enrich the field of play design. The paper explores pairing through two design experiments. It shows how play’s atmospheric qualities insist that designers attend to how these moods emerge, and the shifts that happens when the moods emerge. The contribution of the paper is: Atmospheres help us understand the dynamic of moods, and we therefore have to design for several moods; atmospheres show us the multiple elements that can configure when designing …

Satellite For Estimating Aquatic Salinity And Temperature (Seasalt) A Payload And Instrumentation Overview, Shreeyam Kacker, Mary Dahl, Albert Thieu, Cadence Payne, Kerri Cahoy, Paul Fucile, Viviane Menezes, Sean Mccarthy

Small Satellite Conference

The Satellite for Estimating Aquatic Salinity and Temperature, or SEASALT, is a 6U CubeSat designed to acquire coastal images to measure Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and to develop and utilize an algorithm to estimate Sea Surface Salinity (SSS). SSS can be retrieved in coastal zones by utilizing atmospherically corrected optical images to retrieve remote sensing reflectance (Rrs). Rrs and SSS can then be empirically related through algorithms specific to different aquatic bodies. Current satellite instruments used for SSS calculations, such as MODIS and VIIRS, have limited revisit times and low spatial resolutions that make it challenging to implement SSS retrieval …

Fragments Of Frictions: A Route To Spatial Manoeuvres For Uplifting Wellbeing In School Environments, Ruth Stevens

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In the context of design for human flourishing (DfHF), this paper reports on a two-week research-by-design-and-built project by master students in (interior) ar-chitecture. A cocktail of qualitative research experiments was executed to function as a seismograph that registered fragments of frictions in the wellbeing of K-8 pupils. This particular study firstly explains how the research cocktail was designed, based on the ethnographic, participatory and immersive methods infused by the theoretical guidelines of DfHF theory, and secondly seeks to reveal how an analysis of the well-being related results from the experiment cocktail can lead to a novel type of design problem …

On The Importance Of An Enlarged ‘Design For Policy’ Framework Within The Public Policy Cycle, Rui Monteiro, Bruno Giesteira, Anne Boddington, Cristina Farinha

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper aims to reinforce the importance of looking at ‘design for policy’ in an enlarged perspective, encompassing the entirety of the public policy cycle. This is substantiated with a re-examination of ‘design for policy’ foundational literature, by highlighting a narrative which we argue to have set its expectations mostly on processes for (co-)creating new policies. In turn, the later stages of the policy cycle have not been getting sufficient attention, leading to an unbalanced ‘design for policy’ approach. We also contrast this interpretation with recent literature, further attesting to its fragmentation. Furthermore, this is analysed considering evidence emerging within …

Studio Through Studio: A Diffractive Reading Of The Educational Design Studio, James Corazzo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This article aims to unsettle familiar notions of the educational design studio by examining how it is different from the professional studio. Both settings share similar routines, practices, and physical features; however, I argue their operations differ in critical ways. By bringing attention to these differences, I hope to open up new perspectives on how learning happens in educational studios and make a case for further material and spatial accounts of learning. I will draw on empirical accounts of professional studios from the book Studio Studies. Wilkie and Farias identify the studio as a sociologically significant yet overlooked setting for …

Weaving Design As A Practice Of Freedom: Critical Pedagogy In An Insurgent Network, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Frederick M.C. Van Amstel, Marco Mazzarotto, Ricardo Artur Carvalho, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Sâmia Batista E Silva, Yasmin Da Silva Menezes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design can be both a practice of freedom or a practice of oppression, depending on who designs and whose intentions are prioritized. When this practice underestimates, excludes, disrespects, or deceives people who are part of oppressed groups, it intensifies oppression. Design as a practice of freedom takes more than a new design method. It requires the union of the oppressed. This paper describes the weaving of the Design & Oppression network, which responded to the growth of political authoritarianism and naive consciousness in design. The network's goal is to establish bonds of solidarity between all struggles against oppression that cut …

Designing For Transitions And Transformations, Femke Coops, Caroline Hummels, Kees Dorst, Bruce Evan Goldstein, Derk Loorbach, İdil Gaziulusoy

DRS Biennial Conference Series

When looking at society, we see transformative change happening as governments, businesses and citizens all try to find their own ways to address the challenges of sustainability. We postulate that these challenges require new radical design approaches and interventions that can unleash the capacity to achieve desired futures, rather than going round in circles and muddling through in our current systems and leaving the underlying challenges untouched. In this conversation, we’ve explored how design can evoke sustainable and just transitions and transformations, with experts working in these fields.

Design For Behaviour Change: Taking The Long View Fast, Kristina Niedderer, Geke Ludden, Shital Desai, Sander Hermsen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The Design for Behaviour Change Group was established in 2014 and seeks to promote knowledge, understanding and action in how to improve sustainable social and environmental change. It researches ways in which design can support ethical and responsible behaviour change to achieve these goals. The current strand for DRS2022 explores methods to address recent opportunities in the light of environmental and health challenges.

Design And Cyberactivism On Social Media During Covid-19 In Brazil, Heloísa Oliveira, Suzete Venturelli

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The article presented below addresses the presence of design, in its intersection with art and technology, in activist actions disseminated and organized through digital social media during the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. To this, four contemporary works of cyberactivism and art-activism in digital social media will be presented and analyzed to obtain a more in-depth insight into how these cases show design, as well as the respective strategies of action in this period, marked by political crises, hyperconnectivity in networks, and social distancing.

“What A Designer Does In A Municipality?” Different Approaches Towards Design In Three Danish Municipalities, Justyna Starostka, Amalia De Götzen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In recent years, design in the public sector has gained popularity amongst policymakers as well as among scholars. Design is perceived as a promising way to create more successful policies and public services. Out of many different approaches, design thinking (DT) has become significantly popular, as it promises to deal with wicked problems in a new way. Despite growing popularity, however, a critical reflection on benefits and challenges, as well as about different understandings of DT practices in public sector, are still lacking. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate different ways public organisations engage and introduce DT. In this paper …

Ceci N’Est Pas Une Chaise: Emerging Practices In Designer-Ai Collaboration, Vera Van Der Burg, Almila Akdag Salah, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Emerging practices of using ‘off the shelf’ AI as a creative partner in design processes are receiving increasing attention in design research. This paper takes the well-known concept of ‘framing’ in design, along with the Schönian concept of ‘surprise’ to explore how a human-AI dialogue could work. The approach taken is practice-based, with the human designer documenting her process of inquiry and decision making. We show how artificial creativity is expressed through misfiring object detection algorithms, and further how these ‘mistakes’ can be perceived and interpreted by the human designer. The contribution of the research is in laying the foundations …

Design Beyond The Human World Of Management And Organizations: Towards A Cosmology For The Anthropocene, Emmanuel Bonnet, Diego Landivar, Alexandre Monnin, Ulises Navarro Aguiar

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, we intend to make explicit the shared ontological foundation of design and management and question them in light of the advent of the Anthropocene. To do so, we first draw these disciplines closer before qualifying their common ground as an underlying “cosmology they share”. This cosmology is characterized by the centrality of the notion of organization. We argue that design as well as design knowledge must be assessed with regards to this peculiar cosmology. We call for the need to go beyond what we call the “monism of organizations” or the “organized world”. We propose a new …

Practicing Sustainability In Consumer Choices, Cynthia Pugh

Sustainability Conference

Practicing Sustainability in Consumer Choices

The issue of sustainability is a global one impacted daily by individual choices. The foundational principles of sustainability and the unified efforts of the global sustainability goals are presented to define the world we want. Sustainability is an intentional core of any product akin to safety by design. This presentation will describe the concept of sustainability by design, designing at all levels, with good intentions and with the goal of abundance.

Due to the availability of corporate sustainability information such as the Global Reporting Initiative or Corporate Social Responsibility, one can comparatively research the …

Tracing Matters Of Scale By Walking With Minerals, Petra Lilja

Nordes Conference Series

Most practices of design are dependent on materials, and an anthropocentric way of thinking matter as mere resource ready to exploit, dominates. This text attempts to counteract that mode of thinking about matter, by walking and thinking-with stones, minerals and fossils in a disused limestone quarry in southern Sweden. The text is folding together thoughts from philosophy of science and vital materialism with insights from the lithic, spatio-temporal scales of sedimented fossil archives of the quarry and situated experiential explorations taking place there. What emerged from the learnings of the minerals, and what this text contributes with, is a proposal …

Raise-2 For Agile On-Orbit Demonstration Of Innovative Satellite Technologies: Program Strategy, Mission Definition, And Preliminary Design, Yuki Tsutsui, Kentaro Nishi, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Matsuaki Kato, Tsuyoshi Toriumi, Yutaka Kaneko, Takanori Iwata

Small Satellite Conference

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has provided the second demonstration opportunity of the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program. In this second mission, JAXA develops the Rapid Innovative Payload Demonstration Satellite-2 (RAISE-2) that carries six components and parts as on-orbit demonstration themes. This paper presents an overview of the RAISE-2’s demonstration themes, mission definition including standard platform specifications, results of Phase-A study and preliminary design.

Design Of An Imaging Payload For Earth Observation From A Nanosatellite, Elliot Saive, Liam Droog, Katelyn Ball, Jari Swanson, Elizabeth Chao, Michael G. Lipsett, Amina E. Hussein, Carlos F. Lange, Bruce F. Cockburn, Duncan G. Elliott

Small Satellite Conference

A compact imaging payload consisting of visible-near infrared and short-wave infrared capability is being developed to demonstrate low-cost wildfire monitoring among other Earth observations. Iris is a 1U multispectral push-broom imager that is capable of generating spectral data pertinent for wildfire science and wildfire risk analysis from a CubeSat platform. This payload is slated to fly on-board Ex-Alta 2, the University of Alberta’s second CubeSat and Alberta’s contribution to the Canadian CubeSat Project, to be deployed from the International Space Station in 2022. Iris features four closely integrated designs: optical, structural, electronics, and firmware. The mechanical and electronic interfaces of …

Optimization Techniques Using Modefrontier - Process Review, Kumar Yogesh Shah, Hakeem Cumberbatch, Lucas Etchart

36th Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics

Optimization is a vital tool to advance the world around us. In order to optimize a variety of design problems, the industry implements the use of a commercial optimization software named modeFRONTIER. It was initially developed as a collaboration between universities, research companies, and private industries in Europe. This software can streamline the design process via its workflow-based environment, multi-objective optimization algorithms, and post-processing tools delivering statistical analysis and data visualization. This provides engineers and researchers with the necessary information for effective decision making in the design process. modeFRONTIER can be coupled with other design tools such as Computer Aided …

Designing For Disability: Making Activities Of Daily Living More Manageable Through 3d Printing, Mashaal Syed, Anne Egan, Denah Appelt

Research Day

Introduction: While there have been many innovations developed for those with physical disabilities in recent years, a multitude of unmet needs still remain. With the advent of new and affordable technologies such as 3D printing, it is now more possible than ever before to bring one’s ideas to life; from creating customized prosthetics to wheelchair attachments for water bottles and umbrellas, we are able to quickly realize potentials otherwise unlikely - and in turn, we have the capacity to make the activities of daily living more manageable for those with physical disabilities.

Objectives: By personally hearing from individuals with physical …

Wabi-Sabi: Improving Mental And Physical Health In The Built Environment, Kyler Sullivan

Student Research Symposium

Japanese design (Wabi-sabi) influences far beyond aesthetics and form; it is instilled in interiors and lifestyles of the people. Philosophies stemming from Shintoism and Japanese Buddhism formed over centuries to create the seven pillars of Wabi-sabi: Kanso (simplicity), Fukinsei (asymmetry), Shibui (beauty in the understated), Shizen (naturalness), Yugen (subtle grace), Datsuzoku (freedom from habit), and Seijaku (tranquility). These principles have been incorporated extensively in Japan for many generations due to their positive effect on mental health and individual spirituality.Mental health has risen to be a high priority among any who deal with the daily stresses of life. In 2013, the …

Why Is The Art Deco Style So Infuential Today?, Madeleine Schappert

Student Research Symposium

The Age of Chic, Jazz Age, Flapper Decade, and lastly the Roaring Twenties, were all appealing names to describe the period of time between World War I and World War II. How the 1920s became such a grand inspiration from then until now is striking. Art Deco, one of the most famous styles of furniture and architecture in history, came out of this period. Even now, a century later, Art Deco is drawn upon for inspiration from artists, designers, and architects around the world. The age of the 20s was a new time for the world to get a better …

Designing For Developmental Education, Michela Staker

Student Research Symposium

Designing in a universal context allows for an environment to be accessible, innovative, and conducive to the success of the user regardless of physical, emotional, or mental capabilities. This project integrates evidence-based design in order to convey a meaningful and uniquely curated environment for children with developmental disorders and/or sensory impairments to thrive in the context of developmental education.This research and design project focuses on the challenge of creating a space where children on the autism spectrum with learning disorders and/or sensory sensitivities feel educationally productive and comfortable with the stimuli around them at any given time. This project delves …