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Mining Conflict, Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Justice: The Case Of Phulbari Coal Project In Bangladesh, Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan

PhD Dissertations

My doctoral dissertation, an in-depth case study of the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh, accentuates the interests and engagements of Indigenous peoples (Adibasi people) in the decisionmaking process in resource extractive industries through an environmental justice framework. My primary aim is to observe how and to what extent Indigenous peoples’ interests are reflected in official environmental decision-making processes versus how they frame their own claims in a mining conflict situation. I employ extensive qualitative research in the project area to demonstrate how Adibasi communities articulate and implement their claims through raising their voices and ultimately stimulating a movement that stopped …

Drs2020 Editorial: Synergy And Experiential Knowledge In Collaboration – The Experiential Knowledge Sig, Nithikul Nimkulrat

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The selected papers for the EKSIG section at the DRS 2020: Synergy present case studies that address tacit knowledge generated and communicated in the processes of making and designing that take place as collaborations, in one way or another, between the maker and the material, the maker and the designer, or the maker and the user.

Educating For Design Character In Higher Education: Challenges In Studio Pedagogy, Elizabeth Boling, Colin M. Gray, Kennon M. Smith

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Some particular challenges in studio pedagogy arise from teaching for design character versus focusing solely on skills, knowledge or the cognitive processes of our students. In this paper, three authors with extensive combined experience in studio learning, teaching, and scholarship address these challenges via reflection on our own experiences of research and teaching and in-depth discussion with each other. We adopt a co/autoethnographic approach (Coia & Taylor, 2009), identifying a range of challenges we have faced ourselves across three established and emergent design disciplines. These challenges are grouped in relationship to students, to curriculum, to our colleagues, and to ourselves. …

The Future Of Design Process Research? Exploring Process Theory And Methodology, Frithjof E. Wegener, Philip Cash

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design processes are at the heart of design research. Current design research at the micro- and macro-level has led to profound insights about designing. However, missing are design process research approaches that are able to theorize between (meso-level) and beyond levels of analysis. This fragmentation of process research and theory across levels hampers research synthesis and theory development. In this paper we illustrate the limitations of current design research methodologies to analyse and theorize process. Specifically, the issue lies in the challenge of analysing and theorizing the temporal embeddedness of data in the overall design process. We introduce a Process …

Challenges And Opportunities In Conducting And Applying Design Research Beyond Global North To The Global South, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Andy Darby, Collins Ahorlu, Roger Pickup, Dziedzom De Souza, Daniel Boakye

DRS Biennial Conference Series

With an increase in international projects, comes increased opportunities for design researchers to contribute to research that tackles Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South. Nevertheless, the role of design within this context is disparate and detached, with very limited design literature on the subject. As such, this paper has identified the key challenges and barriers that design researchers face in conducting and applying design research in a Global South Context. Based on a workshop with design research experts doing research in Global South, the literature and lessons learnt from running a design-led project in Ghana, we are presenting and …

Material Connections In Craft Making: The Case Of Felting, Bilge Merve Aktaş, Maarit Mäkelä, Tarja-Kaarina Laamanen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This study examined a creative practice, namely felting, to explore the daily practices and encounters of felt makers. The study aimed at understanding the material connections of felt-making that are not limited to the making process. To examine how practices of felt makers emerge in connection to materials, we employed the material engagement theory as our perspective. The data was collected through interviews with eight felt makers and participant observation at two studios in Turkey. The analysis revealed how felt makers think between things, people, space and time and develop their practices accordingly. These findings illuminated a holistic and insightful …

Whiteness In Design Practice: The Need To Prioritize Process Over Artefact., Meghan Kelly

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This article will interrogate the issues associated with non-Indigenous designers working with Indigenous knowledges in commercial design practice. It will analyze the position of ‘whiteness’ to appreciate the ongoing impact of colonialism on Indigenous representation and identity creation. The article attests there are times when non-Indigenous input into design outcomes is not suitable. However, if non-Indigenous engagement in the design process offers benefit to Indigenous stakeholders, the International Indigenous Design Charter serves as a guiding document on the best practices to follow. There is still a concern that regardless of the extensive consultation, strong industry support and the best intentions …

Enhancing The Student Learning Experience Through Engagement With Community: A Transdisciplinary And Collaborative Approach To Wil, Petra Perolini, Naomi Hay

DRS Biennial Conference Series

LiveSpace is a transdisciplinary work-integrated learning (WIL) design studio unit at Griffith University. The studio has worked on a broad spectrum of community engagement projects from its inception in 2014. Design staff mentor students in a scaffolded WIL environment allowing for authentic engagement with community, industry, government and not-for-profit groups for an enhanced student learning experience. As such, collaborative approaches to live projects are examined for potential benefits to learning and teaching, student engagement, and to the wider community. This paper provides an overview of the studio, outlines the team development phase and participant involvement, highlights two highly successful community …

Preserving Sequential Context: Developing Participatory Video Analysis Practice, Sarah Matthews, Awais Hameed Khan, Marie Boden, Stephen Viller

DRS Biennial Conference Series

An open challenge for participatory design research is how to engage users and other stakeholders early in the design process, not only as informants, but as participants in the analysis of field data, prior to the formulation of design problems. Involving novice analysts introduces additional complexity as they are simultaneously domain experts but with little time available to engage with activities that do not directly inform their practice. In this paper, we develop methods that balance making data-rich video analysis accessible, whilst preserving enough of the sequential context of the video so that novice analysts can make informed judgements. We …

Grappling With Diversity In Research Through Design, Boudewijn Boon, Ehsan Baha, Abhigyan Singh, Frithjof E. Wegener, Marco C. Rozendaal, Pieter Jan Stappers

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Since its introduction, Research through Design (RtD) has taken on a wide variety of forms. Currently, there is a lack of clarity about what connects and separates different RtD approaches. Several attempts have been made to clarify these matters, often in the form of a top-down categorization. Here we start on a different path, one that is open for different points of view and grounded in the ongoing concerns and needs of RtD practitioners. Over a two-month period, we engaged a local research community in weekly discussions about RtD in their work. Thoughts and questions were posted on a dedicated …

Empowering Artisans Through Design: A Case Study On The Dynamics Of Collaborative Projects, Estelle Berger

DRS Biennial Conference Series

A growing stream of design research investigates collaborations between artisans and designers, making the case for balanced and systemic approaches. In reality though, such initiatives rarely provoke new understanding or open new perspectives. This research enquiry seeks to address the gap between theory and practice by analysing the dynamics of co-design projects. A guiding framework was built from the literature, composed of three structuring poles: know-how, materials and concepts. Field study was conducted at a French association offering an insertion program to immigrant artisans, which includes a collaborative project with designers. Data was collected through participatory observation and phenomenographic interviews. …

The Sum Is The Realisation Of The Parts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Care, Laurene Vaughan, Sarah Pink, Melisa Duque, Shanti Sumartojo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Designing through the paradigm of care and for care, is a complex and perhaps precarious activity. It is a domain of design research and practice that is best undertaken through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this paper we reflect on the dimensions of an interdisciplinary design evaluation of a psychiatric care facility from four disciplinary perspectives. Through this discussion we propose that it is the disciplinary and methodological diversity of the research team in conjunction with the research participants, that enables us to develop a comprehensive view of the care facility, and the nature of designing for care more broadly. In short …

Mutuality And Reciprocity: Foregrounding Relationships In Design And Social Innovation, Viola Petrella, Joyce Yee, Rachel E Clarke

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Although the importance of interpersonal relationships to processes of design and social innovation (D&SI) has been acknowledged, there is limited research in identifying what constitutes a relational approach in D&SI. In spite of their importance for relationship formation and maintenance, questions of respect, reciprocity, power and trust –and their intersection with various cultural practices– are often left untouched in design discourse. This paper reports early findings from interviews with design and social innovation practitioners in the Asia Pacific region, detailing the significance of putting relationships first, establishing mutuality and building reciprocity. The paper contributes insights into how practitioners perceive relationships …

Design Considerations For The Transformative Reuse Of A Japanese Temple, Guy Keulemans, Josh Harle, Kyoko Hashimoto, Liam Mugavin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper concerns the transformative reuse of materials from a derelict Japanese Buddhist temple in a transcultural context. The process of 3D scanning and photogrammetry modelling for a virtual experience of the building and its furnishings is described in reference to the development of a later study: the proposal to test the reuse of materials by international team of designers working remotely with digital models. The capacity for designers using digital data and metadata to inform transformative reuse applied locally in Japan, via either handcraft or robotic fabrication, is discussed as a challenge for virtual embodiment and craft knowledge. The …

Design Education For The Knowledge Society: An Action Research Study Of Implementing A Liberal Arts Approach To Industrial Design Education, Luke Feast

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Educationists have argued that professional design education has come to function as an alternative form of general liberal arts education. However, professional design education has not fully embraced the liberal arts model of education for democratic citizenship. More often design education teaches skills for maximizing economic growth. I investigated the implications of the liberal arts approach to design education by conducting action research in an industrial design program at a public university. The insights reveal that shifting from skills-based vocational training to knowledge-based liberal education is not only a matter of implementing different pedagogical methods, there may also be changes …

Studying Material Interactions To Facilitate A Sense Of Being With The World, Bilge Merve Aktas, Camilla Groth

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Material interactions are fundamental to design and craft education; however, they might also provide opportunities to reflect on sustainable behaviour in general. In this paper, we present an interdisciplinary undergraduate course in which students interacted with clay and wool. By engaging novices in material-based craft processes, we examined renewed ways of experiencing the materials to reconsider our everyday material interactions and our dependency and responsibilities in regard to materials in general. Through this example, we discuss the potential of craft practice as an educational platform to discuss materiality and to facilitate a deeper and more holistic understanding of the consequences …

The Method Of Immersive Behavioural Observation (Ibo) — A Conversation Between Theory And Practice, Shalini Sahoo, Stefan W. Schmidt

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Observational field work is an essential part of design research. In this paper we introduce a new method for design research called Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO). We developed the IBO method in order to analyse meaningful bodily relations to our environment, particularly in transit spaces. Human beings constantly interact with their environment and are often unconsciously guided by their surroundings. The IBO method aims to understand relations that point to a background structure embedded in space which shapes the human interaction in it. The method makes explicit an implicit, tacit knowledge that is part of our practical and purpose driven …

Under Construction: Reimagining Health And Safety Communication For Multilingual Workers In Qatar, Denielle Janine Emans

DRS Biennial Conference Series

As Qatar races to complete development projects in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the country’s construction sector continues to face criticisms regarding its treatment of migrant workers. This criticism is compounded by nominal safety legislation at the national level and the need for accessible occupational health and safety (OHS) media on worksites. Adding to these concerns, there is currently no comprehensive approach to ensure the effective communication of vital health and safety information to workers with limited English/Arabic proficiency or low literacy skills. In light of these concerns, this paper describes a pilot study that brings together the …

A Framework For Designing For Divergent Values, Marina Bos-De Vos

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Designers increasingly collaborate with other actors to deliver designs that address diverse stakeholder needs. Such multidisciplinary design processes revolve around integrating various, often divergent values, including the ideals that collaborating actors have, and the different kinds of worth that they attempt to realize. As values are multidimensional and continuously in flux, the process of designing for divergent values requires conscious action. Existing theories of values and methods for integrating diverse, possibly competing values are still scattered across disciplines, leaving designers with little overview and handles for what they have to deal with. Synthesizing insights from workshops with architects and literature …

Designing Six Dimensions Of Intercultural Teamwork: A Next-Gen Challenge In Co-Creation Processes, Kelly Murdoch-Kitt, Denielle J. Emans, Bruna Oewel

DRS Biennial Conference Series

By examining remote collaboration as a design problem, this paper provides a rationale for the Six Dimensions of Intercultural Teamwork, a new framework to help teammates understand various differences such as how they build trust, exchange information, and cope with creative abrasion. Collaborative work intensifies when teammates are diverse in mindsets, cultural backgrounds, disciplines, and approaches to problems and projects. Stumbling blocks can also grow when teammates work remotely or are working with each other for the first time. Design processes can help remote teams improve the way they work together by introducing systemic thinking, promoting physical and iterative processes, …

Multispecies Cohabitation And Future Design, Stanislav Roudavski

DRS Biennial Conference Series

How should humans live with animals and other forms of life? Could responses to this question improve the health and wellbeing of the biosphere? This paper argues that design researchers ought to engage nonhuman lifeforms as collaborators: informants and co-designers, or clients and users. Inspired by recent design challenges involving birds, bats and trees, this paper positions emancipatory multispecies cohabitation as a goal that can alleviate ongoing biodiversity losses and human-wildlife conflicts, in cities and beyond. It opens an interdisciplinary conversation by translating emerging scholarship in ethics, politics, and aesthetics to a narrative about desirable more-than-human cultures. This discussion has …

The Role Of Narrative Thinking In Design：Taking The Mathematical Hall Of The London Science Museum As An Example, He Xiuchuan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In daily life, people are accustomed to using narrative thinking to understand, communicate and disseminate information naturally and flexibly. Applying narrative thinking to design is a practical and powerful strategy; here, narrative thinking is the default method and mechanism that supports design. This article combines the research results of narrative and narrative thinking in literature and psychology, and draws on and compares the research methods of design thinking to roughly outline the characteristic framework of narrative thinking purpose, process, cognition and evaluation. It then further integrates the characteristics of narrative thinking into the specific case of the Mathematics Hall of …

Youth Participatory Research Evidence To Inform Health Policy: A Systematic Review Protocol, Janet Njelesani, Jean Hunleth

Open Access Publications

INTRODUCTION: Young people's participation in health research produces knowledge that is indispensable for creating appropriate and effective policies. However, how best to disseminate youth participatory research evidence to impact health policy is not known. Therefore, the objectives of this systematic review are to describe the evidence produced through youth participatory research, including the strategies used to disseminate youth participatory research evidence to health policymakers. These are necessary to improve policymakers' use of youth participatory research evidence and, thereby, make programmes more impactful for young people.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The meta-narrative methodology will guide the systematic review to highlight the contrasting …

Decolonial-Hispanophone Curriculum: A Preliminary Sketch And Invitation To A South-South Dialogue, James C. Jupp, Micaela González Delgado, Freyca Calderón Berumen, Caroline A. Hesse

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

In our essay, we advance a preliminary sketch of decolonial-Hispanophone curriculum and extend an invitation for a South-South dialogue between students, teachers, or activist educators from distinct intellectual traditions of the geo-regions called “the Americas.” After sharing provisional definitions, we plant the problem of doing curricular-pedagogical work within a historical trajectory emphasizing historical colonies and present-day coloniality. Planted in this way, we provide a preliminary sketch of decolonial-Hispanophone curriculum as one dimension of a transnational, contextual, and relational decolonial project. From this sketch, we theorize three historicized concepts: (a) the historicity of decolonial thought, (b) mestizx conceptualization, and (c) communality/pluriversality. …

Sense Of Place: The Intersection Between Built Heritage And Intangible Cultural Heritage In Singapore, Jack Lee

Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy

Built heritage in Singapore is safeguarded through two legal regimes, one relating to national monuments declared under the Preservation of Monuments Act (Chapter 239, 2011 Revised Edition), and the other relating to conservation areas declared under the Planning Act (Cap 232, 1998 Rev Ed). In contrast, no particular legal protection exists for intangible cultural heritage. Considering examples such as tomb inscriptions and rituals for honouring the deceased at Bukit Brown Cemetery, this article explores how built heritage can be secured and enriched by giving greater recognition and protection in international and domestic law to the intangible cultural heritage associated with …

The Making Of Urban Applied Statistics With Four Of Juergensmeyer's Theoretical Insights, Wellington Migliari

Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy

The present article delves deeper into four academic contributions written by the emeritus professor Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, Ben F. Johnson Jr. Chair in Law and Director, Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth. Co-authoring relevant publications on spatial issues from different perspectives, we identify four valuable insights accumulated along four decades dedicated to industrial co-operation, planning costs, land use and infrastructure development. All of them combined can make what we denominate an urban developmental mind. It is a strategic sequence of ideas involving urban planning, economics and law as a complex yet inevitable amalgamation of knowledge for human development. …

Summer Law & Trial Institute Shifts Experiential Learning, Legal Exploration Online, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Introduction To Archaeology: A Workbook, Ashley Lemke, Alanis Ramos, Brooke Troutman

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist students in the Introduction to Archaeology course in the Anthropology department at the University of Texas Arlington. The course is part of the core curriculum. This workbook is designed to challenge the student and reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures. The workbook is set up by weeks and it includes questions, activities, and readings that reflect on the course work. [Visit the books' Pressbooks page to download the OER in other formats or to access an updated web version of it. https://uta.pressbooks.pub/introtoarchaeology/]

Orda Weekly Update, 2020.08.10, Office Of Research And Development Administration

ORDA Weekly Update

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Publication Trends In North-Eastern Indian Multi-Disciplinary Journal: A Content Analysis Of Man And Society, Karen L. Donoghue, P Hangsing

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Journal analysis has been an important tool to understand various facets of academic publishing trends. A content analysis of research published in Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies was conducted for Volumes I through XIV. A total of 20 issues of the bi-annually published journal were analyzed involving the placement of 116 articles in 9 substantive content categories revealing information about the authorship, types of research conducted as well as areas of research focus. In addition, the study has also examined the types and locations of institutions the authors are affiliated with. This has been done with a …