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The Need For Interdisciplinarity: A Case On Employees’ Perspectives, Dennis Friedrichsen, Maiken Winther, Anette Kolmos Oct 2023

The Need For Interdisciplinarity: A Case On Employees’ Perspectives, Dennis Friedrichsen, Maiken Winther, Anette Kolmos

Research Papers

The issue of interdisciplinarity contains disparate nodes of knowledge and practices, including a wealth of information concerning the potential and value of interdisciplinary work. In the context of companies that handle large-scale and complex tasks, interdisciplinarity takes on a real-life role since its presence and importance is readily observable and, as this paper shows, a conscious, deliberate, and highly valued aspect of innovation in companies. Academic literature on the issue of interdisciplinarity asserts that engineers in the future need a wealth of competences, including ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams. Aalborg University in Denmark has experimented with interdisciplinarity in various …

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Draw Education: Graduate Student Perceptions Of Education Using An Arts-Informed Approach, Lisa Schibelius, Homero Murzi Oct 2023

Draw Education: Graduate Student Perceptions Of Education Using An Arts-Informed Approach, Lisa Schibelius, Homero Murzi

Research Papers

Education has been shifting to foster better learning environments for students with instructors as co-constructors of knowledge in the classroom. Part of this educational transformation has been accomplished through graduate student education in preparing the next generation of educators to adopt student-centered teaching approaches. Change, however, can be slow, and implementation in the classroom looks different across disciplines. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of graduate students’ perceptions of education when enrolled in a course on contemporary pedagogy. We seek to answer RQ: How do perceptions of education compare between graduate students in engineering and …

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The Stability Of Pre-Enrolment Prediction Of Academic Achievement: Criterion-Referencing Versus Norm-Referencing, Jolan Hanssens, Carolien Van Soom, Greet Langie Oct 2023

The Stability Of Pre-Enrolment Prediction Of Academic Achievement: Criterion-Referencing Versus Norm-Referencing, Jolan Hanssens, Carolien Van Soom, Greet Langie

Research Papers

Positioning tests are organized in Flanders for prospective STEM students. They provide a low-stakes opportunity to assess their level of starting competences before enrolment. Predictive validity for subsequent academic achievement is an important quality measure of these positioning tests. However, the content of the tests varies over the years. This could be problematic for making accurate predictions based on data from previous years. Therefore, the objective of this study is to compare the stability over time of the predictions of academic achievement using either criterionreferenced (absolute grading) or norm-referenced (relative grading) positioning test grades of engineering and science students. Comparisons …

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Sustainable Engineering Education Embedded Curricula Research Project, Anthony Edward Smith, Alfredo Soeiro, Ragna Ann Berge, Tamer Atabarut, John Atkinson, Patricia Caratozzolo Oct 2023

Sustainable Engineering Education Embedded Curricula Research Project, Anthony Edward Smith, Alfredo Soeiro, Ragna Ann Berge, Tamer Atabarut, John Atkinson, Patricia Caratozzolo

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A previous conference paper with case study report findings began this research so as to inform and be of use to the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) institutions and its membership on the importance of embedding sustainability in all engineering education courses from the beginning to the end of the Degree and beyond into Continuing Engineering Education (CEE) . This present project continues to qualitatively research and investigate the extent to which and how Engineering Learning Curricula (ELC) incorporate and embed sustainability as central to the future work practice of all engineers. Specifically, as the project takes a …

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Professional Identity Of Female Engineering Graduates: An Exploration Of Identity Status Through Life History Research, Natascha Van Hattum-Janssen, Maaike D. Endedijk Oct 2023

Professional Identity Of Female Engineering Graduates: An Exploration Of Identity Status Through Life History Research, Natascha Van Hattum-Janssen, Maaike D. Endedijk

Research Papers

The number of students entering engineering programmes is too low to meet the need for engineering graduates. Still, many leave for jobs outside the technical sector right after graduation. Professional identity is a concept that helps to explain why they stay in or leave the technical sector (Cech 2014). It is the result of the process of professional socialisation. This study uses life history research to understand the professional socialisation of engineering graduates from kindergarten age until a few years after graduation. An analysis of the life experiences of male and female engineering graduates shows differences in how they describe …

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Transcendental Geology: The Relation Between Nature And History In Merleau-Ponty’S Ontology, Karen Kovaka Oct 2023

Transcendental Geology: The Relation Between Nature And History In Merleau-Ponty’S Ontology, Karen Kovaka

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

In his lecture course on Nature, Merleau-Ponty makes the intriguing claim that an ontology of Nature is the preferred way toward ontology in general. This paper explores why he makes this claim and asks what philosophical significance this approach to ontology might have. Making use of Merleau-Ponty’s notions of chiasm and flesh as the must fundamental ontological truths, I argue that nature and history are related to one another according to the logic of the chiasm and that thinking them in terms of this relationship opens up avenues for addressing long-standing problems in both philosophy of nature and philosophy of …

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How Megatooth Sharks Ruled And Fell: Evidence From Stable Isotopes In Bioapatite, Michael Griffiths Oct 2023

How Megatooth Sharks Ruled And Fell: Evidence From Stable Isotopes In Bioapatite, Michael Griffiths

Sustainability Seminar Series

The evolution and extinction of megatooth sharks, especially Otodus megalodon, have long puzzled scientists. A growing body of evidence suggests that the evolution of gigantism in these sharks, perhaps driven by their ability to thermoregulate, played a crucial role in their ecological success and response to environmental changes. Yet, until recently, the question of whether O. megalodon was ectothermic or endothermic was based solely on nonempirical inferences. In this presentation, Dr. Griffiths will present new research that involves the geochemical analysis of both modern and fossil shark teeth to shed light on O. megalodon's thermoregulation, revealing it maintained a warmer …

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Evangelical School Of Nursing Bulletin, 1982-1985, Advocate Aurora Health Oct 2023

Evangelical School Of Nursing Bulletin, 1982-1985, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Evangelical School of Nursing, Oak Lawn, IL: Brochure advertising the Evangelical School of Nursing. Includes information on school policies, education requirements, and a course catalog.

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Design Activating Agency: A Study On Rural Community Co-Creation In China Under Non-Anthropocentrism, Xin Zhao, Duoduo Zhang Oct 2023

Design Activating Agency: A Study On Rural Community Co-Creation In China Under Non-Anthropocentrism, Xin Zhao, Duoduo Zhang

IASDR Conference Series

Community co-creation, centered on human values, fosters favorable conditions for stakeholder participation in design collaboration. Sustainable development of local communities, including their culture, relies on the interaction between humans, artificial systems, and nature. Firstly, this article describes the trend of community co-creation in guidance frameworks, activity tools, and collaboration processes, pointing agency as the platform trigger for community co-creation development. Secondly, based on the bioinclusive involvement framework and practices in various countries, this article summarizes 3 co-creation models and their characteristics in rural communities, and the third model shows chances in local culture and multi-species stakeholders. Thirdly, this article analyzes …

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A Time-Based Approach For The Social Spatialization Strategies In Retail Design, Yuemei Ma Oct 2023

A Time-Based Approach For The Social Spatialization Strategies In Retail Design, Yuemei Ma

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In the context of the developing Smart City, media revolution has changed user’s behavior in the allocation of time and space, their perception turns to hybrid in real and virtual space. Digital technology changed their shopping activities and experiences in personal and social environments. As retail activities become more accessible at any time and location, and as omni-channel retailing disrupts retail stores' monopoly on shopping activities, brick-and-mortar retailers face to the threat of online shopping and must transform in this context. Within the theory of urbanism, the concept of chrono-urbanism is proposed as a critical step to question in depth …

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Co-Designing For Whom? Exploring The Benefits Of City-Led Participatory Art Practices In Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods Of Madrid, Milagros Hurtig Oct 2023

Co-Designing For Whom? Exploring The Benefits Of City-Led Participatory Art Practices In Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods Of Madrid, Milagros Hurtig

IASDR Conference Series

This research examines who benefits from the use of city-led participatory design projects in disadvantaged neighborhoods. After the neoliberal crisis in 2008, discourses on creativity evolved from art projects aimed at pursuing economic growth to art projects with social and cultural aspirations. Participatory art projects are practices where the public is involved in the design and production of the artwork. Urban governments in Europe have used participatory art due to their assumed potential to enhance citizen engagement. However, there is a lack of critical and evaluative insight regarding the implementation and after-use of codesign practices and their inclusionary or exclusionary …

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Building Design Agency Through Bodystorming, Stefana Broadbent, Valentina Auricchio, Marta Corubolo, Vanessa Monna Oct 2023

Building Design Agency Through Bodystorming, Stefana Broadbent, Valentina Auricchio, Marta Corubolo, Vanessa Monna

IASDR Conference Series

When addressing urgent issues such as climate change and the social impacts this will have on our future living environments, as designers and design educators, we must critically ask ourselves if the mindsets, approaches, processes, methods, and tools we know are appropriate or need inquiry to evolve. This paper presents an experimental technique the authors have been applying in the past four years of teaching in an international design studio that aims to imagine products and services for future uncertain times. In planning the course the main challenge was to understand which would be the best method for designers to …

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Design Characteristics In Outdoor Seating Areas – A Study Of Coffee Shops In Hong Kong And Copenhagen, Mia Münster Oct 2023

Design Characteristics In Outdoor Seating Areas – A Study Of Coffee Shops In Hong Kong And Copenhagen, Mia Münster

IASDR Conference Series

Transitional spaces, or ‘in-between’ areas, those connecting the interior and exterior spaces of shops, cafés and restaurants–these are spheres of interaction between commercial and public spaces. In them, through the use of design elements, stores communicate the nature of their offerings, their services, and their values to the outside world; consumers, in turn, decode these elements as a part of their decision to patronize the store. Increasingly, these transitional spaces incorporate areas for outdoor seating. In these areas, parts of the surrounding neighborhood are pulled into the store’s sphere, while the store’s sphere is simultaneously projected into the surrounding area. …

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Climate Adaptation In Design Education: Applying A Four-Step Research By Design Strategy, Ifigenia Psarra, Luc Willekens Oct 2023

Climate Adaptation In Design Education: Applying A Four-Step Research By Design Strategy, Ifigenia Psarra, Luc Willekens

IASDR Conference Series

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the insights gained by testing in a design studio a particular research by design strategy, focusing on the generation of innovative climate adaptation solutions. The strategy is based on the Design Thinking Process and has been applied in the climate adaptation design studio, which took place in 2022 at a Master of Architecture degree program in the Netherlands. The case study area was the Zernike university campus in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is situated in the verge between the city and the surrounding rural landscape, facing the urgent climate change challenges of …

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Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima Oct 2023

Social Innovation Through Regenerative Perspectives: A Theoretical Approach On Gender-Based Violence System, Raquel Lima

IASDR Conference Series

Regenerative theories are used in human and non-human dynamics in a sustainable perspective; however, their potential can flourish new applications to deal with other social challenges. This article explores a theoretical approach to possible uses of regenerative theories applied to the gender-based violence (GBV) system and its relevance in social innovation. The answers in GVB are conducted by the government and civil society institutions that collectively act on the field. Despite the efforts to end violence against women, there is a long road to deconstructing inequalities, and social and cultural structures that evidence and contribute to maintaining the phenomenon. Since …

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Global Goals, Local Future Stories: Unpacking Contrasts And Visions Of Circular Economy Activities In Neighbourhood Makerspaces, María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos, Damla Çay, Aykut Coşkun Oct 2023

Global Goals, Local Future Stories: Unpacking Contrasts And Visions Of Circular Economy Activities In Neighbourhood Makerspaces, María Laura Ramírez Galleguillos, Damla Çay, Aykut Coşkun

IASDR Conference Series

Circular makerspaces have the potential to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by promoting circular-making activities such as reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling. However, community building is essential for maintaining a circular makerspace, which requires engaging the makers and future users in circular-making activities. In this paper, we argue that involving locals in the design of circular makerspaces can facilitate community building and support makers' sense of belonging to the space. We present the experience of involving citizens in establishing circular makerspaces in seven European cities as part of the EU-funded H2020 project, [Project Name]. We developed a technique, called …

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More Than Human Empathy: A Caring Approach To Ecosystemic Design, Mariana Pestana Oct 2023

More Than Human Empathy: A Caring Approach To Ecosystemic Design, Mariana Pestana

IASDR Conference Series

This paper argues for a caring approach to design based on more-than-human empathy. It proposes that such an empathic turn can provide a useful framework for eco-systemic thinking and practice in design, because it takes into consideration the wellbeing and the rights of people but also that of non-human bodies. To do that, this paper reports on a study concerning the conception and delivery of a design Biennial, entirely created and experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which gathered thinkers, practitioners, researchers and community groups to collectively discuss, scrutinise and rehearse the role of design in a post-anthropocentric, more-than-human paradigm. For …

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Why Design Matters In Local Business Commoning, Yedam Ryou, Chorong Kim, Eunji Woo, Ki-Young Nam Oct 2023

Why Design Matters In Local Business Commoning, Yedam Ryou, Chorong Kim, Eunji Woo, Ki-Young Nam

IASDR Conference Series

The role of design is vital in facilitating the collaborative activities among various stakeholders in "commoning". Commoning local businesses can lead to the revitalization of a local economy with the local residents generating both commercial and social benefits. However, commoning in general is geared toward creating social benefits. As such, the existing model of commoning is not suitable for local business commoning. The few existing cases of local business commoning show that residents and proprietors benefit from exchanging resources based on their needs, but these exchanges tend to take place in ad-hoc and/or one-off ways. Therefore, this research aims to …

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Exploring And Facilitating Daoism's Contributions To Design Prototype, A Case Study From A "More-Than-Human" Social Innovation Project: Hokkhi, Jixiang Jiang, Shu Zhang, Yizao Wu Oct 2023

Exploring And Facilitating Daoism's Contributions To Design Prototype, A Case Study From A "More-Than-Human" Social Innovation Project: Hokkhi, Jixiang Jiang, Shu Zhang, Yizao Wu

IASDR Conference Series

In the face of the current environmental crises and the emergent debate over how we as a species should respond to it, local-context discussions, research, and practice are rapidly growing in a number of regions. Within the confines of the design community, there is an ever-growing view of these discussions as representing a culturally diverse perspective on design, as opposed to the current Western-centric design shaped by modernism and capitalist market economies, and as representing the emergence of an emerging design scene of pluriverse. This study extends the concept of the oyster reef conservation project referred to as "Hokkhi," produced …

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Giahs Metaverse: Innovative Digital Transformation Of Agricultural Heritage, Chiju Chao, Yin Li, Yu Chen, Qirui Wang, Yidan Wu, Zhiyong Fu Oct 2023

Giahs Metaverse: Innovative Digital Transformation Of Agricultural Heritage, Chiju Chao, Yin Li, Yu Chen, Qirui Wang, Yidan Wu, Zhiyong Fu

IASDR Conference Series

Global Important Agriculture Heritage Systems (GIAHS) is a form of heritage published by FAO that integrates cultural, ecological, economic, and agricultural factors. Formerly, the digital transformation of GIAHS mainly concerned object models or data storage. A significant part of its intangible heritage, such as cultural stories and traditional skills, was not adequately preserved digitally. The Metaverse is now offering an innovative approach which can build interactive systems and provide powerful possibilities for the digital transformation of the GIAHS. We, therefore, conducted a six-week design workshop in which 10 groups designed the GIAHS Metaverse to summarize this approach's advantages and design …

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A Systematic Thinking On Evaluation Of Community Service Facilities In The Context Of Design, Mao-En He, Chang Liu Oct 2023

A Systematic Thinking On Evaluation Of Community Service Facilities In The Context Of Design, Mao-En He, Chang Liu

IASDR Conference Series

Community Service Facilities are the basic unit that carries the daily activities of residents. The evaluation of community service facilities is the key to ensuring a balance between the supply of facilities and the needs of residents. Existing studies mainly focus on a specific type of facility from the perspective of an independent discipline. A lack of a holistic understanding leads to several problems, such as the incompatibility of different disciplines' perspectives and the inconsistency between evaluation results and users' needs. Design is being considered and explored as a tool for dealing with systems-level issues. We re-cognized the evaluation problem …

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Embracing Digital Offboarding As A Design Challenge, Sabine Junginger Oct 2023

Embracing Digital Offboarding As A Design Challenge, Sabine Junginger

IASDR Conference Series

Most services we will use or rely on in the future will either contain a digital component or be fully digital. Given the multitude of pressures that are currently reshaping the public sector, great efforts are underway to increase the range of digital public service offerings. Design research and design practice currently contribute to the development of innovative digital public services. In addition, designers support the onboarding experience for people working in public administrations and the members of the public who benefit from or depend on these. This paper argues that we need to explore the needs and implications of …

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What`S The Social Trust Mechanism Blending Virtual And Reality In The Context Of Digital Media?, Yunlu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Tongwen Sun, Mingshuo Zhang Oct 2023

What`S The Social Trust Mechanism Blending Virtual And Reality In The Context Of Digital Media?, Yunlu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Tongwen Sun, Mingshuo Zhang

IASDR Conference Series

In the current era of digitalization, trust has emerged as a crucial factor in socialisation through digital media. However, due to the uncertain nature of individual identities in the digital realm, it poses a challenge to translate social trust in virtual identities into social trust in real identities, particularly for social activities that necessitate a blend of online and offline integration. The outbreak of catastrophic public health crises such as COVID-19 in recent years has had a profound impact on people's social trust in the physical world. By scrutinising the attributes of social trust, this study advocates three distinct categories …

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The Role Of Participatory Transition Design In Mitigating Erosion Of Participatory Democracy, Alma Leora Culén Oct 2023

The Role Of Participatory Transition Design In Mitigating Erosion Of Participatory Democracy, Alma Leora Culén

IASDR Conference Series

Democracies increasingly face challenges. Focusing on participatory democracy, we explore their intersection with the participatory design of digital technology that might strengthen rather than undermine local participatory democracy initiatives. Two influential examples found at the intersection of participatory design, technological innovation and democracy are discussed and contrasted with our approach to understanding this entanglement by looking into opportunities for small, local communities to develop and maintaining democratic discourse, trust, and good decision-making, potentially paving ways to mitigate democratic erosion at a larger scale. The work contributes by showing how participatory and transition design might be integrated. Further, we propose and …

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Museums At A Crossroads, Licia Calvi Oct 2023

Museums At A Crossroads, Licia Calvi

IASDR Conference Series

What type of museum experiences can be designed when local communities are involved? And where does technology fit? How can museums as places to nurture community engagement also become spaces to have cultural, transformative experiences? Museums and cultural heritage institutions are not only custodians of the some of the world’s most valuable natural and creative works; they are themselves creative institutions that reflect and shape cultural production. Especially since the advent of the New Museology, this creative potential has been understood in interdisciplinary terms, bringing theories and methods such as postcolonial studies and poststructuralism to bear on these processes of …

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Developing A Community-Engaged Homemaking Approach To Elicit A Sense Of Belonging In People With Dementia, Alessandro Biamonti, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Lorenzo Fossi Oct 2023

Developing A Community-Engaged Homemaking Approach To Elicit A Sense Of Belonging In People With Dementia, Alessandro Biamonti, Silvia Maria Gramegna, Lorenzo Fossi

IASDR Conference Series

This paper presents a research-action case which explores how homemaking processes and dynamics, enable people with dementia to create and establish a sense of belonging towards the care environment they are living in, after relocating from their home. In particular, home-making practises encompass the involvement of archetypical elements and material possessions in the form of objects owning an intrinsic emotional value, which are capable of enabling habits, conversations and social interactions. Through the presented case study, we want to investigate their role in contributing to homemaking and placemaking practises. The research encompassed semi-structured interviews, observations, and storytelling focus groups with …

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Shaping Social Design With Communities, Mariana Fonseca Braga, David Perez Ojeda, Violet Owen, Linfu Zhang, Lee Brewster, Rosendy Galabo, Sejal Changede, Nuri Kwon, Sharon Summers Oct 2023

Shaping Social Design With Communities, Mariana Fonseca Braga, David Perez Ojeda, Violet Owen, Linfu Zhang, Lee Brewster, Rosendy Galabo, Sejal Changede, Nuri Kwon, Sharon Summers

IASDR Conference Series

This position paper brings key Social Design work being conducted in the Design-led Research Centre X at University B in the UK. We position our local and global research in the Social Design landscape, defining the design approaches and methods we have been utilising across projects as well as their limitations. As the Social Design Special Interest Group in the Research Centre, we also clarify what Social Design encompasses in our research and its practice. These were explored through a workshop series with our team and through five case study examples in Brazil, China, India and the UK. The workshop …

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Designing Adaptable Consumption: A New Practice To Foster Food System Transitions., Hannah Goss, Nynke Tromp, Rick Schifferstein Oct 2023

Designing Adaptable Consumption: A New Practice To Foster Food System Transitions., Hannah Goss, Nynke Tromp, Rick Schifferstein

IASDR Conference Series

In recent years, more designers have been engaging in transitions for which design activity is used to develop innovations that steer change. However, little is known about how designers develop innovations to foster change along a desired transition path. In this short paper, we explore how designers can develop joint innovations that steer a transition of the Dutch food system to embrace flexibility and cater to enough. We present a new practice called Adaptable Consumption, which aims to realign food safety, quality, and sustainability. Based on our preliminary findings, we discuss how our process inspires reflections on the transition and …

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The Existence And Potential Of Woven Banana Stalks Furniture In Trangsan Village Indonesia, Lik Endang Siti Wahyuningsih, Minako Ikeda Oct 2023

The Existence And Potential Of Woven Banana Stalks Furniture In Trangsan Village Indonesia, Lik Endang Siti Wahyuningsih, Minako Ikeda

IASDR Conference Series

Furniture handicrafts made from banana stalk fibers as a raw material have a huge opportunity as an export commodity. In addition, this furniture craft has various advantages including the abundance of natural fiber raw materials, its relative cheapness, and the easy production process without the need for expensive tools or machines. However, even with cheap raw materials, the selling be quite competitive, considering aspects of better design, engineering, and production process development. This research reveals the problem existing furniture handicrafts that use banana stalk fiber and the potential that can be developed from existing crafts, both in the production process …

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Preliminary Study Of Participatory And Nature-Inclusive Design Approaches, Giulia Gualtieri, Oana Druta, Evert-Jan Velzing Oct 2023

Preliminary Study Of Participatory And Nature-Inclusive Design Approaches, Giulia Gualtieri, Oana Druta, Evert-Jan Velzing

IASDR Conference Series

This paper aims to develop a working strategy for a larger research project to help urban designers shift their human-centred design practices to a more nature-inclusive approach. The interest in developing innovative design perspectives that incorporate nature stems from the need to address the challenges of biodiversity loss by adopting a perspective that prioritises the needs of non-human species. The methodology used presents an analysis of participatory and nature-inclusive design approaches and examines how they have been conceptualised and operationalised. A final discussion reflects on the importance of advancing the development of a nature-inclusive design discipline that focuses on the …

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