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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 …

(Im)Mobile Gendered Identities: The Relationship Between Mobility And Identity, Krity Gera

IASDR Conference Series

Cities are places of contestation where individuals and groups act in specific ways to access resources and opportunities. Mobility enables individuals to access these different resources. This paper explores the impact of spatial mobility on changing identities of urban marginalized women (UMW) from the peri-urban areas of Delhi, India. It examines the relationship between mobilities and identities through relevant literature supported by a study extracted from an extensive ethnographic research on daily mobilities of UMW. Unstructured interviews and GPS path tracking are used as methods of data collection. The analysis of the acquired data presents mobility as an intertwined phenomenon …

From Bodies In Technology To Digital Subjectivity: Research On The Identity Construction Of Digital Humans, Yixuan Tai, Jie Wu

IASDR Conference Series

Technological advancements have endowed humans with the ability to connect and express themselves more naturally. As artificial intelligence, cloud rendering and motion capture technologies improve by leaps and bounds, computer-generated digital humans have extended their application to interdisciplinary research, offering novel paradigms for interaction design and body exploration. While the fundamental properties and connection modes of digital humans and the users remain further conceptual explication and practical guidance. This paper outlines the author's doctoral research in exploring the identity construction of digital humans through three research stages: Image Identification, Embodied Interaction and Identity Construction. The final goal is to devise …

Pursuing Positionality In Design, Victoria Rodriguez Schon, Manuela Celi

IASDR Conference Series

In the context of a complex social matrix that we find ourselves in, described by the continuous flux of power relations and asymmetries; design as a practice, their practitioners and researchers carry the responsibility in the mindful shaping of the future. As mediators within the design system, designers carry the conversation between the design program, a hypothesis, the stakeholders, and the effects of the resulting conclusions. Within their practice and the reflexive process upon it, designers can question, critique, and dismantle oppressive systems of status quo perpetuation. A first approach to a critical dialogue in design suggests reviewing one’s identity …

Speculating Gender In Conversational Interfaces, Patrizia Marti, Stefano Varlaro

IASDR Conference Series

The paper investigates gender biases and stereotypes in the design of conversational interfaces such as chatbots and virtual assistants. Recently the topic has received a growing attention in the design community. In our research, we focus on the issue of the lack of diversity and viewpoints that may unintentionally create services that are biased towards a particular group of users, while ignoring the needs and perspectives of others. To address this issue, we organised a speculative design workshop inviting 9 people with different gender and sexual identity to reflect on gender biases in conversational interfaces with the ultimate objective of …

Designer-Researcher’S Positionality; Materialities Matter, Amber De Coen, Niels Hendriks, Andrea Wilkinson

IASDR Conference Series

With the rise of cross-cultural, participatory research projects, there is a growing need for reflexivity in the design research community. One way to address this need is by using positionality, which acknowledges the researcher's personal, social, cultural, political position in relation to the subject, participants, context, and process of a study. However, this paper argues that in design research, additional reflections should be made on the research materialities, seeing as these may also reflect the designer-researcher's biases and assumptions, which have implications for the research process and outcomes. Drawing on the example of a participatory design research project researching the …

Yearning For Revival_Using Healing As The Linking Strategy To Recreate Emotionally Resilient Communities, Tanhao Gao, Yujia Liu, Lingyu Zhu, Hongtao Zhou, Li Zhang

IASDR Conference Series

COVID-19 and Omicron variants have caused unprecedented impacts on global operating systems, society was forced to accept a painful coexistence with the pandemic, and the derived economic, social, and cultural disasters have left communities plagued by the "Long Covid" aftermath and psychological pressure. Worse still, society has witnessed an increasingly severe problem between spaces and services, including delayed regeneration, disorganization, and isolation. Therefore, it has become crucial and urgent to discover linking strategies between spaces and services, residents and communities, and the broader interrelated field during the recovery and change transition. Through comparative theoretical analysis, we identify the conceptual definition, …

Sustainable Design Strategy Of Chinese Old Town Community Based On Landscape Ontology：A Case Study Of Daojiao Community In Chongqing, Xingyu Chen, Hongtao Zhou, Xiang Liu

IASDR Conference Series

In the process of China's urbanization process, there is a serious separation between new city and old city, The current situation of the old community space urgently needs to be improved,with the increasingly complex development pattern, the community design research is more inclined to favor the abstract category dominated by relationship design, resulting in the disconnection between design and physical space.This study can be an ideal repair technique. By sorting out the evolution law of the community landscape ontology, a set of sustainable development ideas in line with the landscape environment of the old city community.This paper intends to apply …

Reimagining Design Education: Renewal And Transformation, Elena Caratti, Silvia Ferraris, Silke Lange, Yingchun Zang

IASDR Conference Series

We live in a time when change is happening globally to an unprecedented extent. The awareness of the phenomena underpins the current discourse and research activities in design and design education. Many design educators understand the demand for change and are looking for new strategies to respond to it. The challenge is how to transform and renew design disciplines and its learning processes so that the next generation of designers can actively and responsibly promote change. Some educators are already focusing on the dimensions of change, namely, contemporary issues such as climate change and sustainable goals. Others are reflecting on …

Co-Designing Strategic Ritual In Craft Beer: Churches, Denominations, Sects, And Mystics, Ian Parkman, David Turnbloom, Samuel Holloway

IASDR Conference Series

This study explores the co-design of strategic rituals by craft breweries and their customers. As many marketplaces have become increasingly overly-saturated, organizations have struggled to create meaningful connections between themselves and customers. Ritual consumption is a potentially powerful method to maintain strong customer relationships and reinforce differentiation. Drawing on the concept of co-design, described as a process of ‘joint inquiry and imagination’ whereby ‘problem and solution coevolve’, our exploratory study employs case study methodology to clarify how strategic rituals are co-designed by customers and organizations in the craft beer industry of the US Pacific Northwest. Specifically, drawing on the Sociology …

The Impact Of Identity Construction And Diversification Of Chinese Craftspeople On The Design Innovation Of Traditional Handicrafts – A Case Study Of Dong Brocade In Tongdao, Hunan, Yihan Jiang, Claire Yuting Xie, Jinge Mao

IASDR Conference Series

Since the Chinese government enacted a series of policies for the protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), there has been a huge impact on the Chinese folk handicraft market and Chinese folk craftspeople. To study the corresponding changes brought by the new “discourse” of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, this paper will conduct a detailed case study on the Dong brocade folk craftspeople in Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province. We will firstly examine the origination and development of Dong brocade folk handicrafts, as well as the formation process of the Dong brocade folk handicraft group. Furthermore, in light of the …

Meet Me At The Local Shop: Designing Community Anchors For Customer Engagement, Eunji Woo, Chorong Kim, Hyejin Kwon, Yedam Ryu, Youngok Choi, Ki-Young Nam

IASDR Conference Series

Design plays a vital role in facilitating community-building by triggering interpersonal social interactions, enhancing a sense of attachment, and connecting individuals. This study aims to identify how local creators are currently casting community anchors for their customers and explore design opportunities to further enhance these practices. First, a literature review is conducted to establish the significance and concepts of ‘local creators’, ‘community anchors’ and ‘level of customer engagement’. Subsequently, 40 practical cases are thematically analysed to identify which and how local creators cast community anchors to engage customers for community-building. Consequently, fourteen types of community anchors and five ways of …

Design Fiction And The Art Of Anticipation, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen

IASDR Conference Series

In this paper we show how design fiction is a form of design inquiry that offers methods for understanding and reacting towards intractable societal challenges. More specifically we unravel how narrative and literary practices of world-making used in design fiction can be of value for researching life changing, but unknown futures. We argue that this contribution has been largely overlooked because design fiction is too often wrongly caught up in discussions of the limitations of speculative design. Additionally, we substantiate our claim by making a study of Design Futures courses addressing the challenge of unknown energy futures in an era …

Planet-Oriented Design: A Proposal For New Ethical Transitions In Design Education, Martin Tironi, Marcos Chilet

IASDR Conference Series

We live through a socio-environmental, socio-political and socio-technical crisis that forces us to ask ourselves urgent questions about our planet. The article explores the need to transition from human-centred design to forms of design with a terrestrial vision. Based on the experience of the School of Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it explores the potential of Planet-Oriented design as an articulator of new practices and a new ethic of teaching and doing design. The recent social phenomena - such as the Chilean social uprising of 2019 - added to the planetary crises in which we live opened …

Shifting Spaces In Fashion: Approaching Digitised Design Spaces From A Bodily Perspective, Jan Tepe

IASDR Conference Series

Digitising design processes incrementally reduce the degree to which designers bodily engage with materials to design garments. While extended reality technology such as augmented and virtual reality could address the lack of bodily involvement in digital design processes, they have yet to resonate with fashion designers in academia and the industry to be fully included. The presented research aimed to explore extended reality technology as an enabler of ‘interspaces’ that mediates bodily experiences and interactions of engaging with digital material based on spatial and technological affordances. The emergent design spaces allowed for varying degrees of bodily engaging digital materials. Reflections …

Design-Led Sustainable Transition In Organization: A Framework To Guide And Evaluate Employee Change, Mattia Italia

IASDR Conference Series

Design for Sustainability Transition (DfST) is gaining popularity in both academia and practice, seeking to guide socio-technical systems toward more sustainable futures through design but remaining a high-level approach that is difficult to evaluate. The authors also disagree on the designer’s role during the transitions, leaving it open to exploration. Organisations considered a socio-technical system play a crucial role in solving the climate crisis we are experiencing and need to be guided through change. Working on employees and their practices makes it possible to initiate a snowball effect capable of triggering the necessary cultural change. The Design-Led Innovation approach can …

Relational Design Practices In Design For Social Innovation: A Place-Centred Approach, Annalinda De Rosa, Marco Andrea Finardi, Valentina Auricchio

IASDR Conference Series

This paper reflects on how relational art can contribute to participatory approaches in design for social innovation research and practices applied in community engagement processes towards the regeneration of commons in rural contexts. Inland areas, small towns far from large urban centres, today face urgent challenges to counter the process of abandonment and devaluation. The loss of primary services such as schools and the exodus to the cities increase their fragility. In the wake of the pandemic, many reflections on the role of public space have emerged: the recovery of a renewed human scale dimension and the need to manage …

Breaking Barriers To Sustainable Costume Design: A Community-Driven Approach With German Theatres, Urs A. G. Dierker, Anja Gast

IASDR Conference Series

The Circular Costume Design Lab (CCD Lab) is a participatory initiative exploring sustainable practices in costume design and making within the German theatre industry. Preliminary research suggested that theatre costume making is a tradition-based craft with limited agency for systemic change. The CCD Lab aimed to understand how tightly-knit communities of costume professionals perceive and experience environmental and social sustainability, and how broader social, cultural, and political forces shape their work towards sustainability in state-funded and independent theatres. The CCD Lab consisted of eight online workshops co-developed by two costume makers and researchers in collaboration with two professional associations. The …

Threshold Space Design: Using Water Element For Phase Transition From Physical Space To Virtual Space With Different Law Of Gravity, Jungryun Kwon, Eui-Chul Jung

IASDR Conference Series

This study focuses on exploring the transition stage between physical and virtual space by considering the difference in law of gravity between physical and virtual environments. The concept of Threshold Space design is a series of transition stages which can be utilized to enhance the virtual reality (VR) experience. Unlike most VR researches, which primarily focuses on head-mounted displays (HMD), this study examines the user's perception between physical space and virtual space. The Threshold Space design method allows users to experience the upcoming stage in advance. More than a simple intermediate space, it addresses confusion and disorientation in VR that …

ผู้หญิงในโลกดิจิทัลกับสื่อไม่ปลอดภัย: มุมมองทางประชากรและสังคม, Pychaniphat Wichaino, Phanarin Namphet

Journal of Demography

In a wide range of networked societies, going digital is a dynamic social phenomenon that brings risks exposure to unsafe media. This article studied the knowledge of issues related to unsafe media through demographic and social perspectives. It aims to understand the digital lifestyle and ways to mitigate the risk of unsafe media for women in the digital world. This quantitative research-based study collected data from 541 questionnaires completed by female digital denizens, and the data were analyzed using statistical methods.

In the context of unsafe media, the research found that population of women in the digital world can divided …

Women’S Empowerment As A Determinant Of Child’S Nutrition: Evidence From A Cambodia Demographic And Health Survey, Vatana Chea, Socheata Sar

Journal of Demography

Does the empowerment of women improve a child’s long-term health outcome? Although the relationship seems intuitive in daily life, most studies done globally have found no association. This paper explicates the relationship between women’s empowerment and children’s malnutrition by taking Cambodia as a case study and adding new empirical evidence to the debate. Data were drawn from the Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2014, with a sample of 4,118 children nationwide. To measure children’s nutritional status, this study employed the WHO’s height-for-age (HFA) and weight-for-age (WFA) metrics, and at the same time, used the Survey-Based Women’s emPowERment Index (SWPER), …

New Frontiers 2022-2023, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Office Of Graduate Studies And Research

New Frontiers

New Frontiers 2022-2023 Features:

• Transcending Boundaries - Hui Liew
• Mindfulness in Motion - Shannon Mulhearn
• Masker's Mission - John Masker
• Unveiling Untold Narratives - Laurinda Weisse
• Master's Motivation - Tanya Woodward
• Designing Better Spaces - Dana Vaux
• Tackling Teacher Shortage - Aprille Phillips
• Creating Connections - Marisa May
• Watering New Ideas - Brad Modlin
• Hollywood Story - Ahna Packard

Leveraging National And Global Political Determinants Of Health To Promote Equity In Cancer Care, Edward Christopher Dee, Michelle Ann B. Eala, Janine Patricia G. Robredo, Duvern Ramiah, Anne Hubbard, Frances Dominique V. Ho, Richard Sullivan, Ajay Aggarwal, Christopher M. Booth, Gerardo D. Legaspi, Paul L. Nguyen, C. S. Pramesh, Surbhi Grover

Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health Publications

Health and politics are deeply intertwined. In the context of national and global cancer care delivery, political forces-the political determinants of health-influence every level of the cancer care continuum. We explore the "3-I" framework, which structures the upstream political forces that affect policy choices in the context of actors' interests, ideas, and institutions, to examine how political determinants of health underlie cancer disparities. Borrowing from the work of PA Hall, M-P Pomey, CJ Ho, and other thinkers, interests are the agendas of individuals and groups in power. Ideas represent beliefs or knowledge about what is or what should be. Institutions …

Rowan Oak Welcomes Guests For ‘Before Faulkner’ Public Archaeology Day, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Department of Sociology and Anthropology is partnering with Rowan Oak and the Oxford community to better understand the history of the property before it became William Faulkner’s home.

Restructuring The Constitution For Human Resilience, Martha T. Mccluskey

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 1 in Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty, Martha Albertson Fineman & Laura Spitz, eds.

Cancer Survivors’ Health Behaviors And Outcomes: A Population-Based Study Of Sexual And Gender Minorities, Ulrike Boehmer, Shine Chang, Nelson F Sanchez, Bill M Jesdale, Matthew B Schabath

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Most case-control studies compare cancer survivors with general population controls without considering sexual orientation or gender identity. This case-control analysis compared health risk behaviors and health outcomes among sexual and gender minority cancer survivors to those of matched sexual and gender minority participants without cancer (controls).

METHODS: Using data from the 2014-2021 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a population-based sample of 4507 cancer survivors who self-identified as transgender, gay men, bisexual men, lesbian women, or bisexual women were 1:1 propensity score matched, using age at survey, race and ethnicity, marital status, education, access to health care, and US census …

Notorious Rbg In Song, Patrice Michaels, Andrew Harley

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Troubled Fun: Experiences Of Joy And Their Implications For Mental Health In Young Adults, Isabelle Burns, Michael Deland

CURCI Student Research

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and revealed the extent of our national mental health crisis, especially among undergraduate students and young adults. According to the National College Health Assessment survey in 2021 almost 75% of undergraduates nationwide reported moderate or severe psychological distress. Many young adults are experiencing insufficient sleep, social media use and/or abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual or emotional abuse, low social support, trauma, etc. Sociologically, this is a crisis not only of individual suffering but of frail, fractured, and stressed relationships. This fact calls us to carry out a closer sociological investigation of young adults to …

A Qualitative Investigation Of A Setting-Wide Pbs Workforce Development Programme In An Adult Disability Setting, Deirdre Kearney, Shannon Sinnott, Olive Healy

Journal of Social Care

The presence of distressed behaviours can amplify the difficulties experienced by people with intellectual disabilities (ID), and place pressure on the provision of effective support by organisations and direct support personnel. Setting-wide positive behaviour support (PBS) is an evidence-based framework aimed at enhancing quality of life and reducing distressed behaviour for people with intellectual disabilities through systemic change. Implementation science offers a route to better understand how we can support organisations to adopt best practice into routine procedures. This study employed a qualitative research design to examine the facilitators and barriers of a workforce development programme in setting-wide PBS in …

Minutes 10-6-2023 | Committee Management Committee, Megan Phillips

Committee Management Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.