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Prospective Films: When A Strategic Vision Meets The Diversity Of Human Experience, Isabelle Cossin, Estelle Berger, Ioana Ocnarescu

Nordes Conference Series

Through the medium of corporate vision videos, foresight has become a vehicle for companies to communicate on their vision of the future. These films are of strategic importance and should be both watched and designed with awareness of such purposes. Mobilized on an action research project in the mobility sector, our design team accompanied a company towards defining and formalizing their vision of the future mass transportation system. A filmic analysis served as a basis for recommendations, which helped us story-boarding a prospective film meant to spotlight the diversity of human experience rather than conveying a standardized perspective of user …

Destabilizing The Quotidian: Urban Recipes For Cultivating Care In The More-Than-Human City, Yuxi Liu, Seda Özçetin

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This paper explores how everyday practices can be an inspiration for novel designerly ways of relating to others and cultivating care in response to the prevalent lack of care in our precarious world. We present Urban Recipes, an ongoing project that combines the spatial exploration of drifting with the recursive practice of recipe-making, opening up a space for new ways of relating to both humans and nonhumans in everyday urban environments. Applying the metaphors of cooking to this paper, we trace the evolution of the project, starting from the recipe and developing it into the cookbook and the test kitchen. …

Generous Crowdedness: Cultivating Space(S) For Care At Alternative Design Museums, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse

Nordes Conference Series

The design discipline is implicated in the trajectories that have led us to an unsustainable present. There is an urgency to re-direct the design discipline, so that it can become able to not only stay with past and present trouble, but also to develop other futures. To see how design museums might support change rather than preservation, we look to the example of protest archives. Based on an analysis of relational space, we suggest that the relative crowdedness of protest archives emerges out of matters of care, and allows for the development of alternative ways of being and creating. We …

Absence, Gaps, Splits, And Holes: Design Research As Visible Repair, Mary Anne Beecher

Nordes Conference Series

This exploratory paper invokes a typology of textile repair methods as a metaphor for design research. A rising “visible repair movement” is emerging as a strategy for shifting cultural perceptions of the appropriateness of repair while encouraging lay persons to acquire the tools and skills (and confidence) needed to fix things themselves. By doing so, more goods are kept out of the waste stream and ideas about the value of things that are worn or damaged is transformed. Likewise, generally knowledge of research-led design practices could benefit from raising the visibility of the contributions that design research makes to meaningful …

Delightful Screen Time Visualizations: A Sketching-Based Exploration, Omar Sosa-Tzec

Nordes Conference Series

Uncontrolled smartphone usage and excessive screen time are detrimental to people’s wellbeing. Informing people about screen time behavior is one strategy to help them attain digital wellbeing—a pleasurable, efficient, and controlled relationship with smartphones and other everyday technologies. This paper presents a series of sketches that explore unconventional, delightful screen time visualization on smartphones, illustrating an alternative to conventional screen time graphs. By showcasing these design concepts, this paper seeks to promote analog sketching as a valuable off-screen practice for design research, as it involves immersion, patience, and reflection.

Nothing About Us Without Us: The Journey Of Digital Accessibility In The Making, Luciana Terceiro

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This exploratory paper aims to discuss and reflect on digital accessibility practices in developing projects and products, focusing mainly on design activities. Digital accessibility is a characteristic of digital products and services like websites that allows people with disabilities to access and use them. Although its relevance, accessibility is not present in many technological objects. When tech practitioners and companies are asked why accessibility is not a priority, several reasons are mentioned, like costs and the available development time. What would lay below the most apparent arguments? What constitutes an organisational culture that leaves factors such as accessibility behind? The …

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

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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 …

Teaching Design For Sustainability From The Classroom: Uncomfortable Reflections From A Comfortable Place, Eeva Berglund

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The paper describes co-teaching on a masters programme with design for sustainability at its core. The programme puts emphasis on involving multiple societal stakeholders but increasingly also on appreciating the often tricky social and value-laden dimensions of designing better futures. In this context, we seek to foster students’ imagination and support their utopian thought and futures-oriented design. The classroom experience shows that this is achievable through rather conventional academic practices, ones rooted in disciplinary insight and empirical and historical research. The paper also suggests that enhancing students’ self-critical understanding of their own situatedness, even their own comforts, by grounding both …

Cultivating Ethics With Professional Designers, Sharon Lindberg, Petter Karlström, Sirkku Männikkö Barbutiu

Nordes Conference Series

Recent years have seen an increased interest in designers’ ethical responsibility. However, knowledge concerning how ethical practice could be cultivated in real-life settings is still lacking. In order to explore this issue, we formed a team with practitioners at a digital design studio. During 10 months, the team co-designed activities and materials intended to sensitize design practitioners at the studio to ethics. Our findings highlight the importance of presenting ethics in an appealing manner in order to engage designers, and this paper illustrates how we explored this in our project. Moreover, we discuss co-design as a collaborative space for engaging …

Missing Species: Discursive Design Activism, Margaret Rynning

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Through a design case, “Missing species”, this article presents how design activism can be applied to a discursive design project and proposes a model for discursive design activism. The case study addresses the issue of biodiversity and invading plants due to humans’ interaction with nature and suggests how design may inform and engage societies and individuals through critical imageries, possibly leading to local engagement. Design activism and presenting design outside of galleries and spaces for designers may lead to a larger and more targeted audience for discursive design.

Time As An Issue Of Power In Participatory Design, Helena Kraff, Eva Maria Jernsand

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Participatory design researchers address complex issues through collaboration with other actors. These can be communities, third sector organisations, industry or governmental bodies, as well as other academic disciplines. Collaborators are seen as knowledgeable, and empowerment, mutual learning and democratic processes are emphasised. However, such positive claims have long been undermined by skewed power relations, many of which are related to time. Time, an evasive phenomenon tending to escape visibility, is in this paper given centre-stage. The aim is to identify time challenges in participation, exploring their effects and social implications. The analysis of a project in Kenya reveals how time …

Craft As A Matter Of Care To Inspire The Design Of Computational Things, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Anna Vallgårda

Nordes Conference Series

Craft, being the skillful process of turning materials into artifacts, bears many similarities with interaction design as a practice of giving form to computational materials. Zooming into the studios of five craftspeople and through interviews with them, we unfold stories of the joys and struggles they encounter in their practices. Departing from these, we unpack and discuss how craft is a matter of care, using the notion of care by de la Bellacasa. We argue that the dual movements of care in the making and through the artifact are linked and that the ability to generate care through artifacts comes …

Does Seeing Entail Believing? Visualising Information During Societal Crises, Elena Aversa, Michele Mauri

Nordes Conference Series

Despite the shared belief that information visualisations are immune to manipulation, as visual stimuli, they “are no different from words in this regard, for any means of communication can be used to deceive” (Tufte, 1983). This paper discusses the power of information visualisation in engendering “a narrative experience” (Segel et Al., 2010) that cannot be considered politically neutral (Boehnert, 2016). In this sense, it can be compared to the concept of “tropes” (Haraway, 1988) which are narrative tools transmitting political and social agendas. The paper explores the existing literature addressing the circulation of information disorders (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2019) on …

Conversations With The Body Of The Other: A Three-Step Dialogical Process, Nesli Hazal Oktay, Danielle Wilde, Kristi Kuusk

Nordes Conference Series

Embodied design ideation methods rely on subjective —first-person— experiences of the designer to bring new ways of designing into being. Shifting the embodied design ideation method to the body of the other, we propose a three-step process that makes the experiences of a dancer accessible to a designer for the ideation of remote intimacies. To support the access to the dancer’s experiences, we facilitate embodied, dialogical exchange over three phases: i) observation of embodied explorations between the dancer and a set of tangibles, ii) analysis of phase (i) visual documentation, and iii) a semi-structured interview with the dancer, using phase …

Absent Futures In Gothenburg’S Jubilee Architecture, Karl Palmås

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This paper interrogates the relation between architectural design, on the one hand, and social imaginaries of time, on the other. It does so in the context of ongoing research on the futures imagined and enacted in the architectural structures emerging in time for Gothenburg’s 2023 quadricentennial jubilee. The argument focuses on the ways in which conceptions of the future are absent, particularly when juxtaposing the 2023 jubilee with the Gothenburg’s 1923 tricentennial jubilee. As such, the paper seeks to engage with recent scholarship on temporal approaches to design.

Supporting Mutual Imaginations Through Human-Material Interactions: A Toolkit As Form Of Access, Monja Hirscher, Irene Posch

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We introduce Mutual Imagination as a desirable outcome of Human-Material Interactions, proposing implications for the design of a toolkit that supports such activities. We aim to support Human-Material Interaction in an active, physical way, negotiating between learning foundational knowledge and supporting creative expression and imagination. The focus is set on process rather than finished objects, encouraging abstract reflection and the formulation of Mutual Imaginations emerging from a hands-on making activity. We report on the findings of a first case study utilizing the technology of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), exemplarily probing the interconnection of knowledge, reflection, and making towards toolkits that …

Moving By Doing: Gaining Sight Of And Grasping Movement, Helena Tobiasson, Ksenija Komazec, Elsa Vaara

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Although physical activity plays an important role in our lives, it has mainly been addressed from a health perspective. Our research explores a partly blank space by making visible movements present in alternative contexts, in our case - the context of designing and crafting with reclaimed materials. Our research contributes to finding and making visible movements that otherwise go unnoticed and to seeing how they can support to expand the notion of what physical activity is and where it can be found. As part of our result, we propose an explorative method directed to the design research community when in …

Theory Instruments: Helping Designers See The Invisible, Jacob Buur, Mette Kjærsgaard, Franciska Fellegi, Sisse Schaldemose, Tom Djajadiningrat

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With increasingly complex technologies entering the daily lives of people, human-technology relations haves become more difficult to observe and make sense of. In this paper we discuss experiments with designing ‘Theory Instruments’ that allow designers to collaboratively play with multiple theoretical perspectives on field research material. We argue that the physical, tangible nature of these instruments helps to convey and experience the richness of theoretical frameworks and can make designers and researchers aware of easily overlooked aspects in ethnographic observations. We unfold the case of ‘charging electric vehicles’ across theories of Product Ecology, Rites of Passage, Exchange & Reciprocity, and …

Guiding Students To Become Better Designers And Co-Designers Of Inner Sustainability: A Framework For Higher Education, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen

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The COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call for humanity. The resulting slowdown demanded existential reflection and a need to reframe industrial values related to the acceleration and growth logic of the capitalist economy. The pandemic and the blank space it produced have initiated radical changes to respond to both human and planetary health challenges. In response, this paper suggests a life-centered design framework that includes a life-centred design attitude and a 4- foci model aimed at inner and outer sustainability. The 4-foci model entails an inner focus, an outer focus, an outer praxis/ business focus and an outer planetary/world focus. …

A Planetary Turn For Design? Speculations On Withdrawal And Cohabitation, Kristine Samson, Michael Haldrup

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Currently, notions of the planetary have made their way to the center field of design's key concern. In this article we ask the question: can we imagine a planetary turn for design and if so, what would be its key concerns. Drawing on ongoing research on urban nature, design and planning in and around Copenhagen, we, outline ‘the planetary turn’ as it has emerged in recent years and relate it to current movements in the design field, before suggesting five propositions open up for the ‘interstice’ and ‘in-between in design’, which we argue is never void of meaning but part …

The Illusive Type: Hunting Typographic Simulacra, Kyle Rath

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Typically, when evaluating iconic typefaces, we investigate the degree to which they communicate well-established connotative narratives. Helvetica, for example, is an icon of simplicity and clarity and so, is applied across various designs to exude similar tones. Bodoni, a showpiece of Neoclassicism, detailing and adornment facilitated by technological advancement during the 18th century Industrial Revolution, often appears in designs suited to premium brands. Iconic typefaces such as these are tied to their symbolism; it appears that their symbolic ‘myths’ have ‘always been so.’ As I demonstrate however, there are examples of iconic typefaces whose myths are in fact entirely fabricated, …

Designing Interventions As Learning Spaces, Mia Hesselgren

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When designing for sustainability, design as a practice needs an altered position. Designing learning spaces with a practice-oriented design can be such an approach. In three mobility interventions that were design-led practice interventions, this design practice was tried out. Furthermore, in these interventions, conditions for sustainable mobility practices were studied. As a suggested design for sustainability approach, aiming to transform socio-technical systems, a design focus on enabling learning spaces where collaborative sensemaking takes place is proposed. However, designing such learning spaces requires careful crafting and designing with altered design postures.

Speculative Designs In Educational Settings: Tension-Patterns From A (Mostly) European Perspective, Enrique Encinas, Ingi Helgason, James Auger, Ivica Mitrović, Julian Hanna

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The study of speculative designs (such as futures, critical design alternatives, or catalysts for reflection) is well documented in the design research community but the literature lacks attention to speculative designs in the service of a pedagogical practice. This paper reports on a two-year cross European research project investigating speculative designs in higher education contexts. We reflect on a broad data set including interviews, surveys, case studies and workshops involving educators and students. Our contribution draws on the results of this study to propose eight tension-patterns, each an interplay between opposing tendencies that educators and students need to address, more …

Pleasures, Participation Or Practices? Unpacking The Black Box Of Designing In And With Organizations, Alexandra Harder Lindek, Morten Krogh Petersen

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As a contribution to the field of design management, this paper responds to the uptake of design in organizations by developing and fleshing out a relational approach. The dominating approaches are methodological and cognitive, putting the human designer and her capabilities front and center. In contrast, the relational approach pays close, empirical attention to how designerly contributions come into being as the designer relates to her organization. Thereby, the relational approach enables a more critical understanding of what organizations and designers can achieve together. We unfold our arguments through ethnographic accounts of crucial moments in a development project concerning workplace …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1986, V3, November, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Lutheran General Health Care System & Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: Articles in the November 1986 issue of "Second Opinion" (ISSN 0890-1570) include:

• Initial Comment: From A to ... (James P. Wind) p. 8
• Healing a City: AIDS in San Francisco (John Godges) p. 10
• The Other Anorectics (Linda-Marie Delloff) p. 30
• A Place for Madness? An Introductory Essay (James P. Wind) p. 50
• Religious Insanity: History of a Diagnosis (Ronald L. Numbers and Janet S. Numbers) p. 56
• Comments p. 78
• Bringing Ethics to the Bedside: An Interview with Dr. Mark Siegler, p. 92
• Body and Soul: Perspectives …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1987, V4, March, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Lutheran General Health Care System & Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: The March 1987 issue of "Second Opinion" (ISSN 0890-1570) includes:

• Initial Comment: Cultural Myopia (James P. Wind) p. 8
• Medicine, Modernization, and Religion in the People's Republic of China (Don S. Browning) p. 10
• Two Ethical Dilemmas Facing Chinese Medicine (Ren-Zong Qiu) p. 30
• Hospital without Walls: Hong Kong's Christian Medical Services ( Glen W. Davidson) p. 42
• Health and Politics: An Interview with Dr. L.K. Ding, p. 58
• Noise, Nakedness, Flood, and Fire: Purification Rites for a Healthy New Year in Modern Japan (Lawrence E. Sullivan) p. …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1986, V1, March, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Lutheran General Health Care System & Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: The March 1986 inaugural issue of "Second Opinon" (ISSN 0890-1570) from the Park Ridge Center, an Institute for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics. Articles in this issue include:

• Initial Comment: Living with Descriptions (James P. Wind) p. 6
• Second Opinion in Health, Faith, and Ethics (Martin E. Marty) p. 8
• The Social Meanings of Illness (H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.) p. 26
• Organ Transplants: Conundra without End (Jeff Lyon) p. 40
• Hospital Chaplaincy as Public Ministry (Don S. Browning) pp. 66
• Four Pathway of Medical Ethics (Kenneth …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1986, V2, July, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Lutheran General Health Care System & Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: The July 1986 issue of "Second Opinon" (ISSN 0890-1570) includes a focus on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit:

• Initial Comment: Confronting Brute Facts (James P. Wind) p. 7
• The NICU: Medical Realities (pictorial essay) p. 10
• Imperiled: A Case Study (William G. Bartholome) p. 12
• The Best Interests of the Baby (Richard A. McCormick) p. 18
• Imperiled in the Wilderness (Karen Lebacqz) p. 26
• Responsibilities to the Imperiled Infant (William G. Bartholome) p. 32
• The NICU: Family Involvment (pictorial essay) p. 40
• When Is It Justifiable Not to …

University Libraries’ Response To Online Teaching And Learning In Bangladesh: A Perspective On Online Library Services During Covid-19 Pandemic, Md. Ashikuzzaman, Dr. Md. Shariful Islam, Md. Ede Amin

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose - This study aims to explore the online services provided by the university libraries of Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they cope up with the new demands of the students and faculties to support online teaching and learning activities.

Design/methodology/approach - The descriptive research design of the online survey was used to collect data from 50 public and private university libraries. The population of this study was 160 UGC-approved universities in Bangladesh. A structured online questionnaire was developed using Google Forms and delivered to 72 university libraries via Email. 50 university libraries responded to the survey, and …

Planning For The Preservation Of Biodiversity And Environmental Assets In Support Of Sustainable Planning In Urban Areas, Case Study: Batu Licin City, Tanah Bumbu Regency, South Kalimantan, Dharma Kalsuma, Hendricus Andy Simarmata

Smart City

Planning for preserving biodiversity and environmental assets in urban areas is crucial in supporting sustainable planning. This study aims to design a strategy for preserving biodiversity and environmental assets in Batu Licin, Tanah Bumbu Regency, South Kalimantan, to support sustainable urban planning. The method used is field observation and literature study. The results showed that the Batu Licin area has a relatively high potential for biodiversity and environmental assets. However, along with the growth of the Batu Licin urban area in the future, it will undoubtedly be a source of pressure on biodiversity. Several strategies can be implemented to overcome …