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Transilience: Assemblage And Relationality In A Complex Urban Setting, Radhika Roy Jun 2022

Transilience: Assemblage And Relationality In A Complex Urban Setting, Radhika Roy

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Social change is experienced profoundly by adult youth in India, especially in cities like Delhi with large rural migrant populations. This youth is a generation in transition, with aspirations and experiences that are different from their communities of origin. However, their perceptions of their world have rarely been documented qualitatively, in their own voice. My doctoral research, titled Transilience, which means ‘to leap across’, is a practice-based reflection on my work as a social designer within this milieu, and specifically focuses on how adult youth perceive themselves and their context, to explore ways to reframe the way social design practitioners …

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Designing Transformative Futures, Ann Light, Colin M. Gray, Kristina Lindström, Laura Forlano, Dan Lockton, Chris Speed Jun 2022

Designing Transformative Futures, Ann Light, Colin M. Gray, Kristina Lindström, Laura Forlano, Dan Lockton, Chris Speed

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What makes the design of futures sufficiently transformative? Worldwide, people are aware of the need to change and keep changing to address eco-social challenges and their fall-out in an age of crises and transitions in climate, biodiversity, and health. Calls for climate justice and the development of eco-social sensibilities speak to the need for dynamic and provisional engagements. Such concerns raise age-old issues of inequality and colonialist destruction. Our designs carry the imprint of this current politics, wittingly or unwittingly, into worlds to come. This conversa- tion asked how might we respond fluidly to coming uncertainties, questioning our own practices …

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Beyond Tokenistic Approaches: How Can Engaging With Vulnerable Groups Shape The Policy Process?, Silvia Pau, Natalia Villaman Jun 2022

Beyond Tokenistic Approaches: How Can Engaging With Vulnerable Groups Shape The Policy Process?, Silvia Pau, Natalia Villaman

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This paper delves into questions related to the participation of vulnerable groups in policymaking, providing a snapshot of common trends and themes in this area. During a DRS 2022 Conversation session, titled ‘Beyond tokenistic approaches: how can engaging with vulnerable groups shape the policy-making process?’, participants were encouraged to engage with the above-mentioned questions by making use of a toolkit including prompts, thinking hats, and insight sheets where they captured their main insights. Key findings highlight the need for similar forums for safe and open discussions, as well as the lack of agreement around language use, calling for a shared …

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Design + Ethics: How Is It More Than The Sum Of Its Parts?, Deger Ozkaramanli, Michael Nagenborg, Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar, Sanna Lehtinen, Christine Schwobel-Patel, Laura Ferrarello Jun 2022

Design + Ethics: How Is It More Than The Sum Of Its Parts?, Deger Ozkaramanli, Michael Nagenborg, Delfina Fantini Van Ditmar, Sanna Lehtinen, Christine Schwobel-Patel, Laura Ferrarello

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The discussion of ethics in design has so far relied on theories and approaches from other disciplines. We argue that design can benefit from an explicit discussion on the ethics of its methods and practices that arises from within the discipline. This Conversation aimed at stimulating this discussion. Around 25 people attended in person, in addition to the online participants. We asked our audience about the main approaches they use for ethical inquiry and discussed the opportunities and challenges of applying these. We found out that ethics may best be framed as an invitation to care, without reducing it to …

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A Marriage In Practice: The Role Of Design Research In The World Of Medical Science, Toban Shadlyn, Leigh Hubbard, Tim Maly, Hannah Dalgish Jun 2022

A Marriage In Practice: The Role Of Design Research In The World Of Medical Science, Toban Shadlyn, Leigh Hubbard, Tim Maly, Hannah Dalgish

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For decades, design and medical research have been courting with varying levels of success. Much has been written about the potential of combining design methodologies and medical research in transdisciplinary collaborations (Chauhan et al., 2021; Mishra et al., 2021). The translation of this collaboration from promise to practice can be difficult. Partnerships between design and medical research face dif- ferences regarding how knowledge is produced, exchanged, funded, supported, and deemed successful (Groeneveld et al., 2018). Like any relationship, the two must ne- gotiate hierarchical norms, inharmonious timeframes, and distinctive values. This con- versation led to a robust exchange with designers …

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Studio Matters, Derek Jones, Colin M. Gray, Lorraine Marshalsey, Elizabeth Boling, Nicole Lotz, James Corazzo, James Benedict Brown Jun 2022

Studio Matters, Derek Jones, Colin M. Gray, Lorraine Marshalsey, Elizabeth Boling, Nicole Lotz, James Corazzo, James Benedict Brown

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The chairs' introductory editorial for the theme track 'Studio Matters'.

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Design Literacies: Pasts, Presents, And Possible Futures, Úrsula Bravo, Liv Merete Nielsen, Eva Lutnæs, Erik Bohemia, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi Jun 2022

Design Literacies: Pasts, Presents, And Possible Futures, Úrsula Bravo, Liv Merete Nielsen, Eva Lutnæs, Erik Bohemia, Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi

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The chairs' introductory editorial for the theme track 'Design Literacies: pasts, presents, and possible futures'.

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Designing Dialogue: Human-Ai Collaboration In Design Processes, Peter Lloyd, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Euiyoung Kim, Jonathan Cagan, Maria Yang, Kosa Goucher-Lambert Jun 2022

Designing Dialogue: Human-Ai Collaboration In Design Processes, Peter Lloyd, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Euiyoung Kim, Jonathan Cagan, Maria Yang, Kosa Goucher-Lambert

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The chairs' introductory editorial for the theme track 'Designing Dialogue: Human-AI Collaboration in Design Processes'.

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Design Dematerialisation: Opportunities Through Reduction, Ashley Hall, Rob Phillips, Delfina Fantini, Jonathan Chapman, James Tooze Jun 2022

Design Dematerialisation: Opportunities Through Reduction, Ashley Hall, Rob Phillips, Delfina Fantini, Jonathan Chapman, James Tooze

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The chairs' introductory editorial for the theme track 'Design Dematerialisation: Opportunities through reduction'.

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What Legal Design Could Be: Towards An Expanded Practice Of Inquiry, Critique, And Action, Dan Jackson, Jules Rochielle Sievert, Miso Kim, Sankalp Bhatnagar Jun 2022

What Legal Design Could Be: Towards An Expanded Practice Of Inquiry, Critique, And Action, Dan Jackson, Jules Rochielle Sievert, Miso Kim, Sankalp Bhatnagar

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Our theme track call for papers invited contributions that explore the role of designers in advancing legal design as an expanded practice of inquiry, critique, and action. Our core motivation for this theme track is our vision for a baseline world where everyone possesses agency to use the law and is equipped to both assert legal rights and question or change the role that law has in and on our lives. We are here deliberately challenging the emerging norms of legal design practice and theory because we feel achieving universal legal agency will entail working with a different attitude toward …

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The Echoing River: A Drs 2022 Lab, John Fass, Tyler Fox, Alastair Steele Jun 2022

The Echoing River: A Drs 2022 Lab, John Fass, Tyler Fox, Alastair Steele

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This DRS lab was a ten-day project carried out at Espacio Open on Zor- roztaurre in central Bilbao in June 2022. The Echoing River sought to address the theme of Creative Industries and Public Space through sonic placemaking. With this paper, which reports on the Lab outputs, we hope to demonstrate new ways of activating abandoned and overlooked public spaces in creative ways. The lab exemplifies a way for Bilbao to involve people in experimental, hands-on creative work that reveals the value of an enriched, shared public sphere. Interdisciplinary international collabora- tion is fundamental to our approach. The Echoing River …

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Biodesign For A Culture Of Life: Of Microbes, Ethics, And Design, Rachel Armstrong Jun 2022

Biodesign For A Culture Of Life: Of Microbes, Ethics, And Design, Rachel Armstrong

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Scientific advances at the turn of the new millennium brought radical new insights into just how microbial our world is and the extent to which microbes influence our lives: from notions of the body (human microbiome); to their distribution in our living spaces (microbiome of the built environment); playing an integral role in ecosystems services in our cities (urban microbiome) and are fundamental to biogeochemical cycles—our world is irreducibly microbial. This paper asks what it means to dwell and design in such times and proposes an ethics for biodesign: which employs the insights and tools of the biotechnological age to …

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Healthricious: Improving An Existing Mobile App For Healthy Eating To Support Groups At Risk Of Covid-19, Sander Hermsen Jun 2022

Healthricious: Improving An Existing Mobile App For Healthy Eating To Support Groups At Risk Of Covid-19, Sander Hermsen

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Urgent health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require rapid responses based on scientific evidence. Improving existing solutions is often faster, more effective and cheaper than developing new ones. This paper describes a case study consisting of a design cycle aimed at improving an existing design, a mobile app, to better support at-risk groups with healthy nutrition, to reduce risk of debilitating consequences of COVID-19. The design process consisted of five phases: user research (lived experience), expert consultations (learned experience), behavioural analysis of the original design, development of a new iteration, and delivery & evaluation. The case study showed that …

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Developing Play Tarot Cards To Support Playful Learning In Teacher Education, Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Helle Hovgaard Jørgensen, Keila Zarl Perez Quinones, Tilde Bekker Jun 2022

Developing Play Tarot Cards To Support Playful Learning In Teacher Education, Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Helle Hovgaard Jørgensen, Keila Zarl Perez Quinones, Tilde Bekker

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Via two design-based research experiments, this paper explores how we can design a tool to support designing for playful learning in teacher education. Several recent review studies show that integrating play qualities into a learning context is not always easy. We design a set of tarot cards with the aim of exploring actions in learning situations and play qualities for those specific actions. Our experiments show that using the tarot cards as a way for students and teachers to reflect and come up with further playful learning designs brings in a broader diversity of play qualities, especially qualities that are …

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Technologies And Collaborative Services Proximity In The Smart Cities: Distributed Ledger As A Push For New Relationships, Stefania Palmieri, Mario Bisson, Alessandro Ianniello, Riccardo Palomba, Luca Botta Jun 2022

Technologies And Collaborative Services Proximity In The Smart Cities: Distributed Ledger As A Push For New Relationships, Stefania Palmieri, Mario Bisson, Alessandro Ianniello, Riccardo Palomba, Luca Botta

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The expected demographic densification presents specific critical points where op-portunities for improving citizens' lives can be identified. For this reason, projects are underway to analyze and explore the dynamics of cities to adapt to new con-texts. Several European cities, including Milan, Paris, and Barcelona, are already implementing changes to encourage new types of neighborhood organizations which revolve around the concept of proximity, and primary services close to home. In this context, it seems fundamental to seek connectivity, encouraging new forms of relationships between citizens. The use of new digital tools, such as blockchain, favors new types of autonomous organizations that …

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Tool For Assessing Supply Side Governance: Fma & Set Policy Analysis Approach, Prabhakar Kollapudi Jun 2022

Tool For Assessing Supply Side Governance: Fma & Set Policy Analysis Approach, Prabhakar Kollapudi

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This paper presents a conceptual framework for the application of a tool Citizen Report Card Plus (CRC+) for assessing the quality and effectiveness of public governance, importantly looking into Accountability, Transparency and Time bound public Service delivery. Tool demonstrates the use of this framework by applying it to the working of the “investigation fund” of Karnataka Police Department. Tool considers this a supply side intervention as it can work only when records and internal data of government are available and government agencies are receptive to the findings. The tool presented in this paper goes beyond the identification of the problems …

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Repair As A Social Design Practice: Three Case Studies In Vulnerable Households In Chile, Pedro Alvarez Caselli, Antonio Batlle Lathrop Jun 2022

Repair As A Social Design Practice: Three Case Studies In Vulnerable Households In Chile, Pedro Alvarez Caselli, Antonio Batlle Lathrop

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The work presented herein addresses the socio-material implications and spontaneous design actions that emerge from the home repair practices of household objects in low-income areas. Through qualitative research and contextual inquiry from the investigation of their praxis (Cross, 2007), we reassess the principles of planned obsolescence associated with product design and throw-away culture. Within the framework of matters of care of non-human devices that are part of a social assembly, a theoretical discussion develops around certain actions; in particular, repairing everyday household objects, as design solutions. The exploratory methodology of this project is based on literature review and on-site case …

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Design As Posture: Developing Enlightened Subjectivity With The Philosophy Of Yoga, Estelle Berger Jun 2022

Design As Posture: Developing Enlightened Subjectivity With The Philosophy Of Yoga, Estelle Berger

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This research aims at supporting designers in developing a both embodied and reflective posture in practice – referred to as “enlightened subjectivity”. A dialogue is set up between the Samkhya, an early Buddhist philosophy at the basis of Yoga, and the design discipline. Grounded in practical experience, this inspirational framework allows approaching the sense-making process occurring in practice, through perception, understanding, action, and relation. This is sustained by professional posture, the specific way in which one invests their activity, giving it substance, meaning and justification. Implications for design education relate to increasing awareness among designers on their own posture, and …

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Critical Pedagogy And The Pluriversal Design Studio, Colin M. Gray Jun 2022

Critical Pedagogy And The Pluriversal Design Studio, Colin M. Gray

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Studio learning is central to the teaching of design. However, the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside emerging and historic critiques of studio ped-agogy, creates a space for critical engagement with the present and potential futures of design education in studio. In this paper, I outline historic critiques of studio pedagogy, drawing primarily from critical pedagogy literature to frame is-sues relating to disempowerment, student agency, and monolithic representa-tions of the student role and student development. I build upon this critical foundation to reimagine studio practices as pluriversal, recognizing the challeng-es and opportunities of bridging epistemological differences and facilitating the potential …

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Creation And Characterization Of Design Spaces, John Gero, Julie Milovanovic Jun 2022

Creation And Characterization Of Design Spaces, John Gero, Julie Milovanovic

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Designers advance in the design processes by creating and expanding the design space where the solution they develop unfolds. This process requires the co-evolution of the problem and the solution space through design state changes. In this paper, we provide a methodology to capture how designers create, structure and expand their design space across time. Design verbalizations from a team of three professional engineers are coded into design elements from the Function Behavior Structure ontology to identify the characteristics of design state changes. Three types of changes can occur: a change within the problem space, a change within the solution …

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Australian Architectural Education In The Pluriverse, Daniel Huppatz, Kirsten Day Jun 2022

Australian Architectural Education In The Pluriverse, Daniel Huppatz, Kirsten Day

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Among the design disciplines, architectural education in Australia has a unique con-straint: accreditation. On the one hand, competency requirements by accrediting bod-ies potentially limit an educator’s autonomy and curriculum development. On the oth-er, competencies define and regulate a profession by ensuring standard knowledge and skills. In this paper, we analyse the pedagogical and professional impacts of the 2021 “National Standard of Competencies” for Australian architects, particularly the inclusion of Indigenous Knowledge for the first time. Together with the recent Indige-nous Design Charter – Communication Design, these competencies signal a shift in Australian architectural and design education that suggests a vision …

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Ontogenesis As A Model For Design Processes, Otto Paans Jun 2022

Ontogenesis As A Model For Design Processes, Otto Paans

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The technical rationality (TR) and reflective practice (RP) paradigms have heavily influenced thinking about design and design cognition in the 20th century. This paper concisely highlights some of the features and limitations of these paradigms. In particular, it develops the suggestion that we require a new “root metaphor” or leading set of concepts to develop our thinking about designing beyond the work of Donald Schön. Building on this assumption, this paper examines some useful aspects of selected concepts developed by Gilbert Simondon, in particular the notion of ontogenesis. Furthermore, it is argued that Simondon’s thought helps us to connect epistemology …

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Legal Design Could And Should Be More Sociolegal, Amanda Perry-Kessaris Jun 2022

Legal Design Could And Should Be More Sociolegal, Amanda Perry-Kessaris

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Legal design could and should be more sociolegal. Sociolegal research can offer conceptual frameworks, empirical methods and data, and normative direction to legal design. At the same time, designerly methods can enhance the abilities of sociolegal researchers to make and communicate sense of things to, with and for themselves, academics in other disciplines, and the wider world. So, if legal designers were to engage more deeply and systematically with sociolegal research and researchers, benefits could flow to legal design, to cross-disciplinary research and to the wider world.

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Anatomy Of A “Technology”: Proposing A Meta-Design Framework For Sustainability Literacy That Addresses The Issue Of Efficacy In Modern Socio-Technical Cultures, Nicole Sacchetti Jun 2022

Anatomy Of A “Technology”: Proposing A Meta-Design Framework For Sustainability Literacy That Addresses The Issue Of Efficacy In Modern Socio-Technical Cultures, Nicole Sacchetti

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In the era of the Anthropocene, where the climate crisis forces humankind to rethink its values and systems of production, sustainability literacy becomes crucial for any design practitioner. This paper aims to contribute to the extensive literature that regards meta-design as a reflexive practice for the study of design purposes, processes, methods, and outputs by outlining a meta-design framework to tackle the modern artificial environments in which humankind has become naturalized. Specifically, by inscribing modern “technologies” within Simondon’s concept of “technical object”, it delineates the preliminary guidelines of a research approach for design education that, drawing from Lemonnier’s chaîne opératoire …

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Design For Public Policy: Embracing Uncertainty And Hybridity In Mapping Future Research, Lucy Kimbell, Liz Richardson, Ramia Mazé, Catherine Durose Jun 2022

Design For Public Policy: Embracing Uncertainty And Hybridity In Mapping Future Research, Lucy Kimbell, Liz Richardson, Ramia Mazé, Catherine Durose

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Addressing contemporary public policy challenges requires new thinking and new practice. Therefore, there is a renewed sense of urgency to critically assess the potential of the emerging field of ‘design for policy’. On the one hand, design approaches are seen as bringing new capacities for problem-solving to public policy development. On the other, the attendant risks posed to effective and democratic policy making are unclear, partly because of a limited evidence base. The paper synthesises recent contributions in design research, policy studies, political science and democratic theory which have examined the uses of design for public policy making. Mapping out …

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Participatory Design Towards Digital Democracy, Santiago Augusto Silva, Joon Sang Baek Jun 2022

Participatory Design Towards Digital Democracy, Santiago Augusto Silva, Joon Sang Baek

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The potential contributions of participatory design towards current problems of digital democracy platforms are investigated in this research. Literature review, thematic analysis, and inter-rater reliability test were used to determine the major issues in digital democracy platforms and what approaches and tools from participatory design study and practice can be used to address them, considering that democratic dynamics face similar difficulties in both participatory design, and digital democracy. As a result, a participatory design guide for digital democracy is developed, which included seven proposed strategies for dealing with five common issues of public participation platforms. This work contributes to the …

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‘Making The Dust Fly’: (A Case Study Of) Design Research Promoting Health And Sustainability In Addressing Household Infections, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Collins Ahorlu, Andy Darby, Roger Pickup, Dziedzom De Souza, Daniel Boakye Jun 2022

‘Making The Dust Fly’: (A Case Study Of) Design Research Promoting Health And Sustainability In Addressing Household Infections, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Collins Ahorlu, Andy Darby, Roger Pickup, Dziedzom De Souza, Daniel Boakye

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Global health crisis, such as antimicrobial resistance, threaten planetary health, as they have a direct impact on the environment, as well as to humans and animals. Personal and environmental hygiene form the best and most natural ways of reducing home infections and hence the need to take antibiotics. Despite this our understanding of cleaning in the home and interventions on home cleaning are limited. In this paper we present a project, which combined design research with environmental microbiology, to address this issue and to co-design sustainable cleaning interventions for human and planetary health. We focus on the design of a …

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Why Would I Ever Fry And Eat My Scoby? It Would Be Like Murder! Attuning To Nonhumans Through Kombucha Fermentation Practices, Aybars Senyildiz, Emilija Veselova Jun 2022

Why Would I Ever Fry And Eat My Scoby? It Would Be Like Murder! Attuning To Nonhumans Through Kombucha Fermentation Practices, Aybars Senyildiz, Emilija Veselova

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Kombucha fermentation is a multispecies activity guided by human-microbe interactions. This study investigates kombucha fermentation practices as a platform to recognize relationality with nonhuman microbes. For this, relational theories enable reframing human-microbe relations by focusing on reciprocity and interconnectedness within multispecies relations. The empirical research consists of interviews, a design probing task, and a collective reflection workshop with kombucha brewers. The empirical research delivers insights into the agency of microbes, sensory experiences, and embodied knowledge in kombucha fermentation practices. Findings investigate how humans attune to the needs of microbes, and the role of embeddedness in ethical doings. In this way, …

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Designing And Worlding: Prototyping Equivocal Encounters, Pablo Hermansen, Martín Tironi Jun 2022

Designing And Worlding: Prototyping Equivocal Encounters, Pablo Hermansen, Martín Tironi

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To sustainably coexist with other ontologies, human beings must overcome the perception of being the center of the world. This article describes how a video log refuted the initial – anthropocentric – hypothesis explaining the breakdown of an experiment with Judy and Gombe, chimpanzees that inhabit the National Zoo of Chile. This shows that it is wrong to ascribe human affects and reactions to other ontologies, and also that there is a long way to go to apprehend, comprehend, and sustainable coexist with other ontologies in more-than-human ecosystems.

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Camera-On/Camera-Off: Visibility In The Design Studio, James Benedict Brown Jun 2022

Camera-On/Camera-Off: Visibility In The Design Studio, James Benedict Brown

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What constitutes, defines or bounds the ‘studio’ in architecture education when it is wholly online? The design studio contributes to a very particular spatial con-struct in proximal teaching, one that has been challenged during the pandemic as educators have adopted distance and online learning and teaching. This paper presents a brief history of the design studio in architectural education and specu-lates about three dimensions of visibility therein. It contextualises the design studio against the broader higher education experiences of teaching online dur-ing the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular so-called ‘Zoom anxiety’ and ‘Zoom fa-tigue’ experienced by teachers and students. The paper …

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