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Governance In Silico: Experimental Sandbox For Policymaking Over Ai Agents, Denisa Reshef Kera, Eilat Navon, Galit Wellner, Frantisek Kalvas Jun 2024

Governance In Silico: Experimental Sandbox For Policymaking Over Ai Agents, Denisa Reshef Kera, Eilat Navon, Galit Wellner, Frantisek Kalvas

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The concept of 'governance in silico' summarizes and questions the design and policy experiments with synthetic data and content in public policy, such as synthetic data simulations, AI agents, and digital twins. While it acknowledges the risks of hallucinations, errors, and biases, often reflected in the parameters and weights of the ML models, it focuses on the prompts. Prompts enable stakeholder negotiation and representation of diverse agendas and perspectives that support experimental and inclusive policymaking. To explore the prompts' engagement qualities, we conducted a pilot study on co-designing AI agents for negotiating contested aspects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act …

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A Distributed Approach To Design Sketching, James Self Jun 2024

A Distributed Approach To Design Sketching, James Self

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There has been much work towards understanding design sketching, its role and utility for design thinking. However, there remains little explanatory theory to structure our discussion of sketching and its importance. Drawing upon reflective practice as design paradigm and adopting a distributed theory of mind, I position sketching as distribution of design thinking. I provide an operational definition of the design sketch as particular type of design representation that includes sketch as articulation of future solution opportunities, variation in the expression of design intent through representational ambiguity, and the sketch as iconic representation. I locate the design sketch through a …

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Towards A Mapping Of Empathic Design Methods, Luce Drouet, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, Brian Pagán, Carine Lallemand Jun 2024

Towards A Mapping Of Empathic Design Methods, Luce Drouet, Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, Brian Pagán, Carine Lallemand

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Empathic design methods support designers in developing an empathic understanding of the people they design for. While researchers and designers use many of these methods, the literature falls short in providing an overview of these methods and what they contribute to the innovation process. We conducted two iterative workshops with 5 researchers in empathic design to define and map the properties of 10 selected empathic methods. By providing an overview, a mapping of empathic methods can support the deployment of empathic interventions. This mapping acts as a guiding tool to support designers in choosing the empathic methods that are the …

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Anticolonial Prospects For Overcoming The Coloniality Of Making In Design, Carmem Saito, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Frederick Van Amstel Jun 2024

Anticolonial Prospects For Overcoming The Coloniality Of Making In Design, Carmem Saito, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, Frederick Van Amstel

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Design has been instrumental in preserving the coloniality of making – a set of ideological, cultural, political, market and relational processes that operate to identify, categorise and hierarchise different making practices that benefit the metropolises at globalised production structures. This paper presents a theoretical examination of the coloniality of making based on the anticolonial scholarship of the Design & Oppression Network. The examination proceeds with three prospective studies to overcome this form of coloniality in fashion, interaction, and graphic design. The first part of each study denounces how design reproduces the hierarchy between intellectual and manual labour and justifies class, …

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“Bejay (Water) Is Our Sister”: Wearable Speculations To Entangle Collectively., Andrea Botero, Eliana Sanchez-Aldana, Alexandra Cuaran Jamioy, Susana Patricia Chicunque Agreda Jun 2024

“Bejay (Water) Is Our Sister”: Wearable Speculations To Entangle Collectively., Andrea Botero, Eliana Sanchez-Aldana, Alexandra Cuaran Jamioy, Susana Patricia Chicunque Agreda

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Inspired by the feeling-thinking-making of the tšombiach, a traditional belt or sash woven by the Kamëntŝa people (authors 2023) this paper explores the potential of a collection of wearable speculations to entangle collectively in matters of care (Puig de la Bella Casa 2017) relating to water in a territory. Through five speculative, hand-woven garments we (2 Kamëntŝa and 2 sn̈ená/foreign women) open dialogues on how wrapping/involving, in a tšombiach logic, can be a practice of care: of the body and of the territory. The pieces are speculative in the sense that they are not actual garments, nor are they tšombiachs, …

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Healing Our Designing: Practices Of Care For Human And More-Than-Human Relations, Marysol Ortega Pallanez Jun 2024

Healing Our Designing: Practices Of Care For Human And More-Than-Human Relations, Marysol Ortega Pallanez

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Ongoing socio-ecological damages stem from dominant design practices rooted in modernist, capitalist ideologies that exploit nature. If we, designers, aim to contribute to healing the web of life, our practices also need healing. Seeking an alternative paradigm to problem-driven design, this article narrates my journey to embrace a paradigm of relation-caring that encompasses humans and more-than-humans. Drawing upon experiences with fellow embroiderers in Hermosillo, Mexico, I present two everyday design practices that explore women-plant relations in the desert: 1) cultivating relationships by embroidery of memories, presents, and futures with plants; and 2) infusing diálogo de saberes (wisdom dialogues) with embodied …

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Designing With The Challenges Of The Anthropocene, Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer, Carl Disalvo Jun 2024

Designing With The Challenges Of The Anthropocene, Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer, Carl Disalvo

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The Anthropocene is a concept that has been stimulating several initiatives among theorists and practitioners in Design. This paper explores how Design has been coping with this concept. It builds from a literature review to elaborate three challenges with themes related to the Anthropocene. They are: unsettling Modernity; noticing neglected multiplicity and creating new imaginaries. We share 12 projects related to these challenges were selected. The projects were analyzed considering how they address the theme they were attached to, and how they elaborate tactics and mechanisms to cope with the challenges. Based on such analyzes, the paper presents a matrix …

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Design For Office Health And Wellbeing: A Design Space Exploration, Roy Van Den Heuvel, Carine Lallemand Jun 2024

Design For Office Health And Wellbeing: A Design Space Exploration, Roy Van Den Heuvel, Carine Lallemand

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Workplaces are increasingly leveraging technological interventions to promote healthy working habits. While existing workplace health promotion designs have primarily focused on digital well-being applications and break-taking interventions, our work advocates for a broader exploration of relevant design strategies. Through an analysis of 40 unique designs, we distill seven innovative design strategies that hold the potential to foster healthier work environments. Each strategy is described, grounded in literature, and illustrated through relevant design exemplars. By delving into an array of alternative design approaches, this paper broadens the scope of workplace well-being and inspires researchers toward a more comprehensive understanding of how …

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Vision Problems And Eyewear Design Opportunities For The Elderly, Yu Hsiu Hung, Wan Zi Lin Jun 2024

Vision Problems And Eyewear Design Opportunities For The Elderly, Yu Hsiu Hung, Wan Zi Lin

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This study addresses the challenges of an aging population due to advancements in healthcare technology that have prolonged average lifespan. The consequent growth of the elderly population necessitates enhanced focus on their well-being and self-sufficiency. Vision plays a critical role, constituting 70-80% of human perception and in-teraction with the world. However, age-related vision problems pose significant chal-lenges, diminishing their quality of life and independence. The research involves a liter-ature review, a Visual Activities Questionnaire (VAQ) survey to understand daily vision problems and challenges, and an analysis of current eyewear products to identify gaps. By integrating these findings, the study aims …

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Spatial Distribution, Characterization, And Policy Opportunities For Taiwan's Solo Elderly: A Big Data Approach, Yu-Ta Lin, Wei-Chu Chen, Hsuan-Ta Yu, I-Ting Cho Jun 2024

Spatial Distribution, Characterization, And Policy Opportunities For Taiwan's Solo Elderly: A Big Data Approach, Yu-Ta Lin, Wei-Chu Chen, Hsuan-Ta Yu, I-Ting Cho

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As Taiwan approaches super-aging by 2025, this study uses the 2022 Ministry of the Interior database combined with geospatial analysis and machine learning to examine solo elderly demographical patterns and assess current "Community Care Stations." Findings: 1. Urban areas have higher aging and solo rates closer to city centers, while rural areas show the opposite pattern; 2. "Dual aging" (elderly and old houses) is common in metropolitan areas; 3. Solo elderly are predomi-nantly urban females, suburban males, often separated, widowed, or divorced, with fewer children or residing in different regions; 4. Both advantaged and dis-advantaged solo elderly are identified in …

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What Do Designers Bring To The Table? Identifying Key Design Competencies When Designing For Societal Challenges In The Public Sector, Thomas Van Arkel, Nynke Tromp Jun 2024

What Do Designers Bring To The Table? Identifying Key Design Competencies When Designing For Societal Challenges In The Public Sector, Thomas Van Arkel, Nynke Tromp

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There is an increasing interest in the public sector for the repertoire of designers and the value it can bring when working on complex societal challenges. However, what constitutes this repertoire is often not articulated clearly, or it is explained in such generic terms that it is hard to draw disciplinary boundaries. Drawing from literature, we identify four competencies—integrating, reframing, formgiving and orchestrating—as distinctive for the discipline of design. Through several examples we show how these competencies feature in the design process, and how these competencies drive different design practices. Although these competencies have to a certain extent always been …

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Developing Evaluation Models For Patient-Centeredness, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Miso Kim, Silvia Cantalupi, Chenfei Yu, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli Jun 2024

Developing Evaluation Models For Patient-Centeredness, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Miso Kim, Silvia Cantalupi, Chenfei Yu, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli

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This paper presents the process and outcomes of a three-month lab activity conducted in preparation for and during the 2024 DRS. Our research focused on developing a framework for an evaluation system designed to integrate patient-centered care (PCC) principles into orthopedic practices. PCC emphasizes the importance of improving health outcomes and fostering inclusivity for individual patients, as healthcare systems often grapple with challenges like fragmented care. Through a collaborative design research lab (DRS) partnership among Polifactory (Politecnico di Milano-Department of Design), the Center for Design at Northeastern University, and healthcare experts at local healthcare institutions (IRCCS Galeazzi and Massachusetts General …

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Drs 2024 Ph.D. Consortium, Ryan Bruggeman, Luis Garcia, Alayt Issak, Jules Rochielle Sievert Jun 2024

Drs 2024 Ph.D. Consortium, Ryan Bruggeman, Luis Garcia, Alayt Issak, Jules Rochielle Sievert

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Shanzhai As A Pluriversal Praxis: Challenging Western Design And Innovation Paradigm, Dan Mu Jun 2024

Shanzhai As A Pluriversal Praxis: Challenging Western Design And Innovation Paradigm, Dan Mu

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This paper explores the concept of Shanzhai ('fake' in Chinese), a Chinese practice often associated with imitation and design plagiarism, this study uses Shan-zhai to critique dominant forms of innovation, framed by a discussion of pluriversal design. Through a comprehensive literature review and empirical research, this study explores Shanzhai's evolution from a response to globalisation and de-sign colonisation to a reflection of identity. Shanzhai's unique approach challenges dominant design narratives, but in its own way emphasises inclusiveness and innovation. The study concludes that Shanzhai transcends its initial role as a design and manufacturing practice, evolving into a cultural phenomenon symbolising …

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Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros Jun 2024

Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros

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Disabled people, from younger to older adults, are at comparative disadvantage regarding work. Design for inclusion at work tends to focus on individual adaptations (often stigmatising) or general accessibility guidelines (often insufficient). Furthermore, there is a tendency to focus on inability rather than on extreme abilities, which seem to be the ones enabling workers to appropriate existing products and create their own designs. Therefore, design research requires more input from diverse workers as users to inform the design inclusive industrial workstations. Departing from theory and ending with analyses of workers' designs, this paper argues that the articulation of the concept …

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Infrastructuring Sustainable Food Futures: A Case Study In Collaborative Innovation For Circular Seafood, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Serena Pollastri Jun 2024

Infrastructuring Sustainable Food Futures: A Case Study In Collaborative Innovation For Circular Seafood, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Serena Pollastri

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Transitioning to a circular economy requires transforming practices across the Ready-to-cook product value chains through shared knowledge. However, generalised solutions rarely succeed, but must be tailored to each context. This study explores using participatory design-informed “infrastructuring” to collaboratively develop novel methods tailored to stakeholders’ existing practices. The Seafood AGE project serves as a case study. We developed two remote, distributed facilitation methods using accessible digital platforms. These engage stakeholders in mapping current practices, analysing responses to speculative fish products, and exploring feasibility of prototypical circular approaches. Key findings demonstrate the potential of co-creative infrastructuring to bridge design research and industry. …

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Design Terroir: An Eco-Social, Relational, Bioregional Approach To Design, Adrien Rigobello, Joshua David Evans Jun 2024

Design Terroir: An Eco-Social, Relational, Bioregional Approach To Design, Adrien Rigobello, Joshua David Evans

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Design practices grounded in the modernist yearning for universalism have often been oblivious to forms of local knowledge, and the situated webs of relations, among humans and with other species, they emerge from. In response to the destructive effects of this inattention, growing research has established that ecology and society must be considered together to ensure fair and resilient development. Here, we develop the concept of ‘design terroir’ to describe existing forms of eco-social design and help designers theorise and realise work that contributes to a relational bioregionalist approach. To inform this description, we extend considerations within the food domain …

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Designer-Maker: Merging Cognition And Construction In Practice-Led Design Research, Laureen Mahler Jun 2024

Designer-Maker: Merging Cognition And Construction In Practice-Led Design Research, Laureen Mahler

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In the decades since the establishment of design research, efforts to identify the nature of design knowledge have repeatedly returned to the question of design’s relationship to science. The resulting debate is often framed by the opposing tenets of positivism and constructivism, and this gap continues to characterize research across the discipline. This paper challenges the paradigmatic divide between cognition and construction through an examination of practice-led design research and, more specifically, a redefinition of the designer-maker. It presents perceptual space as an active, multimodal medium where cognition and construction emerge simultaneously, as evidenced by the work of the designer-maker. …

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When A Tree Says No: Towards A More-Than-Human Consent Notion For Design, Franca Lopez Barbera Jun 2024

When A Tree Says No: Towards A More-Than-Human Consent Notion For Design, Franca Lopez Barbera

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A growing body of more-than-human approaches in design reconsider and re-articulate design’s relationship to the natural world through relational frameworks. However, such endeavours do not come without difficulties and may even reproduce the very logics they seek to overcome. Despite the prolific efforts within the design community, overcoming the modern/colonial legacies of design and its anthropocentric paradigm remains a formidable challenge. Departing from the Quebracho Colorado tree as a guiding example, this paper delves into a gender and decolonial analysis of the notion of consent that underscores design’s role in reproducing extractive approaches to nature. It then goes on to …

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Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright Jun 2024

Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright

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The responsibility for sustainable futures extends beyond individual disciplines, necessitating the adoption of diverse approaches across various fields. Water pollution is at epidemic levels, valuable materials go to landfill, ocean detritus grows, many people are disconnected from green space, and biodiversity is plummeting. We need new modes of climate futures, championing citizen agency. Societies require cross-collaborative, inclusive approaches to navigate climate future challenges. We seek to foresee ‘climate futures’ that signpost challenges, unpicking (appropriate) opportunities, benefits, and pitfalls. Through an Ecological Citizenship lens, the authors traverse situations, through preferable futures. It is an entry point for transition design, creating climate …

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Show Me What You Mean: The Case For Easy-To-Use 3d Visualizations Of The Built Environment, Noelyn Stephens, Juan Salamanca Jun 2024

Show Me What You Mean: The Case For Easy-To-Use 3d Visualizations Of The Built Environment, Noelyn Stephens, Juan Salamanca

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Visual communication, particularly realistic visualization, has been found to be effective for facilitating constructive discussion on issues related to the built environment. Here, we make the case that a browser-based, intuitively designed 3D visualization interface could widen access to such approaches increasing opportunities for co-creation. Using this type of easy-to-access tool could allow community members to own the process of creating a shared vision for their city.

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An Alternative Design Ethics Of Otherness-Centered: Caring For Intelligent Artifacts, Li Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Yujia Liu Jun 2024

An Alternative Design Ethics Of Otherness-Centered: Caring For Intelligent Artifacts, Li Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Yujia Liu

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The advent of emerging technologies has introduced intelligent artifacts as distinctive moral agents. While care ethics has expanded to include animals, ecology, and public policy, it remains silent on the ethical dimensions of caring for intelligent artifacts. Intelligent artifacts and their digital remnants highlight uncertainties in the human-machine relationship and accentuate the "otherness" of objects. Given the inherent "otherness" of objects, there is a clear need to clarify this new ethical relationship between humans and objects. This paper advocates for otherness-centered design ethics, an extension of traditional care ethics to incorporate intelligent artifacts as non-human Others. Based on object-turn ethics, …

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Revisiting The Uncanny Valley Effect: A Data-Driven Analysis With Curve Fitting Perspective, Xiner Li, Yi Xiao, Yan Zheng, Jinhao Qiao, Chi-Sing Leung Jun 2024

Revisiting The Uncanny Valley Effect: A Data-Driven Analysis With Curve Fitting Perspective, Xiner Li, Yi Xiao, Yan Zheng, Jinhao Qiao, Chi-Sing Leung

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The Uncanny Valley (UV) is a vital part of design research because it directly affects users' emotional responses and acceptance of anthropomorphic technical products. Traditional research relies on curve fitting to measure UV effects. However, these works often overlook the impact of data quality including scale and distribution on the accuracy and stability of fitting results. This study places a strong emphasis on the mediating role of data in UV, revisiting UV using a dataset comprising 1,000 static facial images of humanoid entities, evenly spanning the entire human likeness spectrum. The results reveal a different UV shape than Mori's original …

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Adopting A Hospitality Lens For Designing Mental Healthcare At Home, Jeanne Sintic, Josina Vink, Mari Skoge, Kristin Lie Romm Jun 2024

Adopting A Hospitality Lens For Designing Mental Healthcare At Home, Jeanne Sintic, Josina Vink, Mari Skoge, Kristin Lie Romm

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Increasingly, there is a shift toward bringing services that were originally provided in hospitals into the home. Healthcare designers have been supporting this movement by designing medical devices and home care services. However, there is a risk that such shifts simply medicalize the home and erode the valuable informal practices of care that already occur there. Using a research through design approach, we adopted a hospitality lens to understand the rituals of hosting at home and identify potential areas of hostility as mental health consultations enter the home in Norway. This research demonstrates the value of adopting a hospitality lens …

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Cultural Product Design Concept Generation With Symbolic Semantic Information Expression Using Gpt, Yang Yin, Shiying Ding, Xiyuan Zhang, Chenan Wang, Xinyu Li, Ruiyi Cai, Yuancong Shou, Yiwu Qiu, Chunlei Chai Jun 2024

Cultural Product Design Concept Generation With Symbolic Semantic Information Expression Using Gpt, Yang Yin, Shiying Ding, Xiyuan Zhang, Chenan Wang, Xinyu Li, Ruiyi Cai, Yuancong Shou, Yiwu Qiu, Chunlei Chai

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Products imbued with traditional cultural semantic information hold significance in commerce, culture, and the dissemination of information. However, the integration of implicit cultural semantics into the design process of cultural products poses a significant challenge. Key issues include the inaccurate expression of implicit semantics and the inadequacy of semantic information retrieval and inspi-ration. Therefore, we adopt a datadriven approach to achieve symbolic semantic expression in generating and inspiring design concepts for cultural products. In this paper, we utilize the generative pretrained transformer (GPT-3.5) as the base language model (PLM). By analyzing semantic information features in layers and mapping, we identify …

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A Design-Stage-Oriented Framework To Introduce Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Design Education, Massimo Botta, Antonella Autuori, Ginevra Terenghi, Matteo Subet Jun 2024

A Design-Stage-Oriented Framework To Introduce Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Design Education, Massimo Botta, Antonella Autuori, Ginevra Terenghi, Matteo Subet

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are technologies that impact the skills and practices of the next generation of designers, presenting the chance to reimagine 21st-century design education. Having a structured knowledge that stands as a multidisciplinary reference for design education is still a challenging aspect of this re-imagination. The paper presents a design-stage-oriented framework for introducing AI and ML into design education. The framework structures taxonomies of AI tools, data types performed by these systems, AI capabilities and the stages of a design process. It leads to an interactive user workflow, serving as a foundational component that enables …

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How Are Design Ideas Studied Over Time?, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Jonas Frich, Kim Halskov, Minke Nouwens, Peter Dalsgaard Jun 2024

How Are Design Ideas Studied Over Time?, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Jonas Frich, Kim Halskov, Minke Nouwens, Peter Dalsgaard

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This paper provides the first systematic overview of how existing research has studied the temporal aspects of design ideas. Reviewing a corpus of research literature on design ideas, we contribute an overview of prevailing methodological approaches for studying design ideas as they emerge and evolve over time. This includes an examination of key correlations between methodological aspects such as length of study, length of object of study, methods, and data collection types. We find that prior studies a) typically examine the development of design ideas during short sessions, b) often use controlled experiment setups, and c) rarely explore the relationship …

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Pluriversal Design In One Situated Place: An Approach Rooted In The Interface Between The Local And The Global, Iris Y. Luo, Renata M. Leitao Jun 2024

Pluriversal Design In One Situated Place: An Approach Rooted In The Interface Between The Local And The Global, Iris Y. Luo, Renata M. Leitao

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This essay posits that a Place-Based approach is the prerequisite for fostering fruitful and mutually-respectful form of social design in the emerging paradigm of pluriversality – contextualized within the contemporary global order. The concept of "Place" serves as the nexus between the Local and the Global: it's where intermediaries reside, translation unfolds, and power dynamics intensify. By examining four historical phases from the pre-colonial period through post-modernity, this work looks into the evolution of the concept of Place and its role in the construction of power. This discussion encourages designers to ground themselves in the local, embedded within communities, while …

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Systemic Design Reasoning For Societal Transitions, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Sine Celik, Jotte De Koning, Alexander Nieuwborg, Nynke Tromp Jun 2024

Systemic Design Reasoning For Societal Transitions, Mieke Van Der Bijl-Brouwer, Sine Celik, Jotte De Koning, Alexander Nieuwborg, Nynke Tromp

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One of the emergent approaches towards designing (for) transitions and transformations is the application of systemic design: the integration of systems theories and practice with design theories and practices. Within this field we identified two dominant perspectives and associate practices: using systemic visualisations as a sense-making tool of complex challenges, and ‘designing from within’ by means of collective designing by system stakeholders. In this paper we introduce a third perspective and practice that we call ‘systemic design reasoning’. This perspective combines the abductive reasoning logic of design with various systems theories and practices to develop ‘systemic design rationales’. We developed …

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Enacting Sustainability-Centered Design Curricula: The Role Of Ethos In Translating Educational Goals Into Pedagogy., Charlotte Kessler, Janice Rieger Jun 2024

Enacting Sustainability-Centered Design Curricula: The Role Of Ethos In Translating Educational Goals Into Pedagogy., Charlotte Kessler, Janice Rieger

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The concept of sustainability ethos can be defined as a context enabling an articulated set of educational aims and values to translate into curricula and promote capabilities that empower graduates to create change towards sustainable futures. While emerging as an important factor in developing sustainability-centered design curricula, further research is required to fully comprehend its educational significance, and how it intersects with the prevailing outcome-based approach to higher education curriculum development. This paper draws from interviews with academics and graduate students from three sustainability-centered design programs internationally to explore what enabled sustainability to be integrated in the programs. The findings …

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