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Research Through Designers: A Pictorial Reflection On Engagements, Encounters, And Environments At A Design Research Jamboree, Arne Berger, Julia Weller, Miriam Sturdee, David Philip Green, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alessandro Soro, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph Lindley Jun 2024

Research Through Designers: A Pictorial Reflection On Engagements, Encounters, And Environments At A Design Research Jamboree, Arne Berger, Julia Weller, Miriam Sturdee, David Philip Green, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alessandro Soro, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph Lindley

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We picture design researchers’ engagement with the task of capturing the value of Research through Design during a week-long event. The images are selected to document set and setting, hands-on activities, human and more-than-human encounters, and material engagements with the theories, methods, and practices of design research. The text is deliberately minimal, offering contextualization from the photographer and the organizer of the event, as well as commentary from attendees on material outcomes and bodily presences; context and environment, disciplinary esthetics; and social commentary from two non-attendees. We offer this record of process to inspire design researchers to further engage with …

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Harmonizing With Nature: Unpacking The Neurophysiological Impacts Of Biophilic Sound In Virtual Classroom Design, Nayeon Kim, John S. Gero, Dawoon Jung Jun 2024

Harmonizing With Nature: Unpacking The Neurophysiological Impacts Of Biophilic Sound In Virtual Classroom Design, Nayeon Kim, John S. Gero, Dawoon Jung

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This paper presents the results of an experiment on the effects of biophilic sound on electroencephalography (EEG) activations by comparing two virtual classroom designs: one non-biophilic and one biophilic. The results reveal significant inter-hemispheric interactions in theta, alpha, and gamma frequency bands. The presence of biophilic sound in conjunction with other biophilic elements decreases beta power, compared to its absence. These findings underscore the influence of auditory biophilic experiences on neurophysiological responses, providing insights for evidence-based design strategies to enhance biophilic environments.

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Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray Jun 2024

Quant-Ethico: An Approach To Quantifying And Interpreting Ethical Decision Making, Shruthi Sai Chivukula, Colin M. Gray

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Design researchers have previously sought to describe, model, and represent the cognitive processes of designers. In parallel, researchers in HCI and STS have identified a range of frameworks to describe the ethical and value-related char-acter of design activity. We have identified a productive gap between these two sets of literature—namely, the role of analytic methods in describing ethical de-cision-making as one aspect of design complexity. In this paper, we describe and explore an approach for quantifying the ethical character of design decision-making, building upon existing critical approaches from HCI and STS literature. Through a series of visualizations at varying temporal …

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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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Grand Narratives Of Value And Their Relationship With Design, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn Jun 2024

Grand Narratives Of Value And Their Relationship With Design, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn

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We all use value speak in our everyday conversations. Within the field of design, the implications of value are even more integral: we expose and negotiate value in order to create “desirable” experiences and avoid “bad” products, and our respective ideas of value guide our actions and judgements of what is “worthwhile” or “important”. Yet despite its prevalence, our understanding of each respective value referent is often ambiguous and subjective. In this research, we examine three grand narratives of value and ascertain how each representation relates to design. We argue that the strengths and limitations inherent in theories of sociological, …

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Customer-Centric Luxury Fashion Store Experiences: A Case Study Approach, Bethan Alexander, Holly Rose Thompson Jun 2024

Customer-Centric Luxury Fashion Store Experiences: A Case Study Approach, Bethan Alexander, Holly Rose Thompson

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This paper explores current approaches to customer-centric experiential strate-gies in a luxury fashion context, through an analysis of two UK luxury retailer case studies: Anya Hindmarch and MatchesFashion. While earlier studies have shown the importance of the physical luxury store, emphasis on customer experience (CX) and aspects related to service interactions that lead to pleasurable experi-ences remain nascent. Underpinned by interrelated theoretical constructs – cus-tomer experience, store atmospherics and retail design – and taking an explora-tory, qualitative approach (including documents, expert interviews and store ob-servation), the research promulgates the dimensions comprising customer-centric physical store experiences in luxury fashion. In doing …

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Designing 3d Printed Ceramics From A Clay With Tunable Shrinkage, Fiona Bell, Erin Mcclure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, Leah Buechley Jun 2024

Designing 3d Printed Ceramics From A Clay With Tunable Shrinkage, Fiona Bell, Erin Mcclure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, Leah Buechley

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Clay 3D printing is a rapidly growing hybrid craft practice in which physical ceramic artifacts are designed and fabricated with digital technologies. In this work, we bring attention to the material element of this hybrid practice by presenting a collection of 3D printable clay materials with tunable shrinkage called clay-dough. Clay-dough materials are made up of varying ratios of stoneware clay to bio-based dough. As we fire these materials in a kiln, the dough burns away, resulting in the remaining clay shrinking dramatically as it chemically transitions into a ceramic. We leverage our ability to control the shrinkage properties of …

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A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht Jun 2024

A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht

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The modern world of design is one of constant change and technological progress. One emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the design is additive manufacturing. This innovative technology challenges existing manufacturing processes to reflect and enable the efficient production of complex and customized objects through reimagination. Design education for additive manufacturing plays a crucial role in educating future designers to resist the adherence to conventional processes and to promote the recovery of innovative thinking. Therefore, it is significant to explore the integration of this emerging technology in academic education and identify the associated chances and challenges to ensure …

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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

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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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Transforming Food Waste Into Natural Pigments: Raising Community School Awareness Of Food Waste Recycling Opportunities Through Co-Design Methods, Yoon Jung Choi, Hiromi Okumura, Brook Kennedy, Chang Hee Lee, Avery Gendell Jun 2024

Transforming Food Waste Into Natural Pigments: Raising Community School Awareness Of Food Waste Recycling Opportunities Through Co-Design Methods, Yoon Jung Choi, Hiromi Okumura, Brook Kennedy, Chang Hee Lee, Avery Gendell

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In a world grappling with ongoing food scarcity, the issue of food waste in US school cafeterias remains a pressing concern, often without sufficient attention given to recycling. School communities play a pivotal role in shaping behaviors, as individuals are significantly influenced by their peers' actions and opinions, making them more open to positive reinforcement. This research explores design opportunity to raise awareness and encourage food waste recycling behaviors through a co-design approach. Students are invited to participate in the interactive exhibitions, where they learn and provide feedback about the pigment-making process from food waste using a toolkit for art …

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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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Rethinking Design: Prototyping Sustainable Futures In Everyday Life, Mia Hesselgren, Sara Ilstedt, Martin Sjöman Jun 2024

Rethinking Design: Prototyping Sustainable Futures In Everyday Life, Mia Hesselgren, Sara Ilstedt, Martin Sjöman

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To support sustainability transitions, several different design approaches are required. In a series of Designerly Living Labs, we have prototyped possible sustainable futures in the context of people’s everyday lives to explore the complexities of lifestyle changes and socio-technical system shifts. Together with us-ers engaged as reflexive co-researchers, we have explored potential new practices and uncovered system-level tensions and deficiencies. System changes have been initiated by engaging relevant actors in learning processes and by bridging learning to decision-makers. However, the approach requires some rethinking of design as a practice. Instead of supporting people’s current needs and lifestyles, we design for …

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Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant Jun 2024

Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Product-Service Digital Twins are an emerging field about which little information is available. To overcome this deficit personas were utilized to elicit domain and user information requirements. As no user data exists for this domain, persona profiles were developed for the domain based on types of decision maker. Control task analysis was applied to the personas as a means of applying a people-centered approach to information gathering. A description is provided of how the control task analysis methodology is modified for use with the personas. Examples of the personas developed and the information gathered are given. This approach is shown …

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Exploring Travel Demands In Vertical Cities: A Collaborative Design And User Behavior Experiment Using Minecraft, Mengshi Yang, Ruochen Hu, Tanhao Gao, Hongtao Zhou Jun 2024

Exploring Travel Demands In Vertical Cities: A Collaborative Design And User Behavior Experiment Using Minecraft, Mengshi Yang, Ruochen Hu, Tanhao Gao, Hongtao Zhou

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The rapid expansion of modern cities has created an urgent need to explore innovative approaches to development to address sustainability challenges. Vertical cities are one of the potential solutions to optimize the lives of residents by using space efficiently and introducing advanced transportation. Leveraging Minecraft's multiplayer online game, we constructed a prototype multi-level city and conducted a behavioral simulation experiment. In this experiment, 30 participants devoted over 5,000 hours to creation, experience, and observation. This study investigates the viability of Minecraft as a collaborative design and behavioral research platform, focusing on constructing vertical cities and exploring their travel needs. It …

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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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Fostering Pluriversal Perspectives In Theory Of Change: A Case Of An Urban Regeneration Project, Hadas Zohar, Luca Simeone, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen Jun 2024

Fostering Pluriversal Perspectives In Theory Of Change: A Case Of An Urban Regeneration Project, Hadas Zohar, Luca Simeone, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper chronicles how we used a Theory of Change visual map to support pluriversal perspectives in urban regeneration projects. The map was tested in four cities under regeneration as part of the T-Factor project. Unlike most Theory of Change maps, it supported city stakeholders in three main aspects: 1) planning interventions to operate within multiple time horizons, 2) considering multiple actors, both human and non-human, in the decision-making process, and 3) reflecting on planned interventions to ensure a long-term impact beyond project scope. In addition, the Theory of Change map led towards a new approach for portfolio-based interventions in …

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Is Pen-To-Paper The Buggy Whip Of Design? Assessing The Use Of Ai Tools For Design Sketching, Alexander “Freddie” Holliman, Ross Brisco Jun 2024

Is Pen-To-Paper The Buggy Whip Of Design? Assessing The Use Of Ai Tools For Design Sketching, Alexander “Freddie” Holliman, Ross Brisco

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Sketching is quick and effective, however with the advent of generative AI, do the current generation of novice designers have an alternative? This paper compares the use of sketching and text-to-image generative AI tools to produce initial concept images (“sketches”) by novice designers. This will identify the viability and potential adoption of AI as a replacement, and gauge the adoption willingness of novice designers, replacing sketching. This study compares conventional sketching and AI image generation using first year product design students to record brainstormed initial concepts using both sketching and generative AI tools, this study compares various attributes of both, …

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Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton Jun 2024

Queer Futures: Correlations Between Queer Identity And Imagination Literacy, Gem Barton

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Futures thinking, and doing, has been the domain of the privileged majority for centuries. The very idea of ‘the future’ (singular) was fundamental to the crea-tion and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity. To this day, mainstream media readily emits the narrow and repetitive science fic-tion tropes void of (realistic, fair) representation of a wider inclusive society, specifically absent of queerness. This paper builds on the work of Alexis Lothian’s ‘Old Futures: speculative fiction and queer possibility’ in which she explores the forces queer people (and other marginalised communities) invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way …

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How Can We Measure Human Cognition And Emotion For Human Centric Design In Interior Urban Spaces?, Hee Sun Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Wang Zhang, Tian Cheng, Saijal Sharma Jun 2024

How Can We Measure Human Cognition And Emotion For Human Centric Design In Interior Urban Spaces?, Hee Sun Choi, Gerhard Bruyns, Wang Zhang, Tian Cheng, Saijal Sharma

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Understanding the impact on individuals and the socio-psychological effects of residing in continuously developed high-rise and densely populated urban areas is a crucial part of assessing the quality of interior spaces, particularly in how this may feed into a human-centred urban design process. This research offers a novel, neuro-scientific research approach using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to establish a connection between emotions and the spatial conditions of urban environments. The study utilises data collected through fMRI to shed light on the intricate relationship between urban design and psychological well-being, underscoring the value of incorporating neuroscientific approaches into urban studies. …

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Future In Place: Participatory Future Scenario Planning For Place-Based Local Policymaking, Radka Newton, Jekaterina Rindt, Mirian Calvo Jun 2024

Future In Place: Participatory Future Scenario Planning For Place-Based Local Policymaking, Radka Newton, Jekaterina Rindt, Mirian Calvo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

An increasing body of evidence suggests that the global emergence of Policy Innovation Labs over the last twenty years has marked a significant milestone in promoting-facilitating design-driven innovation in policymaking. However, the challenges associated with confining design expertise to the periphery of labs, and the focus of Policy Innovation Labs on national government, leaves regional and local policymaking in the trenches of legacy systems, processes, and skills. This limitation is problematic as it hinders the adaptation of local policies to address the unique challenges they face. Learning from, and moving beyond Policy Innovation Labs (considering their low cost-effectiveness), this paper …

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Design Principles Of The Pluriversal Design Paradigm, Eveline Van Zeeland Jun 2024

Design Principles Of The Pluriversal Design Paradigm, Eveline Van Zeeland

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When scientists embrace a different paradigm, this naturally leads to a shift in aca-demic behavior. While the importance and necessity of the pluriversal design framework are evident, understanding how this paradigm influences academic conduct is less clear. Through a systematic literature review of 103 academic papers on the pluriversal approach, it is deducted what it is that researchers do or suggest to do when shaping their research and design practice through the pluriversal de-sign paradigm. In this study, the pluriversal design paradigm is distilled into a set of foundational prerequisites and design principles. These design principles can be applied by …

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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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Faculty Wellbeing In Corporate Academia: A Critical Examination And Reimaging Of The Curriculum Vitae, Aaron Ganci Jun 2024

Faculty Wellbeing In Corporate Academia: A Critical Examination And Reimaging Of The Curriculum Vitae, Aaron Ganci

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Faculty wellbeing is declining among US higher education faculty, and burnout is becoming increasingly common. This study examines the role of design artifacts, namely the curriculum vitae (CV), within this dynamic. The CV has succumbed to interconnected social forces, including neoliberalism and inclusive democratization, fundamentally altering its design and the connected faculty experience. To better understand if design action might improve faculty wellbeing, this study employs a transformative research design to examine how the CV might be reimagined to promote positive transformation and improved wellbeing. This mixed-method qualitative study utilizes a novel bend of interviews, participatory co-design activities, and a …

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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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Spatial Justice Through Immersive Art: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Asma Mehan, Sina Mostafavi Jun 2024

Spatial Justice Through Immersive Art: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Asma Mehan, Sina Mostafavi

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This paper explores spatial justice in urban environments through immersive art and design, focusing on Amsterdam and Houston. It presents a case study from the Venice Biennale 2023, showcasing art's potential in fostering inclusive urban spaces. The study delves into the socio-political complexities of urban areas, highlighting often-ignored liminal spaces and their tensions and possibilities. Immersive art emerges as a transformative medium, capable of challenging and reshaping perceptions of space and addressing systemic socio-economic disparities. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, the research combines insights from various fields to enrich discussions on spatial justice and inspire urban transformation. By examining liminal spaces …

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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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Empowering Through Design: Designing Inclusive Sheltered Workshop Environments For Trainees With Special Needs In Hong Kong, Izzy Yi Jian, Wanchun Ye, Qiling Long, Kin Wai Michael Siu Jun 2024

Empowering Through Design: Designing Inclusive Sheltered Workshop Environments For Trainees With Special Needs In Hong Kong, Izzy Yi Jian, Wanchun Ye, Qiling Long, Kin Wai Michael Siu

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Intellectual disability (ID) affects approximately 1% of the global population, repre-senting diverse support needs. Sheltered workshops in Hong Kong, as elsewhere, aim to maximise the potential of individuals with ID (trainees), acknowledging their equal rights to be full members of the community, though their needs are often overlooked in design research, and space constraints pose developmental challeng-es. This study conducts case analyses of sheltered workshops in Hong Kong and globally, focusing on spatial layouts, interior design, and developmental goals. User personas provide insights into the experiences of trainees and supervisors. This re-search proposes a comprehensive framework featuring 3 aspects that …

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Using Contemplative Approaches In Education As A Pathway To Cultivating Hope In Design-Driven Futuring, Francesco Michele Noera, Luca Simeone, Rike Neuhoff Jun 2024

Using Contemplative Approaches In Education As A Pathway To Cultivating Hope In Design-Driven Futuring, Francesco Michele Noera, Luca Simeone, Rike Neuhoff

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Amidst the challenges of our time, characterized by pervasive uncertainty and global crises, despair often overshadows hope. Within the context of design-driven futuring, where long-term futures and possibilities are envisioned and shaped, the absence of hope can leave designers feeling powerless and doubting the impact of their work on a predetermined world. Yet, hope is a human experience that can be nurtured. This research explores the inner world of design students, addressing their emotions, thoughts, and perceptions. We conducted design experiments in Master's programs in Denmark and Italy, adopting a contemplative approach during design-driven futuring processes. Contemplative practices, known for …

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An Inquiry Into The Relationships Among Design Learning, Metacognitive Awareness, And Academic Goal Orientation, Gizem Yazici, Fehmi Dogan Jun 2024

An Inquiry Into The Relationships Among Design Learning, Metacognitive Awareness, And Academic Goal Orientation, Gizem Yazici, Fehmi Dogan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This study examines the relationship between students' metacognitive awareness, academic goal orientations, and design course grades as a design learning criterion in design education and proposes improvements for future design education. Based on the view that metacognitive awareness and academic goal orientations are important in student's academic success, this study investigates whether there is a difference among students with different metacognitive awareness levels concerning their academic goal orientations and design course grades. The study was carried out with 84 undergraduate architecture students. Students were divided into two groups: students with high and low metacognitive awareness levels using the non-hierarchical cluster …

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