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Distributed Thinking Through Making: Towards A Relational Ontology In Practice-Led Design Research, Luis Vega
Distributed Thinking Through Making: Towards A Relational Ontology In Practice-Led Design Research, Luis Vega
Nordes Conference Series
Practice-led design research is a celebrated but debated field of inquiry. Although it offers appropriate tools to advance design knowledge through and within making, its scope remains limited to the scale of individual practice. Such a limitation hinders the possibility to account for particular design instances in relation to more general contexts. To address this issue, the paper at hand presents an exploratory literature review discussing why practice-led design research may benefit from adopting a relational ontology—i.e., a stance wherein to be is to relate. The review identifies two streams of relational thinking that exhibit potential overlaps with practice-led design …
Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen
Nested Bodies (Or A Small And Careful Spoonful), Julie Van Oyen
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This short paper refers to a project involving the development of a material fermentation practice into a process-led research praxis, wherein themes of embodiment and the relational bodily self are explored through direct contact with nonhuman agents. Theory and concepts borrowed from an Okanagan perspective of the body, as related through its language by scholar and land speaker Jeannette Armstrong, as well as from interaction design and a rich lineage of embodied researchers and practitioners, contribute to a re-framing of the human as a body dependent on others in the life-making activities of preparing, feeding, and eating the ferments. This …
Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk
Activating Design For Biodiversity, Zach Camozzi, Louise St. Pierre, Charlotte Falk
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
This paper documents a research project that has taken place over five years in the Emily Carr Industrial Design program. Our aim was to uncover methods to connect designers with nature, and to gain insight into how understanding our interdependence might change the way that designers work and prioritize. The act of practicing design with more-than-humans has effectively challenged human-centred design and activated deeper awareness of the implications of our design work. Over 160 Industrial design students, and 6 faculty members have been re-learning our place in the world as dependent among, and interdependent with, all other forms of life. …