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Designing Social Play Through Interpersonal Touch: An Annotated Portfolio, Mads Hobye, Nicolas Padfield, Jonas Löwgren Jun 2013

Designing Social Play Through Interpersonal Touch: An Annotated Portfolio, Mads Hobye, Nicolas Padfield, Jonas Löwgren

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We present five design cases as an annotated portfolio, exploring ways to design for intimate, interpersonal touch and social intimacy in interaction design. Five key qualities are elicited from the cases, including novel connotations sparking curiosity; providing an excuse to interact; unfolding internal complexity; social ambiguity; norm-bending intimacy. The work highlights novel interaction design approaches fostering social play, turning participants into performers of their own narratives.

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Translations: Experiments In Landscape Design Education, Anne Tietjen Jun 2013

Translations: Experiments In Landscape Design Education, Anne Tietjen

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How can students be taught an experimental approach to landscape design? New strategic planning tasks require more research-oriented design methods. Using the example of student work for a rural landscape in northern Denmark, this paper discusses landscape design as a process of translation. The landscape project is here essentially understood as spatial interventions aiming at unfolding inherent, place-specific development potential. Comprehending the landscape and dynamics of landscape change and formulating landscape projects thus becomes an integrated, creative process: A translation of an existing into a possible future landscape. Based on actor-network theory the paper outlines, first, a conceptual framework and, …

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Postcards From A (Better) Future: Process As Making, Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen Jun 2013

Postcards From A (Better) Future: Process As Making, Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen

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It is hard to imagine a future fundamentally different from what we know, yet increasingly people dream of and agitate for social, cultural and political change. Postcards From a (Better) Future is part of an evolving interrogation into how embodied-thinking-through-making might assist in the imagining of (better) futures that might otherwise elude us. It is a bid to empower people to imagine, through making, so that they may effectuate change. This paper describes the theoretical background and structure of the Postcards From a (Better) Future process. It provides background on the fundamental conceptual shifts; and discusses how and why the …

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A Differentiation Of The Notion Of Resistance, Based On Two Ways Of Operationalizing Textiles In Architecture, Elisabeth Heimdal, Astrid Mody Jun 2013

A Differentiation Of The Notion Of Resistance, Based On Two Ways Of Operationalizing Textiles In Architecture, Elisabeth Heimdal, Astrid Mody

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An emerging field of design research deals with the operationalization of materials. In this paper, we present and analyse two approaches to operationalizing textiles in architecture. In our analysis, we focus on how differences in operational design expose different kinds of resistance in textiles. Anna Vallgårda and Cecilie Bendixen define a material’s resistance as what gives us access to knowledge about it (2009). We argue that it is fruitful to compare these two approaches in order to shed light on how to produce sufficient and suitable resistance when operationalizing textiles. As a conclusion we suggest four types of resistance: a …

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Double Vision: Researching Fashion Design Practise By Use Of Qualitative Techniques, Ulla Ræbild Jun 2013

Double Vision: Researching Fashion Design Practise By Use Of Qualitative Techniques, Ulla Ræbild

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Present short paper concerns itself with the question of how new ways of understanding the work methods of professional fashion designers can be uncovered. The paper presents two different but interconnected discussions, one relating to the use of interview and video when researching studio practice, the other addressing the practice of analysing through sketching and metaphorical imaging.

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The In-Between: An Experimental Venture Into The Position Of The Designer, Susana Cámara Leret, Bas Raijmakers Jun 2013

The In-Between: An Experimental Venture Into The Position Of The Designer, Susana Cámara Leret, Bas Raijmakers

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Increasing interdisciplinary collaborations between art, design and science, draw attention to the need of elucidating the position of the designer. Here this stance is identified as an in-between position, characterised by its exploratory nature, which contributes to the experimental practice of design as a whole. This interstitial position for design, is furthermore identified as an empowering one, which can open up doors to novel opportunities and outcomes, by enabling designers to engage within the processes that construct meaning.

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Ageing As Design Culture, Ozge Subasi, Lone Malmborg Jun 2013

Ageing As Design Culture, Ozge Subasi, Lone Malmborg

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This paper discusses emerging themes related to design culture of ageing or in other words ageing as design culture. By looking into existing experiment and exploration practices from different countries on ageing and design, this paper summarizes outcomes from a full day international expert’s workshop. The main outcome is a need for a broader understanding of ageing that goes beyond the definition of ageing by means of age, deficits and needs. We introduce four main issues that emerged from our discussions in our workshop on how to deal with ageing as a subject of design experiments. These four themes can …

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Design Experiments For Sustainable Eating In Finland, Young-Ae Hahn, Marja Seliger Jun 2013

Design Experiments For Sustainable Eating In Finland, Young-Ae Hahn, Marja Seliger

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This paper presents two design experiment opportunities on sustainable eating in Finland. First, clarification of scientific concepts is urgent because misconceptions lead consumers to focus on minor issues, or to develop negative perceptions on sustainability. Second, a socio-cultural approach to sustainable eating is proposed, by investigating Finnish consumers’ perceptions on food origins, how their social identities are shaped/expressed with food, and the sustainability of popular Finnish recipes. Future design experiments on consumers’ knowledge, attitudes, or behaviours with public installations and commercial data collection systems are proposed.

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Discursive Design Basics: Mode And Audience, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp Jun 2013

Discursive Design Basics: Mode And Audience, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp

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Presented within are four categories of product/industrial design practice, one of which, Discursive Design, is problematized regarding basic operational mode and audience. Two dimensions will be offered that provide fundamental structure for future theorization. Having emerged over the last two decades, increasingly critical practice is being developed within design’s art-based, exhibitive model, and also within the field of design research. Here the dimension of Terminal/Instrumental is posited as an operational modality, while the audience along this dimension is posited in terms of Internal/External participation.

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Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher Jun 2013

Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher

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This exploratory paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the use of design experimentation to augment students’ approaches to speculative projects within the context of professional interior design education. By analysing student-based research as integrated into final comprehensive graduate-level design projects at a major North American university, the potential for experimentation to inform design process is articulated. Although the results of such acts are not always easily assessed within the constraints of real-life criteria, it is optimum for generating innovations in design process and hybrid theoretical frameworks that ultimately challenge the profession to define its boundaries in new ways.

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Complicating Machines: A Call To Infect Architecture With The Mechanism Of ‘Politics’, Johan Liekens Jun 2013

Complicating Machines: A Call To Infect Architecture With The Mechanism Of ‘Politics’, Johan Liekens

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This paper ventures from architecture’s possible and much needed capacity to provoke through its material manifestation a difference of thought. First, an argumentation is constructed pleading for the infection of architecture with the negotiational mechanism of ‘politics’. This is needed if architecture wants to reach its full capacities of acting in this world – practically; ethically; politically. With this argumentation in mind, the architectural experiment Complicating Machine CoMa02 is screened as a set-up, following its possibilities – both functional and para-functional – to its user, the flâneur, the passer-by.

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Making As Using: Design Research That Deciphers Value, Tania Splawa-Neyman Jun 2013

Making As Using: Design Research That Deciphers Value, Tania Splawa-Neyman

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The cultivation of sustainable fashion praxis is challenging when design activity is implemented through the making of objects. Whilst scrutinising the use value of objects yields solutions, framing making as design research positions this process as research enquiry, with inherent usefulness in its own right. Sited within an emergent fashion practice that integrates professional skills with everyday and domestic customs, transformation is explored, via the method of gleaning, to reframe waste as remnants. This affords comprehension of the embedded life within objects and materials as they move into and out of my hands, post and prior to making. I propose …

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Experiential Design Landscapes: Design Research In The Wild, Michel Peeters, Carl Megens, Caroline Hummels, Aarnout Brombacher, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn Jun 2013

Experiential Design Landscapes: Design Research In The Wild, Michel Peeters, Carl Megens, Caroline Hummels, Aarnout Brombacher, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn

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Thanks to the emergence of new sensing and behaviour tracking technologies, design research can take place anywhere and anytime in the real world. When doing design research, a trade-off has to be made between experimental control and ecological validity. In this paper, we compare Experiential Design Landscapes (EDLs) with three more traditional research approaches that are frequently used in design research, i.e., Lab Research, Living Lab and design research ‘in the field’, and reflect on this trade-off. By means of an example, we discuss how EDLs deals with issues of ‘generalisability’ to the real world and the potential loss of …

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Design Argumentation In Academic Design Education, Peter Dalsgaard, Christian Dindler, Jonas Fritsch Jun 2013

Design Argumentation In Academic Design Education, Peter Dalsgaard, Christian Dindler, Jonas Fritsch

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In this paper we explore design argumentation as a resource when teaching interaction design in a university setting. We propose that design argumentation can help bridge between practicebased design education and theoretical issues from university curricula. Building upon the Toulmin model of argument, we outline the idea of design argumentation and report on initial experiences from interaction design teaching. We discuss how this approach can be instrumental in teaching students how to build up a shared design vocabulary in order to formulate valid claims when arguing for and through their design work based on empirical, theoretical and material grounds.

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Designing In The Emergent City: Assemblage, Acts, Performance, Kristine Samson Jun 2013

Designing In The Emergent City: Assemblage, Acts, Performance, Kristine Samson

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The paper seeks to define urban design in relation to the specific challenges of emerging cities. The emergent city is a three month field research project conducted in the winter 2012-13 in Sao Paulo, Rio and Santiago. Through a case study of Mudo Coletivos temporary structure, Bolha Imobiliaria, and the making of it, I wish to outline a design approach for urban design in cities lacking public spaces. Urban design is understood in a broad sense, not as architectural design but also as spatial design and artistic interventions in public space. Through the paper I will address how the designer …

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Proto-P Experiments: Entering A Community Of Circus Practitioners, Camilla Ryd Jun 2013

Proto-P Experiments: Entering A Community Of Circus Practitioners, Camilla Ryd

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This paper discusses early experiments in an exploration of how interactive technologies can be designed for circus art performances. The experiments were carried out in environments for training and rehearsal of circus skills and technique. The approach was to introduce circus artists in various disciplines to motion sensors and interactive visualizations. The intention was to create impulses and ideas that later can be explored and shaped in a co-creational process with circus performers. The outcome of these experiments is discussed in relation to the notion of communities of practice, and the concepts of infrastructuring and protoperformance (proto-p). In conclusion, the …

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Escaping The Obvious: Skewing Properties Of Interaction, Sus Lundgren, Dimitrios Gkouskos Jun 2013

Escaping The Obvious: Skewing Properties Of Interaction, Sus Lundgren, Dimitrios Gkouskos

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Most design methods used within interaction design originate from other disciplines. As a result, there are few methods which can focus on designing or redesigning interaction in itself. In this paper we present a structured ideation method called Skewing, which is based on changing already identified, interaction-related properties of an artifact. Hereby, designers can generate interesting re-designs whose interaction design differs from the original product. Moreover, the structured approach in Skewing helps in finding the unusual design solutions in the outer rims of the design space. Lastly, Skewing can also be used as a means to teach the materiality of …

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Mapping Children’S Experiences: Adapting Contextmapping Tools To Child Participants, Mathieu Gielen Jun 2013

Mapping Children’S Experiences: Adapting Contextmapping Tools To Child Participants, Mathieu Gielen

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Within the area of user-centered design, Contextmapping is an approach to participatory user experience research that provides designers and user researchers with a clear workflow and hands-on toolkit. It acknowledges the user as the expert of his or her own experiences and aims to deliver rich insights to designers: deep, authentic and inspiring views into the personal lives and experiences of prospective users. This approach is originally developed for use with adult participants. As it gets applied with child participants, some adaptations are necessary to meet children’s skills (both cognitively and socialemotionally) and motivations. We conducted a series of research …

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3 Contiguous Experiments On A Design Historical Case, Pia Pedersen Jun 2013

3 Contiguous Experiments On A Design Historical Case, Pia Pedersen

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This paper contributes to the field of practicebased research and includes insights from research through design, both research perspectives that apply methods and processes from design practice as basis for knowledge generation. The objective of the paper is to introduce a design historical case and demonstrate that it can inform and produce relevant knowledge to practice-based research and research through design. It is the assumption that – by forming the basis for making an epistemic artefact – a design historical case can construct knowledge on how to transform statistics into visualisations. It is also the assumption that the combination of …

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Design For Future Uses: Pluralism, Fetishism And Ignorance, Cristiano Storni Jun 2013

Design For Future Uses: Pluralism, Fetishism And Ignorance, Cristiano Storni

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In this paper, I question the epistemological and chronological politics of design. Concerned with the role of technology and design in a democratic society, I problematize the divisions between expert and lay knowledge, and between design (before) and use (after). I argue that designs that assumes those divisions risk of colonizing the future, and limiting the possibility of appreciating different forms of knowledge that are not available/voiced at design time. Drawing on a series of Science and Technology Studies about the interplay between knowledge and ignorance in our society, I argue for an approach to design for future uses that …

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Characteristics And Interferences Of Experiments In Science, In The Arts, And In Design Research, Dagmar Steffen Jun 2013

Characteristics And Interferences Of Experiments In Science, In The Arts, And In Design Research, Dagmar Steffen

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Commonly the term “experiment” is in the first place associated with science, systematic methods and strict principles for the sake of knowledge creation. Nonetheless, the term is widely used across the boundaries of science. The arts attribute artworks likewise as experimental – a usage that is often claimed to be metaphorical, since experiments in the arts (including design) lack the essential attributes that define a scientific experiment. Currently, research in the fields of science studies and literary science has revised these established conceptions as well as the primacy of the scientific experiment. The philosophical approach of New Experimentalism relativizes the …

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Enstasy: Immersive Drawing As A Design Process, Welby Ings Jun 2013

Enstasy: Immersive Drawing As A Design Process, Welby Ings

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This paper considers the means by which the short film Munted (Ings 2011) was drawn into being. It discusses drawing and interior dwelling as enstasic methodological practices. In so doing, it suggests that such approaches to the design of filmic narratives might enable the designer to reach into ideation and outwards into the communicative appearance of the text.

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Multimodal Experiments In The Design Of A Living Archive, Laurene Vaughan, Reuben Stanton, Lukman Iwan, Jeremy Yuille, Jane Mullett, David Carlin, James Thom, Adrian Miles Jun 2013

Multimodal Experiments In The Design Of A Living Archive, Laurene Vaughan, Reuben Stanton, Lukman Iwan, Jeremy Yuille, Jane Mullett, David Carlin, James Thom, Adrian Miles

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Designing a ‘living archive’ that will enable new forms of circus performance to be realised is a complex and dynamic challenge. This paper discusses the methods and approaches used by the research team in the design of the Circus Oz Living Archive. Essential to this project has been the design of a responsive methodology that could embrace the diverse areas of knowledge and practice that have led to a design outcome that integrates the affordances of the circus with those of digital technologies. The term ‘living archive’ has been adopted as a means to articulate the dynamic nature of the …

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Designing For Self-Leadership, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen Jun 2013

Designing For Self-Leadership, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen

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This paper argues generative tools can be used not only as ‘a language for co-creation aimed at the collective creativity’ as stated by pioneer E.B. Sanders (2000), but as ‘a visual making-language for self-dialogue and value clarification’, paving the way to self-leadership. In a Danish bank this ‘making-language’, was offered banking customers, who wanted to change their ‘money-behaviour’. They created visual ‘hand-made’ strategies which proved to be strongly self-persuasive: six weeks later the participants had changed their behaviour - and in accordance with their new strategies. Additionally they stated they felt increasingly empowered by taking action and leadership. Designing for …

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Towards A Manifesto For Methodological Experimentation In Design Research, Henry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison Jun 2013

Towards A Manifesto For Methodological Experimentation In Design Research, Henry Mainsah, Andrew Morrison

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This paper argues that design research may benefit from investigations, explorations and innovations in the means of conducting and of conveying design research from qualitative methods in the social sciences. The paper examines how inter-disciplinary and intermethodological experimentation as a mode of knowledge building. At the end of the paper we draw out a manifesto that proposes potential actions concerning design research methods which ought to be applicable for designers and design researchers, but also for social scientists engaging with the changing nature of production-related inquiry and critique in which design increasingly features.

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Experimentation As Making Knowledge: Two Models Of Research In The Design Studio, Michael Jasper Jun 2013

Experimentation As Making Knowledge: Two Models Of Research In The Design Studio, Michael Jasper

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Two propositions underpin the paper. The first is that studio-based research contributes to architectural knowledge in a manner no less vital or effective then more traditional research methods. The second proposition is that experimentation undertaken in the design studio at its most effective blurs distinctions between the activities of the practicing architect, academic theoretician, and the historian. An analysis of two approaches to the architecture design studio in the university setting will lead to a preliminary response to these propositions. The introduction provides an overview of the guiding questions, approach, and data sources. In the second part I analyse two …

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Demonstrating Color Transitions Of Leuco Dye-Based Thermochromic Inks As A Teaching Approach In Textile And Fashion Design, Marjan Kooroshnia Jun 2013

Demonstrating Color Transitions Of Leuco Dye-Based Thermochromic Inks As A Teaching Approach In Textile And Fashion Design, Marjan Kooroshnia

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Although there are a lot of interest concerning the use of leuco dye-based thermochromic inks in Textile and Fashion Design, there is still a lack of teaching approach to help students arrive at a better understanding of the color transitions of leuco dye thermochromic inks. This paper aims to share a systematic approach for teaching the behavior of leuco dye-based thermochromic inks to students in Textile and Fashion Design. Printed colorswatches and exercises were used as the central part of the approach. Through the approach it was described what printed color-swatches were and how to use them effectively to make …

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The Travelling Transect: Capturing Island Dynamics, Relationships And Atmospheres In The Water Landscapes Of The Canaries, Ellen Braae, Lisa Diedrich, Gini Lee Jun 2013

The Travelling Transect: Capturing Island Dynamics, Relationships And Atmospheres In The Water Landscapes Of The Canaries, Ellen Braae, Lisa Diedrich, Gini Lee

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The practice of landscape architecture is most often a cultivation of open space alongside an open-ended dialogue with the presence and complexities of the cultural and natural features of places, usually resulting in projects generating site resolution rather than pure invention ex nihilo. However, when working with the more unpredictable qualities of sites as in water-made landscapes, designers often lack mapping and representational tools capable of capturing and expressing ephemeral qualities - dynamics, relationships and atmospheres. These abstract qualities, that exist over physical site conditions, correspond to the fields of natural sciences and to spatial aesthetics. The Travelling Transect method, …

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Can Design Go Beyond Critique? (Trying To Compose Together In Opening Production), Anna Seravalli Jun 2013

Can Design Go Beyond Critique? (Trying To Compose Together In Opening Production), Anna Seravalli

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This paper aims at contributing to the emerging field of design for social innovation (D4SI) discussing the insights from the author’s long-term involvement as a design researcher in a social innovation project. In order to discuss this experience a particular perspective is introduced, according to which D4SI can be considered an attempt of design to go beyond critique, and, specifically, of composing together (Latour 2010). In this understanding D4SI can be considered as a collective effort towards the construction and exploration of alternative ways of living and working. In deepening how D4SI can be understood as composing together, some reflections …

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Experiments All The Way: Diagrams Of Dialectics Between A Design Research Program And Experiments, Mette Agger Eriksen, Anne Louise Bang Jun 2013

Experiments All The Way: Diagrams Of Dialectics Between A Design Research Program And Experiments, Mette Agger Eriksen, Anne Louise Bang

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Experiments take various forms, have various purposes, and generate various knowledge, depending on how and when they are integrated into a design research study. In this paper, as reflective (co-) design researchers/practitioners, we exemplify and argue ways in which different experiments can be at the core of a research project throughout the study. As former PhD scholars, with design backgrounds, both of us were engaged in the XLab project (2006), proposing a programmatic approach to experimental design research. This paper reflects our experiences of adapting this approach in PhD studies. Furthermore it exemplifies, discusses, and adds to the understanding of …

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