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Co-Design For Change: Propositions And Dilemmas, Geertje Slingerland, Gubing Wang Jun 2024

Co-Design For Change: Propositions And Dilemmas, Geertje Slingerland, Gubing Wang

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Co-design has been widely applied to develop interventions supporting behavior change. While numerous co-design propositions have been developed, applying these in practice often leads to difficulties and tensions. This study aims to review the co-design propositions and understand the dilemmas when applying them. A literature review was conducted, and twelve co-design propositions were identified after qualitative analysis. The study found that some co-design propositions conflict because they align with an idealistic versus a realistic perspective. By studying these conflicts in-depth, seven dilemmas were identified at the intersection of realist and idealist propositions. Implications of the findings on design for behavior …

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Workshopping The Textile Hand: Reimagining Subjective Assessment Of Textile Materials With Digital Technologies, Zhengtao Ma, Lissy Hatfield, Chipp Jansen, Boyuan Tuo, Elif Ozden Yenigun, Sharon Baurley, Stephen Jia Wang, Kun Pyo Lee Jun 2024

Workshopping The Textile Hand: Reimagining Subjective Assessment Of Textile Materials With Digital Technologies, Zhengtao Ma, Lissy Hatfield, Chipp Jansen, Boyuan Tuo, Elif Ozden Yenigun, Sharon Baurley, Stephen Jia Wang, Kun Pyo Lee

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Designers continuously move between analog and digital spaces in order to assess sensory qualities of materials to build comprehensive references when sourcing and selecting them. Material decision making in contemporary design practice is increasingly collaborative. However, traditionally, subjective assessment of textiles has been studied at the individual level, focusing less on group workshops. This paper analyses two workshops where participants assessed sensory properties of textile materials, one individually, and one in groups, to show: 1. the difference of subjective material collection between individuals or groups. 2. improvements to the subjective assessment process, comparing physical and digital tools. 3. validation of …

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Intimate Data As Design Material: Designing Tracking Practices For Menstruating Athletes, Alina Wundsam, Alejandra Gomez Ortega, Nazli Cila Jun 2024

Intimate Data As Design Material: Designing Tracking Practices For Menstruating Athletes, Alina Wundsam, Alejandra Gomez Ortega, Nazli Cila

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There is a significant knowledge gap concerning the female body in sports partly due to research in sports physiology narrowly focusing on male athletes. It means hormonal changes around the menstrual cycle have been disregarded from critical considerations and recommendations about training and planning. Similarly, digital tracking technologies, which play an increasingly important role in sports, often overlook the menstrual cycle or invite athletes to reduce a situated and embodied experience into a discrete data point. In this paper, we use intimate data as material to design tracking practices for menstruating athletes. Specifically, we use the principles of Data Feminism …

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A Third Place As A Space To Foster Citizen Participation And Their Empowerment: The Case Of “La Ruche À Projets”, Louise Masciarelli, Maxim Lamirande, Isabelle Dalimier, Audrey Mertens, Catherine Elsen, Clémentine Schelings Jun 2024

A Third Place As A Space To Foster Citizen Participation And Their Empowerment: The Case Of “La Ruche À Projets”, Louise Masciarelli, Maxim Lamirande, Isabelle Dalimier, Audrey Mertens, Catherine Elsen, Clémentine Schelings

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This exploratory qualitative research underlines architectural properties of a res-idential house that was repurposed as a temporary creative space. Findings were compared against existing theory on third places (particularly creative spaces) and their relationship with citizen participation, empowerment, and social change. Overall, the “homey” character creates a sense of belonging and occu-pants seem eager to decorate and furnish with personal effects. Findings reveal tensions between large open and smaller closed spaces to reflect on how flow, accessibility, occupancy, and intimacy are affected. Occupant behaviors lead to wonder about the tensions between community, codesign, empowerment, and ownership. Findings help question how …

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A Bottom-Up Transformation: Design Empowering Chronic Disease Management Types And Strategies, Renxuan Liu, Duan Wu Jun 2024

A Bottom-Up Transformation: Design Empowering Chronic Disease Management Types And Strategies, Renxuan Liu, Duan Wu

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As the population ages, chronic disease management (CDM) has become a challenge for current public health services. Previously, designing for patients with chronic diseases often saw them as passive objects of design, hindering their agency. Understanding patients' agency is very important for health management, but the empowerment approach in the health field is often a disguised paternalism. This study aims to use the empowerment theory to reframe the possibility of the design empowering CDM and propose corresponding means of empowerment. We identified four types of design empowerment in CDM and articulated specific empowerment strategies through case studies. Our study therefore …

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W3c Web Accessibility Initiative Under The Microscope: Identifying Assumptions Of Users And Their Involvement In Digital Accessibility Design, Pia Karasjärvi, Juho-Pekka Mäkipää, Rebekah Rousi Jun 2024

W3c Web Accessibility Initiative Under The Microscope: Identifying Assumptions Of Users And Their Involvement In Digital Accessibility Design, Pia Karasjärvi, Juho-Pekka Mäkipää, Rebekah Rousi

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In addition to the well-known Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Web Accessibility Initiatives (WAI) also provide additional information and best practices for web practitioners on involving users with disabilities in their projects. Given the central role that the WAI possesses in the case of web accessibility, how they perceive and what they say about user involvement is regarded as significant. This paper examines how users with disabilities are represented, and more importantly, how they are treated in the recommendations. Critical close reading was performed on text produced by WAI regarding user involvement of people with disabilities. We found a reduction in …

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The Effect Of Perceived Realism On The Usage Of Pre-Flight Safety Videos, Eunji Kang, Chajoong Kim, James Andrew Self Jun 2024

The Effect Of Perceived Realism On The Usage Of Pre-Flight Safety Videos, Eunji Kang, Chajoong Kim, James Andrew Self

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Prior research and studies on aviation videos suggest that the transition from hand gesture demonstration to entertainment with diverse forms may positively affect the mood but negatively on the retention and recall of the memories. However, the methods used in the studies tend to focus only on individual elements of entertainment such as humor, which prevents the results from measuring the effect of entertainment on a video as a whole. In this study, we propose to evaluate the user experience and effectiveness of airline safety videos according to the perceived realism. Four videos were selected according to the dimensions of …

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Icu Alarm Management Reimagined: Sound-Driven Design And The Role Of Acoustic Biotope, Idil Bostan, René Van Egmond, Diederik Gommers, Elif Özcan Jun 2024

Icu Alarm Management Reimagined: Sound-Driven Design And The Role Of Acoustic Biotope, Idil Bostan, René Van Egmond, Diederik Gommers, Elif Özcan

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Staff well-being and patient safety are undermined by false alarms in the ICU. This study focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of sound-induced actions in the ICU by assessing the distinctness and informativeness of alarm sound events as perceived by nursing staff. We investigated the alarm load in an adult ICU, with an emphasis on alarm durations and their impact on actionability. As a strategy to mitigate false alarms, we simulated the introduction of alarm delays and examined how this affected alarm characteristics across various vital parame-ters. Results demonstrate that the introduction of alarm delays reduce the num-ber of alarms remarkably, …

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Playful Prototyping In Speculative Design Practices, Alberto Calleo Jun 2024

Playful Prototyping In Speculative Design Practices, Alberto Calleo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Prototyping is a fundamental part of the design process. The iterative as-semblage and manipulation of shapes, textures, colors, and volumes generate re-flections not only about formal qualities but also about possible affordances, functionalities, and meanings. Prototypical artifacts emerge from the negotiation between the informed rational thinking coming from research, the mechanical behavior of the material, the human body ergonomics and dexterity, and the serendipitous discoveries happening in the process. Analyzing the creative dy-namics happening during prototyping, it is possible to observe similarities be-tween model-making and play. Such dynamics of reflection in action have the creative potential to foster speculative inquiry. …

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Transitional Object As Empowerment Tool: Workshops For Latina Women To Persevere In Higher Education, Angelica Sibrian Jun 2024

Transitional Object As Empowerment Tool: Workshops For Latina Women To Persevere In Higher Education, Angelica Sibrian

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Thackara’s efforts to create spaces focused on wellbeing, and less on products, were invoked in this research. However, rather than simply abandoning the object, this work reassigns meaning to these objects—using them as empowerment tools—designed to become extensions of the body, thoughts, and experiences. This case study details the development and implementation of workshops designed to empower young Latina women persevere in higher education. The workshops brought awareness to structural barriers, coaching in self-reflective techniques, and the co-creation of transitional totemic (symbolic) objects that serve as aides-mémoires of the event. This paper highlights the workshops in three points: a) a …

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An Integrated Theoretical Framework For Reflective Teaching In Chinese Design Education And Abroad, Danqing Meng, Wenjing Dong, Linlin Yang, Fei Fan Jun 2024

An Integrated Theoretical Framework For Reflective Teaching In Chinese Design Education And Abroad, Danqing Meng, Wenjing Dong, Linlin Yang, Fei Fan

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As Chinese higher education adapts to the changing landscape, heavily influenced by Western paradigms, design education also undergoes significant transformation. To enhance design teaching quality, teachers should employ innovative approaches; however, existing research lacks focus on reflective teaching techniques. This study, employing surveys and in-depth interviews with design teachers, unveils several key insights: confusion often arises between "reflective teaching" and "teaching reflection"; there's a prevalent focus on static content, neglecting dynamic teaching processes; pre- and post-lesson reflection is favored over in-action reflection; teaching methodologies are subject to various influences; teachers must acknowledge the inherent value of reflective teaching. Subsequently, drawing …

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Co-Design Under The Bauhaus Of The Seas Light-House Project: A New European Bauhaus Case Study In Lisbon And Oeiras, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Nicholas B. Torretta, Frederico Duarte, Luisa Seixas, Mariana Pestana, Yacooba Labs Lda, Redcatpig Lda, Ann Light, Nuno Nunes Jun 2024

Co-Design Under The Bauhaus Of The Seas Light-House Project: A New European Bauhaus Case Study In Lisbon And Oeiras, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Nicholas B. Torretta, Frederico Duarte, Luisa Seixas, Mariana Pestana, Yacooba Labs Lda, Redcatpig Lda, Ann Light, Nuno Nunes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The Bauhaus of the Seas (BoS) is one of the Lighthouse projects of the New European Bauhaus initiative (NEB). The project promotes the application of the NEB values – sustainable, beautiful, together – to develop locally grounded De-monstrator Pilots and focus cities’ attention on the future of the oceans. A co-design approach is being applied in a series of participatory sessions with stake-holders, including nature/ecosystem experts, cultural institutions, local authori-ties and civic organizations, aiming at a consolidated collaborative approach. In this report we present the results from the co-design processes under develop-ment in Oeiras and Lisbon – two coastal territories …

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A Llm-Augmented Morphological Analysis Approach For Conceptual Design, Liuqing Chen, Yiyan Tsang, Qianzhi Jing, Lingyun Sun Jun 2024

A Llm-Augmented Morphological Analysis Approach For Conceptual Design, Liuqing Chen, Yiyan Tsang, Qianzhi Jing, Lingyun Sun

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Morphological analysis is often used in the conceptual design process because it provides a structured and systematic approach to decompose design problems, improving the completeness and diversity of creative solutions. However, it still relies heavily on designers' professional knowledge and experience when decomposing design problems and proposing solutions, which is a challenge for designers. In this study, we propose an LLMs-augmented morphological analysis approach for conceptual design. We refine the design process as three main stages: decomposition, generation, and combination, offering targeted guidance and support to designers when applying morphological analysis. In addition, we introduced a feedback mechanism to develop …

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Dissecting Innovation Drivers In Business Design: A Sustainable System Transformation Theory-Based Approach And Visualization Tool, Ruiyi Cai, Simin Chen, Yang Yin, Qianwen Jia, Huiting Liu, Yiwu Qiu, Chunlei Chai Jun 2024

Dissecting Innovation Drivers In Business Design: A Sustainable System Transformation Theory-Based Approach And Visualization Tool, Ruiyi Cai, Simin Chen, Yang Yin, Qianwen Jia, Huiting Liu, Yiwu Qiu, Chunlei Chai

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In the domain of business design, innovation driver components are frequently charac-terized by their high complexity and dynamic interactions, rendering their extraction and analysis a challenging endeavor. This paper, leveraging the integrated theoretical framework of Design for System Innovations and Transitions (DfSIT framework), itera-tively proposes an analytical approach to dissecting innovation drivers. This approach results in the development of a corresponding visualization and analysis tool through four rounds of academic and industrial expert workshops, extensive literature review, and in-depth case studies. The approach facilitates the systematic extraction, valida-tion, structural localization, and in-depth analysis of innovation drivers in business de-sign. This …

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Narrative Design Framework For Intelligent Cabin Development: Enhancing User-Centric Interaction In The Digital Manufacturing Era, Haowen Guo, Danhua Zhao, Jingming Ma, Zhongjie Xue Jun 2024

Narrative Design Framework For Intelligent Cabin Development: Enhancing User-Centric Interaction In The Digital Manufacturing Era, Haowen Guo, Danhua Zhao, Jingming Ma, Zhongjie Xue

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In the digital manufacturing era of the automotive industry, high-level intelligent cabins are leading the shift towards software-defined cabins, driven by rapid advancements in in-cabin hardware. For the product development process of the future intelligent cabin, there is a lack of a humanized cabin design framework to help designers clarify user motivation and interaction process for design and development. This paper introduces an intelligent cabin narrative design framework and a tool named Spatio-Temporal Canvas , which provides guiding ideas for the design of Intelligent Cabins. The framework and the Spatio-Temporal Canvas are applied to a case study, providing a detailed …

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Precedent Knowledge In Multiple Domains Of Design: A Review And Analysis Of Literature, Elizabeth Boling, Merve Basdogan, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Hamid Nadir, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Yichuan Yan, Khadijah Alghamdi, Parama Chaudhuri, Zixi Li, Manal Alsaif, Ahmed Lachheb Jun 2024

Precedent Knowledge In Multiple Domains Of Design: A Review And Analysis Of Literature, Elizabeth Boling, Merve Basdogan, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Hamid Nadir, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Yichuan Yan, Khadijah Alghamdi, Parama Chaudhuri, Zixi Li, Manal Alsaif, Ahmed Lachheb

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This systematic literature review study explores how precedent knowledge, as a form of design knowledge, is understood across multiple domains of design (architecture, engineering, fashion, game, graphic, HCI, human performance technology, interior, public planning, product/industrial, production/movie/stage and general design theory). Analysis of 96 published sources was conducted, and a construct map was created to identify how authors define and discuss what precedent is, where precedent comes from, how precedent is collected and stored, when precedent is used, and how precedent works in the design process. While precedent knowledge appears to be prevalent across multiple domains of design, variation in understanding …

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Precedent Knowledge: Practicing Designers’ Perspectives And Experiences, Elizabeth Boling, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Merve Basdogan, Zixi Li, Hamid Nadir, Dilnoza Kadirova, Taufik Slamet, Grant Chartrand, Parama Chaudhuri, Yichuan Yan, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Ahmed Lachheb Jun 2024

Precedent Knowledge: Practicing Designers’ Perspectives And Experiences, Elizabeth Boling, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Merve Basdogan, Zixi Li, Hamid Nadir, Dilnoza Kadirova, Taufik Slamet, Grant Chartrand, Parama Chaudhuri, Yichuan Yan, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Ahmed Lachheb

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This basic qualitative study informed by a hermeneutics approach presents how practicing designers across multiple domains of design define the construct of precedent knowledge, a form of design knowledge, and how they collect and use it in their design work. Interviews were conducted with 18 practicing designers across multiple domains of design, including fashion, product, graphic, game, instructional, and media design. Whether they used the specific term “precedent” or not, the study participants were able to address and discuss their precedent knowledge. They also reported multiple and varied sources of precedent, as well as multiple and varied practices in gathering …

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Towards A Design Methodology Against Oppression, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Marco Mazzarotto Jun 2024

Towards A Design Methodology Against Oppression, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Marco Mazzarotto

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This article aims to present a methodology that has been developed in design projects that combat oppression. The proposal emerged from work led by the Brazilian Design and Oppression Network in partnership with social movements and oppressed communities. The methodology has six guiding axes: popular assembly, dialogues, generating themes, unveiling, collective praxis, and systematization of experience. These axes bring together principles and practices stemming from critical pedagogy and militant research which can help designers and researchers with the particularities of conducting projects engaged in struggles against oppression.

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Chatgpt: Mediating Complex Design Processes, Alma Leora Culén, Amela Karahasanovic, Joseph Makokha, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Yangyang Zhao Jun 2024

Chatgpt: Mediating Complex Design Processes, Alma Leora Culén, Amela Karahasanovic, Joseph Makokha, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Yangyang Zhao

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This study explores the integration of ChatGPT as a facilitative tool in complex design processes within a project-based Transformative Design course. Student teams collaborated with external partners on projects concerning democratization of trading, democratization of local manufacturing processes, and promoting social inclusion. The inquiry observed if ChatGPT positively contributes to such processes and, if so, in what ways. We focused on its impact on teamwork, creativity, and informed decision-making. Data collection involved recording design sessions with automatic transcription, conversation logs from ChatGPT, semi-structured team interviews, observations and an anonymized questionnaire. Our findings point to ChatGPT’s ability to offer better assistance …

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Mapping Patient-Centered Design Practices And Actors Within Stakeholder Networks To Reimagine Healthcare, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Michael Arnold Mages, Heni Govindbhai Bhungalia, Shannon Haley, Uri Seitz, Miso Kim, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Stefano Maffei, Beatrice Villari, Massimo Bianchini Jun 2024

Mapping Patient-Centered Design Practices And Actors Within Stakeholder Networks To Reimagine Healthcare, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Michael Arnold Mages, Heni Govindbhai Bhungalia, Shannon Haley, Uri Seitz, Miso Kim, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Stefano Maffei, Beatrice Villari, Massimo Bianchini

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Patient-centeredness is advocated as a key ethical factor when designing healthcare artifacts, practices, and systems. Centeredness is constructed within particular cultural contexts and co-produced through performance by various actors within the encompassing system. In this paper, we seek to identify “patient-centeredness” by comparing two different ecosystems, the US and Italy, by systematically mapping cases and projects that claim to have been designed through a patient-centered approach. By systematically mapping the projects and their network of stakeholders, we developed a set of ecosystem categorizations that allowed for comparison between locations, distilling patient-centered values, projects, actors and organizations that seem to be …

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Changing The Negative Narrative Of Aging: A Case Study On Sexual Wellness Services For Women In Later Life, Camilla Borghi, Daniela Selloni Jun 2024

Changing The Negative Narrative Of Aging: A Case Study On Sexual Wellness Services For Women In Later Life, Camilla Borghi, Daniela Selloni

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The global longevity trend requires a paradigm shift in the design of services related to later life. Traditionally centered on the negative narrative of aging, service interventions have targeted sectoral domains such as assistance and healthcare. Instead, a silver society demands services for the mainstream market, addressing the desires of individuals who lead fulfilling lives at all ages. This paper examines a case study investigating sexual wellness in women's later life. Service design elevates this marginalized topic in active aging discussions to a common concern in a cultural service as output. The methodology combines ethnographic research and participatory design: it …

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Acoustic Patterns For Urban Attractors, Juan Salamanca Jun 2024

Acoustic Patterns For Urban Attractors, Juan Salamanca

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This study proposes the use of forms of entrainment as an interaction design principle for social computing. Entrainment could be used to design computational artifacts that produce socially beneficial effects, suitable for design projects that promote collaborative action. This study explores acoustic entrainment to gather cyclists into groups to reduce carbon-intensive urban commuting. The system uses visual cues and rhythmic patterns to gather riders with similar routes around mobile GPS signals. Preliminary results from a small empirical study (n=8) show how pattern phasing can encourage riders to accelerate. This method has limitations in communicating negative acceleration and proximity. Adjusting pattern …

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Life At The Riverfront: Drawing Histories, Drawing Narratives, Drawing Entanglements, Secil Taskoparan Stassi Jun 2024

Life At The Riverfront: Drawing Histories, Drawing Narratives, Drawing Entanglements, Secil Taskoparan Stassi

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Rivers worldwide are increasingly modified due to climate change, urbanization, and shifting land use patterns. This visual paper demonstrates how various drawing modes drive design research to uncover everyday practices along the modified riverfronts of the Citarum and Gombak Rivers in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Three drawing approaches are employed to investigate different timelines, capture residents’ lived experiences, and illustrate riverfronts’ complex, socio-economic, spatial, and environmental attributes. Drawing histories involves using historical mapping and visual ethnographic methods to gain in-depth insights into the localities. Drawing narratives entails gathering and overlaying narratives, stories, and everyday activities within river corridors. Lastly, drawing …

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Head And Heart — An Ethical Tightrope, Anjuli Muller, Anna Brown Jun 2024

Head And Heart — An Ethical Tightrope, Anjuli Muller, Anna Brown

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Navigating ethical considerations in participatory design is complex and ever-changing. The Co-production Project explores the use of co-production methods (co-discover, co-plan, co-design, co-deliver, co-evaluate) via a case study of women’s health in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based in an Arts and Design University, ‘academic ethics’ influence the project in tangible ways that are often procedural and prescriptive, with a focus on productivity. However, co-production methods — underpinned by principles of power-sharing and prioritisation of relationships — call for softer and less tangible considerations aligned with an ethics of care. These tangible and intangible ethical considerations are frequently in tension with each …

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Conversations, Intra-Views And Diffractions As Tools For Analysis: Design Research When Conducted By A Team, Bilge Merve Aktaş, Hazal Gümüş-Çiftçi Jun 2024

Conversations, Intra-Views And Diffractions As Tools For Analysis: Design Research When Conducted By A Team, Bilge Merve Aktaş, Hazal Gümüş-Çiftçi

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Design researchers develop methods that blend design expertise and theoretical knowledge. Hence, design research emphasizes the importance of explicating intuitive knowledge and hands-on experience. Collective research that relies on more than one designer’s endeavors has also been expanding. In this paper, we discuss how to make sense of data when collected by two design researchers in separate spaces, under different conditions. Our project centered on the materiality of repair and involved data collection in two contexts. One researcher facilitated repair workshops, engaging in repairs and consulting with participants, while the other conducted individual repair work. Through biweekly meetings and conversations, …

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Proximity-Based Urban Planning Models As The Inter-Face Between Governments And Makers, Designers, And Citizens Towards Distributed Economies, Massimo Menichinelli, Luca D'Elia, Silvia D'Ambrosio, Carla Sedini Jun 2024

Proximity-Based Urban Planning Models As The Inter-Face Between Governments And Makers, Designers, And Citizens Towards Distributed Economies, Massimo Menichinelli, Luca D'Elia, Silvia D'Ambrosio, Carla Sedini

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Standard urban planning models are nowadays being redefined with a renewed focus on reducing mobility times: proximity, walkability, self-sufficiency. Recon-figuring how cities, their flows, and services are organized also requires designers and citizens, with a potential role for the Maker Movement and Distributed Economies. We focus here on how urban creative communities and maker labor-atories could become public empowerment services by, for and with citizens within proximity of urban planning models. We propose a framework for such Proximity-based Making and Community Services based on 1) defining them as connecting makers, designers, citizens, and maker laboratories, 2) via digital technologies network …

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Reimagining Public Spaces Through Translating Cultural & Heritage Narratives Into Public Art-Lessons From Roxbury’S Black Panther Commemoration Community Garden & Art Mural Project, H. Killion Mokwete Jun 2024

Reimagining Public Spaces Through Translating Cultural & Heritage Narratives Into Public Art-Lessons From Roxbury’S Black Panther Commemoration Community Garden & Art Mural Project, H. Killion Mokwete

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The topic of spatial justice offers a good platform to examine socio-economic imbalances that still exist in some Boston neighborhoods, such as Roxbury, which has a history of underdevelopment, redlining, food insecurity, and other socio-economic challenges. It also presents a chance for the execution and examination of community-led projects and initiatives that can show how locally owned projects can strengthen community ownership, underpin the preservation of cultural heritage and identity, and offer fresh examples of social participation in community development. The Black Panther Commemoration Installation at the Winthrop Gardens in Roxbury, which was conceptualized and created through the local community …

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Enhancing Healthcare Experiences For People With Visual Impairments: A Systematic Literature Review On The Benefits Of User-Centered Design, Lucas Vicente Becker, Cláudia De Souza Libânio, Leandro Miletto Tonetto Jun 2024

Enhancing Healthcare Experiences For People With Visual Impairments: A Systematic Literature Review On The Benefits Of User-Centered Design, Lucas Vicente Becker, Cláudia De Souza Libânio, Leandro Miletto Tonetto

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The pursuit of equity in access to healthcare services for people with visual impairments has been a persistent challenge attributed to comorbidities, as well as physical and attitudinal barriers. The incompatibility of guidelines and practices within health systems leads to complex interactions between users and services. Through this systematic literature review, we aimed to explore the potential of User-Centered Design to enhance user experiences for the visually impaired within health systems. We surveyed peer-reviewed journal papers published between 2013 and 2023 on Pubmed, Science Direct, Scopus, and Web of Science. We identified fourteen studies, primarily focusing on projects aimed at …

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Ai As A Catalyst For Creativity: Exploring The Use Of Generative Approach In Fashion Design For Improving Their Inspiration, Yu Jin, Juhyeok Yoon, James Andrew Self, Kyungho Lee Jun 2024

Ai As A Catalyst For Creativity: Exploring The Use Of Generative Approach In Fashion Design For Improving Their Inspiration, Yu Jin, Juhyeok Yoon, James Andrew Self, Kyungho Lee

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The emergence of generative AI sparked thoughts on how it can be helpful across the stages of fashion design practice and creativity. We investigated the potential impact of prompt engineering using stable diffusion and Midjourney on understanding the relationship between the prompt and outcome, and how it influences the final process, thinking, or result. Our study provides guidelines for designers to use specific formats and words to describe the garments to generate clothing designs even if they are not familiar with text prompt engineering. We found fashion designers more likely to focus on the clothes and the overall feeling that …

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Lost In Translation: Decontextualising, Decentering And Diluting India's Jugaad Practices, Priyanka Gahlot, Carolyn Barnes Jun 2024

Lost In Translation: Decontextualising, Decentering And Diluting India's Jugaad Practices, Priyanka Gahlot, Carolyn Barnes

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Academia and corporate capitalism show increasing interest in grassroots practices as useful to product development for low-income markets and relevant to sustainable innovation models. Captured in this interest is jugaad, an Indian problem-solving practice rooted in everyday life, which emphasises practicality, resource efficiency and an elastic approach to rules. Interest from the Global North in grassroots practices risks their decontextualisation, decentering and dilution in a power-knowledge play that principally serves the needs of hegemonic Euro-USA design. Drawing on Arturo Escobar’s idea of pluriversal design, which holds that everyone designs, creating a multiplicity of sociocultural formations, we examine jugaad as a …

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