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Design For ‘Extraordinary’ Well-Being: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis To Understand The ‘Lived Experience’ Of Women Living With A ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body Through Materials, Lisa Shawgi Jun 2024

Design For ‘Extraordinary’ Well-Being: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis To Understand The ‘Lived Experience’ Of Women Living With A ‘Dys-Appearing’ Body Through Materials, Lisa Shawgi

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This paper sets out to view disability from a medical construct to a multi-faceted approach, considering biological, psychological and social factors. This helps us understand the need for a phenomenological approach to address disability from a ‘lived’ perspective, acknowledging the personal experiential dimension. A perspective this research adopts to underpin an argument that aesthetics from a cultural perspective plays a role in ‘Extraordinary’ wellbeing, as the study explores how the condition Raynaud’s shapes a ‘dys-appearing’ body through material experience. This paper presents research that investigates how women living with Raynaud’s negotiate their impairment through the mediums of clothing and fashion. …

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Counterism And Trust; From Critical To Tactical Design, Fernando Galdon Jun 2024

Counterism And Trust; From Critical To Tactical Design, Fernando Galdon

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In this paper we explore the emerging qualities of Counteristic Design practises as they depart from Discursive models. In this process, Counterism is under-pinned as an emerging field of study that seeks to design trust. Counterism offers a way of resistance by creating systems of autonomy, accountability and repara-tion that values difference and creativity. The two projects analysed vary in ap-proach, with some developing new methods by incorporating new technologies, while others reimagine existing methods. These approaches can offer interesting ways towards a new future for citizens at the intersection of social justice, and technology. Counteristic practises operate within the …

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Vovousa 2048: A Design Fiction Workshop Imagining The Future In A Rural And Remote Area In Greece, Costas Bissas Jun 2024

Vovousa 2048: A Design Fiction Workshop Imagining The Future In A Rural And Remote Area In Greece, Costas Bissas

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In July 2023, the author carried out a design fiction workshop over a 4-day span in Vovousa, a village of 132 inhabitants by the banks of the wild river Aoos/Vjosa, in the heart of the Pindus range, in the area of Epirus, Greece. In a location with a history of tensions regarding the creation of hydroelectric dams, the workshop participants were invited as a group to consider and discuss different scenarios for the future of the settlement, set in the year 2048. As a group, they publicly presented artefacts from one selected future with the discussions following indicating that the …

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Unleashing Collective Imagination Through Controversies: Lessons From A Smart City Project, Julieta Matos-Castaño, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan, Michiel De Lange, Anouk Geenen, Mascha Van Der Voort Jun 2024

Unleashing Collective Imagination Through Controversies: Lessons From A Smart City Project, Julieta Matos-Castaño, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan, Michiel De Lange, Anouk Geenen, Mascha Van Der Voort

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We explore the role of futures-oriented design interventions in leveraging socio-technical controversies to foster collective imagination. We elaborate on a practical application of a speculative and scenario-based design tool called Future Frictions. Our study focuses on the use of Future Frictions to engage citizens in the development of an assessment framework for implementing sensors in Amsterdam. By employing the "controversing" framework to operationalize controversies through design, we explore how Future Frictions provides an interface that bridges speculative and real-life urban contexts. This interface facilitates recontextualizing controversies in daily life, fostering sensemaking, and making space for collective agency. This, we argue, …

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Transformational Practices; Aligning Governance And Design., Fernando Galdon, Ashley Hall Jun 2024

Transformational Practices; Aligning Governance And Design., Fernando Galdon, Ashley Hall

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This paper introduces the concept of ‘Transformational Practises’ as a prospective design-led integrative space to conduct multidisciplinary research aiming at ex-ceptionally innovative and/or unconventional research aiming for a high trans-formational impact. Based on a range of selected examples, the authors underpin the fundamental principles of this new framework to propose a criteria to assess prospective and multidisciplinary design-led transformations. In the process, it places design as a distinctive and fundamental activity to develop transforma-tional impact in research that aligns the applied arts (arts and design), with the prospective sciences (e.g., AI and synthetic biology), and prospective sociology (e.g., economics and …

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Transitioning To A Circular Economy: A Gender- Sensitive Exploration Of Circular Consumption In Denmark And Southern Sweden, Tereza Keprdová, Diana Mîinea, Amalia De Götzen Jun 2024

Transitioning To A Circular Economy: A Gender- Sensitive Exploration Of Circular Consumption In Denmark And Southern Sweden, Tereza Keprdová, Diana Mîinea, Amalia De Götzen

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The dominant model of a resource-intensive linear economy has resulted in excessive production and consumption, leading to the depletion of natural resources and significant waste generation. Transitioning to a circular economy (CE) is crucial for achieving more sustainable production-consumption systems. However, the CE discourses have been dominated by technological and manufacturing solutions, with relatively less attention to developing circular consumption practices and establishing pathways for everyday participation. This article presents the findings of a Master's thesis that explored the gendered aspects of circular consumption and its challenges for individuals in Denmark and Southern Sweden. The research shows that a gender- …

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A Systematic Review Of People-Centred Healthcare Services For People With Arthritis, Yaohan Xing, Mersha Aftab, Joanne Brooke Jun 2024

A Systematic Review Of People-Centred Healthcare Services For People With Arthritis, Yaohan Xing, Mersha Aftab, Joanne Brooke

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The aim of this paper is to explore the practice of people-centred design using design thinking in healthcare for people with arthritis. People-centred design has significantly progressed in the healthcare industry, including the management of arthritis. This paper reports a systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Framework. It explores the research and practice in the person-centred design of healthcare services for people with arthritis. Six databases were searched: Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, PubMed, Psych info, and Cinahl. Inclusion criteria included service for the management of arthritis, written in English and published between …

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Fostering Design Research Labs For Public Sector Innovation, Andrea Augsten, Lynn Harles Jun 2024

Fostering Design Research Labs For Public Sector Innovation, Andrea Augsten, Lynn Harles

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The public sector's digital transformation fosters collaboration and experimenta-tion, integrating design practices like design thinking, service design, and system design, notably in public innovation labs. Despite progress, these labs face chal-lenges in effecting change, transferring knowledge, and gaining cultural ac-ceptance. Public Innovation Labs (PIL) prioritize the common good, unlike profit-centric private counterparts. Design Research Labs (DRL), rooted in arts and de-sign, share this mission, offering a unique perspective on public sector innova-tion. Exploring the potential of DRLs in supporting public labs, this paper outlines criteria based on five DRLs in the German academic design context. It provides a new perspective …

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Expertise Profiling In Design Schools: A Theoretical Framework, Ehsan Baha, Tomás Dorta, Philippe Gauthier Jun 2024

Expertise Profiling In Design Schools: A Theoretical Framework, Ehsan Baha, Tomás Dorta, Philippe Gauthier

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A renewed interest, propelled by the European Bauhaus initiative, has sparked a re-evaluation of design education in response to the growing complexity and interdisciplinary demands of design, encompassing both craftsmanship and academic discipline. While ongoing discussions focus on school types, curriculum development, and pedagogical approaches, there is an oversight in examining the expertise profiles of design educators. These profiles encapsulate the competencies and proficiencies of teaching staff, profoundly influencing the ethos, objectives, philosophy, and substance of education institutions. This paper proposes a theoretical framework delineating three archetypal expertise profiles for design educators: design practitioner, design researcher, and hybrid, nuanced to …

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Bridging Reality And The Reel: An Ar-Enhanced Application Model For Memorable Tourist Experiences, Hyunyim Park, Jingyi Cheng, Shuyun Wang Jun 2024

Bridging Reality And The Reel: An Ar-Enhanced Application Model For Memorable Tourist Experiences, Hyunyim Park, Jingyi Cheng, Shuyun Wang

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Over the past decade, the convergence of technology and entertainment has opened new avenues for improving the experiences of film enthusiasts and tourists alike. Focusing on merging reality and reel to enhance memorable tourist experiences, this paper introduces a comprehensive design model for developing smart film tourism applications. A qualitative approach was employed to explore the expectations and potential issues faced by film tourists throughout their journeys. Subsequently, insights are generated and translated into four key design aspects and corresponding features, integrating augmented reality technology. The convergence of elements within the model aims to facilitate a deeper connection between tourists …

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Training Designers In The Pluriverse: The Experience Of Studio Wudé With Leather Crafts In Senegal, Caroline Grellier, Cécile Ndiaye Jun 2024

Training Designers In The Pluriverse: The Experience Of Studio Wudé With Leather Crafts In Senegal, Caroline Grellier, Cécile Ndiaye

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This article reflects on design and the training of designers from a West African perspective, based on the experience of Studio Wudé, a workshop which has been working in Senegal since 2006 to transmit endogenous knowledge about leather transformation. Through an analysis of the Studio's pedagogical design approach, the aim is to question in West African contexts the relevance of the historical dissociation between thinking and doing, at the genesis of a Western industrial capitalist design culture whose spread in West Africa has accelerated over the past five years via the emergence of higher design education based on a Western …

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Making Space Online: Situating Complex, Intersectional Identities, Dori Griffin, Brooke Hull Jun 2024

Making Space Online: Situating Complex, Intersectional Identities, Dori Griffin, Brooke Hull

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This co-authored visual essay explores our process of making space for ourselves online within the complexity of our intersectional identities. Individually, we’ve appropriated mainstream social media posts to share marginalized experiences, generate meaningful connections, and merge our personal and research identities. On Facebook, Griffin shares her experiences as a cis-female, invisibly disabled, neurodivergent design educator. On Instagram, Hull shares their experiences as fat, queer, trans non-binary design student. Together, using tools with low barriers to entry, we document how design educational praxis affords our marginalized voices access, or not, within physical and virtual design education spaces. As white authors, we …

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Harnessing Information Visualization As A Vehicle For Translational Design, Joli Holmes, Matthew Blanco, Todd Linkner, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli Jun 2024

Harnessing Information Visualization As A Vehicle For Translational Design, Joli Holmes, Matthew Blanco, Todd Linkner, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli

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Designers are often positioned as mediators or interpreters, working between disciplines and stakeholders to frame and address problems. This quality is particularly desired when a product transitions from one implementation to another. Translational designers assist this process through critical activities such as navigating differing domain knowledge and balancing conflicting values or cultures between stakeholders. We argue the primary outcome of translational design is not necessarily an artifact but the translation of knowledge across disciplines for decision-making. Our research explains and shows how information visualization can translate meaning within a group of experts familiar with the same topic and between a …

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Strategic Design Futures: Exploring Strategy And Futures To Learn And Practice Design For Intentional Change, G. Mauricio Mejía Jun 2024

Strategic Design Futures: Exploring Strategy And Futures To Learn And Practice Design For Intentional Change, G. Mauricio Mejía

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Designers change existing situations with a focus on changing the behavior of artifacts. When designers aim to intentionally change the behaviors of individuals, organizations, or social systems, practitioners use specific approaches. Strategy (strategic design) and futures (design futures) are two alternatives for designers working on complex situations that require intentional change. This paper presents and reports three editions of a course titled Strategic Design Futures that address this type of situation. The course includes a seminar and a project component, which are structured into six design activities: sense-making, participatory visioning, designing futures, designing strategy, participatory evaluation, and design implementation. The …

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Design X Non-Profits: Towards An Understanding Of Design Integration In The Australian Non-Profit Sector, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn Jun 2024

Design X Non-Profits: Towards An Understanding Of Design Integration In The Australian Non-Profit Sector, Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, Leigh-Anne Hepburn

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Design has long demonstrated an interest in shaping society and the world for good. In Australia, there are 59,747 non-profit organisations that seek to do the same. Surprisingly, there is little research situated at the intersection of these fields. This research explores the potential remit of design in non-profit organisations and provides insight into where and how design practices may be beneficial to non-profit partners. This paper first thematically analyses the responses of 140 Australian non-profit organisations as they reflect on their strategic position and core activities. Drawing on these insights, we outline five thematic notions of value as it …

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Using Space And Knowledge To Confront Power In Design, Shari Pol, Philip Ely, Louis Geneste Jun 2024

Using Space And Knowledge To Confront Power In Design, Shari Pol, Philip Ely, Louis Geneste

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This paper considers the disputes and questions arising from a systematic review of the social design literature and establishes three prominent contestations relating to the ideas of ‘power’, ‘systems thinking’ and ‘criticality’. These ideas are tightly connected, with systems thinking and criticality emerging in response to the omnipresence of power relations in social design. With the acceptance that social design is inherently political, and the provision that both ‘space’ and the ‘uncovering of knowledge’ can work to confront such power and enable social innovation, we see the need for both an expansion and nuance of future social design efforts. Our …

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Developing Factors Of Trust For The Design Of Trustworthy Human - Product Interactions, Zene Krige Jun 2024

Developing Factors Of Trust For The Design Of Trustworthy Human - Product Interactions, Zene Krige

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Trust is fundamental in our acceptance and decision-making of that which we surround ourselves with. This paper reviews existing frameworks and discourse around types of trust and identifies key factors for trust formation, maintenance and ongoing use. It establishes a need for a framework focusing on the design of trustworthy objects, especially those that are technology-embedded. It identifies a series of factors and recommendations when designing for trust. Stemming from a creative practice-based PhD from Aotearoa, New Zealand, the project seeks to design a product for the horticultural industry that enables more efficient data collection around fruit size. When yield …

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Transforming Futures Together: Time Travelling With The Tomorrow Party, Hannah Korsmeyer, Lisa Grocott, Shanti Sumartojo, Myfanwy Doughty, Michael Mintrom Jun 2024

Transforming Futures Together: Time Travelling With The Tomorrow Party, Hannah Korsmeyer, Lisa Grocott, Shanti Sumartojo, Myfanwy Doughty, Michael Mintrom

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We need new methods for generating policy insights that ensure people's lived experiences are not flattened and fixed to a moment in time and that visions of possible futures are not curtailed by a 'crisis of imagination'. In response to this challenge, we have developed a creative, play-based method called the Tomorrow Party, which invites participants to travel forward in time and share co-created stories of the desirable futures they find themselves living in. As a future story-making process, the Tomorrow Party generates novel ways of sharing affective perspectives on possible futures so we can collectively anticipate what is at …

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Reimagining Antibiotic Delivery At Home: Designing A Wearable Cool-Infuser, Geoffrey Thompson, Rowan Page, Benjamin Rogers Jun 2024

Reimagining Antibiotic Delivery At Home: Designing A Wearable Cool-Infuser, Geoffrey Thompson, Rowan Page, Benjamin Rogers

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As antimicrobial resistance (AMR) intensifies, hospitals face increased pressure due to the high demand for bed spaces and the associated risks of hospital-acquired infections. Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) offers a solution by enabling patients to receive life-saving intravenous antibiotic treatments in the community rather than in hospitals. However, temperature-sensitive antibiotics can degrade when exposed to heat, creating design challenges in OPAT settings. Current antibiotic infusion devices focus on the clinical need and outcomes of treatment, leaving room to improve the holistic patient experience of living with the device. Through a human-centred design approach, this project develops a Wearable cool-infuser that …

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Reflections On The Usefulness And Limitations Of Tools For Life-Centred Design, Martin Tomitsch, Katharina Clasen, Estela Duhart, Damien Lutz Jun 2024

Reflections On The Usefulness And Limitations Of Tools For Life-Centred Design, Martin Tomitsch, Katharina Clasen, Estela Duhart, Damien Lutz

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Life-centred design decenters humans and considers all life and the far-reaching impacts of design decisions. However, little is known about the application of life-centred design tools in practice and their usefulness and limitations for considering more-than-human perspectives. To address this gap, we carried out a series of workshops, reporting on findings from a first-person study involving one design academic and three design practitioners. Using a popular flat-pack chair as a case study, we generatively identified and applied four tools: systems maps, actant maps, product lifecycle maps and behavioural impact canvas. We found that the tools provided a structured approach for …

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Exploring The Relation Between Aesthetic Experience And Physical Activity Motivation, Yoonah Jung, Chajoong Kim, Kyungho Lee, Hwang Kim Jun 2024

Exploring The Relation Between Aesthetic Experience And Physical Activity Motivation, Yoonah Jung, Chajoong Kim, Kyungho Lee, Hwang Kim

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Digital physical activity applications employ various motivational mechanisms to encourage exercise, yet research on the complex relationship between their visual aesthetics and motivation for physical activity is still limited. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how three different visual images, such as those representing health, fitness, and social benefits, respectively, can motivate peo-ple to engage in physical activity in a digital service environment. To investigate this, 50 participants evaluated these images in the survey. The results showed that out of the three categories, fitness images had the most significant impact on motivating physical activity, suggesting that stimuli that …

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Transforming Design Museums For Redesigning Design, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse Jun 2024

Transforming Design Museums For Redesigning Design, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse

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There is a need for spaces that can support reflecting on and reimagining design, and redirecting it toward sustainment and justice. Such spaces would necessarily operate with the understanding that design is ontological and has political consequences. We might think of such spaces as metabolic design museums. In this paper, we imagine how metabolic museums might help to redesign design through keeping process at their heart and critically unpacking design’s involvement in urgencies as well as possibilities to envision and move towards more just futures. To do this, we build on intersectional feminist analysis of existing design museums through museum …

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How To Use Service Prototypes To Reduce The Complexity Of Social Problems : A Case Study Of Adoption Services Of Public Animal Shelter., Yu-Hsin Li, Hsien-Hui Tang Jun 2024

How To Use Service Prototypes To Reduce The Complexity Of Social Problems : A Case Study Of Adoption Services Of Public Animal Shelter., Yu-Hsin Li, Hsien-Hui Tang

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Stray dog population management (SDPM) poses a significant social challenge in Asia, where adoption services in animal shelters offer a resolution. However, the severity of this issue is exacerbated by high personnel and infrastructure de-mands, coupled with limited public awareness. Our application of service design strategically optimizes and enhances the quality and experience of adoption ser-vices. We recognized the pivotal role of service prototypes in navigating the complexities inherent in social problems. This study examines two animal adop-tion service cases, highlighting the diverse uses of prototypes in understanding social issues refining and evaluating designs within societal limitations. Detailed roles and …

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Trauma Responsiveness By Design: Towards An Ethic Of Care And Accountability In Design Research, Sarah Fathallah, Verónica Caridad Rabelo Jun 2024

Trauma Responsiveness By Design: Towards An Ethic Of Care And Accountability In Design Research, Sarah Fathallah, Verónica Caridad Rabelo

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Design research can help us understand, dismantle, and transform unjust systems and the material realities that they create, while guiding us towards transformative, radical futures yet to be designed. However, design research can also be a site of harm and trauma. We argue that a “do no harm” guiding principle to ethics in design research is insufficient. Rather, design researchers need to reckon with and prepare for the likelihood that they will cause harm to the people and communities they engage in their design processes. We draw from the ethics of care and accountability theorized and explored by feminist thought …

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Drifting By Friction: Playing With Ontologies Of Design, Mathias Poulsen Jun 2024

Drifting By Friction: Playing With Ontologies Of Design, Mathias Poulsen

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In this paper, I will trace the ‘drift’ that has happened in my PhD project, ‘De-signing for Playful Democratic Frictions’. I argue that it has been driven primarily by the friction that emerged between the diverse components in my ‘research-assemblage’. The aim is not to resolve the friction, but rather to enhance and fol-low it as far as I can. I suggest that a playful attitude is helpful for lingering with this friction, and that such a stance can allow us to see things otherwise ob-scured by tales of historical necessity. This notion of drifting by friction may in-spire strategies …

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Reimagining Sustainable Mobility Futures: Exploring Design Imaginariums For City-Wide Challenges, Jen Ballie, Fraser Bruce Jun 2024

Reimagining Sustainable Mobility Futures: Exploring Design Imaginariums For City-Wide Challenges, Jen Ballie, Fraser Bruce

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This exploratory paper presents an approach known as 'Design Imaginariums,' pop-up spaces based on speculative design principles and community driven cre-ative problem-solving to address systemic city-wide challenges. Drawing inspira-tion and insights from a one-day design sprint and a real-world prototype that fo-cused on mobility urban futures, these pop-up spaces serve as platforms to ac-tively involve citizens in the design process, prompting responsive ideas and rec-ommendations from city stakeholders. The paper begins by discussing the back-ground and motivations to initiate the research, elaborating on the City of Dun-dee’s aspirations for creating ecologically vibrant and socially inclusive urban spaces. It then outlines …

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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

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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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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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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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Key-Drivers To Design Urban Mobility Services For Silver Age And Age-Friendly Cities., Stefania Palmieri, Alessandro Ianniello, Mario Bisson Jun 2024

Key-Drivers To Design Urban Mobility Services For Silver Age And Age-Friendly Cities., Stefania Palmieri, Alessandro Ianniello, Mario Bisson

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The vision regarding ageing is often influenced by negative stereotypes, which lead to considering the over-55 user only in need of targeted assistance and care. Observing the current situation, this view should be no longer exhaustive: they are active users, capable of exercising agency, with needs and desires beyond care and assistance, and bearers of experience and knowledge. It is therefore clear that design strategies to develop services for this user group must necessarily broaden their horizons and begin to consider areas that have been scarcely explored. The contribution focuses on the topic of urban mobility and proposes a preliminary …

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