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Beyond Design Thinking And Into Speculative Futures In Legal Design, Karma Dabaghi
Beyond Design Thinking And Into Speculative Futures In Legal Design, Karma Dabaghi
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Legal Design movement has succeeded in proposing change to communities through collaboration between the legal and design professions. As a result, new kinds of empathetic solutions have been introduced where the citizen experience is prioritized over commercial goals. Still missing from Legal Design, however, is a stronger understanding of current theoretical literature in design that is questioning the ontology of the discipline and formulating new scenarios of transition toward the future. This paper encourages an embrace of these methodologies and cautions against their use without a solid understanding of the present and a real understanding of their potential effects. …
Caricrop: Can A Digital Payment System Support Fairer Agricultural Trade?, Kruakae Pothong, Larissa Pschetz, Arlene Bailey, Billy Dixon
Caricrop: Can A Digital Payment System Support Fairer Agricultural Trade?, Kruakae Pothong, Larissa Pschetz, Arlene Bailey, Billy Dixon
DRS Biennial Conference Series
What difference can new technologies make for small-scale farmers facing a multitude of uncertainties that could affect not only the value of their crops but also when and whether they get paid? To understand how Distributed Ledger Technologies such as Blockchains, could be leveraged to address such uncertainties in agricultural trade, we engaged small-scale farmers in a problem delineation exercise and designed CariCrop, a payment system and currency that specifically addresses the issue of delayed payments. We investigated the potential impact of this system through immersive drama and deliberative workshops. We found that although digital payment systems can give farmers …
Experiencing Interactive Ecologies, Yeup Hur, Panos Markopoulos, Miguel Bruns
Experiencing Interactive Ecologies, Yeup Hur, Panos Markopoulos, Miguel Bruns
DRS Biennial Conference Series
IoT devices can be characterised by complex intertwined interactions between devices, users, and the environment. As these devices become more dynamic and widely connected, designing for such complex ecologies requires a holistic approach with a consideration of diverse perspectives on the interactions between all actants connected to and through these devices. To support designers in this challenge, we propose a design approach that can help them explore the nature of the interactions and connections within this complex interactive ecology. The design approach borrows its underlying design considerations from somaesthetics and post-anthropocentric design to support experiential design exploration. The implemented design …
Exploring Studio Proximities: Space, Time, Being, Derek Jones
Exploring Studio Proximities: Space, Time, Being, Derek Jones
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The studio remains central to design education but has been severely tested during the emergency transition in design education during the global Covid-19 pandemic. This period highlighted problems and opportunities experienced in translating studio to online and distance modes of education, many of which arose because of the dramatic shift in use of space and time. By investigating how educators conceptualised these basic terms in descriptions around learning, it is possible to make visible some of our foundational assumptions in studio education practice. These assumptions are important to take account of as educators transition to whatever new normal may emerge …
Where Do We Go From Here? Rethinking The Design Studio After The Covid-19 Pandemic, Saskia Van Kampen, Anne Galperin, Karin Jager, Lesley-Ann Noel, Johnathon Strube
Where Do We Go From Here? Rethinking The Design Studio After The Covid-19 Pandemic, Saskia Van Kampen, Anne Galperin, Karin Jager, Lesley-Ann Noel, Johnathon Strube
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In this paper, five design educators apply an investigative framework to discuss the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the Design Studio and the future of design education at North American universities. The educators are dispersed geographically across Canada and the United States and teach in public higher education. They have a working and reflection group that has met weekly or bi-weekly for 18 months to discuss and write about their practice as design educators. This paper is a distillation of the group’s experiences, their reflections regarding the future of the design studio, and their intentions for practice …
Design Contributions In Generating Innovative Solutions For Human And Planetary Health, Patricia Raquel Bohn, Emanuele Konig, Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Claudia De Souza Libanio
Design Contributions In Generating Innovative Solutions For Human And Planetary Health, Patricia Raquel Bohn, Emanuele Konig, Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Claudia De Souza Libanio
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The study aims to identify the design contributions in generating innovative solutions for human and planetary health published in peer-reviewed journals in the past five years and relate them to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A systematic literature review was performed by mapping the current research on design and human and planetary health. The analysis allowed us to identify that the solutions generated consider SDG 3 in all studies. Other SDGs were also identified, aimed at the planet's sustainability, but in a more incipient way. The role of design has been identified as crucial to meeting global demands, but design …
Investigating Materiality For A Renewed Focus On Data Design Practice, Youngsil Lee, Larissa Pschetz, Chris Speed
Investigating Materiality For A Renewed Focus On Data Design Practice, Youngsil Lee, Larissa Pschetz, Chris Speed
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper attempts to question reductionist processes of data science that help sustain digital economies and proposes a new perspective for a data design practice. It follows recent discussions about the materiality of data in design and proposes a new notion of data materiality that unfolds its ethical and ecological aspects from a philosophical point of view. This is presented as an opportunity to envision how data can be enacted as data practice within a system. We provide an example that illustrates different kinds of data and data practices, and how ethical and ecological challenges can emerge in a system. …
Are Stereotypes, Such As The ‘Headclutcher’, In Stock Images For Mental Illness Stigmatizing?, Laura Orton
Are Stereotypes, Such As The ‘Headclutcher’, In Stock Images For Mental Illness Stigmatizing?, Laura Orton
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Public perception and attitudes of mental illness are heavily influenced by mass media, so it is important the visual communication delivered into society is responsible and not unintentionally damaging. Stereotypes are used frequently in visual communication for speed of understanding. However, stereotypes are often based on unfounded assumptions, and these assumptions can cause stigma towards the stereotyped group. This study questions what stereotypes, if any, are present in stock images of mental illness and discusses what effect they may have on stigma. There have been previous calls for images such as the ‘headclutcher’ to not be used to represent mental …
Transilience: Assemblage And Relationality In A Complex Urban Setting, Radhika Roy
Transilience: Assemblage And Relationality In A Complex Urban Setting, Radhika Roy
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Social change is experienced profoundly by adult youth in India, especially in cities like Delhi with large rural migrant populations. This youth is a generation in transition, with aspirations and experiences that are different from their communities of origin. However, their perceptions of their world have rarely been documented qualitatively, in their own voice. My doctoral research, titled Transilience, which means ‘to leap across’, is a practice-based reflection on my work as a social designer within this milieu, and specifically focuses on how adult youth perceive themselves and their context, to explore ways to reframe the way social design practitioners …
After Practice: Messy Relations In The Ethnographic Study Of Design, Arlene Oak, Claire Nicholas
After Practice: Messy Relations In The Ethnographic Study Of Design, Arlene Oak, Claire Nicholas
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Thinking While Doing (TWD) project was an ambitious “research-creation” project that involved the designing and building of several full scale, “real” structures by architecture students and professors in “design-build” education. The grant also included two ethnographers (as well as scholars from the humanities). Together the participants in TWD were engaged in intersecting and distinct modes of research, ranging from architecture practice to philosophical reflections. While there were intentions for the insights of the ethnographers to ex-tend and inform knowledge of practice, as the TWD structures were created, it became evident that undertaking ethnography coincident with designing and building was …
Research On The Doctoral Consortium Structure Of Design, Fan Chen
Research On The Doctoral Consortium Structure Of Design, Fan Chen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The consortium can be regarded as one of the most essential approaches in the process of academic communication, of which the forms have conferences, meetings, colloquium, etc. Among them, the doctoral consortium has generally been seen as an indispensable part of doctoral training, because it will not only provide communication platforms to stakeholders, but facilitate the transferability between knowledge and skills. Based on the conditions mentioned above, this study conducts a comparative study on 17 worldwide doctoral consortia in design from three perspectives: staff composition, support system, and interactive mode, by which the researcher aims to investigate the situation of …
Reframing Advanced Manufacturing Ontologies Through An Exploration Of Ductus, Lewis Urquhart, Andrew Wodehouse
Reframing Advanced Manufacturing Ontologies Through An Exploration Of Ductus, Lewis Urquhart, Andrew Wodehouse
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Ontologies of manufacturing and making have received closer attention in recent years thanks to a renewed interest in materiality and questions of form-emergence and form perception. This work argues that the hylomorphic ontologies dominant within advanced manufacturing can be challenged through the introduction of a “ductus” concept, which relates to the traces left by unique material interactions and energy transferences as artefacts are fabricated. Drawing on multiple strands of scholarship, this paper develops a new ontological model integrating material-process relationships and end user experiences with the ductus of the making process at its core. This model is illustrated and elucidated, …
Design Types In Diversified City Administration, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kaisa Savolainen, Antti Pirinen, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Päivi Hietanen, Meri Virta
Design Types In Diversified City Administration, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kaisa Savolainen, Antti Pirinen, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Päivi Hietanen, Meri Virta
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design is increasingly used to develop public services, and considerations have arisen regarding how to gain best value from it. Design ladders and design ma-turity models are commonly referenced also in the public sector, but we argue that their adequate use must rest on an informed view of the diversity of design activities in the public sector organizations. The world’s major cities are large and highly diversified organizations. Our case study of one of them, the city of Helsinki, reveals 23 distinct types of design activities, distinct in terms of the process, outcomes, and agency that design has. These activities …
Drs2022: Bilbao, Dan Lockton, Sara Lenzi, Paul Hekkert, Arlene Oak, Juan Sádaba, Peter Lloyd
Drs2022: Bilbao, Dan Lockton, Sara Lenzi, Paul Hekkert, Arlene Oak, Juan Sádaba, Peter Lloyd
DRS Conference Volumes
DRS2022 is the biggest and most ambitious DRS conference to date. The conference brings together over 800 participants and 315 paper presentations which you can find in this volume of conference paper abstracts. DRS2022 extends the field of design research further outwards, bringing new perspectives to disciplines such as anthropology, politics, economics, healthcare, and others. Core subject areas continue to develop, with new methods, approaches, technologies, and philosophies all evident in these proceedings. Also emerging is a focus on how to deal with our uncertain futures, for example through societal transitions, transdisciplinarity, transformations, and pluriversality. The themes that have emerged …
Review Of The Legal Design Book: Doing Law In The 21st Century, Mohammed Al Rezan
Review Of The Legal Design Book: Doing Law In The 21st Century, Mohammed Al Rezan
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A New Design Thinking Model Based On Bloom’S Taxonomy, Fan Wu, Yang Cheng Lin, Peng Lu
A New Design Thinking Model Based On Bloom’S Taxonomy, Fan Wu, Yang Cheng Lin, Peng Lu
Learn X Design Conference Series
A superior design thinking model can improve the quality of design education. In recent years, universities and design institutions already proposed many design thinking models around the world. Existing well-known design thinking models focus on cultivating students' creative thinking but ignore the product's inherent characteristics and users' demands. This paper proposes a step-by-step design thinking model based on Bloom's taxonomy, which is divided into lower-level and higher-level considerations. The lower-level consideration includes remembering, understanding, and applying, and the higher-level consideration includes analyzing, evaluating, and creating. The former integrates the function analysis method, form restriction method, and EGM to help students …
Play Probes: Understanding Young People Through Playful Expressions, Line Christiansen, Sune Gudiksen
Play Probes: Understanding Young People Through Playful Expressions, Line Christiansen, Sune Gudiksen
Learn X Design Conference Series
Understanding young people can be a difficult matter when one is past that age. Stories of misunderstandings stemming from generational divides are ubiquitous. A virus, such as Covid-19, threatens to create a deeper generational divide and possibly lead to the problem reaching a magnitude not seen before. This paper investigates how probes with play triggers can yield a deeper understanding of today’s youth. By analyzing the outcome of 54 youth-created play probes, clustered themes were identified, and the selected ones have been presented in detail. The prelimi-nary conclusions indicate that the play probes allow access to insights about young people …
Co-Creating A Cross-Material Silk And Porcelain Art Exhibition, Anne Solberg, Ellen Baskår
Co-Creating A Cross-Material Silk And Porcelain Art Exhibition, Anne Solberg, Ellen Baskår
Learn X Design Conference Series
This paper resides in the field of artistic research and material-based art. The research issue is the co-creation of an art exhibition by two artist-researchers working with diametrically different materials. The research project is structured as a duo-ethnographic approach, with the voice of each participant present. Text and images are intertwined in the paper, both necessary for the communication of the project as a visual and material enterprise. Theoretical perspectives are the dialogue as a poly-vocal enterprise, embodied making and learning, and the role of materials in the art-making. The communication throughout the project was not vocal only, but visual …
Cultivate Leadership Contagion: A Speculative Grounded Theory Knowledge For Future Change Agents:, Francesco Galli, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun
Cultivate Leadership Contagion: A Speculative Grounded Theory Knowledge For Future Change Agents:, Francesco Galli, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun
Learn X Design Conference Series
“Changing paradigma” can be defined as a sudden outbreak in the accepted social norm, a fundamental change in the way of thinking and a change of paradigm. Society and culture are two strongly intertwined realities. Every society is, therefore, the bearer of its own legacy and contagious. Today’s Cultural and Creative Industries’ education market is facing a rapidly mutating academic scenario. The revolutionary change of the society and the increasingly sense of Cultural and disciplinary “contagious” request our universities to rethink their philosophies towards critical and creative education. In what ways is the industry’s uncertain future challenging the traditional pedagogy? …
Nordic Life Design: A Holistic Design Approach And Attitude To Life, Kirsten Bonde Sorensen
Nordic Life Design: A Holistic Design Approach And Attitude To Life, Kirsten Bonde Sorensen
Learn X Design Conference Series
When discussing future education, we tend to focus discussions on defining future competen-cies on preparing students for an ever-changing labour market with job titles we cannot yet imag-ine. However, we often fail to recognise that our students, for years, have faced an extremely high degree of mental challenges, which indicates a need not only for new initiatives, but for rad-ical transformations in education: initiatives that represent a humanistic and holistic view, com-bining a broad focus on education, including new knowledge, with a clear focus on students' well-being, and vitality. This paper describes Nordic life design, a learning concept rooted in …
Track 02: Empowering Critical Design Literacy, Eva Lutnæs
Track 02: Empowering Critical Design Literacy, Eva Lutnæs
Learn X Design Conference Series
In track 02, we invited design researchers and educators to explore, and crack open critical design literacy as a subset of design literacy. At the core of critical design... literacy, we suggested the ability to connect to real-world dilemmas with empathy, reject destructive products of human creativity and focus on problems that are worth solving. The main concern of the track is the exploration of current educational practices, academic discourses and implications of design education empowering for critical design literacy at a specific level of education or across levels (kindergarten to PhD).
Integrating Design Thinking Into Steam Education: The Design Of Steam Education Platform And Course Based On Creativity Elements, Xuejiao Yin, Shumeng Hou, Qingxuan Chen
Integrating Design Thinking Into Steam Education: The Design Of Steam Education Platform And Course Based On Creativity Elements, Xuejiao Yin, Shumeng Hou, Qingxuan Chen
Learn X Design Conference Series
The fast development of artificial intelligence in modern society facilitates the needs of creative education. Design thinking,a innovative thinking frame,is benefit to cultivate children’s creativity. However ,little research has clearly explain how to use design thinking to improve creativi-ty.Therefore,this study aimed at integrating creativity and design thinking into STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics), and thereby cultivate students’ prob-lem solving and creative ability. Firstly, 151 school-age children participated in the study and fin-ished the creativity tests. Second, dimensions of creativity (e.g., adventure, curiosity, and flexibility) that were significantly related to academic performance were abstracted as core design elements …
Architectural Design Studio As An 'Extended Problem Space', F. Zeynep Ata, Fehmi Dogan
Architectural Design Studio As An 'Extended Problem Space', F. Zeynep Ata, Fehmi Dogan
Learn X Design Conference Series
Drawing on the foundational theory of Zone of Proximal Development, this paper approaches dominant architectural design studio pedagogies critically and explores how the concept of ‘extended problem space’ can help develop better pedagogies for design learning. A conceptual framework is introduced through a theoretical understanding of architectural design studios’ multi-layered environmental sphere of cognitive systems based on previous research on studio education. The formation of the framework is inspired by an earlier study carried out in knowledge production and transmission processes in a research laboratory that considers the human and non-human components of the laboratory within an evolutionary mechanism. Cognitive …
Environmental Education In Protected Areas In Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro: Children As Agents Of Empathy For And Engagement With The Cause Of Nature Conservation, Marianne Von Lachmann, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Roberta Portas
Environmental Education In Protected Areas In Petrópolis, Rio De Janeiro: Children As Agents Of Empathy For And Engagement With The Cause Of Nature Conservation, Marianne Von Lachmann, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Roberta Portas
Learn X Design Conference Series
This article presents examples of environmental education programs and events run in protected areas of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, and a brief overview of novel findings in the histo-ry, sociology, anthropology, and geography of childhood, converging with those from the area of education, in which children’s agency in cultural production, the diversity of children’s cultures, and multiple childhoods are recognized. This article outlines the importance of continued efforts to take children from private and public schools, from kindergarten to high school, to engage in play-ful activities in preserved nature, as demonstrated in the initiatives described. When the full …
Research On The Construction Of Curriculum System Of Design Education Under The Concept Of Steam, Han Shi, Feng Xue, Jing Pei, Yijing Li, Zhihang Song, Chunli Chunli
Research On The Construction Of Curriculum System Of Design Education Under The Concept Of Steam, Han Shi, Feng Xue, Jing Pei, Yijing Li, Zhihang Song, Chunli Chunli
Learn X Design Conference Series
Both design education and STEAM education pay attention to the cultivation of students' innovative consciousness and practical ability, and they are highly consistent in teaching objectives and educational ideas. Based on the analysis of the relevant educational practice, the current research situation and the basic concepts of design education, this paper puts forward the curriculum design principles of curriculum content and curriculum evaluation for the design education integrated with STEAM. This paper constructs the teaching link of design education under the concept of STEAM from three aspects: teachers' activities, teaching links and students' activities. finally, it discusses the new teaching …
Online Comprehensive Teaching On Digital Hand-Drawing Taking The Course Of ‘Hand-Drawn Design Expression’ As An Example, Ming Zhu
Learn X Design Conference Series
Digital hand-drawing techniques have been widely used in the international design field. Under the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, online education has become an important way of teaching and learning. Based on the online platform, the teacher’s screen sharing combined with digital hand-drawing can not only analyse and demonstrate the principle and process of drawing to the students more intuitively but also tutor and evaluate the course work. In the online teaching design and teaching process of “Hand-drawn Design Expression” course, the application of digital hand-drawing live allows students to learn the course content more directly and visually, and then …
Reform Of Product Design Teaching Based On Bionic Concepts, Meng-Dar Shieh, Hsu-Chan Hsiao, Yu-Ting Hsiao
Reform Of Product Design Teaching Based On Bionic Concepts, Meng-Dar Shieh, Hsu-Chan Hsiao, Yu-Ting Hsiao
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Various innate beauty and wonderful operating modes exist in nature. Identifying creativity from physical features of organisms or biological strategies in nature and applying such new conceptual elements and methods to product development is an increasingly popular approach in contemporary product design. This study used teaching practice verification methods to summarize a set of bionic design methods and product development procedures. Through LAMDA method of lean thinking, this study understood users’ authentic needs of target products and the product value. Then, a Mandala Chart was used explore the biological strategies and forms of bionic targets. Subsequently, the summarized bionic Mandala …
Materiality Of Space And Time In The Virtual Design Studio, Ruth Neubauer, Christoph H. Wecht
Materiality Of Space And Time In The Virtual Design Studio, Ruth Neubauer, Christoph H. Wecht
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Digital structures as well as time can be described as crucial material affordances of the virtual design studio space. We question the notion that digital spaces are inherently immaterial and intangible. We challenge the concept of presence and flexibility in the context of the virtual space, and claim that digital infrastructures can be as materially inflexible as physical worlds. Simultaneously we argue for the potential of understanding virtual spaces beyond binary conceptions of presence/absence. We use concepts of practice and materiality to analyse virtual spaces as distributed spatiotemporal structures that can be designed to afford flexibility. We are interested in …
Siloed In Breaking Silos: A Case Study Of Interdisciplinary Curriculum (Mis)Alignment, Jia Ying Chew
Siloed In Breaking Silos: A Case Study Of Interdisciplinary Curriculum (Mis)Alignment, Jia Ying Chew
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Higher Education Institutes globally are rapidly developing inter/ transdisciplinary education initi-atives at varying scales. However, several operational challenges persist in interdisciplinary teach-ing as there are few incentives to share resources or engage in discourses for mutual decon-struction of knowledge frameworks. Nonetheless, collaboration and communication are vital to bridge the varying epistemic frameworks when different disciplines are brought together. Espe-cially because the way individuals understand concepts contain traces of disciplinary- specifici-ties; without clarity through a common platform, the messiness is reflected in the curriculum de-sign, development and delivery of interdisciplinary courses. Reflecting upon a case study of an interdisciplinary graduate programme …
End Users In Students’ Participatory Design Process, Noora Bosch, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Tellervo Härkki
End Users In Students’ Participatory Design Process, Noora Bosch, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Tellervo Härkki
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This exploratory case study aims to shed light on how end users were considered in students’ design discussions and final design products. A 3-month participatory design project for students (ages 14–15) was designed, with the design brief: “co-design and make an e-textile product for the preschoolers according to their wishes and needs”. We analyzed transcribed end-users-related design discussions and the final products of two teams. The findings indicate that students’ end-users-related design discussions concerned various functional, technical, and visual/aesthetic features, as well as aspects beyond functional, such as students’ memories and experiences. Additionally, many concrete and abstract features and solutions …