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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Iron While Still Damp, Julia Valle-Noronha, Marina Valle-Noronha
Iron While Still Damp, Julia Valle-Noronha, Marina Valle-Noronha
Nordes Conference Series
This exploratory paper looks into the relationship between people and the things they wear through the lenses of care and domestic labour. More specifically it addresses the practice of ironing and what it can offer to such relationships. The work collects data from wearers via deployed kits—containing a shirt and a diary—and a group discussion on the wearer-worn engagements. The results show that while little academic focus is given to domestic labour, ironing emerges as a practice that can share understanding of what lies behind the visuality of garments. It suggests that designers and researchers invest in further exploring the …
Designing With Meaningful Data: Deep Personalisation In The Air Travel Context, Mengqi Yuan, Rebecca Price, Jeroen Erp, Jorge Andres Osorio Socha
Designing With Meaningful Data: Deep Personalisation In The Air Travel Context, Mengqi Yuan, Rebecca Price, Jeroen Erp, Jorge Andres Osorio Socha
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionising the way customers interface with organisations and vice versa. However, there is limited knowledge regarding how data and AI are used as material during the design process. It is to this practice- research gap that this paper responds, by providing practical insight into a project between a Dutch airline, named AirlineX for the purpose of this paper, and a university-based design team. The project let to the development of a principle for personality-driven design that deeply personalises digital touchpoints within AirlineX’s operations. This principle is informed by ‘big five’ personality theory from the …
Letters South Of (Nordic) Design, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
Letters South Of (Nordic) Design, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
Nordes Conference Series
The following text is an e-mail exchange between colleagues, countrymen and friends – one located in Brussels (Belgium) and the other in Bogotá (Colombia) – and it is presented as an epistolary article. Different to traditional academic articles, there is no initial hypothesis proven throughout the text, but a narrative emerging from the conversation among peers. We started from the topic (design + power) and questions proposed for the 2017 edition of NORDES; we could say that, paradoxically, we head north in a southbound conversation that involves decoloniality, deschooling, practices of designs with other names and even the film Ratatouille.
Fiction As A Resource In Participatory Design, Eva Knutz, Tau U. Lenskjold, Thomas Markussen
Fiction As A Resource In Participatory Design, Eva Knutz, Tau U. Lenskjold, Thomas Markussen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In recent years, co-design research has moved into the heart of business and organisational matters of concern. As a consequence of that fact, the idea of what design is capable of evolves into something that does not only encompass product and service design, but also at the same time changes organisations’ way of doing things – or in other words, it challenges the organisational culture and the mindset of the decision-makers as a way towards the successful embedding of a project within the organisation. This paper investigates how the development of a new service design project together with integrated co-design …
Perception, Meaning And Transmodal Design, Mathias Nordvall, Mattias Arvola
Perception, Meaning And Transmodal Design, Mathias Nordvall, Mattias Arvola
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Our perceptual system allows us to experience and make meaning of the world through different modalities. We can move between feeling, seeing and hearing things and still makes sense of our world. Our cognitive activities are transmodal. In interaction design this means that both our design processes and our users’ interactions are transmodal. We have gained insights into how transitions between modalities, both in the design context and in the users’ interaction context, modulate meaning and experience, by analysing three interactive systems: SimProv, VibEd, and Sightlence. We propose that a transmodal design approach facilitate designers to realize the communicative potential …
Design For Resourceful Ageing: Intervening In The Ethics Of Gerontechnology, Elisa Giaccardi, Lenneke Kuijer, Louis Neven
Design For Resourceful Ageing: Intervening In The Ethics Of Gerontechnology, Elisa Giaccardi, Lenneke Kuijer, Louis Neven
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper discusses an innovative approach to the design of technologies for older people. The approach contains a critique of “gerontechnology” as taking decisions out of the hands of older people and materializing what it means to live healthily and well into “foolproof” designs that easily become inappropriate in the variety of situations in which older people end up using them. The proposed design approach focuses on re-delegating such ethical decisions to the point at which technology is used. It does so by considering technologies as resources that can complement the ageing competences of older people and adapt in a …
Illuminativa: The Resonance Of The Unseen, Derek Ventling
Illuminativa: The Resonance Of The Unseen, Derek Ventling
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper outlines some key considerations of my current creative arts doctoral thesis. The practice-led research investigates the metaphysical notion of light as an activating principle and how this is subjectively experienced. It re-contextualizes the illuminative process within creative arts, synthesizing its sensate implications with contemporary expression. Philosophically, the research is founded upon the medieval concept that illumination is a key transformational element of our cognitive journey – a process that begins with a sensory experience and leads through philosophical thought to wisdom. Making and perceiving are both the essence and the framework of the research experiments. Light is explored …
Alabaster Chambers: Sacred Folds, Jane Slade
Alabaster Chambers: Sacred Folds, Jane Slade
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
My paper is a discussion of how I have been developing a visual language to evoke the experience of the sacred expressed in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, particularly her poem Safe in their Alabaster Chambers. Experiential knowledge, through experimentation with materials has generated the project leading to at times unexpected and serendipitous outcomes. Using print processes of layering, words, images and folded textures, the poetry of Dickinson provides me with the “tacit” knowledge to make material the sacred “unknown” in her poetry. Printmaking, with its traditional links to religious texts and imagery, is a particularly appropriate medium to explore …
Making Sense Of Dress: On Sensory Perspectives Of Wardrobe Research, Else Skjold
Making Sense Of Dress: On Sensory Perspectives Of Wardrobe Research, Else Skjold
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
In this paper, I wish to exemplify how research on bodily experiences of dressing within research on fashion and dress research might be combined with user-oriented approaches from design research. By doing so, I wish to point my finger at the unfortunate wall between these two scholarly areas which to my mind has created a limited understanding of the connection between dress design, the body, and people's day-to-day routines of getting dressed. The case through which I wish to debate this is a wardrobe study of men in the age of 40-50 years old that I conducted in the period …
Crafting Material Innovation, Danielle Wilde, Jenny Underwood, Rebecca Pohlner
Crafting Material Innovation, Danielle Wilde, Jenny Underwood, Rebecca Pohlner
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
When designing material interactions using digital and other technologies, ideation and development timelines can go out of sync. In this paper we discuss how a crafts-driven approach to wearable technologies can sensitise researchers to novel ways of moving forward when faced with such a challenge. We identify ‘no-tech’ prototyping as a powerful paradigm for ideating wearable technologies when the technologies are not yet specified or available; and we describe four craft-based conceptual lenses – an approach, expression, dialogue and language – that support the development of no-tech prototypes at a range of resolutions. The Poetic Kinaesthetic Interface project (PKI) serves …
Temporal Patterns: New Forms Of Material Thinking In Textile Design, Barbara Jansen
Temporal Patterns: New Forms Of Material Thinking In Textile Design, Barbara Jansen
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper discusses a group of experiments named rhythm exercise. It is a series of experiments which is based within the field of Smart Textiles, especially in the area of light emitting textiles. Rhythm exercise is one series of experiments out of a larger body of work (Jansen, 2015a), exploring the visual effects of movement using light as a continuous time- based medium in the field of textile design. Thereby investigates to expand an understanding about time and light as new forms of design materials in the particular context area. The experiments present new forms of instruments, textile instruments, interfaces …
Why Making Matters: An Exploration Of Neuro- Biological Perspectives On Woodcarving, Marte S. Gulliksen
Why Making Matters: An Exploration Of Neuro- Biological Perspectives On Woodcarving, Marte S. Gulliksen
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
In this paper I begin unpacking the woodcarver’s experiences of working in green wood from a neurobiological perspective. The woodcarver’s experiences are often characterized as having an intense internal focus and an urge to overcome resistance. Previous research hasdiscussed this overcoming of resistance as a preconscious and a conscious negotiation between maker and material. Recent research on neurobiology has increased our knowledge on the basic nervous system in humans. The aim of this paper is to try to bring together current neurobiological descriptions of the basis of what the wood carver do and experience. It is asserted that neurobiological knowledge …
Viewing Fashion: A Digital Materiality Of The Moving Image, Todd Robinson
Viewing Fashion: A Digital Materiality Of The Moving Image, Todd Robinson
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
The paper addresses the development of a digital-visual methodology to examine the sensuous and embodied dimension of fashion. The paper discusses the conception and use of designed garments called DRESS+. Body-garment interactions are the central focus of this research, conceived as participatory activities generating a range of physical movements including behaviour, gestures and utterances for visual and thematic enquiry. This approach is presented in relation to Design Probes and emergent new media forms notably Fashion film. The paper considers two video case studies. The paper utilizes a phenomenological orientation and research from the field of Body Studies, specifically the notion …
Materials In Footwear: An Empirical Study Of Hands-On Textile Approaches To Sandal Design, Jenny Gordon, Faith Kane, Mark Evans
Materials In Footwear: An Empirical Study Of Hands-On Textile Approaches To Sandal Design, Jenny Gordon, Faith Kane, Mark Evans
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Commercial sandals are often designed in a 2D format and materials are generally applied during design development rather than the earlier stages of the process. In contrast, hands- on woven textile design is often carried out through making and interaction with materials. This paper presents the findings of an action research case study that investigated the use of ‘hands-on’ woven textile approaches to sandal design at different stages of the design process. The role that hands-on interaction with materials plays at each stage is analysed to assess areas of potential for its integration. The case study presented in this paper …
Context Construction Through Material Perceptions: Experiences From An Explorative Workshop, Riikka Townsend, Salu Ylirisku
Context Construction Through Material Perceptions: Experiences From An Explorative Workshop, Riikka Townsend, Salu Ylirisku
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper describes and reflects upon a design-led workshop carried out by design and science researchers in an interdisciplinary material development project. The aim of the workshop was to construct application context for the design of thermoelectric energy harvesting applications that combine textiles, thermoelectric materials, electronics, and additional smart materials. The experience of textiles is typically multi-sensorial as textiles are often close to the body or in the touching proximity to people. However, the development of novel textile materials and applications is often science-led resulting in extensive considerations of technical aspects at the cost of the experiential insights. The workshop …
Epistemic Mutations: Material Object Engagement In Exhibition Making, Ane Pilegaard
Epistemic Mutations: Material Object Engagement In Exhibition Making, Ane Pilegaard
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
The paper investigates how experimental design practices in pre-exhibition object handling can unfold the materially embedded knowledge production of museum objects. Even though material objects are recognized as key elements in museum practice, concerns for their specific material qualities, such as texture, color, weight, etc., seldom function as primary drivers during the curating and design phases in exhibition making. This is partly due to preservation issues – the fact that direct object handling must be limited – but is also a result of dominating textual practices. This paper argues that, if the materially embedded knowledge of museum objects is to …
Designing With An Underdeveloped Computational Composite For Materials Experience, Bahareh Barati, Elvin Karana, Paul Hekkert, Iris JöNsthöVel
Designing With An Underdeveloped Computational Composite For Materials Experience, Bahareh Barati, Elvin Karana, Paul Hekkert, Iris JöNsthöVel
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
In response to the urge for multidisciplinary development of computational composites, designers and material scientists are increasingly involved in collaborative projects to valorize these technology-push materials in the early stages of their development. To further develop the computational composites, material scientists need designer’s inputs regarding the physical properties and temporal behavior of the composite, as embodying an application in a context of use. Effective communication of material knowledge and design knowledge between the two disciplines (material science and design) has proven to be challenging due to their different perspectives on materials. Designing appropriate product concepts requires understanding of composite’s unique …
Open Structures: Designing 3d Printed Alterable Textiles, LinnéA Nilsson
Open Structures: Designing 3d Printed Alterable Textiles, LinnéA Nilsson
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
The design of textiles is flexible. The soft, pliable nature of textiles means that their expressiveness and physical properties can be altered long after the material has been produced, by e.g. adding or removing colour, pattern, density, or by printing, laser-cutting, etc. This transformability means that the design of textiles can be further developed in another design process in relation to a specific product or context. In the emerging field of textiles produced using 3D modelling and additive manufacturing, structures can be defined in detail and, later, altered or completely redesigned in CAD programs. However, the designs of these textiles …
How To Visually Represent The Colour Theory Of Thermochromic Inks, Marjan Kooroshnia
How To Visually Represent The Colour Theory Of Thermochromic Inks, Marjan Kooroshnia
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Colour theories have been established in order to allow artists and designers to understand the relationship between colours, and to determine how a chosen colour will react or interact with another. Smart colours - such as leuco dye-based thermochromic inks - have entered into the textile and fashion design world, bringing with them new challenges. This paper stresses the fact that, in order to demonstrate and describe the behaviour of these inks at different temperatures when printed on textiles, a new colour system is required. Four design experiments using thermochromic inks are described and these, along with the discussion presented, …
Kindness As A Collective Wish To Co-Design With Communities Using Physical Installation, Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, Xu Lin, Jun Hu
Kindness As A Collective Wish To Co-Design With Communities Using Physical Installation, Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, Xu Lin, Jun Hu
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper reports a co-design intervention experimented with ‘kindness’ as a community value for social innovation during Dutch Design Week 2014. We discuss the insights gathered from the practice-based research aimed to envision and enact community’s creative imagery as a shared space for co-creation. The co-design intervention visualized, enacted, connected and structured community’s ideas by projecting “kindness” as an idealistic social value to inspire the community’s collective wishes. The activity was instrumented by Collective Imagery framework supported by two co-design tools: Collective Imagery Weave as a physical installation using tags and threads to envision creative complexity; and Mind Weave Theatre …
The Role Of Doing And Making Models With Materials: Outlining “Designerly And Human-Centred Entrepreneurship”, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen, Winie Evers
The Role Of Doing And Making Models With Materials: Outlining “Designerly And Human-Centred Entrepreneurship”, Kirsten Bonde Sørensen, Winie Evers
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper seeks to demonstrate the central role of making and creating models in what we call “designerly and human-centred entrepreneurship”. We refer to empirics from studies of Danish entrepreneurs working on how to develop their businesses. In Drucker ́s (2001) “Management Challenges for the 21st Century” he predicts the new paradigms of management will change and continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management. One of the key influences is that of design. 10 years later Johansson & Woodilla argue there is a need for a paradigmatic widening within Design Management, since, if it …
Toy Trucks In Video Analysis, Jacob Buur, Nanami Nakamura, Rainar Rye Larsen
Toy Trucks In Video Analysis, Jacob Buur, Nanami Nakamura, Rainar Rye Larsen
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Video fieldstudies of people who could be potential users is widespread in design projects. How to analyse such video is, however, often challenging, as it is time consuming and requires a trained eye to unlock experiential knowledge in people’s practices. In our work with industrialists, we have discovered that using scale-models like toy trucks has a strongly encouraging effect on developers/designers to collaboratively make sense of field videos. In our analysis of such scale-model sessions, we found some quite fundamental patterns of how participants utilise objects; the participants build shared narratives by moving the objects around, they name them to …
Counterculture, Ju-Jitsu And Emancipation Of Wood, Marcin WóJcik
Counterculture, Ju-Jitsu And Emancipation Of Wood, Marcin WóJcik
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper sets out to formulate the notion of material-oriented design in wood. In this respect I propose an alternative ontology, where the material is seen as an equal rights partner to the designer. Further, I contrast the constructivist and evolutionary types of management, where in the latter systems are produced with minimal waste and energy expense. I discuss the implications of the approach on an example of five experimental projects, including my own in more detail. I advance that material-oriented design challenges the established form-matter relationship, design process, our understanding of authorship and bears an environmentally friendly potential.
Materials Driven Architectural Design And Representation, Anders Kruse Aagaard
Materials Driven Architectural Design And Representation, Anders Kruse Aagaard
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper aims to outline a framework for a deeper connection between experimentally obtained material knowledge and architectural design. While materials and architecture in the process of realisation are tightly connected, architectural design and representation are often distanced from the material domain in which the construction eventually will happen. In many cases, it can seem that materials play the role of a selection of building blocks from which a determined architectural vision or representation are tried to be build. Research in materials, materials behaviour and new materials are often quite technical and oriented towards the field of engineering. Often cost, …
Material Knowledge: Unlocking The Research Potential Of The ‘Micro’ Architectural Practice, Ewen Mclachlan
Material Knowledge: Unlocking The Research Potential Of The ‘Micro’ Architectural Practice, Ewen Mclachlan
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Materiality is the medium through which architecture engages most directly with its inhabitants, via their sensory and perceptual faculties. Current understandings of the physical traits, symbolic potential and poetic qualities of constructional materials benefit from earlier theoretical and empirical investigations. Such explorations continue through the work of contemporary architecture practices, particularly at the early design stage of projects and during the building process, when material investigations are undertaken as a matter of course. In the UK, small practices (5 or fewer staff) comprise the majority of the profession, so their collective work can be expected to contain a significant proportion …
Digital Crafting In The Field Of Ceramics, Flemming Tvede Hansen, Henrik Leander Evers, Martin Tamke
Digital Crafting In The Field Of Ceramics, Flemming Tvede Hansen, Henrik Leander Evers, Martin Tamke
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This article aims to discuss and explore how craft knowledge in the field of ceramics can be utilized through digital technologies. Based on a set of experiments, which led to the development of a computational system that negotiates between the movement of the designer’s hands and the 3d clay printing, we propose to leave thinking in diametric positions about technology and craft. Instead, we recommend to see technology as an enabling force and follow McCullough’s (1998) idea about a close connection between digital work and craft practice. We base this on similarities we find between the way custom digital design …
A Framework For Materials Knowledge Acquisition For Designers, Anders Haug
A Framework For Materials Knowledge Acquisition For Designers, Anders Haug
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Knowledge of materials is essential for designers in many regards. Materials affect how a product will be manufactured and how it will function, as well as the usability and personality of the product. However, existing materials are subject to ongoing changes in availability, processing methods, price and attributed meanings, and new materials are constantly being developed. Thus, designers continuously need to acquire new materials knowledge to be able to produce designs that utilise available material possibilities and achieve the desired user experiences. That makes it relevant to understand how this materials knowledge can be acquired. To provide designers and design …
Madec: Exploring New Methodologies To Transfer Material Knowledge Into Design Disciplines, Chiara Lecce
Madec: Exploring New Methodologies To Transfer Material Knowledge Into Design Disciplines, Chiara Lecce
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
Due to the increased complexity of materials and production processes, the responsibility of the development of a design is often left in the hands of technicians and production personnel. This lack of knowledge about materials thus effectively creates a barrier between the designer and the product. Bridging this gap represents a challenge to designers and especially to the design schools. (Bak-Andersen 2013, p.69) Designers cannot know everything but they can open their minds and develop a more conscious understanding of this new field of design practice starting from a cultural point of view. MADEC is a research group based in …
Materia Prima: The Rough Guide, Megan Walch
Materia Prima: The Rough Guide, Megan Walch
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper describes a suite of ten paintings titled The Rough Guide and discusses them as an alternative form of cartography that maps subjectivity in flux. It is an autoethnographic account of the material performativity of paint and the interplay between base materiality, chemical interactions and my improvised embodied action. This echoes the ancient alchemical practice where transformation of substance became transformation of self: in alchemy the perfection of Man was aimed at unity with Divine nature. The Rough Guide suite forms the central component of a studio based PhD investigation titled Viscosity, Fluidity, Plasticity: Reworking Pictorial Conventions in Paint, …
Choreography Of Surface Materiality From Nature, Culture, And Time, Yandi Andri Yatmo, Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Ghofar Rozaq Nazila
Choreography Of Surface Materiality From Nature, Culture, And Time, Yandi Andri Yatmo, Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Ghofar Rozaq Nazila
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper proposes the emergence of surface materiality of architecture from nature, culture and time. The emergence of surface from the choreography of nature, culture and time offers an understanding of surface materiality beyond the common, modern building materiality. A case of design research project in the context of a natural site with challenging topography illustrates the process of generating various forms of architectural surfaces from the elements of nature and culture, articulated with the elements of time. The process of choreographing the elements of nature, culture and time becomes more important than just the physical crafting or constructing of …