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Bedtime Stories: Weaving Traditions Into Digital Technologies, Kristi Kuusk, Geert Langereis, Oscar Tomico
Bedtime Stories: Weaving Traditions Into Digital Technologies, Kristi Kuusk, Geert Langereis, Oscar Tomico
Nordes Conference Series
Bedtime Stories is a proposal for a long-lasting - environmentally, economically and societally sustainable smart textile service. It is a set of woven bed linen with images that can be recognized by a custom made fairy-tale application. This new way of story creation is an opportunity to share personal experiences and pass that wisdom through generations. Therefore contributing to a better quality of life. Bedtime Stories is part of a research-throughdesign project. It involves crafts (methods and values) in the environmental load of textiles and garments production, selling, wearing and disposing area. Multiple iterations of Bedtime Stories gives insight into …
Energy Babble, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovale, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Alex Wilkie
Energy Babble, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovale, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Alex Wilkie
Nordes Conference Series
Energy Babble is something like an internet radio appliance, designed for domestic and public spaces and dedicated to the topic of energy demand reduction. The devices are networked, drawing content from online sources and allowing responses using a built-in microphone.
An Architecturally Bricolaged Narrative Of Transit, Annelies De Smet
An Architecturally Bricolaged Narrative Of Transit, Annelies De Smet
Nordes Conference Series
Nordes2013-exhibition gives me the opportunity to present a part of my on-going PHD research. The research project ‘Wandering off in the urban: to move towards being moved’ is practice based, experimental and situated on the intersection of architecture and visual art. Through the production of multisensory impressions I wonder how we can set up a dialogue with that spatio-temporal entity, what we call ‘the environment’, that subjects us to an -all too often unnoticed- palimpsest of spheres. For Nordes2013- exhibition I will present part of an artistic/design communication-model that includes the communication of its reflections on: how to deal in …
Typinglot, Atif Akin
Typinglot, Atif Akin
Nordes Conference Series
TypingLot is an ongoing project about urban typography. Project consists of a collection of type photographs showcased online at http:// typinglot.com and a software which allows its users to typeset by using the letters in this collection. There are more than thousand type photographs in the collection taken in urban environments mostly in the New York and New Jersey area. New Orleans, San Francisco, Helsinki, Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir are some other cities happen to be presented with a small number of types in this collection. TypingLot enrolls amateur type design in a serious manner, thus acknowledging that society’s visual …
Vigour: Smart Textile Services To Support Rehabilitation, Martijn Ten Bhömer, Oscar Tomico, Caroline Hummels
Vigour: Smart Textile Services To Support Rehabilitation, Martijn Ten Bhömer, Oscar Tomico, Caroline Hummels
Nordes Conference Series
“Vigour” is a garment that shows the possibilities of smart textile services for geriatric rehabilitation exercises. It is the result of a collaborative design process between a design researcher, three therapists, an eldercare manager, a textile developer and an embedded systems designer. Vigour embodies the knowledge that was accumulated during the collaborative design process. We contribute to the theme of experimentation in design research by showing the value of experimentation in a participatory setting through the iterations leading to the final garment. Further, we will briefly describe three of the steps that lead to the final prototype.
Committee, Review Committee, Venue Copenhagen, Venue Malmö, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
Committee, Review Committee, Venue Copenhagen, Venue Malmö, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
Nordes Conference Series
General Chairs; Program Chairs; Exhibition Charis; Workshop Chairs; Doctoral Consortium Chairs; Review Committee; Venue Copenhagen; Venue Malmö
Discursive Structures Of Informal Critique In An Hci Design Studio, Colin Gray
Discursive Structures Of Informal Critique In An Hci Design Studio, Colin Gray
Nordes Conference Series
Critique has long been considered a benchmark of design education and practice, both as a way to elicit feedback about design artifacts in the process of production and as a high-stakes assessment tool in academia. In this study, I investigate a specific form of critique between peers that emerges organically in the design studio apart from coursework or guidance of a professor. Based on intensive interviews and observations, this informal peer critique appears to elicit the design judgment of the individual designer in explicit ways, encouraging peers to follow new paths in their design process, while also verbalizing oftenimplicit design …
Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont
Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont
Nordes Conference Series
This workshop aims to bridge the gap between game-, and product design and the theoretical knowledge of the field of neuropsychology. During the workshop we will design playful experiences to stimulate older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, in order to delay disease progression. Knowledge concerning the progressive course of neuropathology of the disease can substantially contribute to the design of suitable games, or playful products, for this user group. In view of the increasing population of older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, the design of relevant games or playful products by well-informed designers will benefit this group and is urgently needed.
An Experiment Of Refection On Design Game Qualities And Controversies, Mette Agger Eriksen, Maria Hellström Reimer, Eva Brandt, Kirsikka Vaajakallio
An Experiment Of Refection On Design Game Qualities And Controversies, Mette Agger Eriksen, Maria Hellström Reimer, Eva Brandt, Kirsikka Vaajakallio
Nordes Conference Series
How do various design games format and stage different collaborative inquiry, learning and reflection? At this hands-on workshop, we will collaboratively explore, relate and meta-reflect upon how different design (and learning) games can form part of experimental, co-design (research) processes and practice. Some shared playing of mainly analogue games brought by the workshop organizers and participants will provide the basis for engaging in a game-inspired experiment of collaboratively relating and reflecting upon qualities and controversies of different design games. This reflection experiment will be shaped around predefined and emerging topics.
Creative Communities, Creative Assets: Exploring Methods Of Mapping Community Assets, Catherine Greene, Gail Ramster, Katerina Alexiou, Theo Zamenopoulos, Giota Alevizou, Alan Outten, Cristina Gorzanelli
Creative Communities, Creative Assets: Exploring Methods Of Mapping Community Assets, Catherine Greene, Gail Ramster, Katerina Alexiou, Theo Zamenopoulos, Giota Alevizou, Alan Outten, Cristina Gorzanelli
Nordes Conference Series
Asset mapping, a method for unearthing and visually representing an individual’s or a community’s assets, has been used in the context of planning and creative industries. The goal of this workshop is to bring together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and practices to discuss and generate outcomes that make use of different perspectives of asset mapping methodologies. At the core of activities, facilitators will demonstrate the ways in which asset mapping has been used with community groups within an area or neighbourhood in the Creative Citizens research project - a project which explores how different types of creativity and civic engagement …
Designing Value And Reframing Challenges, Andrea Augsten, Frederike Beha
Designing Value And Reframing Challenges, Andrea Augsten, Frederike Beha
Nordes Conference Series
Current global challenges need a new way to look at how we design products, services and solutions. One the one hand these global trends influence innovation but on the other hand the user and his individual needs have to be taken into account. This leads to the task of reframing requirements based on empathy, multidisciplinary teams and a learning culture in order to design sustainable products that create values for the users. Participants in this workshop will be guided through a process of designing a new product or service. Special focus will be placed on the experience of how to …
New Ways Of Networking: A Hands On Workshop Exploring The Workspace:Lab And Its Equipment, Christina Lundsgaard, Carolina Souzada Conceição, Johanna Eriksson
New Ways Of Networking: A Hands On Workshop Exploring The Workspace:Lab And Its Equipment, Christina Lundsgaard, Carolina Souzada Conceição, Johanna Eriksson
Nordes Conference Series
Are you interested in designing new ways of networking at the Nordes conference with fellow researchers? Do you want to explore and discuss the so called “workspacelab” as a platform for user involvement? This workshop invites participants to explore a particular version of the design:lab called the workspace:lab. With a focus on methods like probekits, design games and experience prototyping the participants will experience what it is like being part of the design:lab as “users” and they will be exposed to the different equipment and tools used in the “laboratory of change”. Though the main focus of the workshop is …
Fungutopia Workshop: Grow It Yourself Design, Laura Popplow
Fungutopia Workshop: Grow It Yourself Design, Laura Popplow
Nordes Conference Series
“FUNGUTOPIA is the design of a social and ecological utopia based on urban mushroom cultivation”. The Project FUNGUTOPIA is a design | research in process. The workshop will work with and about the material of fungal mycelium. We will learn how to cultivate oyster mushrooms with simple kitchen tools and let them grow in self-build forms. To understand how to work with the living material of fungi, we will discuss their properties and characteristics and the potential of mushrooms as building material, recyclers, food and medicine. Apart from the hands-on-approach the workshops goal is also to discuss questions about “design …
Method-Making As A Method Of Designing, Jung-Joo Lee
Method-Making As A Method Of Designing, Jung-Joo Lee
Nordes Conference Series
The design research community has recently been very active in developing new types of methods, often called innovative methods, through experimentation and action research projects. The stream of innovative methods incorporates visual and creative components that are closer to a designer’s genuine practices, aiming to support projection of users’ own felt-experiences and their creativity. Innovative methods are in principle designed and re-designed in each project, while conventional methods aim to be easily reproducible and portable across situations. In this paper, we illustrate what learning is going on in the making process of the methods, rather than data collected by the …
The Fat Factory: Chewing The Fat, Mike Thompson, Danielle Arets
The Fat Factory: Chewing The Fat, Mike Thompson, Danielle Arets
Nordes Conference Series
In 2005, the global adult biomass hit around 287 million metric tons, 15 million metric tonnes of which being caused by an overweight global population (a body mass of 25 or greater). As the worlds population continues to soar (the UN estimates the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050) there will be considerably more mouths to feed, and energy needed to sustain this rate of development. Paradoxically then, fat is both a waste of resources and a valuable resource in its own right. The Fat Factory is a Critical Design Research project investigating the full, untapped potential of …
Experimenting With Design: Playing With Data Derived From Unusual Locations, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison, Aisling Kelliher
Experimenting With Design: Playing With Data Derived From Unusual Locations, Laurene Vaughan, Andrew Morrison, Aisling Kelliher
Nordes Conference Series
The field of design research is in a rapid stage of its evolution. As it does so, the methods for undertaking research, and the contexts that these occur in are also evolving. Situated in the space between critical design and design fiction, participants in this workshop will explore new ways for experimenting within design research. The facilitators of the workshop come from three different aspects of design research, three markedly different locations and yet intersect in their interest in exploring and manifesting, new iterations of design research in practice. In this workshop, participants will explore methods for undertaking design experiments, …
Electronic Sketching: Using Idemobits As Tools For Synthesis In Design Research, Vanessa Carpenter, Mikkel Leth Olsen
Electronic Sketching: Using Idemobits As Tools For Synthesis In Design Research, Vanessa Carpenter, Mikkel Leth Olsen
Nordes Conference Series
Throughout the process of design research, synthesis is an important aspect for bringing together past and current knowledge to facilitate new ideas. In this workshop participants will be challenged to explicitly explore their ideas using IdemoBits. IdemoBits are a tangible tool to be used during the process of design research enabling the designer to explore ideas immediately using electronic materials. This is a very hands-on, active workshop where attendees are expected to participate, contribute, and play; exploring the IdemoBits as tools, and reflecting on the process of synthesis, in order to contribute to a model of ideation.
Fungutopia, Laura Popplow
Fungutopia, Laura Popplow
Nordes Conference Series
The Project FUNGUTOPIA is a design | research in process. It explores the living material of fungal mycelium to grow designs, in a way that is situated in a participatory community process. It is inspired by the concept of the three ecologies by Félix Guattari, what means that it tries to combine actions that address a mental, social and natural idea of ecology. The project is experimenting with modes of working with living, growing materials and the aesthetics they create. It tries to establish a practical understanding how design can change when we think in lifecycles of creation, use and …
Light Is History, Karthikeya Acharya, Jussi Mikkonen, Samir Bhowmik
Light Is History, Karthikeya Acharya, Jussi Mikkonen, Samir Bhowmik
Nordes Conference Series
Light is History is a collective energy consumption display artifact that was installed in a public square in Helsinki in November 2012. The lamps of the installation, made from old recycled electricity meters were designed to function as bright therapy lights. Sixteen participating families from in and around the Kallio neighbourhood published their daily energy use on a web portal. The difference in their daily energy reading was used to determine the brightness of individual lights that was assigned to each family on the light installation. Each of the lamps brightened if the corresponding family’s energy use was lesser than …
The Andro Chair, Designing The Unthinkable: Men’S Right To Women’S Experience In Gynaecology, Cristine Sundbom, Anne-Christine Hertz, Karin Ehrnberger, Emma Börjesson
The Andro Chair, Designing The Unthinkable: Men’S Right To Women’S Experience In Gynaecology, Cristine Sundbom, Anne-Christine Hertz, Karin Ehrnberger, Emma Börjesson
Nordes Conference Series
In this project we have explored how design may be used as a critical and creative tool for discussing how design is gendered in the contemporary gynaecology chair examination in Sweden. The aim of our design concept is to uncover the veiled gender norms in this problem area and discuss its consequenses for women. Our method to do so includes swopping the gender context (Ehrnberger, et al. 2012), which is used to make visible the accepted hidden norms in this specific case. By doing so we wanted to explore if the same situation would be accepted if applied to men. …
Oops! Moments: Kinetic Material In Participatory Workshops, Robb Mitchell, Agnese Caglio, Jacob Buur
Oops! Moments: Kinetic Material In Participatory Workshops, Robb Mitchell, Agnese Caglio, Jacob Buur
Nordes Conference Series
We wish to alert facilitators to the merits of deploying kinetic resources within workshops. Design materials and activities involving unpredictable kinetic aspects such as balancing, bouncing, rolling and falling can lead to surprises that provoke a lively challenging of assumptions. Based on video data from many innovation workshops we show how materials with such dynamic qualities seem particularly suited to scaffold groups in exploring ‘if – then’ causalities. Discussions concerning humour, aesthetics and agency help articulate the qualities of engagement offered by kinetic resources. Although our starting point is experiments in participatory business modelling, a kinetic oriented understanding of material …
Storm System: Wearable Shelter For The Alpha Time Era, Miguel Rios
Storm System: Wearable Shelter For The Alpha Time Era, Miguel Rios
Nordes Conference Series
In this environmentally and demographically complex start to a post-industrial millennium, it is urgent to reflect on the transformations that occur from the interaction between individuals, the city they inhabit, its surroundings and protection conditions. STORM SYSTEM, developed by Miguel Rios Design, responds to the question of a first individual nomad clothing protection against weather adversities. Today’s population growth forces a reorganisation of space, in a variety of contexts that individuals face on large urban surfaces, as well as an interiorisation of the impacts resulting from behavioural changes. An unbearable logistic and environmental excess is therefore propagated (and vice versa), …
How Experimenting With Networks And The Data They Generate Can Create Layered Semantic And Visual Communication Design?, Miglena Minkova, Maria Martin Carrasco
How Experimenting With Networks And The Data They Generate Can Create Layered Semantic And Visual Communication Design?, Miglena Minkova, Maria Martin Carrasco
Nordes Conference Series
This paper will look into whether experimenting with networked processes and input in the production of graphic design can challenge the formal relationships between everyone involved in the creative process, stimulate dynamic readings and interactions and make use of contemporary information chaos. Considering economy, social structure and modern technology, parallels will be drawn between theory and practical examples. This will help to better illustrate the mechanics and creative use of the network and the data it produces, while setting up a broader research context for design practitioners to reflect on.
Non-Directive Experience Design, Morten Winther
Non-Directive Experience Design, Morten Winther
Nordes Conference Series
How do we design ambiguous and non-directive interactive artefacts that offer multiple ways of engagement? This article presents the initial thoughts on the form-giving of tangible interactive prototypes for practices that demand nonauthoritative designs without specific functionality. In a project designing for children with profound cognitive disabilities, we adopt a shift towards a holistic user understanding and material and expressional explorations as key strategies for addressing their emotions and senses, rather than focusing on cognitive advances. The result was two exploratory interactive sensory pillows with a variety of different expressions and modes of interaction. We propose how design for nondirective …
Learning Problems And Resources Usage Of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students In Studio Courses, Wenzhi Chen, Hsien-Hui Tang
Learning Problems And Resources Usage Of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students In Studio Courses, Wenzhi Chen, Hsien-Hui Tang
Learn X Design Conference Series
Design students face certain learning problems and difficulties as they explore the design problems space. The purpose of this study is to understand those learning problems and the resources that undergraduate industrial design students need in studio courses. To collect the data, a questionnaire was designed according to the preliminary studies. A total of 334 students from 4 Taiwanese universities participated in the survey. The results demonstrated that the most difficult design tasks for students included concept generation, design presentation and design decision. The main problems that the students experienced included the cost issue in design presentation, time pressure in …
Introducing Nordes 2013, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
Introducing Nordes 2013, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson
Nordes Conference Series
Welcome to Nordes 2013 the 5th biannual Nordes conference; welcome to Malmö and Copenhagen! Since its establishment in 2005, the Nordic design research conference, Nordes, has established itself as perhaps the most impor- tant scholarly event in the field in the Nordic countries, and over the years, Nordes has attracted still more participants from the rest of the world. The ambition of the Nordes design research conference is to develop into an inter- national conference of the highest academic standards with close reference to design practice as well as to the more traditional research approaches to design; a conference which …
Time Experiments: Designing For Reflection, Fanni Baudo, Liv Maria Henning
Time Experiments: Designing For Reflection, Fanni Baudo, Liv Maria Henning
Nordes Conference Series
By researching through designing the Supertid project investigates – in visual and tactile form – the acceleration of Western societies as well as the ephemerality and experience of time. The Supertid exhibition installation is a ‘cabinet of curiosity’; displaying various design experiments and a publication - created to render time experientially available, and thus enable reflection and dialogue among the involved designers, researchers, and participants, in order to challenge the contemporary notion of time.
Balancing Food Values: Making Sustainable Choices In Cooking Practices, Annelise De Jong, Lenneke Kuijer, Thomas Rydell
Balancing Food Values: Making Sustainable Choices In Cooking Practices, Annelise De Jong, Lenneke Kuijer, Thomas Rydell
Nordes Conference Series
Within user-centred design and topics such as persuasive design, pleasurable products, and design for sustainable behaviour, there is a danger of over-determining, pacifying or reducing people’s diversity. Taking the case of sustainable food, we have looked into the social aspects of cooking at home, in specific related to the type of food that is purchased. This paper describes what it means for people to make more sustainable choices in food shopping and how that can be mediated while taking different ‘food values’ that household members have into account. In a design experiment, we developed a service for selecting daily dinner …
Expand Your Design Space With Energy Harvesting, Johan Pedersen, Vanessa Carpenter
Expand Your Design Space With Energy Harvesting, Johan Pedersen, Vanessa Carpenter
Nordes Conference Series
Today design research explores many new ways of interaction, which often requires energyconsuming technology. This limits the design space available and the purpose of this workshop is to open that space and make interaction possible in new scenarios with the possibilities of energy harvesting used as a tool to design in a new field of automated sustainable devices. Energy harvesting can make seamless and almost invisible interaction design possible.
Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler
Experimental Sketching, Judith Marlen Dobler
Nordes Conference Series
What impact does the act of sketching have on thought processes? How may knowledge through sketching be reflected and lead to new epistemic insights? The workshop addresses these theoretical and methodological questions on the basis of specific drawing experiments. During the workshop the experimental use of sketches as a reflective tool in thinking and design processes is introduced. Experimental sketching is a participatory investigation about how knowledge is gained by drawing and how this process can be methodically, theoretically and practically reflected.