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Historical Evolution Of Age-Friendly Transitions In The Yangfangdian Community In Beijing: A Multi-Level Perspective, Lijun Chen, Vladimír Kočí, Haipeng Tian
Historical Evolution Of Age-Friendly Transitions In The Yangfangdian Community In Beijing: A Multi-Level Perspective, Lijun Chen, Vladimír Kočí, Haipeng Tian
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The issue of transition and transformation of communities has a long history. Particularly in today's context of increasing aging trends, cities and communities are facing unprecedented multiple challenges that drive the transition to a more inclusive and sustainable future to enable community stakeholders to have a higher quality of life experience and to fulfil their visions for the future. This paper systemically reveals insights from the past of the ageing issue in the Yangfangdian community in Beijing through a multi- level perspective (MLP) framework created with local residents, a museum and design students to understand the historical foundations of the …
Situated Partnerships To Face Food Waste Within A Neighborhood-Based Food Redistribution Service: The Case Of "Sospesa", Davide Fassi, Valentina Ferreri
Situated Partnerships To Face Food Waste Within A Neighborhood-Based Food Redistribution Service: The Case Of "Sospesa", Davide Fassi, Valentina Ferreri
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Neighborhoods can be seen as experimental hubs where innovative design strat-egies are tested within local communities, addressing the social and environ-mental issues that impact global cities and promoting more equitable futures. In current times of crisis, amid substantial food waste, urban areas are witnessing a growing phenomenon of vulnerable groups suffering from food poverty, often coupled with limited access to fresh food. This scenario has led to a proliferation of diverse charitable initiatives, concurrently fueling researchers' exploration of sustainable food commons and circular systems. However, to foster community-driven development of such models, it becomes imperative to structure services around local, …
Designing For Just And Sustainable Policies In The Space Between Institutions And Experimental Government Practices, Francesco Leoni, Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez, Sofía Bosch Gómez, Federico Vaz, Luis Garcia, Natalia Villaman
Designing For Just And Sustainable Policies In The Space Between Institutions And Experimental Government Practices, Francesco Leoni, Diana Pamela Villa Alvarez, Sofía Bosch Gómez, Federico Vaz, Luis Garcia, Natalia Villaman
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This track explores design’s role in the making of public policy by examining how it bridges the gap between actors within and outside institutions. Papers for this track advance new knowledge on design's contribution and interplay with policymaking processes and practices through methodological diversity and detailed descriptions of different policy contexts. The contributions discuss specific public initiatives, such as the New European Bauhaus, and general approaches to public sector innovation, like public sector innovation labs, thus ranging from highly contextualized to general views. Further, the works presented expand “design for policy” with perspectives emphasizing co-design, public service design, public organizations' …
Designing Resilient Food Futures: Food Commons, Transitions, And Sovereignty, Chun Zheng, Francis Carter
Designing Resilient Food Futures: Food Commons, Transitions, And Sovereignty, Chun Zheng, Francis Carter
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design researchers and practitioners, please join us to explore the transformative potential of design in shaping sustainable and equitable food futures! In the face of pressing challenges within our current food systems, including waste, resource depletion, inequitable access, and cultural erosion, conventional and commodified food models have demonstrated their inadequacy. However, the rise of food-based movements like food commons, food transitions, and food sovereignty has sparked a renaissance in the design community, inspiring a collective commitment to co-creating resilient and regenerative global food landscapes. Food commons, transitions, and sovereignty encompass community and cultural-based knowledge of food resources, production, management, systematic …
How Do You Sound Design? Articulating Experiences And Cultures Via Listening, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan, Daniel Hug, Sara Lenzi, Sandra Pauletto, Davide Rocchesso, Simone Spagnol
How Do You Sound Design? Articulating Experiences And Cultures Via Listening, Stefano Delle Monache, Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan, Daniel Hug, Sara Lenzi, Sandra Pauletto, Davide Rocchesso, Simone Spagnol
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The SIG on Sound-Driven Design invites researchers and practitioners to delve into the multifaceted nature of sound, unraveling its physical, perceptual, emotional, and socio-technological dimensions, and contribute to the discovery and development of design methods and tools. In the sound-driven perspective, listening emerges as element that adds depth and richness to the design space, adding to the role of the senses in the experience of the form quality of products, services, and systems. We propose to reflect on the holistic and inclusive character of “sound-driven” as it combines the diverse sonic, experiential, technical, and cultural manifestations of sound with the …
Data As Design Research: Mediating Processes, Protocols, And Precedent In Practice, Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, Andrew Witt
Data As Design Research: Mediating Processes, Protocols, And Precedent In Practice, Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, Andrew Witt
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The theme aims to consider the evolution of design methods, processes, and outputs in relationship to the imperatives of data in design practice, and the ways in which data-integrated practices are changing the nature of design itself. The increasing availability of data and related processes due to networked artifacts, artificial intelligence, and cultural digitalization pose a significant paradigm shift for design methods, collaboration, and the scalable impact of design in the world. Discourse may consider the fact that the systematic nature of data structures pushes related design pursuits into a realm of scalable systems that exceeds the replicability of industrial …
Developing Evaluation Models For Patient-Centeredness, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Miso Kim, Silvia Cantalupi, Chenfei Yu, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Developing Evaluation Models For Patient-Centeredness, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Miso Kim, Silvia Cantalupi, Chenfei Yu, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Paolo Ciuccarelli
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper presents the process and outcomes of a three-month lab activity conducted in preparation for and during the 2024 DRS. Our research focused on developing a framework for an evaluation system designed to integrate patient-centered care (PCC) principles into orthopedic practices. PCC emphasizes the importance of improving health outcomes and fostering inclusivity for individual patients, as healthcare systems often grapple with challenges like fragmented care. Through a collaborative design research lab (DRS) partnership among Polifactory (Politecnico di Milano-Department of Design), the Center for Design at Northeastern University, and healthcare experts at local healthcare institutions (IRCCS Galeazzi and Massachusetts General …
Shanzhai As A Pluriversal Praxis: Challenging Western Design And Innovation Paradigm, Dan Mu
Shanzhai As A Pluriversal Praxis: Challenging Western Design And Innovation Paradigm, Dan Mu
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores the concept of Shanzhai ('fake' in Chinese), a Chinese practice often associated with imitation and design plagiarism, this study uses Shan-zhai to critique dominant forms of innovation, framed by a discussion of pluriversal design. Through a comprehensive literature review and empirical research, this study explores Shanzhai's evolution from a response to globalisation and de-sign colonisation to a reflection of identity. Shanzhai's unique approach challenges dominant design narratives, but in its own way emphasises inclusiveness and innovation. The study concludes that Shanzhai transcends its initial role as a design and manufacturing practice, evolving into a cultural phenomenon symbolising …
Research Through Designers: A Pictorial Reflection On Engagements, Encounters, And Environments At A Design Research Jamboree, Arne Berger, Julia Weller, Miriam Sturdee, David Philip Green, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alessandro Soro, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph Lindley
Research Through Designers: A Pictorial Reflection On Engagements, Encounters, And Environments At A Design Research Jamboree, Arne Berger, Julia Weller, Miriam Sturdee, David Philip Green, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Alessandro Soro, Mafalda Gamboa, Joseph Lindley
DRS Biennial Conference Series
We picture design researchers’ engagement with the task of capturing the value of Research through Design during a week-long event. The images are selected to document set and setting, hands-on activities, human and more-than-human encounters, and material engagements with the theories, methods, and practices of design research. The text is deliberately minimal, offering contextualization from the photographer and the organizer of the event, as well as commentary from attendees on material outcomes and bodily presences; context and environment, disciplinary esthetics; and social commentary from two non-attendees. We offer this record of process to inspire design researchers to further engage with …
Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros
Extremes: On How The Study Of Appropriation Might Inform Inclusive Workplace Design In Manufacturing, Ana Correia De Barros
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Disabled people, from younger to older adults, are at comparative disadvantage regarding work. Design for inclusion at work tends to focus on individual adaptations (often stigmatising) or general accessibility guidelines (often insufficient). Furthermore, there is a tendency to focus on inability rather than on extreme abilities, which seem to be the ones enabling workers to appropriate existing products and create their own designs. Therefore, design research requires more input from diverse workers as users to inform the design inclusive industrial workstations. Departing from theory and ending with analyses of workers' designs, this paper argues that the articulation of the concept …
A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht
A Review Of The Integration Of Additive Manufacturing In Design Education, Stefan Junk, Julia Glubrecht
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The modern world of design is one of constant change and technological progress. One emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the design is additive manufacturing. This innovative technology challenges existing manufacturing processes to reflect and enable the efficient production of complex and customized objects through reimagination. Design education for additive manufacturing plays a crucial role in educating future designers to resist the adherence to conventional processes and to promote the recovery of innovative thinking. Therefore, it is significant to explore the integration of this emerging technology in academic education and identify the associated chances and challenges to ensure …
Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant
Using User Persona And Work Domain Analysis To Elicit Information For A Product-Service Digital Twin, Claire Palmer, Isaiah Nassiuma, Yee Mey Goh, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Product-Service Digital Twins are an emerging field about which little information is available. To overcome this deficit personas were utilized to elicit domain and user information requirements. As no user data exists for this domain, persona profiles were developed for the domain based on types of decision maker. Control task analysis was applied to the personas as a means of applying a people-centered approach to information gathering. A description is provided of how the control task analysis methodology is modified for use with the personas. Examples of the personas developed and the information gathered are given. This approach is shown …
Three’S Company: Situation-Problem-Solution Co-Evolution, Luke Feast
Three’S Company: Situation-Problem-Solution Co-Evolution, Luke Feast
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper reports the results of a study examining the co-evolution of design situations, problems, and solutions. The research method is a longitudinal study tracking the creative problem-solving processes of 4 MSc student design teams on an industrial design project. The data includes observations, interviews, field notes, and documents. Visual mapping and temporal bracketing analysis tech-niques reveal insights into the teams' design processes. The results provide evidence that integrating effectuation enabled some teams to pivot their projects by co-evolving the situation, problem, and solution spaces simultaneously. This finding suggests designers can shape situations through effectuation, rather than just passively respond …
Designer-Maker: Merging Cognition And Construction In Practice-Led Design Research, Laureen Mahler
Designer-Maker: Merging Cognition And Construction In Practice-Led Design Research, Laureen Mahler
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In the decades since the establishment of design research, efforts to identify the nature of design knowledge have repeatedly returned to the question of design’s relationship to science. The resulting debate is often framed by the opposing tenets of positivism and constructivism, and this gap continues to characterize research across the discipline. This paper challenges the paradigmatic divide between cognition and construction through an examination of practice-led design research and, more specifically, a redefinition of the designer-maker. It presents perceptual space as an active, multimodal medium where cognition and construction emerge simultaneously, as evidenced by the work of the designer-maker. …
Impacting Literacy Through The Power Of A Font: Design Research For Inclusive Reading Experiences, Reneé Seward, Allison Breit, Jennifer Keelor, Jenny Halovick, Nancy Creaghead, Oscar Fernández, Akshat Srivastava, Frida Medrano, Spencer Roberts, Shannon Healey, James Plattner, Lepa Juju Stojanovic
Impacting Literacy Through The Power Of A Font: Design Research For Inclusive Reading Experiences, Reneé Seward, Allison Breit, Jennifer Keelor, Jenny Halovick, Nancy Creaghead, Oscar Fernández, Akshat Srivastava, Frida Medrano, Spencer Roberts, Shannon Healey, James Plattner, Lepa Juju Stojanovic
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Struggling with reading can feel like navigating an endless maze of confusion and frustration for some people. It can weigh heavily on their minds, fostering a sense of inadequacy, isolation, and fear of judgment by others. In the United States, a significant portion of both young and older individuals face these challenges, with statistics showing that 37% of fourth graders and 30% of eighth graders read below basic levels. This paper will detail the development and research of a web-based reading application that leveraged typography and technology to engage struggling readers with their favorite content while improving their foundational reading …
When A Tree Says No: Towards A More-Than-Human Consent Notion For Design, Franca Lopez Barbera
When A Tree Says No: Towards A More-Than-Human Consent Notion For Design, Franca Lopez Barbera
DRS Biennial Conference Series
A growing body of more-than-human approaches in design reconsider and re-articulate design’s relationship to the natural world through relational frameworks. However, such endeavours do not come without difficulties and may even reproduce the very logics they seek to overcome. Despite the prolific efforts within the design community, overcoming the modern/colonial legacies of design and its anthropocentric paradigm remains a formidable challenge. Departing from the Quebracho Colorado tree as a guiding example, this paper delves into a gender and decolonial analysis of the notion of consent that underscores design’s role in reproducing extractive approaches to nature. It then goes on to …
Playful Speculative Design: Crafting Preposterous Futures Through Playful Tension, Sofie Kinch, Jess Uhre Rahbek, Stine Behrendtzen
Playful Speculative Design: Crafting Preposterous Futures Through Playful Tension, Sofie Kinch, Jess Uhre Rahbek, Stine Behrendtzen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores the imaginative borderland of speculative design, often re-ferred to as 'preposterous futures,' and presents a framework for playful specula-tive design building upon carnivalesque play theory. To operationalize the framework, the concept of ‘playful tensions’ employs three continuums of rele-vance: Firstly, designers should address the ‘purpose’ by navigating the interplay between 'concern and provocation.’ Secondly, the ‘concept’ should be crafted to straddle the boundary between the 'serious and ridiculous,' and thirdly, integrat-ing both 'believable and absurd' elements to scaffold the ‘formgiving’ process. To demonstrate the practical efficacy of the framework, three projects by estab-lished artists and designers are …
Designing Future Workspaces For Cognitive Aging, Katja Thoring, Patrick Kornherr, Markus Kurz
Designing Future Workspaces For Cognitive Aging, Katja Thoring, Patrick Kornherr, Markus Kurz
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper reports on a speculative design project addressing the future workspace. Based on data extrapolation, we assume that by 2048 more people of advanced age will be working in office environments. Consequently, the share of employees suffering from cognitive deficits will significantly increase. Based on this future scenario, a speculative design object has been developed: A cognitive-stimulating desk lamp that could prevent further deterioration of office workers' cognitive abilities through acoustic stimulation. We explore potential technical features of the lamp and address the avoidance of stigmatization and ageism at the workplace. The contribution of the study is twofold: First, …
Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright
Preferable, Contextual And Sustainable… Climate Futures For Ecological Citizens., Robert Phillips, Sharon Baurley, Emily Boxall, Luke Gooding, Daniel Knox, Charlotte Nordmoen, Alec Shepley, Tom Simmons, Sarah West, Joanna Wright
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The responsibility for sustainable futures extends beyond individual disciplines, necessitating the adoption of diverse approaches across various fields. Water pollution is at epidemic levels, valuable materials go to landfill, ocean detritus grows, many people are disconnected from green space, and biodiversity is plummeting. We need new modes of climate futures, championing citizen agency. Societies require cross-collaborative, inclusive approaches to navigate climate future challenges. We seek to foresee ‘climate futures’ that signpost challenges, unpicking (appropriate) opportunities, benefits, and pitfalls. Through an Ecological Citizenship lens, the authors traverse situations, through preferable futures. It is an entry point for transition design, creating climate …
Embodying The Driving Experience Through Ai Driving Assistants As A Means Of Noticing The More-Than-Human, Olga Barbara Lackner
Embodying The Driving Experience Through Ai Driving Assistants As A Means Of Noticing The More-Than-Human, Olga Barbara Lackner
DRS Biennial Conference Series
On the road, a shift of agency away from human drivers is taking place with AI-based roadside monitoring and driving assistants. This changes interaction both within the car and with the environment outside of it, mediated by driving assistant algorithms. It also changes encounters with the non-human, framing and evaluating them from a technological lens. This paper aims to show how the human experience of their environment during a car ride is shifted through AI, where encounters with non-human entities are observed and logged by technology, and how this can be used to remediate passengers’ experience of their environment during …
Development Of A Scale For Measuring Individual Cultural Capital Relevant To Design Thinking, Takuo Ando
Development Of A Scale For Measuring Individual Cultural Capital Relevant To Design Thinking, Takuo Ando
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This study attempts to (1) conceptualize the cultural capital of individuals who accept Design Thinking (DT) and (2) develop a scale from the level of individual values, beliefs, and mindset. Previous studies on design thinking have mainly analyzed designers and trained design thinkers. However, this capacity resource is inherently considered to lie with all employees, including non-designers. Being able to embrace DT can be paraphrased as holding beliefs, values, and attitudes related to design. As DT does not necessarily require formal education, the development of such a scale could also be useful for finding natural design thinkers in organizations. We …
Design For Longevity Literature Review In Product Lifecycle, Financial Planning, And Gerontology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang, Olivier L. De Weck, Eric Klopfer, John Ochsendorf
Design For Longevity Literature Review In Product Lifecycle, Financial Planning, And Gerontology, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang, Olivier L. De Weck, Eric Klopfer, John Ochsendorf
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper explores definitions of Design for Longevity (D4L) through a preliminary literature review to create an interpretation of D4L in the finance and service context. The concept of longevity has been applied to many industries and applications. this paper reviews the term D4L as it applies to three fields: product lifecycle, financial planning, and gerontology. Using specific keywords across three search engines—Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Design Research Society Digital Library—we gathered 78 academic papers and synthesized 24 academic papers. As a result, we proposed a holistic and interdisciplinary definition of D4L as a lens to identify longevity-related …
Enhancing Financial Education For Longevity Through Service Design, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang
Enhancing Financial Education For Longevity Through Service Design, Sheng-Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Sofie Hodara, Maria C. Yang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
As populations live longer, the traditional sequential phases of life—learning, earning, and retiring—don’t account for the complexity of demographic shifts. To age gracefully across a multiplicity of life phases, people must develop financial literacy at younger ages. This paper proposes a redesign of financial educational services between financial advisors and first-time clients using a Service-Behavior-Engagement (SBE) framework. We propose an immersive, multisensory service design kit, Design for Longevity (D4L), which includes tangible artifacts to facilitate experimentation, vulnerable conversations, and purposeful play: Longevity Planning Blocks, cards, and an interactive canvas. To test the kit, we conducted a 30-minute demonstration, followed by …
Speculative Ethics, Design, Philosophy & Education, Wouter Eggink
Speculative Ethics, Design, Philosophy & Education, Wouter Eggink
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designing requires great social and moral responsibility as we are surrounded by products and services that shape -and simultaneously get shaped by- the way we live. This asks for active reflection on ethical issues. However, with the classical top-down approach, ethics may be perceived as restrictive, setting boundaries for what is allowed and what not. Within philosophy of technology, ethical reflection is moving towards a more constructive approach, accompanying technological development with careful considerations. This paper takes a step further and proposes something that could be called 'creative ethics', where a bottom-up approach in dealing with ethical issues fosters inspiration …
Designing For Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, A Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring, Margherita Motta, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Annelaure Klaus, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves
Designing For Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, A Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring, Margherita Motta, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Annelaure Klaus, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed Aidee, a prototype system composed of an app and interactive device that assists users in performing urine monitoring through qualitative data expression and ambient physicalization. To evaluate our prototype we conducted an exploratory between-subjects study involving 54 participants. Our findings indicate user acceptance for qualitative data expressions in the domain of personal wellbeing. Moreover, our study underscores that the combination of an app and …
Connecting Sustainable And Well-Being-Enhancing Behaviors: Reflections Through Daily Practices Of Young Adults, Michael Christopher Kowalski, Jungkyoon Yoon
Connecting Sustainable And Well-Being-Enhancing Behaviors: Reflections Through Daily Practices Of Young Adults, Michael Christopher Kowalski, Jungkyoon Yoon
DRS Biennial Conference Series
An experience sampling study was conducted to further understand daily activities of young adults with implications for Environmentally Sustainable Behavior (SB) and Subjective Well-being (SWB) simultaneously. Studies on SB and SWB are present in established bodies of design research, though connection across these strands appears limited. Analysis of 209 survey responses from 27 participants showed that while many activities were reported with mutually positive outcomes for SB and SWB, when there was conflict, individuals were more likely to prioritize their own subjective well-being over environmental sustainability. Activities that included designed products and environments that more readily supported SB and SWB …
Insert Here: Unpacking Tensions In Designing Technologies For The Vagina, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Joo Young Park, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Madeline Balaam
Insert Here: Unpacking Tensions In Designing Technologies For The Vagina, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Joo Young Park, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Madeline Balaam
DRS Biennial Conference Series
From sex toys to fertility trackers to vaginal fitness, the design of vaginally inserted technologies often mirrors gendered norms and societal taboos. These norms perpetuate the vagina as an obscure and mystified area, making it difficult for designers to find their way amidst a web of technical, material, and ethical concerns. In this paper, we present a mingling of our experiences as designers, together with feminist and posthuman literature, to discuss the challenges and tensions arising when designing in this space. We provide alternative framings and reflect on how the case of designing for the vagina creates blurry definitions of …
Show Me What You Mean: The Case For Easy-To-Use 3d Visualizations Of The Built Environment, Noelyn Stephens, Juan Salamanca
Show Me What You Mean: The Case For Easy-To-Use 3d Visualizations Of The Built Environment, Noelyn Stephens, Juan Salamanca
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Visual communication, particularly realistic visualization, has been found to be effective for facilitating constructive discussion on issues related to the built environment. Here, we make the case that a browser-based, intuitively designed 3D visualization interface could widen access to such approaches increasing opportunities for co-creation. Using this type of easy-to-access tool could allow community members to own the process of creating a shared vision for their city.
The Power Of The Pen/Pencil: Developing A Design Sketching Syllabus To Help 1st Year Product Design Students Communicate Effectively, Paul Kennea, Richard Malcolm, Francesco Luke Siena, Joseph Stewart, Allan Cutts
The Power Of The Pen/Pencil: Developing A Design Sketching Syllabus To Help 1st Year Product Design Students Communicate Effectively, Paul Kennea, Richard Malcolm, Francesco Luke Siena, Joseph Stewart, Allan Cutts
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Digital, immersive, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have propelled technology-focused design to the fore. Due to our technology-driven society and growing demand for technology literacy, the perceived need for traditional/analogue skills is being overlooked/underappreciated. Within product design (PD) education, students are increasingly embracing digital design tools to communicate, overlooking traditional/analogue tools. Subsequently, students are increasingly designing within the remits/restrictions of digital tools. This presents numerous challenges, including overreliance on computer aided design tools, perfectionism through corrective tools available with digital sketching platforms, and the complete disregard of quick concept generation in favor of AI. The power of the pen/pencil is …
Three Challenges In Practising Research Through Design In The Context Of Phd Design Research, Marco C. Rozendaal, Patrizia D'Olivo, Elisa Giaccardi, Pieter Jan Stappers
Three Challenges In Practising Research Through Design In The Context Of Phd Design Research, Marco C. Rozendaal, Patrizia D'Olivo, Elisa Giaccardi, Pieter Jan Stappers
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Research through Design (RtD) is a maturing research methodology in Design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), in which design actions are used as a means to conduct research. This way of doing research holds promise for creating transdisciplinary results but it comes with challenges. Research and design are similar in that both aim to create something new. However, depending on a project’s context, there may be different expectations about what that something new is, spanning from generalized knowledge to localized solutions. In this paper we discuss two PhD projects in the healthcare sector and reflect on three challenges encountered by the …