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An Alternative Design Ethics Of Otherness-Centered: Caring For Intelligent Artifacts, Li Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Yujia Liu
An Alternative Design Ethics Of Otherness-Centered: Caring For Intelligent Artifacts, Li Zhang, Boyu Zhang, Yujia Liu
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The advent of emerging technologies has introduced intelligent artifacts as distinctive moral agents. While care ethics has expanded to include animals, ecology, and public policy, it remains silent on the ethical dimensions of caring for intelligent artifacts. Intelligent artifacts and their digital remnants highlight uncertainties in the human-machine relationship and accentuate the "otherness" of objects. Given the inherent "otherness" of objects, there is a clear need to clarify this new ethical relationship between humans and objects. This paper advocates for otherness-centered design ethics, an extension of traditional care ethics to incorporate intelligent artifacts as non-human Others. Based on object-turn ethics, …
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Discourse Of Conduct And Ethics In Professional Design, Veronika Kelly, Meghan Kelly
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The Discourse Of Conduct And Ethics In Professional Design, Veronika Kelly, Meghan Kelly
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Knowledge of professional design is (re)produced through discourse and its culture of use: from the language used, interactions with others and objects created, to the techniques and procedures that connect and distribute professional design knowledge. Here, discourse both shapes and is shaped by social practices and communicated through structures such as codes of conduct and codes of ethics. This paper explores the discourse of codes of conduct and codes of ethics for professional design developed by peak design organisations. We argue that such codes serve as forms of industry self-regulation encapsulating designers’ responsibilities and the ethics of their practices. However, …
Sharing Instead Of Being Infringed: How To Build A Responsible Community For Online Artwork Sharing?, Shenglan Cui, Fang Liu, Biyao Li, Xiang Yuan
Sharing Instead Of Being Infringed: How To Build A Responsible Community For Online Artwork Sharing?, Shenglan Cui, Fang Liu, Biyao Li, Xiang Yuan
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The development of internet and artificial intelligence technology promotes the dissemination of artworks but also increases the possibility of infringement. Designers who selflessly share their work risk having it stolen, plagiarized, sold, used directly as NFT, or used for AI training. In this paper, we conducted an exploratory study to investigate desingers' needs and solutions when faced with online artwork-sharing infringement. We held two workshops to discuss design plagiarism and illegal AI-art data training. Ultimately, the team arrived at seven solutions for addressing potential infringement issues that arise when sharing artwork online. Synthesizing the participants' evaluations and related research, we …
Fostering A Patient-Led Culture Of Care Through Data Physicalization: A Design Approach To Create Awareness And Promote Data Collection On Antimicrobial Resistance, Ginevra Terenghi, Serena Cangiano, Antonella Autuori, Cristina Margarida Corti
Fostering A Patient-Led Culture Of Care Through Data Physicalization: A Design Approach To Create Awareness And Promote Data Collection On Antimicrobial Resistance, Ginevra Terenghi, Serena Cangiano, Antonella Autuori, Cristina Margarida Corti
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The paradigm shift in healthcare delivery models is leading to individuals assuming greater responsibilities and control, as the agency is moving from doctor-centric to patient-centric. To foster a patient-led culture of care, health and data literacy are essential, especially in the context of global challenges, where citizen awareness is fundamental to play actively in co-creating knowledge. This paper outlines a methodological approach and the outcomes of a design research project focused on promoting engagement and literacy to facilitate citizen and patient participation in addressing the antimicrobial resistance threat. The approach is tested in the format of an experimental workshop, inspired …
Revisiting The Uncanny Valley Effect: A Data-Driven Analysis With Curve Fitting Perspective, Xiner Li, Yi Xiao, Yan Zheng, Jinhao Qiao, Chi-Sing Leung
Revisiting The Uncanny Valley Effect: A Data-Driven Analysis With Curve Fitting Perspective, Xiner Li, Yi Xiao, Yan Zheng, Jinhao Qiao, Chi-Sing Leung
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The Uncanny Valley (UV) is a vital part of design research because it directly affects users' emotional responses and acceptance of anthropomorphic technical products. Traditional research relies on curve fitting to measure UV effects. However, these works often overlook the impact of data quality including scale and distribution on the accuracy and stability of fitting results. This study places a strong emphasis on the mediating role of data in UV, revisiting UV using a dataset comprising 1,000 static facial images of humanoid entities, evenly spanning the entire human likeness spectrum. The results reveal a different UV shape than Mori's original …
Contextualizing Comedy Techniques For Speculative Design: Unraveling Futures Cone From Sketch Comedy Series, ‘2032/2033 Futures', Eun Sun Park, Hyunjae Daniel Shin
Contextualizing Comedy Techniques For Speculative Design: Unraveling Futures Cone From Sketch Comedy Series, ‘2032/2033 Futures', Eun Sun Park, Hyunjae Daniel Shin
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Speculative design stretches the boundaries of future plausibility, enabling creators to engage audiences by evoking empathy and provoking debate. Designers often use satire and humor, techniques that comedians have employed for centuries, to engage the public. We examined the popular YouTube comedy series '2032/2033 Futures', which depicts near futures, to understand how comedy can broaden future plausibility and challenge viewers to think critically about preferred futures. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with the creators to contextualize their comedic techniques, such as humor, satire, irony, and wit, within future-oriented narratives and prototypes. Our findings illustrate how comedy can revitalize …
Contours In Blurred Design Spaces: More-Than-Human Participation Of Artifacts In Design-In-Use, Evert Van Beek
Contours In Blurred Design Spaces: More-Than-Human Participation Of Artifacts In Design-In-Use, Evert Van Beek
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Contemporary design practice requires a more-than-human orientation to deal with computational artifacts. In this paper I discuss how the participation of artifacts in design activities during use time blurs categories of design, use and artifact. I use the analytical concept of design space, informed by a framework of co-performance to highlight some contours in this blurred situation. To do so I adopt a critical design approach, and present three conceptual smart thermostats based on the concepts of framing, tinkering and scripts. This contributes to awareness and discussions of design-in-use and the role of artifacts in an increasingly automated and connected …
Algorithmic Lace: Leveraging Mathematics In Design For Craft Resistance, Lisa Marks
Algorithmic Lace: Leveraging Mathematics In Design For Craft Resistance, Lisa Marks
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The mathematics of craft have created rich and diverse material cultures. Through craft, humans have shared a common language of patterns, proportions, and expressions inspired by the complexity of the natural world. We pass this knowledge on through generations, each time making things more complex and techniques more robust. This passing on of generational knowledge is one of the things that creates our individual cultural identities, however many crafts across the world are in decline. By analyzing the structure of crafts computationally, we can create a hybrid approach that lays a foundation for use in the 21st century. This paper …
Adopting A Hospitality Lens For Designing Mental Healthcare At Home, Jeanne Sintic, Josina Vink, Mari Skoge, Kristin Lie Romm
Adopting A Hospitality Lens For Designing Mental Healthcare At Home, Jeanne Sintic, Josina Vink, Mari Skoge, Kristin Lie Romm
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Increasingly, there is a shift toward bringing services that were originally provided in hospitals into the home. Healthcare designers have been supporting this movement by designing medical devices and home care services. However, there is a risk that such shifts simply medicalize the home and erode the valuable informal practices of care that already occur there. Using a research through design approach, we adopted a hospitality lens to understand the rituals of hosting at home and identify potential areas of hostility as mental health consultations enter the home in Norway. This research demonstrates the value of adopting a hospitality lens …
Co-Diagnosed: A Multi-Disciplinary Workshop Reimagining Cultures Of Care For Medical And Mental Health, Valerie Greer, Emily Johnson, Virginia Pankey, Jack Burton
Co-Diagnosed: A Multi-Disciplinary Workshop Reimagining Cultures Of Care For Medical And Mental Health, Valerie Greer, Emily Johnson, Virginia Pankey, Jack Burton
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This paper focuses on places of healing for co-diagnosed patients who suffer from both mental and medical illnesses. Comorbidity is recognized as a growing concern yet there is little prece-dent in the healthcare industry for designing spaces that respond to needs of patients who re-quire hospitalization for medical conditions, and who simultaneously suffer mental health disor-ders. To explore this problem, we created a workshop to engage healthcare providers, adminis-trators and healthcare architects with undergraduate and graduate students in art, architecture, visual communications and urban design. Our goal was to identify issues that must be ad-dressed through the lens of patients …
Enabling Regenerative Transitions: What Can Design Offer?, Michelle Alina Miller, Alexander Baumber
Enabling Regenerative Transitions: What Can Design Offer?, Michelle Alina Miller, Alexander Baumber
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Transition design first emerged as a provocation to designers to apply design theory and practice to enable societal transitions, including transitions toward sustainability. This raises questions around the roles that transition design can play in sustainability transitions and the specific capabilities that designers can draw on. This paper seeks to answer these questions via a transition design case study project in agricultural sustainability. Specifically, the project focuses on the growing interest in regenerative agriculture in New South Wales, Australia from 2017 through 2023. Within the case study, the researcher as designer-practitioner works as a change agent, taking part in collaborative …
Delinking Design: Decolonialidad & Transmodernidad In Future Design Education In Abya Yala, Ricardo Sosa
Delinking Design: Decolonialidad & Transmodernidad In Future Design Education In Abya Yala, Ricardo Sosa
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The work presented here interrogates the future of design education by presenting the early development of a new curriculum in a small rural university in the P´urhepécha region, Mexico. The new undergraduate program is created drawing from the literature on decoloniality and transmodernity to reimagine design education. The interplay between this early work and a systematic inquiry of coloniality leads to new ways of thinking about design education and design at large in this context. This work contributes to a South-South dialogue seeking to undo coloniality in creative pedagogical practices and to reimagine what it means to design and to …
Gender Code – A Narrative Ethical Glance At Women Developers In Finnish Information Technology, Aila Johanna Kronqvist, Rebekah Rousi
Gender Code – A Narrative Ethical Glance At Women Developers In Finnish Information Technology, Aila Johanna Kronqvist, Rebekah Rousi
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The Information Technology (IT) sector is the current Athens of all industry. It is no longer geeky, but chic, defining the modes and limits of modern civilization. IT in its numerous forms provides the vehicle of expression and citizenship in contemporary times. While more women designers and developers enter the field are they experienc-ing a stronger sense of equality? This paper reports a narrative inquiry that probed the experiences of women professionals in the IT field. Particular attention was placed on how females entered the field, the roles and tasks that they often found themselves undertaking, and social factors in …
The Challenges Of Involving Child-Patients In The Development Of A Mobile Application For Their Participation In Pediatric Brain Care, Claire Verkijk, Kasia Tabeau, Kees Ahaus, Mathieu Gielen, Marie-Claire De Wit, Marie-Lise Van Veelen-Vincent
The Challenges Of Involving Child-Patients In The Development Of A Mobile Application For Their Participation In Pediatric Brain Care, Claire Verkijk, Kasia Tabeau, Kees Ahaus, Mathieu Gielen, Marie-Claire De Wit, Marie-Lise Van Veelen-Vincent
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Prior research shows that involving children in the development of technology is valuable, though challenging. Involving child-patients may come with additional difficulties, but as technology is gaining importance in (pediatric) care, it is important to uncover these difficulties. This paper identifies the difficulties of involving child-patients in the development of technology. We do so by reflecting on a project at the Sophia Children’s Hospital, where we involved 17 children (of which 12 child-patients) in developing a mobile application for their participation in pediatric brain care. Our identified challenges are related to the recruitment of child-patients and the need to adapt …
Material Experience And User Acceptance Of Mycelium Bio-Composite Insulation In The Construction Industry Through Interdisciplinary Co-Design, Simone Van Den Broek, Ilse Rovers, Florentina Calcan
Material Experience And User Acceptance Of Mycelium Bio-Composite Insulation In The Construction Industry Through Interdisciplinary Co-Design, Simone Van Den Broek, Ilse Rovers, Florentina Calcan
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Mycelium bio-composite exhibits remarkable versatility showing properties that are useful for the construction industry, including thermal insulation and acoustic isolation. Despite its potential, mycelium remains an unfamiliar material. To enable bio-designers to successfully implement mycelium bio-composite insulation, creating an understanding of potential users’ views on and experience of the material is important. To research this, an interdisciplinary co-design workshop was conducted with potential stakeholders focusing on interaction with, discovery of, and brainstorming about mycelium bio-composite insulation. The results showed that stakeholders mostly have a positive material experience with mycelium bio-composites and are open to acceptance. They predominantly viewed mycelium bio-composites …
Critical Service Design For Government Innovation, Lara Salinas, Laura Yarrow, Marion Lagedamont
Critical Service Design For Government Innovation, Lara Salinas, Laura Yarrow, Marion Lagedamont
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This paper contributes to the discussion on the roles and pedagogy of design, based on a case study of collaboration between government and academia. The authors are design practice researchers and civil servants and present a collaborative case study from Spring 2023 that aimed at developing anticipatory innovation capability in the UK’s Government Digital Service, involving postgraduate service design students and exploring critical service design (Salinas, 2022, 2023) as an alternative way of contributing to the formulation of public policies and services. The collaboration led to new competencies in public design for those involved and resulted in the creation of …
Unraveling The Sensorial Properties In Material Identity Innovation: A Study On Mycelium-Based Composite, Jiahao Wang, Sylvia Xihui Liu, Kun-Pyo Lee
Unraveling The Sensorial Properties In Material Identity Innovation: A Study On Mycelium-Based Composite, Jiahao Wang, Sylvia Xihui Liu, Kun-Pyo Lee
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Mycelium-Based Composites (MBCs) are promising bio-based materials. However, negative public perception of fungus-derived products due to fear of fungus and irregularity in surface and color remains a challenge. This paper explores the potential of MBCs in material driven design (MDD). It employs a comprehensive approach to examine the potential of sensorial properties for innovating material identity. The study utilized interviews and questionnaires conducted in a workshop setting, applying the Ma2E4 toolkit framework (Camera & Karana, 2018). The workshop had a diverse range of 27 participants from various disciplines. The research findings are used to enhance product design. The study affirms …
A Design-Stage-Oriented Framework To Introduce Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Design Education, Massimo Botta, Antonella Autuori, Ginevra Terenghi, Matteo Subet
A Design-Stage-Oriented Framework To Introduce Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning In Design Education, Massimo Botta, Antonella Autuori, Ginevra Terenghi, Matteo Subet
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are technologies that impact the skills and practices of the next generation of designers, presenting the chance to reimagine 21st-century design education. Having a structured knowledge that stands as a multidisciplinary reference for design education is still a challenging aspect of this re-imagination. The paper presents a design-stage-oriented framework for introducing AI and ML into design education. The framework structures taxonomies of AI tools, data types performed by these systems, AI capabilities and the stages of a design process. It leads to an interactive user workflow, serving as a foundational component that enables …
Empowerment Through Participation? Three Case Studies Of Social Design Projects With Disadvantaged Female Communities In Hungary, Janka Csernák
Empowerment Through Participation? Three Case Studies Of Social Design Projects With Disadvantaged Female Communities In Hungary, Janka Csernák
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Participatory methods are widely used in design, but it’s important to take a critical stance towards how they impact vulnerable communities in the context of today's societal crisis (Juarez et al., 2008). This paper presents recent findings from the comparison of three social design research projects conducted in Hungary, which point towards evidence that empowerment by design can be beneficial for underprivileged women. This notion of empowerment is defined through developing embodied expertise, problem-solving skills, and agency in a design context. In order to understand how design can contribute to building such notions in participants, the author contextualizes the community’s …
Modelling Reflection In Descriptions Of Design Practice Using Linguistic Inquiry, Nupura Kulkarni, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd
Modelling Reflection In Descriptions Of Design Practice Using Linguistic Inquiry, Nupura Kulkarni, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Peter Lloyd
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Reflection plays a vital role in the development of designers, enabling them to evaluate their experiences, enhance their learning, and foster professional growth. This research analyzed reflections of 56 design students, as part of graded coursework, using content and dictionary-based approaches (LIWC). Building on an existing model of reflection with eight components (experience, belief, difficulty, perspective, feeling, learning, intention, and descriptive) we identify, using descriptive statistics, the linguistic features associated with each component and correlate these to grades achieved. We distinguish two types of reflections associated with higher grades: those emphasizing personal experiences that we term holistic narrators, and those …
Enhancing Traditional Food Experience: A Food Ritual Design Framework, Hangyu Zhou, Min Hua
Enhancing Traditional Food Experience: A Food Ritual Design Framework, Hangyu Zhou, Min Hua
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Cultural globalisation threatens some traditional foods, as foreign food cultures can make local foods less popular. While food-related rituals play a crucial role in enhancing cultural identity and the overall experience of traditional food, there remains limited research on the successful design of these rituals. This study aims to propose a Food Ritual Design Framework that inspires the design of traditional food. The framework was applied in a case study on Sugar Painting, and its applicability and effectiveness were evaluated through a questionnaire survey (n = 133). The survey revealed the successful integration of 47 diverse traditional foods into the …
Accessible Food Networks: Case Studies’ Insights For Impacting Systemic And Socio-Cultural Transformations Of University Campuses As Urban Players., Davide Fassi, Annalinda De Rosa, Irene Bassi
Accessible Food Networks: Case Studies’ Insights For Impacting Systemic And Socio-Cultural Transformations Of University Campuses As Urban Players., Davide Fassi, Annalinda De Rosa, Irene Bassi
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In recent decades, there has been a growing momentum in adopting public and private food procurement initiatives as policy instruments to improve the quality and affordability of the food provided in public and private sectors to reach so-cial and environmental sustainability. This includes logistics, service innovation and multi-stakeholder involvement in designing solutions. This paper examines the influence of food systems on facilitating future systemic transition in urban neighbourhoods and peri-urban areas. It does so by analysing case studies and building upon the objectives of an ongoing national research project that will test alternative food networks on university campuses. The article …
Designing Workplace Balance: An Exploration Of Design Strategies And Interactive Innovations In Overtime Culture, Keyi Chen, Tie Ji
Designing Workplace Balance: An Exploration Of Design Strategies And Interactive Innovations In Overtime Culture, Keyi Chen, Tie Ji
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Since the pandemic, balancing work demands and employee well-being has gained prominence, especially where overtime culture intensifies. This study aims to enhance the well-being of both corporations and their employees by integrating innovation into work environments through comprehensive design strategies. It features a literature review examining historical context and opposing challenges within the workplace, focusing on design approaches that promote team participation, optimize user experience, and manage stakeholder relationships. Key findings include the adoption of a cyclical participatory design process as a framework for team organization, a familiar mode as a cue to enhance user experiences, and five innovative tool …
The Evolving Roles Of Modern Designers: Through The Lens Of Design Behavioral Patterns Within Work Environments Enhanced By Generative Ai, Xinyu Li, Huiting Liu, Xiyuan Zhang, Ruiyi Cai, Yang Yin, Sisi Wu, Chunlei Chai
The Evolving Roles Of Modern Designers: Through The Lens Of Design Behavioral Patterns Within Work Environments Enhanced By Generative Ai, Xinyu Li, Huiting Liu, Xiyuan Zhang, Ruiyi Cai, Yang Yin, Sisi Wu, Chunlei Chai
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In the rapidly advancing landscape of generative AI, the role of designers is constantly being reshaped amidst the choice between traditional tools and emerging technologies. To comprehend this transformation, we developed a platform integrating multiple generative AI models and allowed for unrestricted search and sketching to emulate a realistic working scenario. Within this setting, we analyzed the design behavioral patterns exhibited by experienced designers: through both quantitative and qualitative analyses, we examined the cause and effect of generation patterns and iteration patterns. This exploration inspired insights into the designer's evolving role, transitioning to a continuous learner and being more than …
Exploring More-Than-Human Worlds And Becoming With Living And Non-Living Entities Through Play, Filipe Pais
Exploring More-Than-Human Worlds And Becoming With Living And Non-Living Entities Through Play, Filipe Pais
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In recent years, we have observed the emergence of a variety of video games that allow their players to temporarily exist entangled in more-than-human worlds, becoming with other species and things. Informed and inspired by posthuman philosophies, this article examines three video games: Everything (2017), Stray (2022), and Endling - Extinction is Forever (2022). This analysis focuses on three key questions: 1) How are these games enabling players to become with non-human characters representing real-life organisms? 2) What kinds of knowledge do players gain about these worlds? 3) How to define a more-than-human playful experience? The article concludes by introducing …
Creative Workspaces And Designer Metacognition: A Framework, Measures, And Interventions, Chris Mcteague, Katja Thoring
Creative Workspaces And Designer Metacognition: A Framework, Measures, And Interventions, Chris Mcteague, Katja Thoring
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Well-designed workspaces have the potential to enhance a designer’s creativity if the designer knows how to make effective use of that space. ‘Metacognition’ refers to the monitoring and control of one’s thought process and could provide a theoretical basis for understanding designer-environment interactions. However, there is a lack of theory at the intersection of metacognition and workspaces. Here, we adapt Lebuda and Benedek’s Systematic Framework of Creative Metacognition to the topic of designers and creative spaces. Using this framework and empirical research about creative metacognition, we (i) identify two roles for metacognitive processing in the context of creative spaces, (ii) …
Balancing Cognitive Load In Design Work: A Conceptual And Narrative Review, Jakob Clemen Lavrsen, Jaap Daalhuizen
Balancing Cognitive Load In Design Work: A Conceptual And Narrative Review, Jakob Clemen Lavrsen, Jaap Daalhuizen
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Designers address complex and even wicked problems, which requires them to deal with high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity, requiring high levels of mental effort. The cognitive load of designing is thus likely to affect design behaviours, activities and method use. However, the nature of design work presents a challenge in applying existing theory on cognitive load to explain and predict design behaviour. Especially designers' tendency to expand the design space to increase creative potential seems to fall outside the current theories on cognitive load. Following recent calls for theory-building within design, this paper outlines a conceptual framework mapping the …
Webbing Clothes Moths From Pest To Opportunity: A Reflective Case Study In Interdisciplinary Design-Biology Collaborations, Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia, Bethan Highley, Miriam Ribul, Sharon Baurley, Neil C Bruce
Webbing Clothes Moths From Pest To Opportunity: A Reflective Case Study In Interdisciplinary Design-Biology Collaborations, Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia, Bethan Highley, Miriam Ribul, Sharon Baurley, Neil C Bruce
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Abstract: This manuscript presents the first set of insights from the reflection on a case study which involved early-stage design-biology interactions in a collaboration between two PhD candidates - a designer and a biochemist - investigating the potential of the Webbing Clothes Moth enzymes to support novel approaches for the deconstruction of wool in the context of bio-based processing for the circular economy. From the interview and reflective practice on the collaboration a novel concept emerged, common sedimented ways of knowing, which we define as shared approaches that have been acquired independently through previous experiences during the lifetime of an …
The Road To Cooptation Is Paved With Good Intentions: An Anarchafeminist Critique Of Empowerment Ambiguity In Dsi, Valentina Volpi, Val Mitchell, Stuart Cockbill, Ksenija Kuzmina
The Road To Cooptation Is Paved With Good Intentions: An Anarchafeminist Critique Of Empowerment Ambiguity In Dsi, Valentina Volpi, Val Mitchell, Stuart Cockbill, Ksenija Kuzmina
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This theoretical paper critically examines the relationship between design for social innovation and the concept of empowerment. It questions to what extent current empowerment discourses in design genuinely amplify marginalized voices or rather reinforce and hide existing structural inequalities. With the aim of unveiling the emptiness of signifiers, such as empowerment, much like the contested concept of ‘social innovation’, this contribution aims to encourage a critical reflection on power dynamics through an anarchafeminist lens. Rather than striving for definite answers or providing blueprints, this lens aims to be an open and dynamic invitation to scholars and practitioners to continue exploring …
Designing For Playful Learning In Formal Education: A Case Study Of Virtual Reality Field Trips, Eileen Mcgivney
Designing For Playful Learning In Formal Education: A Case Study Of Virtual Reality Field Trips, Eileen Mcgivney
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Despite the benefits of playful learning experiences to increase students’ motivation and learning, traditional classrooms lack opportunities to learn through play. Virtual reality (VR) is a promising tool to bring rich, playful contexts into classrooms, but designing instructional models that make the most of its affordances remains challenging. This paper describes a multi-year design process implementing VR field trips in high school engineering classrooms to highlight the benefits and challenges of using VR to promote playful learning in schools. In both remote and in-person classes we developed virtual field trip lessons using immersive videos and videogame-like environments. Over time, learning …