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Between Yarn And Electrons: A Method For Designing Textural Expressions In Electromagnetic Smart Textiles, Erin Lewis
Between Yarn And Electrons: A Method For Designing Textural Expressions In Electromagnetic Smart Textiles, Erin Lewis
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The design of smart textiles presents a discrepancy of scale where the designer works at the level of structural textile design while facets of the material express at scales beyond one’s senses. Without methods to narrow this gap, certain expressional domains of the textile are closed off from design possibilities. The aim of the research has been to design a method for observing, visualizing, and describing expressions of electromagnetism in textiles. Through a method of textile surface scanning, one can produce a visualization of its electromagnetic field. Woven textile samples observed through this method reveal a textural quality that exists …
Rethinking Food: Co-Creating Citizen Science For Sustainability Transitions, Danielle Wilde, Anna Lena Hupe, Sarah Trahan, Caroline Guinita Abel, Solvejg Kjærsgaard Longueval, Corey Mclaughlin
Rethinking Food: Co-Creating Citizen Science For Sustainability Transitions, Danielle Wilde, Anna Lena Hupe, Sarah Trahan, Caroline Guinita Abel, Solvejg Kjærsgaard Longueval, Corey Mclaughlin
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Transforming human food practices to be more sustainable is not straightforward. The human food system and international sustainability advice are both global in scope. Whereas food practices are locally situated and personal. ReThinking Food grapples with this challenge, using co-creative citizen science and the Future 50 Foods Report. The research involves cooking with; sharing food, recipes and stories; surveys, interviews, online and in-person activities. Through these actions, participants exchange knowledges with the food, their families and each other; become agents of change in their social groups and workplaces. They enact agency, shifting scales from human to nonhuman; near to far; …
Attempting To Resist Ontological Occupation When Designing For Scale In Healthcare, Josina Vink, Felicia Nilsson, Thiago Freitas, Shivani Prakash
Attempting To Resist Ontological Occupation When Designing For Scale In Healthcare, Josina Vink, Felicia Nilsson, Thiago Freitas, Shivani Prakash
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Scholars have recently called out how design is complicit in ontological occupation, where one reality makes other realities non-existent. The perpetuation of ontological occupation is a particular risk when designing for scale in healthcare, as Western healthcare is a recognized carrier of modern universalist practices that threaten local ways of caring. In this research, we draw from science and technology studies and anthropology to inform a research through design study positioned within a collective effort to scaleup decentralized care models in Norway. We analyse five attempts at resisting ontological occupation through design and, by doing so, contribute with lessons for …
Rethinking Scale – Relationality, Place, And Critical Zone, Ole Jensen
Rethinking Scale – Relationality, Place, And Critical Zone, Ole Jensen
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Scale is an important concept. It works in geography, architecture, urbanism and a number of other areas. It also works in the ‘real world’ of humans where it organizes societies and fuel politics. Scale gather people in collectives, as well as it works a political force for pitting them against one another. Hence scale is far from neutral. In this paper, we want to critically challenge an understanding of scale as something fixed, structural, obdurate, and ordered. Rather we encourage a thinking of scale as something related to fluidity, mobility, networks, and continuums. Rethinking scale along these lines is important …
Critical Proximities, Henrik Oxvig
Critical Proximities, Henrik Oxvig
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In the field of architecture work with scale has traditionally been used to suppress the importance of size. Axes have been planned with a birds eye view such as is given by a plan on a drawing board. Today this ‘god trick’ is challenged by the awareness that we must work from within the material world, not upon it. We must create situated knowledge – and situated architecture – in what is called The Critical Zone and which we can only experience, understand and work with embedded, immanently. This article presents and elaborates on the challenges outlined to suggest how …
Exploring Implications For Designing For Sociotechnical Transitions: Taking Reflexivity As A Matter Of Scale, Peng Lu, Daniela Sangiorgi
Exploring Implications For Designing For Sociotechnical Transitions: Taking Reflexivity As A Matter Of Scale, Peng Lu, Daniela Sangiorgi
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There is increasing interest of design for paradigmatic and sociotechnical changes, in which the significance of actor is recognized. However, design studies that aim to connect actors at the micro level and sociotechnical systems at the macro level is limited. Based on institutional theory in sociotechnical theory, this paper proposes reflexivity as a useful concept to be associated with matters of scale in Design. Based on literature review, we explore the ways “cultivating reflexivity” has been applied in critical design, norm creative innovation and service ecosystem design. This preliminary work seems to suggest an evolution in the application of reflexivity, …
Counter-Framing Design: Politics Of The 'New Normal', Sharon Prendeville, Pandora Syperek
Counter-Framing Design: Politics Of The 'New Normal', Sharon Prendeville, Pandora Syperek
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In this paper, we introduce the concept of counterframes in relation to discourses of sustainability, and elaborate on it in correspondence with participatory design practices. We present our analysis through the lens of the ‘new normal’ in the wake of the pandemic, to demonstrate and unpack the complex and conflictual nature of emergent frames and counter-frame debates, evident within the field of sustainability. The paper draws on participatory activities and interviews with social movements and grassroots organisations. We present initial reflections on the ways in which design can productively engage with and address counter-frames, as they both fill in and …
Envisioning Large-Scale Effects Of Teaching Values In Design, Anne Linda Kok, Eva Eriksson, Elisabet Nilsson
Envisioning Large-Scale Effects Of Teaching Values In Design, Anne Linda Kok, Eva Eriksson, Elisabet Nilsson
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In teaching, there is an increased awareness about the role that values play in design. In this paper, we envision potential large-scale effects of teaching values in design in higher education. In doing so, we practice what we preach, as we ourselves perform the envisioning method we normally teach our students. By applying this method to our teaching, we are scaling up the definition of “learning outcomes” from classroom-level results to societal outcomes. Specifically, we envision these potential outcomes by creating value scenarios on the basis of four topics – stakeholders, time, values, and pervasiveness. The contribution of this paper …
Fibre, Fabric, And Form: Embedding Transformative Three-Dimensionality In Weaving, Kathryn Walters
Fibre, Fabric, And Form: Embedding Transformative Three-Dimensionality In Weaving, Kathryn Walters
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Textiles, and textile objects, no matter their scale, retain traces within their expression of the finescale fibre or yarn from which they are formed. Woven textile forms are typically constructed using hierarchical cut-and-assemble techniques, where the expression at the fibre-scale may be subsumed by that of the dominant form expression. Through experimental design research, a framework for designing non-hierarchical woven textiles has been developed, which navigates between 2D and 3D thinking and micro- and macro-scale design elements. This framework is contextualised through three methods for embedding three-dimensional form in a textile as it is woven: Catenary Structure, Tension Folds, and …
Beyond A Living Lab: Scaling Social Innovation, Signe Yndigegn, Lone Malmborg, Maria Foverskov, Eva Brandt
Beyond A Living Lab: Scaling Social Innovation, Signe Yndigegn, Lone Malmborg, Maria Foverskov, Eva Brandt
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This paper reflects on experiences with practicing and scaling a social innovation concept that was co-produced between public and private partners and citizens in a living design laboratory in Denmark from 2009-2012. The concept is a public service supporting ad-hoc exercise communities for senior citizens in public parks, based on playful activities. This paper builds upon follow-up studies which have been made since the project ended. We discuss how practicing the service unfolded over time, and how two municipalities have attempted scaling the concept. We deepen the understanding of theoretical concepts of scaling with experiences from practice by e.g., discussing …
Co-Citizen Design Labs In Resilience Making, Stephanie Carleklev, Wendy Fountain
Co-Citizen Design Labs In Resilience Making, Stephanie Carleklev, Wendy Fountain
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In this paper we share our resilience making approach for a first year design program in which we work intentionally with scale – through the subject matters of resilience, and through our learning design. We respond to the provocation of matters of scale in design to progress our design research in two ways. The first contributes to discussion of design education's remit from within ecological and existential crises, relative to expanding (design) knowledge. We then give focus to the co-citizen design lab that students conduct to illustrate how the inter-scalar relations we explore manifest through students' design action. Here we …
Developing A Design-Based Understanding Of Learning In Transitions: A Multiple Case Study, Elif Erdoğan Öztekin, İdil Gaziulusoy
Developing A Design-Based Understanding Of Learning In Transitions: A Multiple Case Study, Elif Erdoğan Öztekin, İdil Gaziulusoy
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In sustainability transitions, experimentation and learning are addressed as key processes that facilitate implementation, diffusion and scaling of transition mindsets and actions. In this paper, we argue that design acts as a means for this actionbased transition learning. Contributing to design for sustainability transitions literature, this paper proposes a design perspective on learning in transitions which enables analysing the multifaceted ways, depths and scales of learning that design mediates. Through a multiple case study on sustainable community settlement initiatives, we examine and discuss the roles of design in facilitating interactive learning, and thus in orienting and accelerating sustainability transitions.
Prototyping Scales Of Knitwear Design For Sustainability, Louise Ravnløkke
Prototyping Scales Of Knitwear Design For Sustainability, Louise Ravnløkke
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This paper explores how the physical presence of prototypes substantiates research at various scales of design. Working with sustainable change challenges us to stand in the open and act towards a future that we do not know the full picture of. Here I propose to turn our attention to the traditional design method of prototyping to unfold how to influence various scales of design. The paper begins outlining the scope of the experimental and practice-based research within knitwear design, and discuss prototyping as a means to investigate the role of the designer in an industry in search of sustainable development. …
In Search Of (Organizational) Learning And Translation In Public Innovation Labs, Anna Seravalli
In Search Of (Organizational) Learning And Translation In Public Innovation Labs, Anna Seravalli
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Public Innovation Labs are rapidly spreading with the aim of improving public sector responses to societal issues. However, labs are often struggling to embed their outcomes in ordinary activities. The article builds on the notions of organizational learning and translation and on the case of an innovation lab at the municipal level to articulate some of the challenges and limits of labs in relating to public organizations institutional dimension. It also describes possible formats and approaches to meaningfully engage with ordinary activities, structures and power dynamics within the public sector.
Transitional Design Histories: Presenting History In Design, Maria Göransdotter
Transitional Design Histories: Presenting History In Design, Maria Göransdotter
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In design, the big questions are typically not where we come from, but where we are heading. History, thus, rarely has a prominent place in the understandings of how, or why, design is done in certain ways. Yet, the methods, processes and ways of thinking that shape contemporary design practices have come about over time, and are thus historically constructed. This paper argues that making visible – present-ing – the historicity of designing is crucial to making visible mechanisms that work on a conceptual level of design, and that need to be addressed in the re-framing and development of emerging …
On Wearing Diaries And Scaling Practices: Exploring Wardrobe Studies In Fashion Education, Julia Valle-Noronha
On Wearing Diaries And Scaling Practices: Exploring Wardrobe Studies In Fashion Education, Julia Valle-Noronha
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This paper seeks to explore ways to promote scalar thinking in the field of clothing and fashion design education for more responsible futures by means of wearing diaries, a method in wardrobe studies. It does so through the case of activities carried in a bachelor level course in Fashion Design called Futurology at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In the course, students collect diary notes on their personal wearing practices during a semester alongside designing future-oriented design proposals for the field of clothing and fashion design. The final reflections suggest that by attuning to personal wearing practices design actions may …
Troubling The Impact Of Food Future Imaginaries, Danielle Wilde, Marketa Dolejsova, Sjef Van Gaalen, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis, Paul Graham Raven
Troubling The Impact Of Food Future Imaginaries, Danielle Wilde, Marketa Dolejsova, Sjef Van Gaalen, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis, Paul Graham Raven
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Global scale transformation is urgently required if we hope to stabilise socio-ecological systems. While design contributes to social and ecological un-sustainability, it can also play a pivotal role in bringing us towards more positive, inclusive ways of living and being within the planetary ecosystem. Experimental, co-creative design provides powerful tools for prompting critical thinking and inspiring new imaginaries. We engage with these possibilities, and explore their role in societal transition. We present an experimental food design workshop that aims to engender fantastical and plausible possibilities for regenerative (more-than- human) future food practices. We reflect on how to move from such …
Where Did The Body Go? Re-Framing Human Scale, Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno, Cecilie Breinholm Christensen, Shelley Smith
Where Did The Body Go? Re-Framing Human Scale, Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno, Cecilie Breinholm Christensen, Shelley Smith
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Scale can be considered as both a cartographic tool for design that allows designers to work with large scale objects such as buildings and urban spaces. However, scale is equally a relational understanding of the sensorial and perceptive reactions of the human body to its surrounding environment. As designers it is important to not only consider the human body as a measuring stick for dimensioning space according to standardised solutions and building codes, but also in a sensorial capacity as a perceptual tool for embodied experiences. Especially in ‘large scale’ design, the human body is easily lost in the zooming …
Amphibious Scales And Anticipatory Design, Andrew Morrison, Bastien Kerspern, Palak Dudani, Amanda Steggell
Amphibious Scales And Anticipatory Design, Andrew Morrison, Bastien Kerspern, Palak Dudani, Amanda Steggell
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This paper considers dynamics between Anticipatory Design and relational ontological scales in imagining, articulating and shaping futures. This spans speculative, experimental and experiential engagement with imaginary futures for rethinking relations to the present and long-term sustainable ones. Such acts are situated as design futures literacies that encompass design fiction, extended choreography and arctic futurescaping. Drawing on three design fictive devices developed across two projects, a set of eight ‘Amphibious Scales’ we developed in the context of the Anthropocene. The scales are amphibious in their slipperiness and dynamic, and emergent status. Their genesis is given via accounts of the design fictive …
Multiple Lives Of The Products: An Investigation Of Products’ Journey In Freecycle Community, Ayşegül Özçelik, Ayşe Kaplan
Multiple Lives Of The Products: An Investigation Of Products’ Journey In Freecycle Community, Ayşegül Özçelik, Ayşe Kaplan
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In today's needs, it is not enough to imagine products who have only one owner in their entire lives. To create more sustainable futures, designers might increase their ability to imagine multiple lives for things. To enable it, scale is the matter of concern. By increasing the usage scale, and examining the exchange of second-hand products informs designers by imagining multiple scenarios related to things lifes. In this paper we focus on local freecycle groups on Facebook in the context of the second-hand product’s circulation. In the field research, we identify significant usage cases of second-hand products that have multiple …
Breathing Commons: Affective And Somatic Relations Between Self And Others, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Lena Lena Lena, Karin Ryding, Mai Hartmann, Jonas Fritsch, Maria Foverskov
Breathing Commons: Affective And Somatic Relations Between Self And Others, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Lena Lena Lena, Karin Ryding, Mai Hartmann, Jonas Fritsch, Maria Foverskov
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This paper reports on our ongoing research focusing on cultivating and exploring the topic of what we refer to as breathing commons. We approach breathing as an affective and somatic bodily function that ties the individual with the collective, and through that aim to foster affective commoning among bodies. We present two workshops, one physical and one online, that we have ran amongst our research group on breathing commons. Three themes emerged from the analysis of the workshop activities: a) The body as a membrane, b) feelings of intimacy, vulnerability and awkwardness, and c) mutual engagement and care. These show …
Challenges Of Downscaling And Upscaling In Human-Centered Design, Simon Nestler, Sven Quadflieg, Klaus Neuburg
Challenges Of Downscaling And Upscaling In Human-Centered Design, Simon Nestler, Sven Quadflieg, Klaus Neuburg
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Design has power – to improve lives, to empower people and to break down barriers. Successful design requires (besides many other tasks) a comprehensive analysis and deep understanding of the target audience. However, current design approaches, for instance established in the field of Human Centered Design, lead to multiple biases: Design neglects a multitude of needs when it uses downscaling to make complex target groups manageable. Downscaling must therefore disproportionately consider special needs within the design process – and upscaling must be able to compensate these biases again. The approach presented in this paper delivers three benefits: Conflicts between general …
Value, Design, Scale: Towards A Territories And Temporalities Approach, Guy Julier, Elise Hodson
Value, Design, Scale: Towards A Territories And Temporalities Approach, Guy Julier, Elise Hodson
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This paper presents a preliminary exploration of some of the challenges in locating and articulating value in design, such that values beyond econometrically measured ones are considered more effectively. We take value in design – in its fullest extent – to be multiple, unstable, emergent and contingent. As such, it presents numerous forms beyond financial ones that are often difficult to articulate, let alone recognise. For design, giving closer attention to the territories and temporalities of value may help in this quest. Here, rather than taking ‘bounded’ frameworks for value measurement, we propose moving with and through the design project, …
Object/Display/Architecture: Integrating Scales In Museum Exhibition Design, Ane Pilegaard
Object/Display/Architecture: Integrating Scales In Museum Exhibition Design, Ane Pilegaard
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Even though it is widely recognized that museum objects, display design, and museum architecture greatly affect each other when it comes to museum exhibitions, their actual integration – during both the process of developing exhibitions and in the final result – is often lacking. This paper will explore an alternative approach to museum exhibition design, in which object scale, display scale, and architectural scale are integrated and worked with as a single malleable design material. Based on the analysis of a student project conducted at the MA program Spatial Design at the Royal Danish Academy and drawing on theoretical perspectives …
From “Bugs” To Exploratory Exhibition Design – Transforming Design Flaws In Users’ Experiences, Kristina Maria Madsen, Peter Vistisen
From “Bugs” To Exploratory Exhibition Design – Transforming Design Flaws In Users’ Experiences, Kristina Maria Madsen, Peter Vistisen
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In this paper we explore the potentials in observing how users creatively explore or hack an exhibition design and transform or scale these “abnormalities” in the users microinteractions into new explorative exhibition designs. Can we apply this notion of observing exploring user interactions and transform these microinteraction into drivers for user experience based on strategies of emergent gameplay? If we acknowledge these findings from the design process as potential enablers of superior user experiences for the end-user, and not simply as ‘bugs’ and ‘anomalies’ to be avoided or ‘patched’, there is a potential for scaling, transferring, and transforming new insights …
The Design Fiction Matrix— A Synthesis Tool For Grounding Fiction Scenarios In Real Facts, Peter Vistisen
The Design Fiction Matrix— A Synthesis Tool For Grounding Fiction Scenarios In Real Facts, Peter Vistisen
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This explorative paper presents a didactic synthesis tool to support designers and design students in adopting design fiction as a method for speculative design. We present the theoretical underpinnings behind the development of the framework and the logic of the tool itself while situating the tool among the current discourse on design fiction. Finally, we present a series of reflections upon the recent year’s application of the tool in a design educational setting, showing the different ways the tool can be applied and represented in practice.
Scaling Bodily Fluids For Utopian Fabulations, Karey Helms, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Nadia Campo Woytuk
Scaling Bodily Fluids For Utopian Fabulations, Karey Helms, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Nadia Campo Woytuk
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This paper explores human bodily fluids for morethan- human collaborative survival. We present four utopian fabulations in which urine, menstrual blood, and human milk are designed with beyond the scale of a singular human body. Each fabulation illustrates queer scales and uses of bodily fluids through extended or improper uses as pathways towards caring multi-species relations within a damaged environment. From these narratives, we reflect on imagining generous collaborations for an openness towards unknowable possibilities and crafting different measures through the tensions of coinciding scales.
The Extension Of The Craftsman’S Hand By Robotics, Flemming Tvede Hansen
The Extension Of The Craftsman’S Hand By Robotics, Flemming Tvede Hansen
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This paper reflects ongoing research about how new technologies create new possibilities within crafting and how new technologies can build on traditional techniques within the field of ceramics. This research explores how the use of robotics extends the craftsman’s hand to utilise both the quality of the craftsman’s touch and the robot through wire cutting a lump of clay. The research shows how the craftsman can upscale the power and range of the craftsman’s hand and, at the same time, deal with small details and repetition beyond the work of the craftsman’s hand.
Cocoon – Conceptualisation Of A Virtual Membrane In The Current Transition Towards More-Than-Human Design, Cornelia Hulling, Jan Von Loeper, Swathi Swathi Swathi, Yanyi Lu
Cocoon – Conceptualisation Of A Virtual Membrane In The Current Transition Towards More-Than-Human Design, Cornelia Hulling, Jan Von Loeper, Swathi Swathi Swathi, Yanyi Lu
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Through the COVID-19 pandemic, existing sociotechnical work phenomena are revealed and magnified. With the help of a design case, this paper discusses where the Human-Centred Design (HCD) paradigm meets boundaries, asking to expand and shift towards More-Than-Human Design. The case at hand presents the metaphor ‘Cocoon’, furthermore allowing to speculate on the broader concept of ‘virtual membrane’. Recontextualising the case from the scales of workspheres and from user–tool towards human– nonhuman relations, we critique and discuss the socio-technical implications of HCD.
Revealing Words For A Design Debate: A Design Lexicon Case, Yaprak Hamarat, Catherine Elsen, Çiğdem Çiğdem Çiğdem
Revealing Words For A Design Debate: A Design Lexicon Case, Yaprak Hamarat, Catherine Elsen, Çiğdem Çiğdem Çiğdem
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In Autumn 2020, the Belgian association Wallonie Design dedicated to promoting design published a call tender to define and illustrate more than 100 words used in design practice. This Lexicon aims to complete an existing set of internal mediation tools, developed by the association to better explain the potential and benefits of design to different stakeholders and to promote design by and for other professions. Inter’Act research lab of University of Liege specialized in design and architectural research conducted this two-months project called “the Walloon Design Lexicon”. It was developed through a collaborative writing process, a call for illustrative examples …