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Bringing Practice To The Theory: Project-Led Education In Industrial Design Engineering, Winnie Dankers, Hiske Schuurman-Hemmer, Thonie Van Den Boomgaard, Eric Lutters Jun 2013

Bringing Practice To The Theory: Project-Led Education In Industrial Design Engineering, Winnie Dankers, Hiske Schuurman-Hemmer, Thonie Van Den Boomgaard, Eric Lutters

Learn X Design Conference Series

The University of Twente started an educational programme on Industrial Design Engineering in 2001. The structure of the programme builds on project-led education, mainly to immerse students quicker and more profoundly in the field of expertise they are educated in. Given the impact of educational projects of considerable scope, complexity and scale on the overall programme, adequate balancing of the learning aims and implementation of projects and courses is essential. Based on the criteria for the programme, a reference architecture is devised that guides the way in which the programme is arranged. By means of an example, depicting one of …

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Technology And Design As Part Of A Public School From 1st To 10th Grade, Liv Klakegg Dahlin, Liv Oddrun Voll, Anne-Gunn Svorkmo Jun 2013

Technology And Design As Part Of A Public School From 1st To 10th Grade, Liv Klakegg Dahlin, Liv Oddrun Voll, Anne-Gunn Svorkmo

Learn X Design Conference Series

Technology and Design was introduced as a multidisciplinary subject in Norwegian school in the context of the new curriculum in 2006. The topic should be a collaborative effort between the subjects of Science, Arts and Crafts, and Mathematics. In working with Technology and Design students develop a composite competence on product, process and context that we call Technology and Design expertise. There has been, and still remains, challenges associated with practicing the subject Technology and Design. The complex and many-facetted areas of expertise cause teachers within the traditional school subjects to experience the subject as strange, and it's challenging to …

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From Teaching Sustainable Product Design To Teaching Sustainable Behaviour Design, Johannes Zachrisson Daae, Casper Boks Jun 2013

From Teaching Sustainable Product Design To Teaching Sustainable Behaviour Design, Johannes Zachrisson Daae, Casper Boks

Learn X Design Conference Series

Traditionally, sustainable product design research and education has been focused on manufacturing and end-of-life aspects With a new found focus on the use stage, as in the research area of Design for Sustainable Behaviour (DfSB), a better understanding of how a focus on behavioural aspects can reduce life cycle impacts has emerged. Preliminary findings from on-going DfSB research were used as basis for the development of a method to guide designers in selecting promising design principles that can contribute to change user behaviour into more environmentally friendly patterns. This method is presented, and experiences with using the booklet in a …

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An Exploration Of Design Thinking Across Educational Domains, Demelza Cusens, Hugh Byrd Jun 2013

An Exploration Of Design Thinking Across Educational Domains, Demelza Cusens, Hugh Byrd

Learn X Design Conference Series

To teach design effectively foundational design thinking needs to be understood. Treating the design process as a mysterious mental talent provides little scope for teaching the subject. This study explores the origin of designs and how experience impacts the sophistication of design ideas across educational domains. Secondary and tertiary students were given a common architectural brief and students’ outcomes were compared and contrasted to seek commonalities or differences in their approaches to solving design problems. Additionally, interviews were conducted with participants and a panel of design experts to further explore the students’ design practices. The results provide insight into design …

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Hcid: Who Is An Interaction Designer?, Alma Leora Culén, Joshi Govind Suhas, Atif Abdelhakeem Jun 2013

Hcid: Who Is An Interaction Designer?, Alma Leora Culén, Joshi Govind Suhas, Atif Abdelhakeem

Learn X Design Conference Series

The development of technology with all its ubiquity and pervasiveness provides new opportunities and new challenges for the interaction design practitioners, both those coming from the design tradition and computer science tradition. An increased level of problem solving and creative thinking is needed when designing for interactions with new technology. In order to develop the skills and methods for dealing with increased complexity and connectedness of technology, human computer interaction design (HCID) education needs to embrace to a larger extent design practices and design thinking. This paper aims to answer two main questions: 1) why is it necessary to teach …

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Oral History Transcript | Interview With Wilbur Yoder, June 13, 2013, Wilbur E. Yoder, James (Jim) Barnes, Risd Archives, Andrew Martinez, Peter O'Neill Jun 2013

Oral History Transcript | Interview With Wilbur Yoder, June 13, 2013, Wilbur E. Yoder, James (Jim) Barnes, Risd Archives, Andrew Martinez, Peter O'Neill

RISD Oral History Project Transcripts

No abstract provided.

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Design: The Continuous Construction Of Competences, Alexandra Cruchinho, Graça Guedes Jun 2013

Design: The Continuous Construction Of Competences, Alexandra Cruchinho, Graça Guedes

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This article concerns high education curricula and training of designers. The key question considered by Design teachers and explored in this article is: How can we supply designers with useful and essential skills through training that will allow them to effectively respond to the needs of business environment? To answer this question we present the results of a research designed to focus on market and business needs of design competences, and expectations about designer’s performances. We intended to provide further information and discuss the curricula in design higher education. Finally we present a model that allows higher education institutions to …

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Undergraduate Design Studio Task To Internalize Learner Locus Of Control, Charles Cox, Géza Fischl Jun 2013

Undergraduate Design Studio Task To Internalize Learner Locus Of Control, Charles Cox, Géza Fischl

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Designers intentionally influence events and outcomes, making an internal locus of control (LOC) desirable for them to have. Recently, engineering programs have provided more opportunities for design in their undergraduate programs than in the past, but these do not attend to learners’ LOC. Because undergraduate learners with a high external LOC can enter these programs, it makes sense to attempt instructional interventions that could help these learners to internalize their LOC. Here, an intervention for internalizing LOC was piloted using a design task in an undergraduate engineering design studio. This was an innovative application of educational psychology constructs to engineering …

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Barr, Lockwood Anderson, 1883-1969 (Sc 2726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2013

Barr, Lockwood Anderson, 1883-1969 (Sc 2726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2726. Compiled list titled “List of Owners of Kentucky Silver” by Lockwood Barr. Compiler lists name of silversmith at top of page and owners of pieces in the 1950s on the left margin as well as the pieces they owned, i.e. spoon, ladle, etc.

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Pharmacologies Of Texts And Images, Noel Fitzpatrick Jun 2013

Pharmacologies Of Texts And Images, Noel Fitzpatrick

Conference Papers

The problematic of Ekphrasis will be the central tenant of this paper, a relationship between text, language and image. Ekphrasis broadly understood as the relationship between images and words, however, in the case of this paper it will be taken to mean the relationship between words and images in relation to memory. Bernard Stiegler’s work has become well renowned in relation to his exploration of texts and in particular the relationship between texts and technology; an intimate relationship, if writing is to be considered as a form of technology, a mnemonic form. However, there is also another aspect in the …

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Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal Jun 2013

Multidisciplinary Design Education, Rita Maria De Souza Couto, Cristina Portugal

Learn X Design Conference Series

Since 1994, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Design/Education (LIDE) has been cataloguing works that report experiences, graduation projects and postgraduate researches focusing on the teaching of Design and Design in Education. This paper gathers a collection of the main projects developed in LIDE since its creation and that integrate the research directory of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development –CNPq, with the aim to make available to academia and society a vision about researches dealing with Education in Design and Design on Education. Those are broad research fields; still few explored and, incidentally, that have been objects of research …

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Exploring 'Reflective' Design: An Approach To Digital Archives, Reuben Stanton, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille Jun 2013

Exploring 'Reflective' Design: An Approach To Digital Archives, Reuben Stanton, Laurene Vaughan, Jeremy Yuille

Nordes Conference Series

In this short paper we discuss our explorations with adopting reflective design as an approach to designing a digital archive for the performing arts. The stakeholders in this project are diverse, comprised of members of the partner organisation, the public, the design team and government funding agencies. Each stakeholder has different expectations and skills to bring to the project. It is proposed that reflective design with its mix of critical reflection with a human centred design and prototyping approach provides a methodological framework that enables the complexities of the project to be integrated into an action orientated design exploration.

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Artifice, The Semiosphere, And Counter-Consciousness (Or) A Model For A Counter-Design And Design Research, Joshua Singer Jun 2013

Artifice, The Semiosphere, And Counter-Consciousness (Or) A Model For A Counter-Design And Design Research, Joshua Singer

Nordes Conference Series

If we are to find a future in the practice of design (this paper limits itself to graphic design and design research) which aims to assist in the evolution of culture (as opposed to perpetuating the “closed” stabilizing system of culture and language, the persistent heterogeneity, conventions and givens), design might pivot (a designerly thing, as simple as to turn as a slight of hand or as a playful manipulation as in Détournement) to a critical and discursive practice of counter-design. Abandoning the territory of commercial practice for an experimental counter-practice, design becomes an active agent in the “open” system …

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Experimenting With Design Experiments, Anna Rylander, Bo Westerlund Jun 2013

Experimenting With Design Experiments, Anna Rylander, Bo Westerlund

Nordes Conference Series

This full day workshop intends to explore design experiments to create a deeper understanding of the underpinning mindsets, epistemological assumptions and their implications as well as possibilities within the context of academic research. The participants will contribute with their experiences of conducting design experiments in a variety of settings and contexts. During the workshop the participants will give and get feedback on the experiments presented and explored, and participate in the discussion and development of (new) principles for design experiments in academic research. One aim of the workshop is to develop a conceptual map that categorizes the various design experiments …

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Utilizing The Designer Within: A Healthcare Case Study, Alastair Macdonald Jun 2013

Utilizing The Designer Within: A Healthcare Case Study, Alastair Macdonald

Nordes Conference Series

This paper explores the utilization of design skills and approaches by non-designers within the context of rehabilitation in healthcare. The author proposes that within us all is the set of skills, strategies and modes of thinking commonly found in designers that, if recognised, understood and practiced, could potentially be harnessed by nondesigners to assist them in everyday situations. Rather than this usurping the designers’ role, designers may have the potential to help ‘unlock’ these capabilities in others and help change the patient-to-healthcare professional relationship. This idea is explored using a pilot study involving spinal cord injuries patients in rehabilitation.

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Story Of Use: Analysis Of !Lm Narratives To Inform The Design Of Object Interactions, Silvia Grimaldi Jun 2013

Story Of Use: Analysis Of !Lm Narratives To Inform The Design Of Object Interactions, Silvia Grimaldi

Nordes Conference Series

Not only is using a product an experience, it is an interaction and it is narrative in nature. This work in progress paper describes the narrative theory background for this statement, in particular schemata theory and the concepts of agency, tellability and narrativity, then describes methods that are being used in the project to analyse film narratives and apply these to the design of tellable physical products.

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An Experiment With The Voice To Design Ceramics, Flemming Tvede Hansen Jun 2013

An Experiment With The Voice To Design Ceramics, Flemming Tvede Hansen

Nordes Conference Series

This article is about how experiential knowledge that the craftsmen gains in a direct physical interaction with a responding material can be transformed and utilized in the use of digital technologies. The article presents an experiment with a 3D interactive and dynamic system to create ceramics from the human voice and thus how digital technology makes new possibilities in ceramic craft. 3D digital shape is created using simple geometric rules and is output to a 3D printer to make ceramic objects. The system demonstrates the close connection between digital technology and craft practice.

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Articulating Material Criteria, Karen Marie Hasling Jun 2013

Articulating Material Criteria, Karen Marie Hasling

Nordes Conference Series

This paper discusses the experiences and potentials with materials teaching at the Institute for Product Design at Kolding School of Design, using materials teaching as experiments in my PhD project. The project intents to create a stronger material awareness among product design students with emphasis on sustainability. The experiments aim to develop an understanding of, how product design students include materials in their design practice and how tools can be developed that further enhance this. Hence experiments are essential for the progress of the PhD project as they help to observe, imitate and articulate the students’ inclusion of materials. This …

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Designing Social Play Through Interpersonal Touch: An Annotated Portfolio, Mads Hobye, Nicolas Padfield, Jonas Löwgren Jun 2013

Designing Social Play Through Interpersonal Touch: An Annotated Portfolio, Mads Hobye, Nicolas Padfield, Jonas Löwgren

Nordes Conference Series

We present five design cases as an annotated portfolio, exploring ways to design for intimate, interpersonal touch and social intimacy in interaction design. Five key qualities are elicited from the cases, including novel connotations sparking curiosity; providing an excuse to interact; unfolding internal complexity; social ambiguity; norm-bending intimacy. The work highlights novel interaction design approaches fostering social play, turning participants into performers of their own narratives.

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Translations: Experiments In Landscape Design Education, Anne Tietjen Jun 2013

Translations: Experiments In Landscape Design Education, Anne Tietjen

Nordes Conference Series

How can students be taught an experimental approach to landscape design? New strategic planning tasks require more research-oriented design methods. Using the example of student work for a rural landscape in northern Denmark, this paper discusses landscape design as a process of translation. The landscape project is here essentially understood as spatial interventions aiming at unfolding inherent, place-specific development potential. Comprehending the landscape and dynamics of landscape change and formulating landscape projects thus becomes an integrated, creative process: A translation of an existing into a possible future landscape. Based on actor-network theory the paper outlines, first, a conceptual framework and, …

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Postcards From A (Better) Future: Process As Making, Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen Jun 2013

Postcards From A (Better) Future: Process As Making, Danielle Wilde, Kristina Andersen

Nordes Conference Series

It is hard to imagine a future fundamentally different from what we know, yet increasingly people dream of and agitate for social, cultural and political change. Postcards From a (Better) Future is part of an evolving interrogation into how embodied-thinking-through-making might assist in the imagining of (better) futures that might otherwise elude us. It is a bid to empower people to imagine, through making, so that they may effectuate change. This paper describes the theoretical background and structure of the Postcards From a (Better) Future process. It provides background on the fundamental conceptual shifts; and discusses how and why the …

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A Differentiation Of The Notion Of Resistance, Based On Two Ways Of Operationalizing Textiles In Architecture, Elisabeth Heimdal, Astrid Mody Jun 2013

A Differentiation Of The Notion Of Resistance, Based On Two Ways Of Operationalizing Textiles In Architecture, Elisabeth Heimdal, Astrid Mody

Nordes Conference Series

An emerging field of design research deals with the operationalization of materials. In this paper, we present and analyse two approaches to operationalizing textiles in architecture. In our analysis, we focus on how differences in operational design expose different kinds of resistance in textiles. Anna Vallgårda and Cecilie Bendixen define a material’s resistance as what gives us access to knowledge about it (2009). We argue that it is fruitful to compare these two approaches in order to shed light on how to produce sufficient and suitable resistance when operationalizing textiles. As a conclusion we suggest four types of resistance: a …

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Double Vision: Researching Fashion Design Practise By Use Of Qualitative Techniques, Ulla Ræbild Jun 2013

Double Vision: Researching Fashion Design Practise By Use Of Qualitative Techniques, Ulla Ræbild

Nordes Conference Series

Present short paper concerns itself with the question of how new ways of understanding the work methods of professional fashion designers can be uncovered. The paper presents two different but interconnected discussions, one relating to the use of interview and video when researching studio practice, the other addressing the practice of analysing through sketching and metaphorical imaging.

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The In-Between: An Experimental Venture Into The Position Of The Designer, Susana Cámara Leret, Bas Raijmakers Jun 2013

The In-Between: An Experimental Venture Into The Position Of The Designer, Susana Cámara Leret, Bas Raijmakers

Nordes Conference Series

Increasing interdisciplinary collaborations between art, design and science, draw attention to the need of elucidating the position of the designer. Here this stance is identified as an in-between position, characterised by its exploratory nature, which contributes to the experimental practice of design as a whole. This interstitial position for design, is furthermore identified as an empowering one, which can open up doors to novel opportunities and outcomes, by enabling designers to engage within the processes that construct meaning.

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Ageing As Design Culture, Ozge Subasi, Lone Malmborg Jun 2013

Ageing As Design Culture, Ozge Subasi, Lone Malmborg

Nordes Conference Series

This paper discusses emerging themes related to design culture of ageing or in other words ageing as design culture. By looking into existing experiment and exploration practices from different countries on ageing and design, this paper summarizes outcomes from a full day international expert’s workshop. The main outcome is a need for a broader understanding of ageing that goes beyond the definition of ageing by means of age, deficits and needs. We introduce four main issues that emerged from our discussions in our workshop on how to deal with ageing as a subject of design experiments. These four themes can …

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Design Experiments For Sustainable Eating In Finland, Young-Ae Hahn, Marja Seliger Jun 2013

Design Experiments For Sustainable Eating In Finland, Young-Ae Hahn, Marja Seliger

Nordes Conference Series

This paper presents two design experiment opportunities on sustainable eating in Finland. First, clarification of scientific concepts is urgent because misconceptions lead consumers to focus on minor issues, or to develop negative perceptions on sustainability. Second, a socio-cultural approach to sustainable eating is proposed, by investigating Finnish consumers’ perceptions on food origins, how their social identities are shaped/expressed with food, and the sustainability of popular Finnish recipes. Future design experiments on consumers’ knowledge, attitudes, or behaviours with public installations and commercial data collection systems are proposed.

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Discursive Design Basics: Mode And Audience, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp Jun 2013

Discursive Design Basics: Mode And Audience, Bruce Tharp, Stephanie Tharp

Nordes Conference Series

Presented within are four categories of product/industrial design practice, one of which, Discursive Design, is problematized regarding basic operational mode and audience. Two dimensions will be offered that provide fundamental structure for future theorization. Having emerged over the last two decades, increasingly critical practice is being developed within design’s art-based, exhibitive model, and also within the field of design research. Here the dimension of Terminal/Instrumental is posited as an operational modality, while the audience along this dimension is posited in terms of Internal/External participation.

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Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher Jun 2013

Why Hypothetical? Grounding “The Guess” In Experimentation, Mary Anne Beecher

Nordes Conference Series

This exploratory paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the use of design experimentation to augment students’ approaches to speculative projects within the context of professional interior design education. By analysing student-based research as integrated into final comprehensive graduate-level design projects at a major North American university, the potential for experimentation to inform design process is articulated. Although the results of such acts are not always easily assessed within the constraints of real-life criteria, it is optimum for generating innovations in design process and hybrid theoretical frameworks that ultimately challenge the profession to define its boundaries in new ways.

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Complicating Machines: A Call To Infect Architecture With The Mechanism Of ‘Politics’, Johan Liekens Jun 2013

Complicating Machines: A Call To Infect Architecture With The Mechanism Of ‘Politics’, Johan Liekens

Nordes Conference Series

This paper ventures from architecture’s possible and much needed capacity to provoke through its material manifestation a difference of thought. First, an argumentation is constructed pleading for the infection of architecture with the negotiational mechanism of ‘politics’. This is needed if architecture wants to reach its full capacities of acting in this world – practically; ethically; politically. With this argumentation in mind, the architectural experiment Complicating Machine CoMa02 is screened as a set-up, following its possibilities – both functional and para-functional – to its user, the flâneur, the passer-by.

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Making As Using: Design Research That Deciphers Value, Tania Splawa-Neyman Jun 2013

Making As Using: Design Research That Deciphers Value, Tania Splawa-Neyman

Nordes Conference Series

The cultivation of sustainable fashion praxis is challenging when design activity is implemented through the making of objects. Whilst scrutinising the use value of objects yields solutions, framing making as design research positions this process as research enquiry, with inherent usefulness in its own right. Sited within an emergent fashion practice that integrates professional skills with everyday and domestic customs, transformation is explored, via the method of gleaning, to reframe waste as remnants. This affords comprehension of the embedded life within objects and materials as they move into and out of my hands, post and prior to making. I propose …

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