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Precedent Knowledge In Multiple Domains Of Design: A Review And Analysis Of Literature, Elizabeth Boling, Merve Basdogan, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Hamid Nadir, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Yichuan Yan, Khadijah Alghamdi, Parama Chaudhuri, Zixi Li, Manal Alsaif, Ahmed Lachheb Jun 2024

Precedent Knowledge In Multiple Domains Of Design: A Review And Analysis Of Literature, Elizabeth Boling, Merve Basdogan, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Hamid Nadir, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Yichuan Yan, Khadijah Alghamdi, Parama Chaudhuri, Zixi Li, Manal Alsaif, Ahmed Lachheb

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This systematic literature review study explores how precedent knowledge, as a form of design knowledge, is understood across multiple domains of design (architecture, engineering, fashion, game, graphic, HCI, human performance technology, interior, public planning, product/industrial, production/movie/stage and general design theory). Analysis of 96 published sources was conducted, and a construct map was created to identify how authors define and discuss what precedent is, where precedent comes from, how precedent is collected and stored, when precedent is used, and how precedent works in the design process. While precedent knowledge appears to be prevalent across multiple domains of design, variation in understanding …


Precedent Knowledge: Practicing Designers’ Perspectives And Experiences, Elizabeth Boling, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Merve Basdogan, Zixi Li, Hamid Nadir, Dilnoza Kadirova, Taufik Slamet, Grant Chartrand, Parama Chaudhuri, Yichuan Yan, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Ahmed Lachheb Jun 2024

Precedent Knowledge: Practicing Designers’ Perspectives And Experiences, Elizabeth Boling, Victoria Abramenka-Lachheb, Meize Guo, Merve Basdogan, Zixi Li, Hamid Nadir, Dilnoza Kadirova, Taufik Slamet, Grant Chartrand, Parama Chaudhuri, Yichuan Yan, Raj Sankaranarayanan, Ahmed Lachheb

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This basic qualitative study informed by a hermeneutics approach presents how practicing designers across multiple domains of design define the construct of precedent knowledge, a form of design knowledge, and how they collect and use it in their design work. Interviews were conducted with 18 practicing designers across multiple domains of design, including fashion, product, graphic, game, instructional, and media design. Whether they used the specific term “precedent” or not, the study participants were able to address and discuss their precedent knowledge. They also reported multiple and varied sources of precedent, as well as multiple and varied practices in gathering …


Towards A Design Methodology Against Oppression, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Marco Mazzarotto Jun 2024

Towards A Design Methodology Against Oppression, Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, Marco Mazzarotto

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This article aims to present a methodology that has been developed in design projects that combat oppression. The proposal emerged from work led by the Brazilian Design and Oppression Network in partnership with social movements and oppressed communities. The methodology has six guiding axes: popular assembly, dialogues, generating themes, unveiling, collective praxis, and systematization of experience. These axes bring together principles and practices stemming from critical pedagogy and militant research which can help designers and researchers with the particularities of conducting projects engaged in struggles against oppression.


Chatgpt: Mediating Complex Design Processes, Alma Leora Culén, Amela Karahasanovic, Joseph Makokha, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Yangyang Zhao Jun 2024

Chatgpt: Mediating Complex Design Processes, Alma Leora Culén, Amela Karahasanovic, Joseph Makokha, Nicholas Sebastian Stevens, Yangyang Zhao

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This study explores the integration of ChatGPT as a facilitative tool in complex design processes within a project-based Transformative Design course. Student teams collaborated with external partners on projects concerning democratization of trading, democratization of local manufacturing processes, and promoting social inclusion. The inquiry observed if ChatGPT positively contributes to such processes and, if so, in what ways. We focused on its impact on teamwork, creativity, and informed decision-making. Data collection involved recording design sessions with automatic transcription, conversation logs from ChatGPT, semi-structured team interviews, observations and an anonymized questionnaire. Our findings point to ChatGPT’s ability to offer better assistance …


Mapping Patient-Centered Design Practices And Actors Within Stakeholder Networks To Reimagine Healthcare, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Michael Arnold Mages, Heni Govindbhai Bhungalia, Shannon Haley, Uri Seitz, Miso Kim, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Stefano Maffei, Beatrice Villari, Massimo Bianchini Jun 2024

Mapping Patient-Centered Design Practices And Actors Within Stakeholder Networks To Reimagine Healthcare, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade, Michael Arnold Mages, Heni Govindbhai Bhungalia, Shannon Haley, Uri Seitz, Miso Kim, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Stefano Maffei, Beatrice Villari, Massimo Bianchini

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Patient-centeredness is advocated as a key ethical factor when designing healthcare artifacts, practices, and systems. Centeredness is constructed within particular cultural contexts and co-produced through performance by various actors within the encompassing system. In this paper, we seek to identify “patient-centeredness” by comparing two different ecosystems, the US and Italy, by systematically mapping cases and projects that claim to have been designed through a patient-centered approach. By systematically mapping the projects and their network of stakeholders, we developed a set of ecosystem categorizations that allowed for comparison between locations, distilling patient-centered values, projects, actors and organizations that seem to be …


Changing The Negative Narrative Of Aging: A Case Study On Sexual Wellness Services For Women In Later Life, Camilla Borghi, Daniela Selloni Jun 2024

Changing The Negative Narrative Of Aging: A Case Study On Sexual Wellness Services For Women In Later Life, Camilla Borghi, Daniela Selloni

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The global longevity trend requires a paradigm shift in the design of services related to later life. Traditionally centered on the negative narrative of aging, service interventions have targeted sectoral domains such as assistance and healthcare. Instead, a silver society demands services for the mainstream market, addressing the desires of individuals who lead fulfilling lives at all ages. This paper examines a case study investigating sexual wellness in women's later life. Service design elevates this marginalized topic in active aging discussions to a common concern in a cultural service as output. The methodology combines ethnographic research and participatory design: it …


Acoustic Patterns For Urban Attractors, Juan Salamanca Jun 2024

Acoustic Patterns For Urban Attractors, Juan Salamanca

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This study proposes the use of forms of entrainment as an interaction design principle for social computing. Entrainment could be used to design computational artifacts that produce socially beneficial effects, suitable for design projects that promote collaborative action. This study explores acoustic entrainment to gather cyclists into groups to reduce carbon-intensive urban commuting. The system uses visual cues and rhythmic patterns to gather riders with similar routes around mobile GPS signals. Preliminary results from a small empirical study (n=8) show how pattern phasing can encourage riders to accelerate. This method has limitations in communicating negative acceleration and proximity. Adjusting pattern …


Life At The Riverfront: Drawing Histories, Drawing Narratives, Drawing Entanglements, Secil Taskoparan Stassi Jun 2024

Life At The Riverfront: Drawing Histories, Drawing Narratives, Drawing Entanglements, Secil Taskoparan Stassi

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Rivers worldwide are increasingly modified due to climate change, urbanization, and shifting land use patterns. This visual paper demonstrates how various drawing modes drive design research to uncover everyday practices along the modified riverfronts of the Citarum and Gombak Rivers in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Three drawing approaches are employed to investigate different timelines, capture residents’ lived experiences, and illustrate riverfronts’ complex, socio-economic, spatial, and environmental attributes. Drawing histories involves using historical mapping and visual ethnographic methods to gain in-depth insights into the localities. Drawing narratives entails gathering and overlaying narratives, stories, and everyday activities within river corridors. Lastly, drawing …


Head And Heart — An Ethical Tightrope, Anjuli Muller, Anna Brown Jun 2024

Head And Heart — An Ethical Tightrope, Anjuli Muller, Anna Brown

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Navigating ethical considerations in participatory design is complex and ever-changing. The Co-production Project explores the use of co-production methods (co-discover, co-plan, co-design, co-deliver, co-evaluate) via a case study of women’s health in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based in an Arts and Design University, ‘academic ethics’ influence the project in tangible ways that are often procedural and prescriptive, with a focus on productivity. However, co-production methods — underpinned by principles of power-sharing and prioritisation of relationships — call for softer and less tangible considerations aligned with an ethics of care. These tangible and intangible ethical considerations are frequently in tension with each …


Conversations, Intra-Views And Diffractions As Tools For Analysis: Design Research When Conducted By A Team, Bilge Merve Aktaş, Hazal Gümüş-Çiftçi Jun 2024

Conversations, Intra-Views And Diffractions As Tools For Analysis: Design Research When Conducted By A Team, Bilge Merve Aktaş, Hazal Gümüş-Çiftçi

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Design researchers develop methods that blend design expertise and theoretical knowledge. Hence, design research emphasizes the importance of explicating intuitive knowledge and hands-on experience. Collective research that relies on more than one designer’s endeavors has also been expanding. In this paper, we discuss how to make sense of data when collected by two design researchers in separate spaces, under different conditions. Our project centered on the materiality of repair and involved data collection in two contexts. One researcher facilitated repair workshops, engaging in repairs and consulting with participants, while the other conducted individual repair work. Through biweekly meetings and conversations, …


Proximity-Based Urban Planning Models As The Inter-Face Between Governments And Makers, Designers, And Citizens Towards Distributed Economies, Massimo Menichinelli, Luca D'Elia, Silvia D'Ambrosio, Carla Sedini Jun 2024

Proximity-Based Urban Planning Models As The Inter-Face Between Governments And Makers, Designers, And Citizens Towards Distributed Economies, Massimo Menichinelli, Luca D'Elia, Silvia D'Ambrosio, Carla Sedini

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Standard urban planning models are nowadays being redefined with a renewed focus on reducing mobility times: proximity, walkability, self-sufficiency. Recon-figuring how cities, their flows, and services are organized also requires designers and citizens, with a potential role for the Maker Movement and Distributed Economies. We focus here on how urban creative communities and maker labor-atories could become public empowerment services by, for and with citizens within proximity of urban planning models. We propose a framework for such Proximity-based Making and Community Services based on 1) defining them as connecting makers, designers, citizens, and maker laboratories, 2) via digital technologies network …


Reimagining Public Spaces Through Translating Cultural & Heritage Narratives Into Public Art-Lessons From Roxbury’S Black Panther Commemoration Community Garden & Art Mural Project, H. Killion Mokwete Jun 2024

Reimagining Public Spaces Through Translating Cultural & Heritage Narratives Into Public Art-Lessons From Roxbury’S Black Panther Commemoration Community Garden & Art Mural Project, H. Killion Mokwete

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The topic of spatial justice offers a good platform to examine socio-economic imbalances that still exist in some Boston neighborhoods, such as Roxbury, which has a history of underdevelopment, redlining, food insecurity, and other socio-economic challenges. It also presents a chance for the execution and examination of community-led projects and initiatives that can show how locally owned projects can strengthen community ownership, underpin the preservation of cultural heritage and identity, and offer fresh examples of social participation in community development. The Black Panther Commemoration Installation at the Winthrop Gardens in Roxbury, which was conceptualized and created through the local community …


Enhancing Healthcare Experiences For People With Visual Impairments: A Systematic Literature Review On The Benefits Of User-Centered Design, Lucas Vicente Becker, Cláudia De Souza Libânio, Leandro Miletto Tonetto Jun 2024

Enhancing Healthcare Experiences For People With Visual Impairments: A Systematic Literature Review On The Benefits Of User-Centered Design, Lucas Vicente Becker, Cláudia De Souza Libânio, Leandro Miletto Tonetto

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The pursuit of equity in access to healthcare services for people with visual impairments has been a persistent challenge attributed to comorbidities, as well as physical and attitudinal barriers. The incompatibility of guidelines and practices within health systems leads to complex interactions between users and services. Through this systematic literature review, we aimed to explore the potential of User-Centered Design to enhance user experiences for the visually impaired within health systems. We surveyed peer-reviewed journal papers published between 2013 and 2023 on Pubmed, Science Direct, Scopus, and Web of Science. We identified fourteen studies, primarily focusing on projects aimed at …


Ai As A Catalyst For Creativity: Exploring The Use Of Generative Approach In Fashion Design For Improving Their Inspiration, Yu Jin, Juhyeok Yoon, James Andrew Self, Kyungho Lee Jun 2024

Ai As A Catalyst For Creativity: Exploring The Use Of Generative Approach In Fashion Design For Improving Their Inspiration, Yu Jin, Juhyeok Yoon, James Andrew Self, Kyungho Lee

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The emergence of generative AI sparked thoughts on how it can be helpful across the stages of fashion design practice and creativity. We investigated the potential impact of prompt engineering using stable diffusion and Midjourney on understanding the relationship between the prompt and outcome, and how it influences the final process, thinking, or result. Our study provides guidelines for designers to use specific formats and words to describe the garments to generate clothing designs even if they are not familiar with text prompt engineering. We found fashion designers more likely to focus on the clothes and the overall feeling that …


Lost In Translation: Decontextualising, Decentering And Diluting India's Jugaad Practices, Priyanka Gahlot, Carolyn Barnes Jun 2024

Lost In Translation: Decontextualising, Decentering And Diluting India's Jugaad Practices, Priyanka Gahlot, Carolyn Barnes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Academia and corporate capitalism show increasing interest in grassroots practices as useful to product development for low-income markets and relevant to sustainable innovation models. Captured in this interest is jugaad, an Indian problem-solving practice rooted in everyday life, which emphasises practicality, resource efficiency and an elastic approach to rules. Interest from the Global North in grassroots practices risks their decontextualisation, decentering and dilution in a power-knowledge play that principally serves the needs of hegemonic Euro-USA design. Drawing on Arturo Escobar’s idea of pluriversal design, which holds that everyone designs, creating a multiplicity of sociocultural formations, we examine jugaad as a …


Repositioning Design As The New Attractor In Sustainability, Clee Zhuo Wang, Yiying Wu, Laurent Gutierrez Jun 2024

Repositioning Design As The New Attractor In Sustainability, Clee Zhuo Wang, Yiying Wu, Laurent Gutierrez

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Design’s increasing participation in sustainability raises questions on what sustainability it serves and how. Contextualized in a cartography of sustainability discourse and its four typologies, we establish that design’s efforts on sustainability to date are largely affiliated to the mainstream socio-technological pathway, a continuation of the modernization project deepening the crises. This affiliation, while granting design access to the increasingly active field of sustainability, risks reducing its versatile epistemology to amusing representation. Drawing from Human-Nature Relationships (HNR) research, we propose the utilization of the "sustainability space" as an analytical tool. The processual, embodied, and affective qualities inherent in design are …


Can Simulated Nature Be As Effective As Actual Nature In Promoting Health And Wellbeing In Healthcare Settings?, Eun Yeong Choe Jun 2024

Can Simulated Nature Be As Effective As Actual Nature In Promoting Health And Wellbeing In Healthcare Settings?, Eun Yeong Choe

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Simulated nature has been widely implemented to healthcare settings to create spaces that promote positive emotional responses and support overall health and wellbeing. The notion of indirect experience refers to the integration of natural elements into the design of built environments to allow occupants to experience nature indirectly. However, the question of whether simulated nature are satisfactory substitutes for actual nature has hardly been addressed. In this study, we examined whether the outcomes of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) enhanced when it was carried out in simulated nature as opposed to actual one. Two focus groups provided information about participants’ experiences …


Design For Social Prescribing: Bridging Silos For Health Promotion, André Nogueira, Reena Shukla, Mo Sook Park Jun 2024

Design For Social Prescribing: Bridging Silos For Health Promotion, André Nogueira, Reena Shukla, Mo Sook Park

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Social prescribing (SP) refers patients to community and social services that sup-port the individual’s social needs and that can bolster their overall health and well-being. SP offers a promising approach to addressing wide-spread mental health issues, social determinants of health, and growing social isolation. While SP is integrated into the national health systems of countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Japan, it has only recently begun to take root in the United States (US). This paper presents “Design for Social Prescribing”, a re-search project led by the Design Laboratory at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public …


Exploring The Role Of Data In Designing Smart Products: A Survey Of Chinese Product Designers, Yuxuan Tan, Xiang Yuan, Yaqin Peng, Ziyue Zhang Jun 2024

Exploring The Role Of Data In Designing Smart Products: A Survey Of Chinese Product Designers, Yuxuan Tan, Xiang Yuan, Yaqin Peng, Ziyue Zhang

DRS Biennial Conference Series

With rapid advancements in information technology, data has emerged as a crucial material that broadens the scope of design. Product designers urgently need to develop a comprehensive understanding of the role of data in design and how data can effectively shape and guide the creative design process. In this study, we identified different types of data in design by using bibliometric analysis and conducted semi-structured interviews using qualitative analysis with 12 experienced smart product designers, aiming to understand how product designers in various fields practically apply data in their design process. We have developed a taxonomy to leverage data in …


Reimagining Trustworthy Robot Fleets With Animal Analogies, Suvi Hyökki, Elizabeth K. Phillips, Lydia Melles, Michael Laakasuo Jun 2024

Reimagining Trustworthy Robot Fleets With Animal Analogies, Suvi Hyökki, Elizabeth K. Phillips, Lydia Melles, Michael Laakasuo

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In the future, multi-agent robot fleets will be important for domains like agriculture, space exploration, and air combat. Trust of human-machine teams is needed to make the teams resilient to the faults of both human and robot teammates. Trust in multi-agent systems is often fragile: if any agent in the system is less reliable than the others, people will stop interacting with all of them. Studying relationships in human-animal systems can provide useful insights into designing human-robot systems. We present a method for gathering insight into how humans, working with animal systems think about the relationships between the individuals and …


Towards A Definition Of Autographic Sonifications: Listening As An Act Of Knowledge, Sara Lenzi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Dietmar Offenhuber Jun 2024

Towards A Definition Of Autographic Sonifications: Listening As An Act Of Knowledge, Sara Lenzi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Dietmar Offenhuber

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In recent years, sonification as a method to analyze, represent and communicate data through sound has grown significantly showing a diversity of purposes, users, and topics. In data journalism, education, art, or data monitoring, sound is used to both support and engage experts, researchers, and the general public with a broad range of scientific and social phenomena. As the field is moving towards shared design and evaluation processes, new practices seem to emerge that put the listener at the center. By analyzing recent cases from the Data Sonification Archive, the paper proposes a definition of autographic sonification as a self-encoding …


Designing Tools For Designers: The Data Sonification Canvas, Sara Lenzi, Paolo Ciuccarelli Jun 2024

Designing Tools For Designers: The Data Sonification Canvas, Sara Lenzi, Paolo Ciuccarelli

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Although data sonification i.e., the use of sound to represent data is gaining mo-mentum, its impact is still limited. The lack of shared design methods and tools is seen as an obstacle for the expansion of sonification from a scientific method to a mass-medium for better human-data interaction. The Data Sonification Canvas is a design tool that supports authors during the creative process. Our paper first describes the genesis of the Canvas, grounded in expert interviews and literature from sound design for film, human-computer interaction, and data visualization. We then present an evaluation study with 20 participants that measured the …


Communicating The Use Of Generative Ai To Design Students: Fostering Ethics Rather Than Teaching It, Jeffrey C. F. Ho Jun 2024

Communicating The Use Of Generative Ai To Design Students: Fostering Ethics Rather Than Teaching It, Jeffrey C. F. Ho

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This paper presents a means of communicating to design students the appropriate use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in their studies. It underscores the need to consider broader aspects such as individual student identity and ethical considerations, given the emerging popularity of GenAI. The paper explores the necessity for students to acknowledge their use of GenAI. It draws parallels between GenAI and traditional design resources, likening the use of GenAI to leveraging other designers' work and assistance received during projects. This analogy is employed as a strategy to link the decision to disclose the use of GenAI with the students' …


Reimagining Patient-Centered Multimedia Distraction Strategies In The Emergency Department, India Star Macpherson, Rowan Christopher Page, Lisa Kuhn, Daphne Flynn, Gabriel Blecher Jun 2024

Reimagining Patient-Centered Multimedia Distraction Strategies In The Emergency Department, India Star Macpherson, Rowan Christopher Page, Lisa Kuhn, Daphne Flynn, Gabriel Blecher

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This paper investigates the application of immersive multimedia tools as an effective means of distraction in Emergency Departments (ED). With a focus on ageing populations exhibiting Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD) and the aim of reducing the reliance on psychotropic medications and sedatives. The study explores the use of immersive multimedia for distraction using readily available technology (VR headsets, curved displays, and 360-degree video on tablets). Consumer devices were customised through co-design collaboration with experienced ED clinicians to adapt to the unique challenges of the ED environment. Thirteen participants, representing the target demographic, were engaged in usability and user-acceptance testing and …


Frame Journey: A Complementary Approach At Understanding Well-Being In Factory Environments For Labor Workers, Mathis Andreas Buchbinder, Victor Bittencourt, Remko Van Der Lugt, Daan Oldenhof, Niek Zuidhof, Sebastian Thiede, Daniel Saakes Jun 2024

Frame Journey: A Complementary Approach At Understanding Well-Being In Factory Environments For Labor Workers, Mathis Andreas Buchbinder, Victor Bittencourt, Remko Van Der Lugt, Daan Oldenhof, Niek Zuidhof, Sebastian Thiede, Daniel Saakes

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With a diversifying workforce well-being is an increasingly important topic to be addressed in manufacturing. Whereas mental well-being has been well studied in the HCI community for knowledge workers, well-being for factory workers has been mainly assessed in terms of ergonomics and task optimization. Concerns are about safety and accident prevention, but not about the tacit experience of the workers themselves. In this paper, we analyze an assembly line from two viewpoints: the HCI/Design, and the industrial engineering. We show the differences and commonalities in methods and identify both sides limitations. We present four themes of well-being which emerge from …


Designing Through Ecological Soundscape To Foster Human-Nature Interaction, Francesca Valsecchi, Herun Chen, Qingyu Zhang Jun 2024

Designing Through Ecological Soundscape To Foster Human-Nature Interaction, Francesca Valsecchi, Herun Chen, Qingyu Zhang

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Sense of hearing provides an effective, immersive and empathetic way to observe, map and explore places with a more-than-human approach. In our contemporary mediascape inundated by visual stimuli, the rediscovery of sound offers a different understanding of the world. By discussing two research-based sound design projects, this study discusses 1) the potential of using soundscape as an empathetic research tool in multispecies ethnography and 2) how soundscape as a communication media could stimulate more-than-human exploration and empathy. Such design outcomes develop an empathic and conscious understanding of human-nature interaction, even in an urban context. Intersecting science, research and creative practices, …


Learning From The Past: How To Apply The Circular Economy Practices Of Japan’S Edo Period To Modern Society, Ying Zhong, Takashi Fujimoto, Shuji Soga, Masakazu Yagi, Masahide Ban, Toshiki Ohori, Shoichi Kanzaki Jun 2024

Learning From The Past: How To Apply The Circular Economy Practices Of Japan’S Edo Period To Modern Society, Ying Zhong, Takashi Fujimoto, Shuji Soga, Masakazu Yagi, Masahide Ban, Toshiki Ohori, Shoichi Kanzaki

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Japan's Edo society (1603-1868) is often referred to as the 'ultimate circular society' and even offers valuable lessons for the modern circular economy. However, Edo practices cannot be directly applied to the modern world due to differences in past and present social conditions. This research aimed to apply Edo practices to modern society through the following steps. First, we constructed a hypothetical model of the Edo circular economy to show how social factors fostered Edo people's mentalities and behaviors for recycling and reusing. Second, using this model as an analytical framework, we examined modern circular economy practices to understand the …


Reframing Radical Innovation In Pursuit Of Sustainable Futures, Timothy Cook, Leigh-Anne Hepburn Jun 2024

Reframing Radical Innovation In Pursuit Of Sustainable Futures, Timothy Cook, Leigh-Anne Hepburn

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Innovation affords us modern lifestyles filled with advanced technology and social structures; however, such development comes at a significant cost to the planet, posing an existential threat to humanity. In our highly complex and networked world, there is an urgency to achieve more sustainable, just and resilient futures. As design seeks to drive sustainable and systemic change, what is the role of radical innovation? And what do we want it to be? This study revisits and reframes the somewhat ambiguous concept of ‘radical innovation’ to broaden our understanding of its role, impact, and potential. We present a machine-learning-enabled literature review …


Why We Failed: Exploring The Context Of Establishing A Living Lab In Korea, Seongbeom Kim, Seungho Park-Lee Jun 2024

Why We Failed: Exploring The Context Of Establishing A Living Lab In Korea, Seongbeom Kim, Seungho Park-Lee

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Living lab is widely adopted for renewing public services and policy. In establishing living labs, however, practitioners face the realities of the locale that influences the formation and operation of living labs. This paper reports on a single case-study, in which a group of design researchers attempted to set up a smart mobility living lab in Korea. By thematically analyzing meeting notes and a workshop, we uncover the challenges faced during preject phase. Our findings suggest that, while the uncertain and iterative nature of living lab is incompatible with the operational model of the public-sector in Korea, its name and …


Designing [The, With, Against] Sound [For]: Towards A Semantic-Oriented Coding Scheme For Protocol Studies In Sound-Driven Design, Stefano Delle Monache, Elif Özcan, Nicolas Misdariis Jun 2024

Designing [The, With, Against] Sound [For]: Towards A Semantic-Oriented Coding Scheme For Protocol Studies In Sound-Driven Design, Stefano Delle Monache, Elif Özcan, Nicolas Misdariis

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Sound-driven design is a collaborative and multidisciplinary design activity which uses sound as catalyst of the design approach. We present a semantic-oriented methodology and coding system to capture the diversity of sound-driven concepts that support the design process. We evaluate the methodology in a protocol study of a design team, composed of one sound designer, one acoustic engineer, one designer, and one expert user, engaged in exploring the listening dimension in the caregiving experience. We use linkographic analysis to integrate and evaluate our coding scheme. The methodology proves to be effective in revealing the semantic models of the participants and …