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Design As An Agent Of Narratives: A Conceptual Framework And A First Exploration In The Context Of Inclusive Paediatric Mobility Design, Cara Shaw, Farnaz Nickpour Jun 2022

Design As An Agent Of Narratives: A Conceptual Framework And A First Exploration In The Context Of Inclusive Paediatric Mobility Design, Cara Shaw, Farnaz Nickpour

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Although much of human experience is qualitative, front-end design documentation typically defaults to quantification which can abstract, dilute or lose meaning and reasoning with regards to lived experiences. Narratives are a well-established channel for gathering rich qualitative insights around individual and collective experiences, perceptions and values. However, the potential to advance the role of design beyond simply an embodiment agent for dominant narratives - to an agent for uncovering, interrogating, speculating, and scaling a diversity of narrative ‘classes’ and ‘statuses’ - is yet to be fully explored. This paper proposes a conceptual framework positioning design as an agent of narratives …

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Implementation Intention As A Debiasing Intervention For A Bias Blind Spot Among Ux Practitioners, Oana Bogdescu, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Alwin De Rooij Jun 2022

Implementation Intention As A Debiasing Intervention For A Bias Blind Spot Among Ux Practitioners, Oana Bogdescu, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Alwin De Rooij

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When designing digital products that millions of people use, User Experience (UX) practitioners are prone to typical cognitive biases that might threaten the quality of their work. A barrier for mitigating such biases is the bias blind spot: People are more likely to detect bias in others than in themselves. Since practitioners have no standard means to diminish the bias blind spot, this paper investigates the prospect of implementation intention, designed as a commitment to consider how one evaluates others when evaluating oneself, as a debiasing intervention. As a preliminary study, an online experiment was conducted among 123 UX practitioners …

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Ethics, Design, And Creativity: A Fruitful Combination, Wouter Eggink, Steven Dorrestijn, Karin Van Der Heijden, Ilse Ouwens Jun 2022

Ethics, Design, And Creativity: A Fruitful Combination, Wouter Eggink, Steven Dorrestijn, Karin Van Der Heijden, Ilse Ouwens

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In the context of the designers responsibility for the impact of technology, ethical considerations are important. However, these considerations are often seen as limiting innovation and the freedom of the designer. Is it possible, on the contrary, that ethics can also foster creativity in design? The research project Tech-Wise is about a practice oriented approach in ethics; developing tools to engage people with ethical deliberation on the impact of technology. One result of the project is a workshop format for stimulating ethical deliberation that can be tailored to particular technologies and design disciplines. We argue from the results of one …

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A Place We Call Home: Curriculum For Land-Based Education, Adolfo Ruiz Jun 2022

A Place We Call Home: Curriculum For Land-Based Education, Adolfo Ruiz

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This paper describes initial research into the creation of curriculum that combines visual communication design with local Indigenous knowledge in the Tłı̨chǫ Dene region of subarctic Canada. This curriculum is intended for regional youth, and to be accredited by the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta. Situated outside dominant models of design education, the following sections illustrate the significant role that embodied knowledge and relationality can play in land-based pedagogy. As part of this discussion, the field of design is situated as an intermediary between an Indigenous community and a Western academic institution. Through a reflexive, narrative form …

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Soundscape Design For Historical Buildings As A Sonic Place-Making Process, Anne-Sofie Udsen, Kim Halskov Jun 2022

Soundscape Design For Historical Buildings As A Sonic Place-Making Process, Anne-Sofie Udsen, Kim Halskov

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Through the design of soundscape installations for three historical museum buildings, we explore how sonic placemaking may be used to reveal intangible cultural heritage. We build on Harrison and Dourish’s distinction between space and place, and Jordan Lacey’s definition of sonic placemaking to understand sound-scape design as a process of creating places that support sensory connection be-tween the museum guest and museum space, hereby enabling new experiences. We apply design space thinking as the approach to systematize and explore how distinct design choices affect the intended sonic placemaking. Through an inter-disciplinary approach that spans interaction design and sound studies, we …

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By Invitation Only: A Multidisciplinary Framework For An Industry-Led Design Approach, Clara Fernandes, Yasser Suratman, Nur Hidayah Abu Bakar Jun 2022

By Invitation Only: A Multidisciplinary Framework For An Industry-Led Design Approach, Clara Fernandes, Yasser Suratman, Nur Hidayah Abu Bakar

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Considering the issues faced by education during the pandemic, the need for design programmes to synchronise with the industry is rather essential. The disconnect between design students' studio practice during the pandemic has aggravated the situation further, considering that the most appointed defect of design programmes is their low involvement with the industry in multidisciplinary projects. What benefits for design students and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to participate in industry-led projects? How can those be implemented, considering the recovery state in which many design programmes currently are? Through a survey with students who participated in this brief (N=32), and interviews …

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Sustainable Approaches To Textile Design: Lessons From Biology, Veronika Kapsali, Cathryn Hall Jun 2022

Sustainable Approaches To Textile Design: Lessons From Biology, Veronika Kapsali, Cathryn Hall

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Models such as the circular economy, offer guidance to actors from the fashion and textile industry on how to navigate the negative environmental, ethical, and social impacts of the sector’s current and historic practices. The principles underpinning these models originate from the intersection of biology and general systems theory and have provided us with valuable alternative paradigms via a top-down lens. This paper seeks to explore the potential for additional insight into sustainable textile design practice from biology by reviewing sustainable design principles emerging from top-down (ecology + systems view) within the context of a bottom-up (biology + engineering) approach. …

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Examining Performance Of Vr Sketch Modeling Tool In Personal Sketches, Ming-Huang Lin, I-Chen Chiang, Ling Lee, Hao-Xuan Lu Jun 2022

Examining Performance Of Vr Sketch Modeling Tool In Personal Sketches, Ming-Huang Lin, I-Chen Chiang, Ling Lee, Hao-Xuan Lu

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This study examined the performance of the virtual reality (VR) sketch mod- eling tool Gravity Sketch in the early stage of design and explored its advantages and disadvantages. In the experiment, nine graduate students in the field of design with several months of experience with Gravity Sketch sketched ideas in VR and on paper. Qualitative analysis was performed using retrospective methods and grounded theory. The results revealed that fewer sketches were produced and less time was spent on design thinking in VR than on paper because (1) sketches created using the VR tool are three-dimensional models and (2) the high …

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Health Information Design Model (Hidem): A Replicable Model Of The Design Process For Data-Intensive Applications In Health Informatics, Antonio Solano, Miso Kim Jun 2022

Health Information Design Model (Hidem): A Replicable Model Of The Design Process For Data-Intensive Applications In Health Informatics, Antonio Solano, Miso Kim

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Genetic and healthcare data have experienced an explosion in the last decade and with it, a deluge of new and cutting-edge research as well as digital tools and software. However, visualizing and working with such large amounts of information also poses organizational challenges in transdisciplinary collaboration between scientific domain experts and design professionals. We propose Health Information Design Model (HIDeM), a collaborative process model with a novel series of principles and activities that tackle the specific nature of digital, data-intensive products for scientific research while considering different organizational contexts. The model was developed in collaboration with several domain experts in …

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Involving Craft Know-How And Traditions In Design Education: Cases Of Switzerland, Turkey And India, Bettina Minder, Özlem Er, Shilpa Das Jun 2022

Involving Craft Know-How And Traditions In Design Education: Cases Of Switzerland, Turkey And India, Bettina Minder, Özlem Er, Shilpa Das

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The design profession evolved during technologically transformative times of industrialization. While the requirements of mass production have been the major paradigm shaping the nature of industrial design education in industrialised countries, developing countries also embraced it despite their late and peculiar processes of industrialisation. The idea was that the industrial sectors in these countries would also need industrial designers who are able to design products for mass production. This, in turn, caused the ignorance of crafts or at best the view to keep them as a source of product ideas that would appeal to tourists or export markets looking for …

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User Research To Design A More-Than-Human Food Commons, Justin Sacks Jun 2022

User Research To Design A More-Than-Human Food Commons, Justin Sacks

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The way humans approach food systems not only affects our survival but also creates or destroys futures for humans and nonhuman species alike. Rooted in a rights-based approach, food as a commons offers an important and robust economic alternative to food as a commodity. The commons literature also struggles with anthropocentrism, however, particularly the recognized analytical frameworks used by scholars that classify nonhuman nature as inputs. How can user research tools support communities to create a more-than-human food commons that treats nonhuman nature as equal actants? This paper responds to this question by adapting two user research tools to support …

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Engaging With Competing Demands In Systems Through Design: Fostering A Paradox Lens, Rike Neuhoff, Olivia Harre, Luca Simeone, Lea Holst Laursen, Lene Nielsen Jun 2022

Engaging With Competing Demands In Systems Through Design: Fostering A Paradox Lens, Rike Neuhoff, Olivia Harre, Luca Simeone, Lea Holst Laursen, Lene Nielsen

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This paper aims to foster a paradox lens on competing demands to ensure their productive engagement in design. Competing demands are inevitable and ubiquitous features of today’s systems. Thus, being subject to competing demands is a pervasive and inherent feature of designerly work. Drawing from organizational studies, we first outline four main streams of competing demands underlying today’s systems; related to time, cognition, social interactions, and focus. We demonstrate the importance of a purposeful conceptualization of competing demands by exemplifying how different conceptualizations can lead to different responses. We suggest employing a paradox lens on competing demands, which stresses that …

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Notions Of Designing Inclusively From Practitioner Perspectives, Maxim Lamirande, Katerina Alexiou, Rachael Luck Jun 2022

Notions Of Designing Inclusively From Practitioner Perspectives, Maxim Lamirande, Katerina Alexiou, Rachael Luck

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Even though inclusion is a well-researched subject in design, the numerous ways to describe and understand it are unsettled. The theoretical landscape often leads into paradoxes about how to best practice inclusion in design development processes. Instead, this study probes present-day understandings of designing inclusively from the perspective of practitioners who adopt an inclusive approach in their practice. A review of existing literature helped formulate preliminary notions that guide discussions with practitioners recruited across different domains. Iterative analysis of the data from these interviews reveals some differences between the original theoretical constructs and how they are perceived and used in …

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Design And Cyberactivism On Social Media During Covid-19 In Brazil, Heloísa Oliveira, Suzete Venturelli Jun 2022

Design And Cyberactivism On Social Media During Covid-19 In Brazil, Heloísa Oliveira, Suzete Venturelli

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The article presented below addresses the presence of design, in its intersection with art and technology, in activist actions disseminated and organized through digital social media during the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. To this, four contemporary works of cyberactivism and art-activism in digital social media will be presented and analyzed to obtain a more in-depth insight into how these cases show design, as well as the respective strategies of action in this period, marked by political crises, hyperconnectivity in networks, and social distancing.

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Backcasting As A Design Device To Support Grassroots System Change: Insights From A Case Study On Future Energy Pathways In Rural Kenya, Fiona Lambe, Anne Nyambane, Stefan Holmlid Jun 2022

Backcasting As A Design Device To Support Grassroots System Change: Insights From A Case Study On Future Energy Pathways In Rural Kenya, Fiona Lambe, Anne Nyambane, Stefan Holmlid

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The interlinked global crises of poverty, inequality and climate change call for transformative solutions. Transformative change requires local agency and long-term planning, but this is not easily accommodated in development programmes, which often rely on short-term thinking and top-down technological solutions. Design methods have proved useful for facilitating co-development of technological solutions with marginalised communities. This case study explores whether—and, if so, how—participatory design can support grassroots transformational change by facilitating community engagement around the challenge of energy access. We used backcasting to facilitate the co-design of a 10-year transition roadmap to electric cooking with 30 members of a rural …

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Integrating Ecodesign In Food Packaging Solutions For Epr Compliance In Chile: Knowledge Transfer From Theory To Practice, Oscar Huerta, Catalina Cortés, Carolina Melo Jun 2022

Integrating Ecodesign In Food Packaging Solutions For Epr Compliance In Chile: Knowledge Transfer From Theory To Practice, Oscar Huerta, Catalina Cortés, Carolina Melo

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An extended producer responsibility legislation will operate in Chile, to help solve the problem of product post-consumer waste. Packaging is subject to the law, and waste management systems are being created to deal with post-consumer packaging waste. To enable products’ packaging for successful waste management in such systems, great changes will need to be made in new packaging solutions as opposed to existing ones. To help in this task, the course Packaging Ecodesign for EPR Compliance was created, for an audience of professionals in packaging companies. This article reports the design, implementation, and results of this course, focusing on final …

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Manta And Cactaceae: Rehabilitative Smartphone Accessories For People With Chronic Mild Stroke Impairments, Mailin Lemke, Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez, Brian Robinson Jun 2022

Manta And Cactaceae: Rehabilitative Smartphone Accessories For People With Chronic Mild Stroke Impairments, Mailin Lemke, Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez, Brian Robinson

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Stroke causes damage to the brain, often resulting in weakness or paralysis on one side of the body. Everyday objects such as smartphones can play an im-portant role after a stroke facilitating participation in daily activities. However, commercial smartphones can be challenging to use, and people with stroke of-ten adjust their behavior to minimize the affected arm and hand use. This study explores how an object attached to a smartphone could evoke behavior change and contribute to the initiation of use of the affected arm. As part of a design workshop, different ideas were envisioned to promote the use initiation …

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Exploring The Roles Of Inclusive Design In Fulfilling Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-Case Study Of Three Large-Size Mhealth Corporations, Haiou Zhu, Cees De Bont, Thorsten Gruber, Hua Dong Jun 2022

Exploring The Roles Of Inclusive Design In Fulfilling Corporate Social Responsibility: A Multi-Case Study Of Three Large-Size Mhealth Corporations, Haiou Zhu, Cees De Bont, Thorsten Gruber, Hua Dong

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Large-size corporations play important roles in addressing social problems such as health disparity. The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) demonstrates the roles of corporations in society and argues for sustainable business development. Inclusive Design as a responsible design approach could contribute to developing inclusive products and services and creating sustainable value for businesses. This paper explores the opportunities to integrate Inclusive Design into business, with a focus on fulling corporate social responsibility. The literature review on CSR and Inclusive Design identifies the common objective of creating sustainable value and generating social value simultaneously. Subsequently, a multi-case study of three …

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Creation And Characterization Of Design Spaces, John Gero, Julie Milovanovic Jun 2022

Creation And Characterization Of Design Spaces, John Gero, Julie Milovanovic

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Designers advance in the design processes by creating and expanding the design space where the solution they develop unfolds. This process requires the co-evolution of the problem and the solution space through design state changes. In this paper, we provide a methodology to capture how designers create, structure and expand their design space across time. Design verbalizations from a team of three professional engineers are coded into design elements from the Function Behavior Structure ontology to identify the characteristics of design state changes. Three types of changes can occur: a change within the problem space, a change within the solution …

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Upcycling Discarded Hdpe Plastic Bags For Creative Exploration In Product Design, Himani Deshpande, Jin Yu, Akash Talyan, Noah Posner, Clement Zheng, Hyunjoo Oh Jun 2022

Upcycling Discarded Hdpe Plastic Bags For Creative Exploration In Product Design, Himani Deshpande, Jin Yu, Akash Talyan, Noah Posner, Clement Zheng, Hyunjoo Oh

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Upcycling enables new product production out of discarded materials. This paper presents a new structured process to support designers to use discarded HDPE plastic bags as useful and meaningful materials for creative exploration. The proposed process involves a four-step fabrication workflow using tools and machines widely available in design studios: (1) preparing a stack of plastic sheets, (2) fusing the stack of materials to create a new plastic sheet with intended thickness, (3) cutting and scoring the fused sheet to create parts, and (4) assembling the parts to build 3D artifacts. To assist the fabrication, we also present a custom …

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Co-Creating Playful Learning Designs For Interprofessional Higher Education: Dialogic Perspectives On Design-Based Research, Kim Holflod Jun 2022

Co-Creating Playful Learning Designs For Interprofessional Higher Education: Dialogic Perspectives On Design-Based Research, Kim Holflod

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This paper examines the co-creation of playful learning designs across educational and professional boundaries in teacher education and social education through dialogic theories. It focuses on the understandings and voices of playful learning and how dialogic co-creation is influenced by the presence of multiple voices and perspectives. The study is guided by Design-Based Research in developing, testing, evaluating, and iterating a playful learning design in higher education. The results expand on playful learning across boundaries as a polyphonic and heterogeneous phenomenon with diverse and dynamic voices interplaying with each other. It is conceptualised as both experimental, affective, and relational learning …

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Bio-Based Plastics In Durable Applications: The Future Of Sustainable Product Design? A Design Review, Puck Bos, Conny Bakker, Ruud Balkenende, Benjamin Sprecher Jun 2022

Bio-Based Plastics In Durable Applications: The Future Of Sustainable Product Design? A Design Review, Puck Bos, Conny Bakker, Ruud Balkenende, Benjamin Sprecher

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This design review evaluates the use of bio-based plastics in durable consumer products. The main question is: how does the use of bio-based plastics influence the product’s design, functionality, marketing & communication, and sustainability? Although higher material prices would lead one to expect that higher value applications would be targeted, research shows bio-based plastics are mainly used in short-lived applications like packaging. This study investigates their use in durable consumer products through a design review. The results indicate that bio-based plastic usage is still in its early days in durable products. Bio-based plastics appear to be utilized as straightforward replacement …

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Embodiments Of Compassion In Caring And Non-Caring Products: Exploring Design For Values With A Multisensory Approach, Benedetta Lusi, Geke Ludden, Randy Klaassen, Charlotte Marie Van Lotringen, Matthijs Noordzij Jun 2022

Embodiments Of Compassion In Caring And Non-Caring Products: Exploring Design For Values With A Multisensory Approach, Benedetta Lusi, Geke Ludden, Randy Klaassen, Charlotte Marie Van Lotringen, Matthijs Noordzij

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This paper explores how to design for the value of compassion by means of multi-sensory design. It reports on a study with 77 university students, carried out in the context of a design master course. The study, divided in two phases, focuses on: 1) identifying sensory qualities as requirements to design for the value of compassion; 2) embedding these requirements in caring and non-caring products. To describe the design process, we present a student-led case study. Subsequently, we analyse the results of the study and critically reflect on the different expressions of compassion and competing values. This paper provides methodological …

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How Actor-Network Mapping Informs The Early Stages Of System Innovation: A Case Study, Lucy Johanna Stuyfzand, Julie Bregenov Jönsson, Amalia De Götzen Jun 2022

How Actor-Network Mapping Informs The Early Stages Of System Innovation: A Case Study, Lucy Johanna Stuyfzand, Julie Bregenov Jönsson, Amalia De Götzen

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This paper discusses how the participatory mapping of an actor-network map can inform the early stages of system innovation as described in the approach adopted by the Rockwool Foundation. It argues that mapping actors with an external expert at the beginning of a design process allows to explore not only the macro, meso and micro levels of a given complex system, but also the different key components of it, such as relations, resources, power and purpose. The Mental Health Initiative carried out at the Rockwool foundation, will be used as a case study to present and analyse the actor-network mapping …

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Anatomy Of A “Technology”: Proposing A Meta-Design Framework For Sustainability Literacy That Addresses The Issue Of Efficacy In Modern Socio-Technical Cultures, Nicole Sacchetti Jun 2022

Anatomy Of A “Technology”: Proposing A Meta-Design Framework For Sustainability Literacy That Addresses The Issue Of Efficacy In Modern Socio-Technical Cultures, Nicole Sacchetti

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In the era of the Anthropocene, where the climate crisis forces humankind to rethink its values and systems of production, sustainability literacy becomes crucial for any design practitioner. This paper aims to contribute to the extensive literature that regards meta-design as a reflexive practice for the study of design purposes, processes, methods, and outputs by outlining a meta-design framework to tackle the modern artificial environments in which humankind has become naturalized. Specifically, by inscribing modern “technologies” within Simondon’s concept of “technical object”, it delineates the preliminary guidelines of a research approach for design education that, drawing from Lemonnier’s chaîne opératoire …

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Dissonances Of Digitising Personal Finance, Belen Barros Pena, Bailey Kursar, Rachel Clarke, John Vines Jun 2022

Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Dissonances Of Digitising Personal Finance, Belen Barros Pena, Bailey Kursar, Rachel Clarke, John Vines

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Financial technologies are often credited with empowering the consumer-citizen. The discourse that surrounds them is overwhelmingly positive, emphasising their contribution to speed, efficiency, availability, competition, quality and affordability. These very same technologies, however, also clash against the meanings that we attach to money, and against the things we value in our interactions with it. Through a review of the design literature on moneywork, and our own research with people experiencing both mental illness and financial difficulty, we discuss a list of dissonances that result from digitising our personal finances. We hope this discussion will encourage designers to reflect and think …

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Design For Public Policy: Embracing Uncertainty And Hybridity In Mapping Future Research, Lucy Kimbell, Liz Richardson, Ramia Mazé, Catherine Durose Jun 2022

Design For Public Policy: Embracing Uncertainty And Hybridity In Mapping Future Research, Lucy Kimbell, Liz Richardson, Ramia Mazé, Catherine Durose

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Addressing contemporary public policy challenges requires new thinking and new practice. Therefore, there is a renewed sense of urgency to critically assess the potential of the emerging field of ‘design for policy’. On the one hand, design approaches are seen as bringing new capacities for problem-solving to public policy development. On the other, the attendant risks posed to effective and democratic policy making are unclear, partly because of a limited evidence base. The paper synthesises recent contributions in design research, policy studies, political science and democratic theory which have examined the uses of design for public policy making. Mapping out …

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A Case Study Of Medicalized Wellness Clinic Design Process And Result In The Context Of An Emerging Wellness Service Market, Jinoh Park, Damhui Kim Jun 2022

A Case Study Of Medicalized Wellness Clinic Design Process And Result In The Context Of An Emerging Wellness Service Market, Jinoh Park, Damhui Kim

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This study presents a comprehensive design process of a medicalized wellness service clinic design project aligned with the emerging wellness service market. The project designer, who has a background in design research, design management, and interior design, utilized an evidence-based design framework to integrate the intangible wellness service provision sequence into the tangible design language. In addition, the project client, who is familiar with the evidence-based medicine framework, participated in the programming and schematic design phases of the evidence-based design framework. As a result, the project designer and client implemented a medicalized wellness service space that integrates concepts of Hospitality, …

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Co-Designing The Future In Complex Systems, Aaron Davis, Niki Wallace, Ian Gwilt, Anna Ledtischke, Richie Khoo Jun 2022

Co-Designing The Future In Complex Systems, Aaron Davis, Niki Wallace, Ian Gwilt, Anna Ledtischke, Richie Khoo

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The face-to-face co-design workshop has been the default mode for designers to collaborate with stakeholder groups to solve complex challenges. However, the disruption associated with COVID-19 led to practitioners exploring alternative modes of collaboration that opened an array of new possibilities. The aim of this paper is to present the case study of Reboot STEMM, a distributed co-design process that combined live and asynchronous modes of contribution, and explored how digital technologies could be used to scale-up co-design processes, while also prioritising accessibility, and promoting empowerment. The case demonstrates the success of using an augmented version of the Multi-Level Perspective …

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Why Would I Ever Fry And Eat My Scoby? It Would Be Like Murder! Attuning To Nonhumans Through Kombucha Fermentation Practices, Aybars Senyildiz, Emilija Veselova Jun 2022

Why Would I Ever Fry And Eat My Scoby? It Would Be Like Murder! Attuning To Nonhumans Through Kombucha Fermentation Practices, Aybars Senyildiz, Emilija Veselova

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Kombucha fermentation is a multispecies activity guided by human-microbe interactions. This study investigates kombucha fermentation practices as a platform to recognize relationality with nonhuman microbes. For this, relational theories enable reframing human-microbe relations by focusing on reciprocity and interconnectedness within multispecies relations. The empirical research consists of interviews, a design probing task, and a collective reflection workshop with kombucha brewers. The empirical research delivers insights into the agency of microbes, sensory experiences, and embodied knowledge in kombucha fermentation practices. Findings investigate how humans attune to the needs of microbes, and the role of embeddedness in ethical doings. In this way, …

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