Posts tagged design studies
New Design Journal: Zoon Technica - focusing on social justice, equity, diversity and critical thinking
A variety of designers and researchers address issues of concern to contemporary design thinking in this first issue of Zoontechnica. All grapple with questions about how design can, in more substantial ways, contribute to sustaining those things that need to be sustained, like social justice, equity, diversity and critical thinking.
ZoonTechnica - The Journal of Redirective Design is run by the Design Department, Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University, Australia.
Call for Papers: DIS 2012 - The design and deployment of interactive systems
The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems is the premier, international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, user experience researchers, systems engineers and many more come together to debate and shape the future of interactive systems design and practice. At DIS 2012 we will turn our focus to what happens when our interactive systems are used “in the wild”. Join us to discuss the opportunities, issues and challenges of interactive systems when they are placed in the lived, everyday experiences of people, institutions and practices.
December 09, 2011 (23:59 EST): Workshop proposal deadline
January 20, 2012 (23:59 EST): Full and short paper submission deadline
We welcome submissions from a broad range of researchers and practitioners within the field of interactive systems design research and practice.
DIS 2012 in an interdisciplinary conference, encompassing all issues related to the design and deployment of interactive systems. We reflect this broad engagement with the field by encouraging submissions that consider the following:
- Contexts: Places, people, communities, events, and phenomena
- Values: Experience, aesthetics, engagement, empowerment, health, wellbeing, designing things that matter, sustainability, and diversity
- Processes: Methods tools and techniques for engaging people, researching, designing, and co-designing interactive systems.
- Technologies: Sensors and actuators, mobile devices, multi touch and touchless interaction, social media, personal, community, and public displays
DIS 2012 will be held in the historic and beautiful city of Newcastle, UK. Situated on the River Tyne, Newcastle is the cultural capital of the North East of England, renowned for its relaxed pace, friendliness and active night life. DIS 2012 will be hosted by Culture Lab, a cross-disciplinary centre for creative and digital technologies research at Newcastle University.
Read more on the conference website: http://www.dis2012.org/
Aca-article: Understanding collective design communication in open innovation communities
We characterise collective design as an emerging area of research in the field of online collective intelligence and introduce mechanisms by which communities can be integrated into the innovation process. The community’s role in open innovation is reflected in their style of communication, which shapes contributions to the design process. Communication is studied across three successful social platforms that encourage an open community to participate in the design process. We describe these communities in relation to the communication dimension of a conceptual space for collective design, extending analysis to visual representations of the design process and a protocol study of communication content. The article concludes with our findings that the collective design community benefits from working within a structured design process where specific roles are ascribed for formulation, synthesis and evaluation.
By: Mercedes Paulini, Paul Murty and Mary Lou Maher, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Article to appear in CoDesign International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Art.
Access the full article here, open access.
Keywords: collective design; collaborative design; collective intelligence; design communication; social participation; online community
Summary
Collective Design, both as an online phenomenon and as a research area, is still in its infancy, but as community interest in participation continues to grow our understanding of this phenomenon will continue to develop. Mapping three collective design platforms from real world examples to a conceptual space for collective design is the first step to characterizing design communication. Taking real world examples of creative innovation from a non-laboratory setting ensures the study is not limited by external factors. This paper has examined the design process of three websites through the visual representations presented to the community. These visualizations act as guidelines that inform the type of contribution made. Mapping communication onto design processes, particularly by casting the community into roles within the design process, has led to a greater understanding of how communities engage in collective design by informing innovation through the formulation of design briefs; synthesis of potential solutions; and the evaluation of proposed solutions.
An analysis of the communication of communities during the design process has revealed that about one third of the focus is on developing ideas, one third on evaluating them, and one third is spent on social commentary. Stempfle and Badke-Schaub’s (2002) observations that the solution space in team design can be kept to manageable level by alternating analysis (widening the solution space) and evaluation (narrowing the solution space) could be further explored in relation to collective design communities, as these results indicate ideation and evaluation are relatively proportional.
A protocol study of communication content in three collective design projects has revealed two key areas in the design process where communities are particularly good at contributing: ideation and evaluation. It has also shown that social commentary forms a significant part of M. Paulini et al. design communication. It is hypothesized that social content plays an important role in persuading others to agree with design statements and forming a sense of community.
The structure of the design process afforded by a collective design platform helps to compensate for any lack of professional expertise within the open community. The collective design community is self-forming rather than pre-selected as design teams. Unlike most design teams, collective design communities are self-organised to the extent that individuals choose their roles, the degree to which they contribute, and the duration of their involvement. It is essential that the collective design platform provides an organisational framework to support this format for design by providing adequate channels of communication.
By ascribing roles and working within a design structure, elements such as keeping within time and budget do not have to be a responsibility of participants, who are freed to concentrate their contributions towards a defined outcome. de Souza and Preece (2004) write that a useful place to use professionals is for keeping the project running to schedule, as communities are less conscious of schedules than work teams.
Call for Papers: Design Frontiers - territories, concepts, technologies
The 8th ICDHS conference, “Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies”, aims to discuss how design history and design studies may push the limits of design knowledge. The frontiers of design may be challenged by the exploration of new territories, by the establishment of new concepts, by the emergence of new technologies, as well as by rediscovering the past and by finding new ways of applying current wisdom.
Deadline for paper proposals: 29 February 2012
CONFERENCE TRACKS
History of Design Education
This track welcomes historical studies of design education, particularly comparative studies of design education in different countries, cultures, periods, in its relationship with art and technology education.
Identities and Territories
In this track we expect participants to contribute with discussions on topics such as micro history, collective identities, gender, internationalization, marginalization, globalization, and other studies that focus on design from the perspective of identity and territorial issues.
National Policies on Design
This track invites submissions that study totally or partially state-funded plans and institutions for the promotion of design. Plans and institutions must be studied as signifying practices in both their economic and their cultural dimensions.
Techniques and Technologies
Papers submitted to this track may be concerned with various methodologies and different models of process and practice (for example user centered design, codesign or open design); new territories of practice emerging from cross disciplinary or interdisciplinary collaborations; or histories of technique and practice. Papers may also develop discourse around emerging and enabling technologies that have impacted or will impact on the production, reception and consumption of design; or describe different histories of technologies.
The New Imperialism: the international face of design and design history
Papers submitted to this track should draw attention to the nature of design practice and history in the wider world, beyond the orthodox mapping of activity in the mainstream industrialized nations of the west, therefore helping to redraw the world map of design activity, history and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Open Strand
This track welcomes papers that relate to the general topic of the Conference, but that do not fit the other tracks.
Aca-article: Quality perceptions of design journals - The design scholars’ perspective
The primary objectives of this study were to identify a set of journals that report on industrial design research and to propose quality rankings of those journals. Based on an online survey, design journals were assessed in terms of two quality metrics: popularity and indexed average rank position. We find that both general and specialized design journals are highly valued and that geographic origin and academic background can be related with journal rankings. The results of the study offer a guide to both evaluators and those evaluated when judging or selecting research outlets.
By: Gerda Gemsera, Cees de Bonta, Paul Hekkerta, Ken Friedman
Call for Papers: Designing and Transforming Capitalism
This interdisciplinary conference therefore aims at bringing scholars and practitioners together from various fields interested in exploring the different ways people and societies live with, deal with, fight with and transform capitalism.
Deadline for abstracts is November 1, 2011
In practice and theory, in daily life choices and organizational changes, in legislative initiatives, in entrepreneurial education, in artistic inventions, in individual and collective projects interesting work is being done to unfold immaterial values, human resources and utopias within a capitalist framework.
This interdisciplinary conference therefore aims at bringing scholars and practitioners together from various fields interested in exploring the different ways people and societies live with, deal with, fight with and transform capitalism.
Papers may be related to a range of academic disciplines and areas, e.g.sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, political sciences, entrepreneurial studies and management, media and communication studies, tourism studies, religious studies, economic and cultural geography, architecture and design studies, and aesthetics.
See more at: http://www.begivenhedskultur.dk/_events/2011/capitalism/
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