The Design Sensibility Approach: A Case Study in Making, Sensing, and Sense-Making of Speculative Household Energy Designs

IF 1.8 2区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Martin Åhlén, Suzanna Törnroth, Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson
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This article introduces the Design Sensibility Approacha sensorial and embodied process for making sense of possible futures. The approach is applied through a case study on speculative energy design in the home, conducted and adapted within a participatory workshop held at a regional art hall in Northern Sweden. It unfolds in four phases—Imagine, Make, Explore, and Reflect—across a broader timeline comprising pre-workshop, active workshop, and post-workshop stages. During the workshop, participants were invited to engage with their senses through a series of activities designed to prompt reflection on their own future energy imaginaries, which they materialized using a MakeTools kit. The results reveal three themes: emotional responses elicited from embodied experiences with energy; energy as a lifestyle; and critique of the political landscape surrounding resource extractivism in Northern Sweden. These findings inform the research question: How might the human senses be leveraged to create stronger emotional connections with future domestic energy products and systems? The article concludes by proposing concrete applications of the Design Sensibility Approach at individual, community, and governance levels, highlighting its ethical and inclusive dimensions as areas for future development.
设计感性方法:对投机性家用能源设计的制作、感知和意义制作的案例研究
本文介绍了设计感性方法——一种感知和具体化的过程,用于理解可能的未来。该方法通过对家庭投机性能源设计的案例研究得到应用,该案例研究在瑞典北部地区艺术大厅举行的参与性研讨会上进行并进行了调整。它分为四个阶段——想象、制造、探索和反思——在一个更广泛的时间轴上展开,包括研讨会前、积极的研讨会和研讨会后的阶段。在研讨会期间,参与者被邀请通过一系列活动来参与他们的感官活动,这些活动旨在促使他们反思自己对未来能源的想象,他们使用MakeTools工具包实现了这些想象。结果揭示了三个主题:能量具体化体验引发的情绪反应;能源是一种生活方式;以及对瑞典北部围绕资源开采的政治格局的批评。这些发现为研究提出了一个问题:如何利用人类的感官与未来的国内能源产品和系统建立更强的情感联系?文章最后提出了设计敏感性方法在个人、社区和治理层面的具体应用,强调了其伦理和包容性维度作为未来发展的领域。
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