{"title":"Appropriating a DBR model for a ‘research through codesign’ project on play in schools - to frame participation","authors":"H. Jørgensen","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.49","url":null,"abstract":"On the basis of an ongoing research project on designing play in schools, the aim of this paper is to explore how a fruitful combination of designbased research (DBR) and research-through-design (RtD) can enrich both research strategies. Through a number of examples of codesign processes with pedagogues, the paper explores how it is possible practically to communicate, reflect and frame participation inside, outside and beyond research through a codesign project. By exploring ways of participation within situated pedagogical practices and ongoing experiments, the paper unfolds ways for researcher and stakeholders to exchange and challenge worldviews and everyday practices. The main contribution is, first, to show how merging design-based research with codesign can add a focus on stakeholders as important participants by emphasising the systemising benefits of collaborative reflections and, second, to show how a DBR model can be enriched and extended in its understanding of experiments. INTRODUCTION The Research-through-Design (RtD) approach, originating in Frayling (1993), is today a widely used approach to practice-based design research (Vaughan 2017). Since this origin, related concepts such as constructive design research (Koskinen et al., 2011, Gall Krogh & Koskinen, 2020) and programmatic design research (Brandt et al., 2011) have emerged to refine understandings of what happens in such design research practices. Yet, despite their slight differences, what cuts across these terms and approaches is i) the research is typically multidisciplinary and ii) construction or experiments are considered to be at the core of the work and knowledge production (i.e. Bang & Eriksen, 2019). In 2008, Koskinen, Binder and Redström first introduced the framework ‘lab, field, gallery and beyond’ with the aim of mapping different areas and the overall theoretical grounding of design research. The ongoing PhD project: Pedagogical Play Practices (PPP) in focus in this paper could be positioned in the ‘field’ domain as it, among others things, applies a codesign approach and is taking place in the context of two Danish suburban elementary schools. The focus is on play in schools and, beyond the children involved in play situations, the main collaborators throughout the project are the two local teams of pedagogues (Jørgensen & Skovbjerg, 2020). (By the term ‘pedagogue’, we refer to danish professionals with a specific education, trained to work holisticly with children). In short, we characterise this PPP-project as a ‘Research through CoDesign’ project. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.49","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123884328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-thinking pedagogy and dis-embodied interaction for online learning and co-design","authors":"S. Ylirisku","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.48","url":null,"abstract":"Online courses are a key means for universities to scale up their educational offerings to wider audiences. In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic worsened, many such courses that were initially designed to be given in-person, were pushed online. Instructors and their respective institutions, however, had limited knowledge of processes, practices, and tools to design high-quality learning experiences. This paper collects faculty and student experiences from a Nordic university and outlines key challenges for designing high-quality live online learning sessions. It demonstrates that, given the fundamentally different contexts for learning in digital settings, teachers need to rethink their understanding of what is possible, and engage with creative tools and pedagogical practices that support enhanced learning experiences online.","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120981832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Object/display/architecture: Integrating scales in museum exhibition design","authors":"A. Pilegaard","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117088172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big data and small beginnings – how people engage with data physicalizations","authors":"J. Buur","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129686959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributed thinking through making: Towards a relational ontology in practice-led design research","authors":"Luis Vega","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.29","url":null,"abstract":"Practice-led design research is a celebrated but debated field of inquiry. Although it offers appropriate tools to advance design knowledge through and within making, its scope remains limited to the scale of individual practice. Such a limitation hinders the possibility to account for particular design instances in relation to more general contexts. To address this issue, the paper at hand presents an exploratory literature review discussing why practice-led design research may benefit from adopting a relational ontology—i.e., a stance wherein to be is to relate. The review identifies two streams of relational thinking that exhibit potential overlaps with practice-led design research: sociomateriality and distributed cognition theory. In revealing these overlaps, I introduce the term “distributed thinking through making” to formulate a novel framework from which to reconsider the ontological dimension of practice in practice-led design research. The term illuminates a research gap that appears especially relevant to empirical studies in which making constitutes both the platform and the focus of inquiry.","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127537526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal scales of participation: A rift between actors and spectators","authors":"Alicia Smedberg","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127636832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple lives of the products: An investigation of products’ journey in freecycle community","authors":"Ayşe Özçelik","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.16","url":null,"abstract":"In today's needs, it is not enough to imagine products who have only one owner in their entire lives. To create more sustainable futures, designers might increase their ability to imagine multiple lives for things. To enable it, scale is the matter of concern. By increasing the usage scale, and examining the exchange of second-hand products informs designers by imagining multiple scenarios related to things lifes. In this paper we focus on local freecycle groups on Facebook in the context of the second-hand product’s circulation. In the field research, we identify significant usage cases of second-hand products that have multiple owners. We classify them under four sections, which are student house, permanent house, families with a baby, and re-purposers according to their concerns, criteria and behaviors related to handed-over products. Finally, we present insights about users’ expectations and concerns that has decisive role in determining the life cycle of the product. We propose thinking for larger usage scales through examples that we provide, guide designers and companies in terms of products' journeys in circulation.","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123323557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The design fiction matrix— a synthesis tool for grounding fiction scenarios in real facts","authors":"Peter Vistisen","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125225966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a design-based understanding of learning in transitions: a multiple case study","authors":"Elif Erdoğan Öztekin","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2021.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2021.33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171075,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133651885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}