DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.693
Qianyi Li, Marcos Mortensen Steagall
{"title":"Memories from COVID-19 A practice-led research about the effects of the lockdown through the perspective of a Chinese student","authors":"Qianyi Li, Marcos Mortensen Steagall","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.693","url":null,"abstract":" This article presents a practice-led design project that asks how the effects of the lockdown can be articulated through illustration and poetry to narrate a personal story using an autoethnographic approach to retail high levels of dignity and originality? The research project aims to create a visual narrative, advanced through illustrations and poetry, that reflects the researcher’s experience of lockdowns imposed by COVID-19. The narrative adopts the form of an illustrated storybook to tell the story of the researcher herself, who faced restrictive experiences while being locked down in China during a homeland visit. As a result, the researcher was unable to return to New Zealand due to travel restrictions. During the time the researcher had to wait in China to be able to return to complete her study in New Zealand, the lockdown produced feelings of isolation, distancing, anxiety and other emotions. This design project is aimed to express these feelings, responding to their pressures using creatively illustrations and poems, created in a way to articulate the psychological pressures one can go through during this unprecedented time. The illustrations and poems encapsulate an artistic response to a historical moment, drawn into being through poetic writing and imagery. The project is a historical document of an era where all that is certain becomes uncertain. Illustrations are used through an autoethnographic approach to give voice to personal experiences through design. The research contributes to the exploration of poetic writing and illustration to document, understand and express a moment of crisis in human history.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129353963","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.694
Kristen Lum, Marcos Mortensen Steagall
{"title":"Breakthrough: An illustrated autoethnographic narrative into professional identity and storytelling","authors":"Kristen Lum, Marcos Mortensen Steagall","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.694","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a practice-led artistic research project focused on the creative process of a scripted and illustrated graphic novel that draws from autoethnographic methods to engage with high levels of originality. The project: Breakthrough: An illustrated autoethnographic narrative into professional identity and storytelling responds to a rhetorical question that asks: How can one express personal identity in the form of a graphic novel? The design outcome of this project is a published graphic novel which explores ideas surrounding identity, particularly professional identity and finding or rediscovering oneself. The novel’s storyline draws upon the researcher’s journey as an artist and illustrator, the experiences of losing and regaining creative passions and stimulus. The graphic novel’s creative process employs creative expression skills to conceptualise and visualise the narrative. The design outcome is intended to resonate with others studying or working in creative industries and inspire young creatives in their journeys. The research project contributes to discourses about using ethnographic methods to engage originality in producing visual communication design outcomes underpinned by personal novelties and meaning. Additionally, it contributes to understanding practice-led research methodologies and the exegetical writing that supports a design artefact.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116023582","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.705
Marcos Mortensen Steagall
{"title":"New thinking in practice-led research in Design in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Marcos Mortensen Steagall","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.705","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, creative work and its potential relationships to scholarly research are increasing in influence and introducing critical vitality to Universities, opening new approaches for collaboration, interdisciplinarity and community engagement. For practitioners, it offers a research approach that merges personal experience into the designer practice, skill set and design artefact. [...]","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122526052","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.690
Kexin Shan, Marcos Mortensen Steagall
{"title":"Forgotten: an autoethnographic exploration of belonging through Graphic Design","authors":"Kexin Shan, Marcos Mortensen Steagall","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.690","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a practice-led artistic research project that asks: How to represent an international Chinese student’s sense of belonging (or not belonging) through the aesthetics of visual poetry? The project looked into concrete poetry as a visual strategy to develop a design outcome consisting of two publications using an experimental typographic layout and two corresponding posters. This research employs autoethnography and heuristic inquiry as a methodological approach to the creative process to achieve high levels of originality. Based on personal experience, this research project explores the lack of sense of belonging faced by a Chinese student in an unfamiliar place when initially studying in Aotearoa New Zealand. In a design response to this temporary loss of belonging, the project investigated profiled individuals to analyse two specific negative emotions: restless and lonely. In addition, the study applies poetic writing to self-narrative to enhance the potential of personal expression, metaphorically telling stories while creating a visual typographic artefact that breaks with the traditional written prose form. The project is a retrospective of the self, graphically articulating two unforgettable emotions arising from two of the most profound periods affecting the researcher. On the one hand, the project takes a further step towards self-understanding and helps the viewer understand the issues of belonging experienced by Chinese students in a foreign country. On the other hand, it contributes to the discussion of autoethnography and heuristic inquiry to achieve originality in graphic design.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127084885","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.697
Damian Arjun Wilson, T. Tavares
{"title":"Arjun: A creative exploration of worldbuilding to discuss cultural dislocation and belonging","authors":"Damian Arjun Wilson, T. Tavares","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.697","url":null,"abstract":"This article will discuss concepts of cultural dislocation and belonging through a practice-led worldbuilding design project called Arjun. Arjun is a creative exploration of storytelling through a designed publication that uses diagrams, notations, and photographic manipulations to explore a character’s experience in a foreign land. The publication presents a polyphonic story from the perspective of Arjun who is hired by the fictional corporation Federation (F.E.D.R) to explore a land where both familiar and unfamiliar takes place. Arjun searches for his sense of purpose and identity, in a self-dialogue with his own dislocation. Established within the tenants of Hinduism, this research project stimulates speculative meanings through worldbuilding design as means to discuss my cultural dislocation with my own Fijian Indian ancestry. Conceptually, the project is concerned with the philosophical principles of Hindu reincarnation, its relationships to the subconscious mind (Callander & Cummings, 2021) and liminality (Turner, 1969; Ipomoea, 2015). The article will discuss how practice emerged both conceptually and visually through a synthesis between theory and making in its creation and conceptualisation. Reflective processes and self-search methodologies are utilised to access personal experiences and prominent levels of exploration with materials through the methods of notation, journaling, copywriting, image processing and prototyping.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645671","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.701
Sophie Ardern, Marcos Mortensen Steagall
{"title":"Awakening takes place within: a practice-led research through texture and embodiment","authors":"Sophie Ardern, Marcos Mortensen Steagall","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.701","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores contextual research and creative design methodologies to understand the relationship between the researcher’s embodied approach and the produced artefact. The question of: ‘How might I honestly depict my own embodied textural world to awaken others?’ frames the project in a way which allows the designer/researcher to produce work organically and honestly. Encompassing different navigational directions and frameworks of information allows personal understanding to pervade through. The ideas of place, nostalgia, storytelling and texture are explored throughout the physical artefacts of a textural archival book ‘Awaken’ and a series of posters. The methodology of a heuristic-led enquiry activated by embodiment enabled the translation into something more significant than an abstract thought. Exploring the contextual knowledge of texture and its multi-sensory ability, nostalgia and embodiment, frames the project in the broader context allowing for a critical work commentary.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132557552","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.698
Silvia Kostandini, C. Douglas
{"title":"Scoria Field: Volcanic Imaginaries of Tamaki Makaurau","authors":"Silvia Kostandini, C. Douglas","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.698","url":null,"abstract":"How might a volcanic material imaginary — particularly of the basalt scoria volcanic field that underlies Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand — provide ways for people to see themselves collectively? Our surroundings shape a sense of identity, and spatial interactions organize our experience in the city. ’Scoria Field’ is a spatial design research inquiry into place-making; investigating the potential for material experiences of a volcanic landscape to produce public space along the coast of Takapuna, on Tāmaki’s North Shore. Through imaginative engagement with volcanic rock, this research explores abstract and tangible ways to unfold a narrative of matter. Through a practice of drawing and artisanal material explorations, the research engages with geographical, cultural, and social aspects of scoria and the volcanic landscape of Tāmaki Makaurau. The project culminates with a proposal to refurbish an existing car park as a public space that offers a new way for people to see each other collectively by engaging with their volcanic terrain.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124573539","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.702
Kathleen Frewen, H. McNeill
{"title":"Urupa Tautaiao: Young Maori explore ancient burial practices towards sustanable approaches","authors":"Kathleen Frewen, H. McNeill","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.702","url":null,"abstract":"The turn to indigenous epistemologies is one of the most exciting and revolutionary shifts to happen in the university within the last three decades and is nowadays accelerating in influence in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is bringing with it dynamic new ways of thinking about research and new methodologies for conducting it, a raised awareness of the different kinds of knowledge that indigenous practice can convey and an illuminating body of information about the creative process. Indigenous practice provide access into other ways of knowing, and alternative approaches to conducting and presenting knowledge. This article discusses one Māori project in this context, that is intended to challenge indigenous people to (re) evaluate post-colonial environmentally harmful practices in the death space. The project explores the concept of rangatahi (Māori youth) attitudes to revitalising ancient Māori death practices to inform the development of design intervention aimed to challenge mortuary colonial practices. As such, it is part of a larger research that is supported by Marsden Fund from Royal Society of New Zealand. The project outcome includes the design of modern urupā tautaiao (natural burial) commemoration site, applying technology such as tribal social media platforms regarding death, and GPS mapping of wāhi tapu (sacred sites). Death is highly tapu (sacred) to Māori and requires strict observations of rituals to ensure spiritual safety. The revitalisation of tribal knowledge is not just the prerogative of the elders, the voices of indigenous youth must be heard as they are the future, of the planet and the people. This project contributes to the understanding of research that navigates across philosophical, inter-generational, territorial and community boundaries, evidencing theories and methodologies that inform to culture studies and creative practice.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125392295","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.638
Rafael Martins Alves, Manoel De Souza Reis, Gilson Braviano
{"title":"A pesquisa quantitativa em projetos de design que visam a inclusão social: o uso da análise multivariada","authors":"Rafael Martins Alves, Manoel De Souza Reis, Gilson Braviano","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.638","url":null,"abstract":"Pessoas com algum impedimento de natureza física, intelectual ou sensorial possuem necessidades específicas, que nem sempre são atendidas, gerando exclusão social. Os projetos de design podem trazer benefícios capazes de auxiliar na inclusão desses indivíduos, já que são capazes de propiciar soluções para esse público. Assim, não somente técnicas qualitativas podem ser úteis no enfrentamento dessa exclusão, mas também as quantitativas, pois permitem a generalização de resultados e a análise simultânea de variáveis. Neste artigo, investigamos projetos de design que utilizem técnicas de análise multivariada orientados ao público com discapacidades. Foi realizada uma revisão sistemática que resultou em nove artigos estudados na íntegra. A técnica mais empregada foi a regressão múltipla, usada para compreender decisões. Os artigos pesquisados tratam de projetos relacionados a ergonomia, tecnologia, mobiliário, experiências, produtos e design gráfico. Este artigo discute o potencial da análise multivariada quando explorada no campo do design.","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126731028","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}
DAT JournalPub Date : 2022-12-23DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.671
M. Everling, Victor Rafael Laurenciano Aguiar, J. Sobral
{"title":"10 anos do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Univille: Contextualização, Realizações e Perspectivas","authors":"M. Everling, Victor Rafael Laurenciano Aguiar, J. Sobral","doi":"10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.671","url":null,"abstract":"Resumo \u0000O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Design da Univille iniciou suas atividades com a primeira oferta de turma do Mestrado Profissional em Design da Universidade da Região de Joinville (PPGDesign/Univille). Situado em um polo industrial privilegiado no norte do estado Santa Catarina (SC), o Programa tem compromisso com os contextos público, privado e terceiro setor do qual decorre a sua inserção social e profissional, por meio da pesquisa aplicada, tecnológica e estratégica. O relato apresenta a estrutura, o histórico e as perspectivas de futuro do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Design. Para isso foram consultados documentos, relatórios para órgãos de avaliação externos como a CAPES, relatórios de disciplinas e trabalhos de conclusão de curso dos discentes. A relevância justifica-se pela oportunidade de refletir sobre o histórico e a perspectiva do curso, justamente quando iniciam as celebrações de 10 anos de curso. \u0000 \u0000Palavras-chave \u0000Mestrado Profissional em Design, Design e Sustentabilidade, Inserção social e profissional. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":179659,"journal":{"name":"DAT Journal","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129611775","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}