{"title":"Design activism in new scenarios for emerging cities: Two projects in Brazil","authors":"J. Barbosa, R. Roda","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.059","url":null,"abstract":"The current model of urban development in Brazilian cities presents many social challenges since people are losing public spaces to interact with each other and the natural biodiversity. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of design practices developed by two urban communities in Sao Paulo and Recife. These projects created temporary urban places, performative artefacts and interactive situations. This research aims at understanding how design activism generates opportunities for rivers as public spaces in Brazilian cities. Field data was collected through participant observations and qualitative interviews made to those who created and participated in these experiences. This paper shows design activism as a situated process and how its disruptive effects in the people’s perception generate sustainable everyday-life practices.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130099887","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":"Co-designing rituals for transitional times","authors":"K. Moegerlein","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.060","url":null,"abstract":"This PhD research proposes to investigate how newly designed community rituals might provide\u2028a means of re-conceiving existing carbon-intense lifestyles and help to imagine alternative social futures that move beyond an anthropocentric perspective. By using a combined multi-sensory ethnographic and design approach, this research seeks to understand how ritualistic activity is meaningfully located within everyday life and how it might be possible to work with ritual as a design ‘medium’. Participatory design methods that explore the potential for ritual as a transformational tool within community settings will be developed, in order to create new forms of social interaction and/or systems that help facilitate a collective transition towards a more sustainable future.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131298218","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 meaning of biotic artifacts: Studies on fruit and vegetables","authors":"J. Kleinert","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.056","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the plan of a research project that started in April 2015. The topic of this study are agricultural crops and their property of being both natural and artificial at the same time. To describe such living organisms at the intersection between the natural and the artificial world, one can use the terms “biotic artifacts” or “Biofakte” in German (Karafyllis 2003). This paper defines the state of research that is the basis for my work. Additionally, I explain the research design, the questions, methods and goals of this study. In the end, I give an insight into the first results of a photo study. In the research project I want to explore the meaning and materiality of biotic artifacts from a designerly persprective. The divergent meanings of biotic artifacts, viewed from the perspectives of various stakeholders will be made visible in a model. Additionally, I want to develop scenarios for possible future ways of dealing with biotic artifacts.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124891864","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 theatre in design","authors":"P. Friis","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121773787","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/framing design trends: A Burkean meta-rhetorical approach","authors":"Anneli Bowie","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.061","url":null,"abstract":"In this PhD research project I aim to investigate the rhetorical framing of communication design trends, by employing the theory of American rhetorician, Kenneth Burke. Although Burke is relatively unknown in design research circles, this study argues that he may provide valuable new perspectives on the rhetorical nature of design products, processes and discourses. Visual rhetoric is considered an important yet underdeveloped area of design inquiry, and an application of Burke’s rhetorical theories may prove valuable in addressing this need. Furthermore, I intend to show how Burke’s dialectical approach, as seen in his interrogations of historical transitions, may prove particularly useful for investigating fluctuating design movements and trends. In other words, Burke’s holistic rhetorical-dialectical framework can serve as a means to gain insight about design motives, their underlying philosophical values and how these shift over time. I describe the methodological approach of this study as meta- rhetorical insofar as the visual rhetorical strategies embodied in design products will be analysed alongside the surrounding discourse (the justification and promotion of those strategies).","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127913223","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":"De-computation: Programming the world through design","authors":"K. Walker, J. Fass","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.031","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a developing methodology called ‘de- computation’ which combines design making and computational thinking in a two-way exchange aimed at understanding and reacting against increasing computational control of humans’ natural, arti cial and social systems, by using the tools and methods of computation in the design process. The steps of de-computation are detailed, its relation to similar approaches is explained, examples are given, and we explain its relevance for design research, theory construction and practical design work.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130423506","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":"Design for youngsters' empowerment in their sustainable active citizenship","authors":"Olga Glumac","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.062","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes and critically reflects upon case study within an ongoing action research located in Porto (Portugal) that investigates how the empowerment of Portuguese youth can be established through co-design. This long-term study is designed and implemented in Porto‟s public school through weekly sessions where students-participants give their contributions to the topics and ideas of activities to be conducted. The number of participants varies and is based on voluntary involvement of students from 12 to 16 years that are interested in improving the environment for their daily conviviality and learning within school area. Youngsters are in charge for co-design of local initiatives and responsible for their collective learning on how to reach highest levels of participation. Therefore, design is being perceived as a mean for creating new methods that could be applied in inclusive learning. Creating situations where young people can come and share designing and co-ownership experience allows stimulation of their initiatives and “learning by doing” (Kolb 1984).","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134449509","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":"Beyond visualization: Exploring new thinking in production team dynamics for news websites","authors":"Yiyun Zha","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.063","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a larger study aiming at understanding and improving interactive reader experiences through a study of news production team dynamics, as a complex, multi-faceted endeavour, this paper looks at the key factors affecting in-house visual journalists’ view of news production and their ability to think aesthetically. A number of impacts influenced by new technologies will be explored, followed by discussion on the rationale and development of news production processes that proposes a range of challenges for creative workers. I intend to show how these movements call for a radical reconsideration of new thinking about news web site visualization.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125508045","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":"Co-designing and commoning","authors":"Andrea Botero","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115193569","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}