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{"title":"Remix utopia: Eleven propositions on design and social fantasy","authors":"Michael Haldrup, H. Mads, Kristine Samson, N. Padfield","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.015","url":null,"abstract":"“Dystopian fiction’s popularity is a warning sign for the future” worries renowned author and cultural critic Naomi Klein (2014a). For Klein, human made climate change does not call for adaptation or mitigation; it is a civilizational wake-up call. Confronting the apocalypse is not about “changing light bulbs” - it is about change, about transforming the “social system” causing human extinction, about revolting against capitalism (2014b). Dystopian scenarios do not leave much scope for this. In the face of climatic catastrophe, sci-fi authors tend to affirm the inevitable, leaving room only for either apathy or individualist survivalism, stockpiling food and fuel. Climatic change may be a civilizational wake-up call, one of several possible dystopian futures. How do we as a species confront the threat of global population growth and food production collapsing? Of asteroids and comets smashing into Earth? Of the aging sun inevitably eating its planets? Saving humanity is certainly not about changing light bulbs or other technical fixes. “Dad says that there is nothing to do” the frightened child resigns, as apocalypse is fast approaching in the shape of the planet Melancholia, set on its predestined course towards Earth. In von Trier’s film a dramatic galactic dance of death begins when a new solar system emerges in the dark night sky. The Antares system, with its orbiting planet Melancholia, is on its course towards Earth, destined to pass right in front of Justine and her family shortly after her wedding, presenting them with the ”most beautiful sight ever”. As Melancholia approaches, Justine falls into a melancholic mood, anticipating things to come. As the deadly dance of the celestial bodies unfold, the red star Antares is eclipsed by the planet revolving around it. Melancholia is drawn into orbit by the gravity of Earth and after days of hope and despair it becomes evident that the blue planet Melancholia will collide with the equally blue planet Earth. In the opening and closing sequences of the film Gaia and Melancholia melt together, leaving no room for doubt that life as we know it will be destroyed. Still Justine comforts the child. “If your daddy says this, then he has forgotten something. He has forgotten about the magic cave.” And without hesitation she walks off to the woods together with the child, to build a magic cave that might save them from their destined demise. With this contribution we attempt to build “a magic cave”, a blend of utopian-speculative-exploration strategies that deploy an active approach to collaborative future-making. Recognizing that our future may be lost, but that many prospects (Latour 2010: 485) are there to be explored, we combine Latour’s compositionist perspective and Dunne & Raby’s speculative way of imagining preferable futures (2013) with Ernst Bloch’s philosophy of concrete utopias as immanent and open elements of the real existing world (1959). In doing this we ground our argument on speculation ","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121696128","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":"Ways of seeing service: Surrogates for a design material","authors":"Johan Blomkvist","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.029","url":null,"abstract":"One ongoing debate in service design concerns what can and/or should be designed when working with services. I argue that, as service design grows both academically and in practice, the material of service design is collectively created by individual contributions to service development and design research. This paper looks at such contributions by examining representations, or surrogates, that designers make and use to visualise and prototype services. These representations inform us about what is considered part of service as a design material, including service concepts, processes and systems.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127269344","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":"Sharing eco-soap knowledge: Joosoap studio","authors":"Ying-Ju Lin, Andrea Botero","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.026","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we document some of the experiences gained while designing and prototyping JooSoap Studio. JooSoap Studio aims to make it easy for people to gather and make eco-soap products together, anywhere in the world. The Studio is part of a larger project that aims to spread sustainable knowledge around making ecological cleaning soap (eco-soap) from recycled used (kitchen) cooking oil pioneered by activist communities in Japan and Taiwan. JooSoap Studio experiments with tools, practices and infrastructures that will help spreading this knowledge to more communities, through local engagement, aiming at sustainability and replicability of the information.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"33 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132871283","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":"Designing for sustainability: Fostering reflection in the design process","authors":"Eva Durall, Heidi Uppa, Teemu Leinonen","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.006","url":null,"abstract":"Reflection is needed to provide solutions for wicked problems and to encourage social sustainability. Although reflection has been recognized as key in deep understanding and decision-making, it is rarely included in design agendas. In this paper we describe how reflection can enrich the design process, as well as their final solutions. We present design games as a participatory method that supports reflection and we exemplify it through two design cases. In each case, we point out several reflection triggers used in design games and we analyse the level of reflection they provoke. We conclude that opportunities for joint reflection are needed during the design process to enhance sustainable products and services.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125631090","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":"Stakes at the edge of participation: Where words and things are the entirely serious title of a problem","authors":"L. Jönsson, Tau Ulv Lensskjold","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how the material performativity of experimental prototypes can provide us with new insights into what it means to “have a stake” when engaged in co-design. For participants like birds and frail elderly people, a participatory interest cannot necessarily be articulated through language and discourse. Drawing on examples from the recent research project Urban Animals and Us (UA&Us), we suggest that experimental prototypes hold the promise of material enactments of relations that enable a re-articulation of what it means to have a stake in a socio-material event. In the specific context of this project, a stake might be the enchantment of a reality otherwise bound to conformity and limited by deteriorated mental and physical faculties. We further argue that the experimental prototypes hold a capacity to structure and enable an essentially deanthropocentric relationality that affords cross species relations and installs a sense of wonderment by extending the life-worlds of elderly people beyond the windowpane and towards the birds in the park. In conclusion we suggest that a stake, under these conditions, could be related to the methodological inventiveness by which prototypes and practices are associated with the speculative attempt at producing novel realities such as new interspecies relations.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"19 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114043087","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":"Environmental aesthetics: Notes for design ecology","authors":"Connie Svabo, Kathrine Ekelund","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.002","url":null,"abstract":"The philosophical subfield environmental aesthetics can contribute to the design of sustainable futures. Environmental aesthetics provides a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between nature and culture. Current positions in environmental aesthetics are lined out and used as backdrop for contributing an ecological approach to design. Three green aesthetic design strategies are sketched: Coated Green, Green Core and Green Stream.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114419198","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-politics nexus: Material articulations and modes of acting","authors":"M. Keshavarz","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.007","url":null,"abstract":"Nordes 2015 \u0000Design Ecologies : Challenging anthropocentrism in the design of sustainable futures \u0000Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Stockholm, Sweden \u0000Sunday 7 – Wednesday 10 June 2015","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124583250","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 thinking and business innovation strategy in creative SMEs: A comparative study between the UK and Thailand","authors":"Akapan Thienthaworn","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.022","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of design thinking into strategic management leading to design business success is an emerging debate within design research. Design thinking is crucial to the creative economy but its implementation is prone to unpredictable changes, particularly in an organisation's external or internal environments. This can have a measurable effect upon the performance of small and medium sized design businesses (SME’s). \u0000 \u0000Whilst research into design thinking into SMEs design business environments is well recognized there is a lack dearth of literature based on discussing how design thinking can influence a businesses innovation strategy for supporting SMEs design businesses development. The proposed research will aid the understanding of the design business innovation process across various SMEs design focused businesses with a focus on businesses located in Thailand and in the United Kingdom (UK). This study will highlight the potential critical success factors that contribute towards design business innovation. By undertaking case studies with SMEs design businesses in the UK and Thailand, a comparison can be made regarding geographical location, economic conditions, creative cultures and success factors allowing a comparison to be made between a country with a substantial history of design practice and one which can be considered to be an emerging marketplace for design practice. \u0000 \u0000The purpose is to investigate design thinking within businesses in these selected countries to evaluate the key success factors in implementing design thinking for business management and innovation strategy. This will allow an identification and exploration of the key differences between UK and Thai design companies in applying design thinking for business management; developing new conceptual business models and toolkits; and integrating design thinking into SMEs design business strategy. \u0000 \u0000Mixed research methods have been employed to explore the core research questions which include case studies, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. These were undertaken with a range of stakeholders within design associations and agencies, which conform to the UK classification of SMEs (i.e. between 5 and 249 employees). The research aims to explore and evaluate how and why design businesses implement development processes and the apply design thinking methods within a broader business context. \u0000 \u0000As such, the research will focus on identifying design thinking as a cross-disciplinary process and will evaluate how it can be implemented between the design and business environments as well as exploring the key success factors. Through this research it is anticipated that an appropriate management innovation strategy will be identified that can be used in SMEs design businesses, especially in Thailand, to gain sustainable competitive advantages to company and client.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126573610","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 education","authors":"J. Buur, P. Friis","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.009","url":null,"abstract":"In a quest to improve our design teaching we experiment with the theatre genre of Object Theatre. We employ techniques from object theatre to challenge current thinking about product agency, movement and meaning, the spatial location, and the social settings of products. At the end of the project our graduate design students create a post-dramatic performance that engages an audience in experiencing and exploring the product concepts they create. \u0000 \u0000Our experiences show that it helps us educate young designers in the abilities to take other perspectives than their own (in particular that of the ‘object’), and to ‘act before they think’ rather than try to plan everything ahead. It also challenges both the students and ourselves to shift from a distanced ‘aboutness’ to an engaged ‘withness’ of how we think of design. \u0000 \u0000The work with Object Theatre seems important in two respects: It provides new theoretical perspectives on product interaction and design process; and it offers a set of very practical activities and exercises that convey these perspectives to the design students.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133384051","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":"Discussion with three jackets: Making a material ecology","authors":"T. Spława-Neyman","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2015.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2015.005","url":null,"abstract":"It is common today for objects and the materials of their making to be swiftly obtained and then inattentively divested, with little regard for the \u0000part that they play within living ecologies of artifice. As expressed by Anne-Marie Willis when ruminating over our ontological change imparted via design, “we no longer know how to dwell among things” (Willis 2006, under ‘From Worlding to Thinging’) Through a series of experiments that anthropomorphise and open discussions with materials, connections are cultivated that are not usual within our everyday experiences of our material world. These material conversations are founded within the creative acts of making with \u0000particular materials. Matter is personalised, given a persona and is found to possess distinct personality, telling of the life it has had and the potential life it might still lead. This attentiveness to materials and \u0000objects offers insight regarding the part they play in both sharing and making our designed ecologies, in turn heightening our regard for the potential of this material matter. An expanded approach towards sustainability is proposed that considers the life of materials, as being worthy of being sustained.","PeriodicalId":214261,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Design Research Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116030924","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}