Revista DiseñaPub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.7764/DISENA.13.84-109
Jak Spencer
{"title":"Design for Dynamic Challenges: Key Attributes of Designers for Leading Interdisciplinary Research and Projects","authors":"Jak Spencer","doi":"10.7764/DISENA.13.84-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/DISENA.13.84-109","url":null,"abstract":"The world seems more burdened with large-scale global problems than ever before. One such challenge is to reverse the growing incidence of mental health issues, particularly in our cities. Traditional approaches to tackling such major global challenges has come from specific sectors and siloed organizations. These ‘matters of concern’ however are interdisciplinary in nature, and map closely to what those in the design world have attempted to frame as ‘wicked problems’. This article explores the value of design thinking and focuses on five key attributes that designers have in leading projects that attempt to tackle these major global matters of concern. Namely, that designers are: Naturally interdisciplinary, multi-specialists, comfortable with uncertainty, action-led, and people-centered. A case study is explored where designers have been engaged to tackle mental health issues in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The paper ends by identifying opportunities and challenges for designers in the future.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130422505","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.7764/DISENA.13.58-83
Laura Forlano, Stan Ruecker
{"title":"The Imaginary Framing and the Lived Experience of Technologies: Interview with Laura Forlano","authors":"Laura Forlano, Stan Ruecker","doi":"10.7764/DISENA.13.58-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/DISENA.13.58-83","url":null,"abstract":"In this interview conducted by Stan Ruecker, Laura Forlano gives some clues of what designers can learn from the critical thinking the social sciences have developed for decades: challenging key terms, overturning narratives, and being critical about the way new technologies are being framed and presented. She asks for designers to commit to a position. She points out that because each new technology will inevitably fail, designers might be more effective if they think of people not only using technology, but also having to take care of it.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132626807","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 2018-08-31DOI: 10.7764/DISENA.13.110-139
P. Rodgers
{"title":"Design Research for Change: A UK Perspective","authors":"P. Rodgers","doi":"10.7764/DISENA.13.110-139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/DISENA.13.110-139","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the current landscape of design research in the United Kingdom (UK) with a particular focus on UK research councils’ funded projects that aim to make a positive change to society. In recent years, design research in the UK has grown massively in terms of the number of students studying for a postgraduate degree (Masters and PhD), the number of institutions undertaking research, and both the quantity and quality of design-led inter- and multi-disciplinary collaborative research projects. The ongoing work presented here has involved significant data analysis and visualization of over 18,000 funded research projects in the UK. The paper highlights the recent ‘social turn’ and the increasingly collaborative nature of design for change research projects in the UK. The paper also describes some key characteristics found in and across present day design for change research projects","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123054474","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.22.article.8
Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta, Lizette Reitsma, Per-Anders Hillgren, Tara Nair van Ryneveld, Anne-Marie S. Hansen, Yénika Castillo Muñoz
{"title":"Pluriversal Spaces for Decolonizing Design: Exploring Decolonial Directions for Participatory Design","authors":"Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta, Lizette Reitsma, Per-Anders Hillgren, Tara Nair van Ryneveld, Anne-Marie S. Hansen, Yénika Castillo Muñoz","doi":"10.7764/disena.22.article.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.22.article.8","url":null,"abstract":"Decolonization is a situated effort as it relates to the relations of privilege, power, politics, and access (3P-A, in Albarrán González’s terms) between the people involved in design in relation to wider societies. This complexity creates certain challenges for how we can understand, learn about, and nurture decolonization in design towards pluriversality, since such decolonizing effort is based on the relationship between specific individuals and the collective. In this paper, we present and discuss the ‘River project’, a participatory space for decolonizing design, created for designers and practitioners to reflect on their own 3P-A as a way to create awareness of their own oppressive potential in design work. These joint reflections challenged ideas of participation and shaped learning processes between the participants, bringing to the foreground the importance of seeing and allowing for a plurality of life and work worlds to be brought together. We build on the learnings from this project to propose the notions of pluriversal participation, pluriversal presence, and pluriversal directionality, which can help nurture decolonizing designs towards pluriversality. We conclude by arguing that, for nurturing pluriversality through Participatory Design, participation, presence, and direction must be equally pluriversal.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121050417","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.20.article.1
Jūra Miniotaitė, Vaida Pakulytė, Ylva Fernaeus
{"title":"Gestos sutiles de control: Sobre las sensibilidades somáticas de una aplicación remota de IoT","authors":"Jūra Miniotaitė, Vaida Pakulytė, Ylva Fernaeus","doi":"10.7764/disena.20.article.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.20.article.1","url":null,"abstract":"En el diseño de experiencias de usuario para electrodomésticos, la conexión, la supervisión y el control a través de aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes están cada vez más presentes. A pesar de las amplias posibilidades de interacción que ofrecen los teléfonos inteligentes, actualmente el modo estándar de interacción con estas aplicaciones se da a través de la manipulación de la interfaz gráfica de usuario. Con el fin de explorar nuevas experiencias corporalmente sentidas para este contexto de uso, se diseñó una aplicación de control remoto para una aspiradora robótica, la que permitía a los participantes enfocar su mirada en el robot, mientras lo dirigían inclinando sutilmente el teléfono. Esta interacción concreta es utilizada como caso para destacar el papel de las sensibilidades somáticas a la hora de diseñar aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes en el contexto del Internet de las cosas (IoT). Mediante un análisis inspirado en la fenomenología, describimos la experiencia del usuario en términos de manipulación física, percepción, esfuerzo y utilidad, así como a través del compromiso social y emocional. Un atributo importante está relacionado con la manera en que la interacción creó, a través de su sutileza, una experiencia somáticamente conectada.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121172952","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.22.article.4
Bibiana Serpa
{"title":"Militant Design Research: A Proposal to Politicize Design Knowledge-making","authors":"Bibiana Serpa","doi":"10.7764/disena.22.article.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.22.article.4","url":null,"abstract":"This work reflects on how design can engage in emancipatory processes of knowledge-making through Militant Design Research. The argument draws on the work of scholars who are engaged in counter-hegemonic design research and practice, and questions the knowledge production structures within academia. ‘Militant research’ is presented as a Latin American theoretical-political approach to knowledge production in social sciences, engaging processes of research, educational, and political actions, and uniting organic intellectuals, researchers, and social movements. Inspired by this perspective, principles for Militant Design Research are outlined to stimulate alliances between designers and social movements for the collective production of knowledge, to overcome situations of oppression in and out of academia.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132406270","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.20.article.2
Arife Dila Demir, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristi Kuusk
{"title":"“Squeaky/Pain”: Cultivando experiencias perturbadoras y la transición de perspectivas para las interacciones somaestéticas","authors":"Arife Dila Demir, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristi Kuusk","doi":"10.7764/disena.20.article.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.20.article.2","url":null,"abstract":"A través del estudio de caso de un diseño, examinamos cómo la conciencia somaestética se ve amplificada por la intermediación de perturbaciones corporales y el cultivo de una transición desde una perspectiva de primera persona a una de segunda persona. El artículo se centra en el aspecto menos explorado del diseño somático: la mediación de experiencias perturbadoras que interrumpen el flujo cotidiano, en este caso, la experiencia de dolor. El proceso de diseño ilustró una transición entre las perspectivas de primera y segunda persona para cultivar y externalizar la experiencia con el dolor en la forma de una interacción corporal vestible. La experiencia del dolor externalizado se tradujo en un dispositivo vestible interactivo, “Squeaky/Pain”, que aumenta la conciencia somaestética del usuario a través de sensaciones sonoras, táctiles y cinestésicas. Este artículo hace dos contribuciones principales al diseño somático: introduce las implicaciones de las experiencias perturbadoras a la hora de aumentar la conciencia somaestética y ejemplifica de qué manera las perturbaciones corporales internas pueden materializarse mediante el cultivo de perspectivas en primera y segunda persona.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121762614","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.20.article.3
Janne Mascha Beuthel
{"title":"La armadura de una investigadora: un compromiso material crítico con las experiencias somáticas","authors":"Janne Mascha Beuthel","doi":"10.7764/disena.20.article.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.20.article.3","url":null,"abstract":"A través de su trabajo, los investigadores y profesionales del diseño se relacionan continuamente con seres humanos, lo que puede traducirse en encuentros con historias personales, preguntas desafiantes y expectativas. El investigador puede verse ante la disyuntiva de seguir siendo “profesional”, lo que a menudo se asocia a ser “neutral”, o comprometerse con sus propias emociones, vulnerabilidades e inseguridades. Este artículo presenta un proceso de diseño somático informado por las experiencias autobiográficas de la autora. El resultado es un artefacto vestible llamado La armadura de una investigadora. El artefacto encarna las experiencias somáticas que se experimentan al “hacer investigación” y “ser investigador” durante los estudios cualitativos con participantes. Pretende provocar reflexiones y apunta a pensar acerca del profesionalismo. Los materiales físicos se ensamblan en una forma que se puede vestir, lo que permite a otros investigadores relacionarse con ellos a través de sus propios cuerpos. Por último, se describen los temas que la armadura ha evocado en otros; estos esbozan los conocimientos que el artefacto aporta al campo de la Interacción Humano-Computador.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126976462","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.19.article.4
G. Colombo, Federica Bardelli
{"title":"Catálogos de video con proceso curatorial basado en datos: republicación de secuencias de video","authors":"G. Colombo, Federica Bardelli","doi":"10.7764/disena.19.article.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.19.article.4","url":null,"abstract":"Este proyecto ilustra de qué manera los catálogos de video con proceso curatorial basado en datos pueden ofrecer un enfoque para analizar secuencias de video. Teniendo ricas y diversas colecciones de video como input, los catálogos basados en datos buscan identificar objetos comunes y reorganizarlos en clústeres temáticos que se muestran en formato de video. La técnica se inspira en dos prácticas científicas (el muestreo de núcleos y la difracción de la luz) y en dos formatos de publicación (los supercuts y los catálogos visuales). Los catálogos de video con proceso curatorial basado en datos se utilizan para republicar una colección de imágenes de la marea alta de Venecia de 2019, la que devastó la ciudad en forma inédita. A partir de una selección editorial de imágenes extraídas de YouTube, se utilizan varios procesos algorítmicos para demarcar y reorganizar el material en series temáticas de videos (personas, barcos y pájaros). Los catálogos de video resultantes permiten un tipo de análisis visual que va más allá de las formas tradicionales de medición, al tiempo que presentan un poder expresivo.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116459249","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}
Revista DiseñaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.7764/disena.20.article.5
Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer
{"title":"Vacilando entre hilos y agujas: una investigación sobre la dimensión táctil en la experimentación en diseño","authors":"Ana Maria Copetti Maccagnan, Guilherme Englert Corrêa Meyer","doi":"10.7764/disena.20.article.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.20.article.5","url":null,"abstract":"Aunque la experimentación y su aspecto material están ligados a la práctica del diseño, existen pocos textos que aborden la relación entre estos temas y la dimensión táctil. Teniendo en cuenta que, como sociedad, nos encontramos en tiempos que percibimos como inciertos y críticos, se hace necesario desarrollar prácticas diferentes a las que prevalecen en los campos del diseño de interacción, que sean capaces de tocar otros mundos posibles. Confiamos en que el acto de disminuir la velocidad nos permita cultivar una sensibilidad distinta, permitiéndonos vacilar en la construcción de un “buen mundo común”. Este artículo investiga los espacios de vacilación a través de la experimentación guiada por el tacto e informa sobre un caso específico, una práctica experimental desarrollada a partir de la formación de un colectivo de bordadoras. La práctica propone un proceso de diseño más comprometido con las incertidumbres, los cuidados y las subjetividades.","PeriodicalId":270818,"journal":{"name":"Revista Diseña","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130618215","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}