ArtifactPub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1386/ART_00003_1
J. Pinski, F. Kane, M. Evans
{"title":"Can participatory design support the transition into innovative learning environments?","authors":"J. Pinski, F. Kane, M. Evans","doi":"10.1386/ART_00003_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART_00003_1","url":null,"abstract":"When changing from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments it is crucial to include the users of the environment in the design process. However, participatory processes might be limited by contrasting expertise, cultures, priorities or project restrictions, which\u0000 poses a risk to the alignment of spatial design and pedagogical practices. To meet this challenge, the article proposes a post-design participatory activation process aimed to support the transition into new learning spaces. This is exemplified in an empirical case, where co-design methods\u0000 and physical design objects have been explored as tools to foster spatial literacy and competencies in a fifth-grade cohort (teachers and students), and potentially match pedagogical practices with spatial affordances. Participatory activation is believed to be an ongoing process because learning\u0000 environments are not static designs – they keep evolving based on people, pedagogies and practices.","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78136824","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.1386/ART.5.1.3.1_1
Marianne Stang Våland, Camilla Hedegaard Møller
{"title":"Between regulation mechanisms and professional essentials: Exploring current challenges in architectural education","authors":"Marianne Stang Våland, Camilla Hedegaard Møller","doi":"10.1386/ART.5.1.3.1_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART.5.1.3.1_1","url":null,"abstract":"As new technologies and organizational arrangements establish in the market for building design, these developments represent important changes – for design practitioners as well as for the institutions responsible for the education of designers. We explore the tension between current mechanisms that aim to regulate the production of architects and architecture, and the fundamental tenets that characterize the profession. Providing data from a Danish school of architecture based on the Beaux-Art tradition, we use actor-network theory as a lens to explore how these mechanisms produce requirements that challenge the traditional understanding of knowledge and methodology in architectural training. While architects are reliant on their ability to act according to market conditions, they are concurrently obliged to work according to the essential tenets of their discipline. The article offers","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89766907","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.1386/ART.5.1.1.1_1
P. Galle
{"title":"Elements of a shared theory of science for design","authors":"P. Galle","doi":"10.1386/ART.5.1.1.1_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART.5.1.1.1_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77251560","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.1386/ART.5.1.4.1_1
Else Skjold
{"title":"Making sense of dress: On sensory perspectives of wardrobe research","authors":"Else Skjold","doi":"10.1386/ART.5.1.4.1_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART.5.1.4.1_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86268861","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2014-12-03DOI: 10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3976
A. Bang, Mette Agger Eriksen
{"title":"Experiments all the way in programmatic design research","authors":"A. Bang, Mette Agger Eriksen","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V3I2.3976","url":null,"abstract":"Experiments take various forms, have various purposes, and generate various knowledge; depending on how, when and why they are integrated in a design research study with a programmatic approach. This is what we will argue for throughout this article using examples and experiences from\u0000 our now finalized Ph.D. studies. Reviewing the prevailing literature on research through design the overall argument is that design experiments play a core role both in conducting the research, in theory construction and in knowledge generation across the different design domains and methodological\u0000 directions. However, we did not identify sources that explicitly discuss and operationalize roles and characteristics of design experiments in different stages of programmatic design research. The aim of this article is therefore to outline a (tentative) systematic account of roles and characteristics\u0000 of design experiments. Building upon Schön’s definition of experiments in practice we propose adding to the prevailing understanding of experiments in research through design understanding and operationalizing design experiments (1) as initiators or drivers framing a research programme,\u0000 (2) as ways to reflect on and mature the research programme serving as vehicles for theory construction and knowledge generation and finally (3) as a ‘designerly’ approach to the written knowledge dissemination and clarification of research contributions.","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"1 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75684558","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2007-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17493460600610830
P. Béguin
{"title":"In Search of a Unit of Analysis for Designing Instruments","authors":"P. Béguin","doi":"10.1080/17493460600610830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17493460600610830","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A welcome topic of the new journal Artifact is to promote as a distinct academic field the transdisciplinary approaches centered on design research. One of the conditions for such a transdisciplinary approach is that the different actors recognize the specificity of the contributions of other actors and the complementary nature of their respective productions. In this essay, I will argue that the different contributions of experts in design must be completed by users’ constructive activity. More particularly, my focus is to search for a unit of analysis that helps to build shared references between users and designers. I will proceed in two steps. In the first, I will suggest that an instrument cannot be confused with an artifact, and that it is the user or the worker who gives to an artifact the status of an instrument. In a second step I will describe the design process as a dialogical process in the Bakhtinien sense. I will conclude with comments on “what is an artifact?”","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75838489","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2007-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17493460600658342
Charlie Breindahl, Ida Engholm, J. Gregory, E. Stolterman
{"title":"The Computer and Design","authors":"Charlie Breindahl, Ida Engholm, J. Gregory, E. Stolterman","doi":"10.1080/17493460600658342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17493460600658342","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 <jats:p>Editorial</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"45 10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82723082","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2007-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17493460600655165
P. Mollerup
{"title":"Man-Made Answers to Man-Felt Needs","authors":"P. Mollerup","doi":"10.1080/17493460600655165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17493460600655165","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Artifacts are man-made answers to man-felt needs. Researchers and authors have described the answers, needs, values, processes, and economies involved. This article synthesizes and expands on some of their findings.\u0000 Do artifacts answer needs? Not always. Sometimes, the process leading to an artifact rather than the resulting artifact is the answer to a felt need. This is the case when artists create because they must create. The product becomes a by-product. Sometimes, industrial products are questions rather than answers. They ask, “Won’t you buy me?” rather than announcing, “This is what you asked for!”\u0000 This article does not distinguish between artifacts resulting from supply push and those resulting from demand pull. Rather, it acknowledges that there are good answers and not-so-good answers to the needs of intended users.","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84448668","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2007-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17493460600610848
K. Krippendorff
{"title":"An Exploration of Artificiality","authors":"K. Krippendorff","doi":"10.1080/17493460600610848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17493460600610848","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The following explores the artificiality of human artifacts. To talk of artifacts, we must avoid ontologizing. Ontology ignores human participation in its construction and describing artifacts as if their descriptions had nothing to do with it contradicts the idea of their artificiality. Instead, I will explore the nature of artifacts from the perspective of human-centered design and with culture-sensitive conceptions in mind. Exploring artifacts from this perspective offers scholars and practitioners a fascinating field of inquiry. To follow are six closely connected mini essays on artifacts, starting with the use of the word ‘‘artifact’’ and ending with the virtual worlds that artifacts can bring forth.","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78532038","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}
ArtifactPub Date : 2007-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17493460600610764
K. Friedman
{"title":"Behavioral Artifacts: What is an Artifact? Or Who Does it?","authors":"K. Friedman","doi":"10.1080/17493460600610764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17493460600610764","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The word “artifact” comes from two Latin words. The first, “arte”, means “by skill”, from “ars”, skill. The second, “factum”, is the past participle of “facere”, to do or to make.The word dates back to the early 1800s, meaning “something created by humans usually for a practical purpose; especially: an object remaining from a particular period” and “something characteristic of or resulting from a particular human institution, period, trend, or individual” (Merriam-Webster, 1990, p. 105). Most definitions focus on the quality of artifacts as things, speaking of objects and remains rather than process or production. Typical definitions are “anything made by human art and workmanship; an artificial product. In archeology, applied to the rude products of aboriginal workmanship as distinguished from natural remains”, “a product of human art or workmanship”, “any object made by human beings” (Oxford English Dictionary, 2006, n.p.; Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993, p. 120; Wordsmyth, 2006, n.p.).I am as interested in the artifacts of doing as in the artifacts of making. Many artifacts exist only in human behavior, individual and social. These are the focus of this essay.","PeriodicalId":36630,"journal":{"name":"Artifact","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79143232","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}