{"title":"Shaping physical, social and imaginary spaces in healthcare design labs","authors":"Jonathan Romm, Natalia Agudelo, Thiago Freitas","doi":"10.1386/ART_00013_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART_00013_1","url":null,"abstract":"The use of service design to support healthcare innovation has increased over the past decade. Recently, a growing number of design labs have been established to facilitate service design processes inside healthcare organizations. There is a growing need to gain a deeper understanding of how to set up and work within these spaces so that they live up to their promise of healthcare innovation and do not become a hype that fades out over time. Despite a growing body of literature on design labs, little attention has been given to the role of the lab space and how space may be ‘made use of’ to support healthcare service design. To examine the practice of making use of space, action research was conducted by embedding a design lab inside a hospital. Through empirical observations, we unpack three spatial dimensions that are made use of inside healthcare service design labs: (1) physical spaces supporting sensemaking and promoting innovation as culture; (2) social spaces facilitating and encouraging interactions among stakeholders; and (3) imaginary spaces challenging mental models and shaping propositions collaboratively. This extended understanding of lab space challenges existing research priorities, suggesting practical implications for using space more purposefully within design labs.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131953767","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":"Sustainable collection practices and life cycle strategies: A fashion design perspective","authors":"Ulla Ræbild","doi":"10.1386/ART_00014_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART_00014_1","url":null,"abstract":"The fashion collection is a primary format in fashion design. Nevertheless, literature on the phenomenon is limited. In the transition towards new sustainable ways of designing and producing fashion garments, it is important to understand (1) how designers can promote change through their core collection design practice, and (2) how collection practices manifest within life cycle strategies for design. The study is constructed as a qualitative comparative analysis of interview data from three designers in a company context. The data is analysed in two modes: first through a framework for sustainable collection practices and second through a life cycle strategy framework. The study contributes with insights on how designers work with sustainability strategies in their collection building design practice and the key role that both material choices and design for garment longevity play in driving the strategies. Furthermore, it shows that the represented approaches to sustainability: circular system, slow fashion and fibre sourcing, reside within technical life cycle strategies with slowing and closing circular loops objectives, and that strategies solely in biological life cycles appear nonexistent. The study is small scale, and insights are therefore indicative.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"515 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116209846","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":"Afforded exploration: An approach to novel yet understandable product experiences","authors":"Soyeon Lee, J. Self","doi":"10.1386/ART_00002_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART_00002_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130369838","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":"Theory as habitus for scholarly design research","authors":"S. Pizzocaro","doi":"10.1386/ART_00001_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ART_00001_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133582422","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":"Media Faktura. On some Technical Conditions of Image-Making in Art","authors":"A. Broeckmann","doi":"10.14434/artifact.v4i1.13125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v4i1.13125","url":null,"abstract":"The text contributes to the discussion about the ontological status of the “image” by offering an analysis of the technical and material conditions of image-making. Departing from a close reading of French artist Julien Maire’s installation Memory Cone (2009), the paper discusses four distinct types of technical conditions which determine mediated images: physiological, physical, electronic, and algorithmic. It references art historical examples to argue that such technical conditions have always been fundamental to images, and suggests the interdependency between these medial layers.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122979876","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 between rationalism and romanticism—a historical overview of competing visions","authors":"Ida Engholm, K. Salamon","doi":"10.14434/artifact.v4i1.20158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v4i1.20158","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a longue durée history of design thinking with particular focus on recurrent ideological tugs-of-war between two competing visions: Enlightenment ideals of logic, rationality and civic order against Romanticist ideals of artistic creativity and social change. Drawing on design history and cultural studies, the authors present a broad overview of more than 200 years of developments in European and North American design thinking, from the rise of design as a profession to the formation of a science of design. The article contributes to the history of design thinking by presenting the influence of specific, sociocultural configurations on design culture. 1.1 DESIGN THINKING BETWEEN COMPETING VISIONS Design is becoming increasingly important in all sectors of society, but not important in the same sense. “Everything is design”, boasted the famous American architect Buckminster Fuller in 1960, and current academic debates seem to repeat his statement, often claiming an all-embracing role for design. In Fuller’s sense, design is the rational master discipline of modern life, providing coherence to the planning of its material as well as immaterial aspects. This mode of thinking runs as an unbroken thread through design thinking since the Enlightenment. However, slogans such as “less is more” (associated with the architect Mies van der Rohe), “design is thinking made visual” (attributed to the designer Saul Bass, see e.g., Bass & Kirkham, 2011) or “design is art with a purpose” (used by many, e.g., O’Nolan, 2009) reflect other popular understandings of design as a process of form-giving with both functional and artistic purposes. In various ways, these articulations of design culture can be seen as rooted in Romanticist ideals. The idea of design as rational planning activity often clashes with artistically oriented approaches. This shows for example when increased academization of design schools leads to the marginalization of artistic and manual crafts skills. In this article we present an overview of the history of design thinking as it has moved between contrasting visions and conflicting ideological positions, mainly focusing on developments in Western cultural history that have contributed to the two formations identified above. In doing this we simplify and reduce complexity so as to present an overview and clarify an argument. We do this to create a framework for continued reflection on the nature, quality and potentials of design culture and to suggest that developments in design thinking might be better grasped in light of what we see as recurrent ideological clashes. 1.2 OPPOSING VIEWS IN DESIGN THINKING Until the 1700s, no definite, conceptual separation existed between artistic production and the technical crafts. Design did not exist in the modern sense of the word. The concepts Ars (art, from Latin: skill, craft and Greek: just) and Techné (from Greek: craftsmanship; Harper 2015) had overlapping meanings, in the sens","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131490418","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 Affect of Images: Signorelli, Morto da Feltro, and Moving Creativity in the Art of Grotesques c. 1500","authors":"M. Hansen","doi":"10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/ARTIFACT.V4I1.13122","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the affect of images, focusing on a notion prevalent in the art and theory of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: that movement in paintings corresponds with (emotional) movement in the spectator and with the imagination or creativity of the artist. It addresses the work of Signorelli, Morto da Feltre, Pinturicchio, and Sodoma (c. 1500) and, in particular, their grotesques. This art form, which became remarkably prolific in fresco decorations of sixteenth century villas and palaces, was appreciated as a figuration of movement, understood both literally, in terms of the grotesques’ formal qualities of figure serpentinate (spiraling, turning shapes); and metaphorically, as generated by the turbulent imagination of the artist. Through their marginality, the grotesques constituted a distinct field within the visual culture of their time, investigating metamorphosis and monstrosity. Here, the creative power of the artist could be explored, and the boundaries between image and spectator challenged.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129751091","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":"Concrete Visibility – confrontation and relocation in modern images","authors":"Michaela Kjær","doi":"10.14434/artifact.v4i1.13129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v4i1.13129","url":null,"abstract":"The article’s main hypothesis is, following Vilém Flusser, that modern imagery in general is “technical,” which means its images are images of technical concepts. As such they are difficult to distinguish phenomenologically and semiotically from their environment and therefore difficult to identify as images. The main argument is that certain modern images are capable of revealing this technicality by confronting the viewer with a concrete visibility forcing discursive relocations of the knowledge integral to perceiving them. The article develops this argument from Gottfried Boehm and Michel Foucault‘s understanding of images, and in connection with analyses of photographs of the Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko and paintings by the Danish painters J. F. Willumsen and Erik Hoppe.","PeriodicalId":380141,"journal":{"name":"Artifact: Journal of Virtual Design","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123905635","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}