{"title":"“Made by” vs. “Designed by”: Two Approaches in Sustainable Development Collaborations with Artisan Communities","authors":"Cynthia Lawson","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.033","url":null,"abstract":"Myriad organizations such as Aid to Artisans (Aid to Artisans 2009), individuals, and most recently, universities, have embarked on projects through which they hope to create a significant, and positive, impact on artisan communities in the areas of design, marketing, and business, with the principal goal for these communities to generate income via the sale of their artisan goods. This exploratory article discusses how the “Designed By” and “Made By” models can be used at different times, and with very different goals, and talks about the challenges and advantages of each.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128528553","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":"Transport Design for Extreme Environment: Methodological Exploration (With Reference to Polar Regions)","authors":"Svetlana Usenyuk","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.029","url":null,"abstract":"Extreme environment or extreme case is an aggregate of circumstances which exceed the limits of the common and create serious difficulties for vital activities or render them impossible [12]. The key features of the extreme environment are the lack of alternatives, absolute maximum of tension, synergy in the cooperation of negative factors, etc. In this case, all antagonisms related to the ‘tangible world’ (‘world of artefacts’, i.e. material environment) become especially apparent. Moreover, the extreme conditions are a specific (and the most objective) filter which lets through only things irreproachable in the performance of their functions . Here is a typical example – a war where everything is absolutely functional: machinery, equipment and, of course, user behaviour. In everyday life, we can find a similar situation in the work of rescuers. Where technical characteristics are of decisive importance, where a man’s life depends on computational accuracy – is there a place for the lyricism of the image provided by design? Do we really need a special ‘design for extreme environment’? The answer (and, simultaneously, the basic prerequisite of the research) is affirmative: undoubtedly, we need it because it is exactly in extreme conditions that the image transforms from an aesthetical category (optional) into a functional one (mandatory).","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127308007","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":"Body, World and Affordance: Towards Engaging Technological Artefacts for Older Individuals","authors":"John Vines","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.025","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the problems older individuals have been observed to encounter when engaging with technological artefacts and how such difficulties may relate to the designers understanding of the normal cognitive ageing process of human beings. This article suggests that these problems may not be the result of limited cognitive abilities of certain older individuals but rather the manner in which designers understand the complex relationship between the mind and actions in the world. The article speculates that an alternative perspective on interactions as affordances that occur between the embodied individual and their ecology may benefit design methodologies deployed in creating engaging technological artefacts for older individuals.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133985231","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":"Are we the Tool?","authors":"R. Hornbuckle, Tracy Sutton, Clare Qualmann","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.022","url":null,"abstract":"In sustainable design, the search for ‘the right tool’ is an obvious starting point, something to tell us – and those we serve – how to do it. Yet a tool, we have discovered, is what it is; useless without prior understanding of the system it is supposed to fix or the outcome it aims to achieve. An engagement with sustainability issues, debates and values are essential if tools are to be used and sustainable design to be attempted.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122550274","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}
D. Browning, Mads Bødker, Marlyn van Erp, N. Bidwell, T. A. J. Turner
{"title":"Designing for Engaging Experiences","authors":"D. Browning, Mads Bødker, Marlyn van Erp, N. Bidwell, T. A. J. Turner","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.053","url":null,"abstract":"WORKSHOP Leaders: David Browning, Discipline of IT, JCU, Townsville, Australia Mads Bodker, Center for Applied ICT, Copenhagen, Denmark Marlyn van Erp, hAAi, Rotterdam, Netherlands Nicola Bidwell, ICT4D, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa Truna Aka J. Turner, CRC for Interaction Design. QUT (Brisbane), QLD AU, Australia, truna@acid.net.au Email: david.browning@jcu.edu.au, mb.caict@cbs.dk, marlyn.van.erp@haai.nl, truna@acid.net.au, Description: This full day workshop explores how insights from artefacts, created during data collecting and analysis, are translated into prototypes. It is particularly concerned with getting closer to people’s experience of shaping a design space. The workshop draws inspiration from data-products resulting from interactions in specific places with the intention of supporting both those who work with integrating understandings of such experiences into design and those interested in the way material provokes ideas and inspiration for design.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114527128","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":"Haptic Hedonism: Designing Pleasure for the Flesh","authors":"Ståle Stenslie","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.024","url":null,"abstract":"Haptic hedonism is about producing sensual enjoyment through corporal stimulation. Haptic here referes to the sense of touch in all its forms, including proprioception and kinaesthesia, but in particular the cutaneous sensations of tactile pressure (mechanoreceptors) (Paterson 2007: ix). The context of art, design and technology frames this investigation on how corporal pleasures can become an integral part of interactive experiences. The focus on the design of haptic bodysuits relates to questions such as: How can corporal pleasure constitute the user experience? How can the sensations of the body be understood as an artistic and design specific ‘material’? And, can we aesthetically manipulate our bodies to sense a real and reproducible pleasure? How can the body be experienced as a canvas of sensations? Or even a design product?","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127837332","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":"A Philosophical Approach to Design: The Design of Philosophy","authors":"M. Pombo","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.021","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on my interest of approaching Design from a philosophical perspective, namely from phenomenology and hermeneutics. Considering my contribution in the frame of an exploratory article, I mainly can arise questions and ‘intuitions’ rather than propose answers or solutions. Moreover, my research about this topic is a on going work and the way seems very long and very demanding. By developing such an approach to Design, I believe that it will be also possible to develop a new argument: that what I mean by the Design of Philosophy . Hopefully, this and other concepts will be clarified during the progress of my research. In effect, it is not yet possible to present all the insights in this article.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131149064","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 At Play: Immaterial Forms of Consumption","authors":"A. Ionascu","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.023","url":null,"abstract":"Objects serve mundane needs in many capacities in everyday life: “This is what gives them their ‘soul’...” (Baudrillard, J. 1986). The contexts in which objects are used give many insights on how people live. This article considers a theory of play to comment on user interaction with types of objects that cannot be ‘consumed’. It looks at a ‘problematic of use’, questioning the notion of production.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124672697","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}
T. Binder, Eva Brandt, P. Ehn, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Ben Matthews
{"title":"Design Experiments and Design Games in a Reflective Practicum","authors":"T. Binder, Eva Brandt, P. Ehn, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Ben Matthews","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.051","url":null,"abstract":"WORKSHOP Leaders: Thomas Binder, Danish Design School, Copenhagen Denmark Eva Brandt, Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark Pelle Ehn, Malmo University, Malmo, Sweden Tuuli Mattelmaki, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland Ben Matthews, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Email: thomas.binder@dkds.dk, eva.brandt@dkds.dk, pelle.ehn@mah.se, tuuli.mattelmaki@taik.fi, matthew@mci.sdu.dk Description: The idea of the workshop is to share examples and experiences of using design experiments and design games in an educational setting. A second aim is to discuss foundation, methodology and the theoretical framing of such activities in design education. Last, but not least the workshop invites participants to contribute to a resource book on design experiments and design games for design educators and their students.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114661272","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":"Entangled Matter: Thinking Differently about Materials in Design","authors":"M. Velden, Tone Bratteteig, Sisse Finken","doi":"10.21606/nordes.2009.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.002","url":null,"abstract":"What role do materials play in the communication of information in a public space? In this article we look at a metro station in Oslo and focus on how and where messages, such as posters, graffiti, and commercial advertisements, are connected to the station’s surfaces. How to understand this relationship between materials, surfaces, and messages? In a discussion of representational and ecological perspectives on the properties of materials, we propose to understand the station as a zone of entanglement. This enables us to see how the realities of the station, including the properties of its materials, are constantly produced in the practices of the people who use the station. This understanding of materials presents design not only as a non-deterministic practice, but challenges us to design for not yet known uses. Making future uses possible should be based on ongoing engaged and entangled design practices today.","PeriodicalId":423180,"journal":{"name":"Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116060024","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}