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{"title":"Navigating from stimulus exposure to idea generation: How creator traits and stimulus use behavior shape creative outcomes","authors":"Xuefeng Zhang,&nbsp;Jiahao Zhang,&nbsp;Chao Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><ul><li><span>•</span><span><div>Stimulus relatedness and rating increase perceived usefulness, driving stimulus use.</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Experts and deep thinkers find less obvious stimuli more useful than others do.</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Using stimuli increases conformity and reduces novelty of new ideas.</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Deep use weakens the influence of the original stimulus on creative outcomes.</div></span></li></ul></div><div><div>While prior work has predominantly focused on the direct effects of stimulus characteristics, such as relatedness and rating, on creative outcomes, it has often overlooked the intervening cognitive processes and individual differences. To address this gap, we draw on the information adoption model and conduct two experimental studies. Both studies show that stimulus relatedness and rating increase perceived usefulness, which in turn promotes subsequent stimulus use. However, creator traits, that is, domain-specific knowledge and need for cognition, attenuate this relationship. The second study further reveals the dual role of stimulus use behavior. Use directly leads to more conforming and fewer novel ideas but does not significantly affect idea quantity. Moreover, deeper use weakens the positive effect of stimulus rating on idea conformity and mitigates the negative effects of both relatedness and rating on idea novelty. These findings clarify the appraisal-use pathway, specify how creator traits shape evaluation, and demonstrate that the depth of external stimulus use serves not only as an outcome but also as a key moderator in the creative process.</div></div><div>While prior work has predominantly focused on the direct effects of stimulus characteristics, such as relatedness and rating, on creative outcomes, it has often overlooked the intervening cognitive processes and individual differences. To address this gap, we draw on the information adoption model and conduct two experimental studies. Both studies show that stimulus relatedness and rating increase perceived usefulness, which in turn promotes subsequent stimulus use. However, creator traits, that is, domain-specific knowledge and need for cognition, attenuate this relationship. The second study further reveals the dual role of stimulus use behavior. Use directly leads to more conforming and fewer novel ideas but does not significantly affect idea quantity. Moreover, deeper use weakens the positive effect of stimulus rating on idea conformity and mitigates the negative effects of both relatedness and rating on idea novelty. These findings clarify the appraisal-use pathway, specify how creator traits shape evaluation, and demonstrate that the depth of external stimulus use serves not only as an outcome but also as a key moderator in the creative process.</div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 101423"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148936153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting paradigms in design education: Biodesign with bacterial cellulose as a pathway to sustainable methodologies","authors":"Angélica Rocío Serrano-Farfán,&nbsp;Claudia Gutiérrez-Antonio,&nbsp;Valeria Caltzontzin-Rabell","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101415","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101415","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Biodesign has gained momentum but undergraduate curricula lack replicable frameworks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Students progressed from procedural prototyping to evidence based design.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Students internalizing life-cycle thinking and material literacy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Biodegradability and usability of bacterial cellulose promote practical sustainability.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;The methodology promotes interaction between design, architecture, and life sciences.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Biodesign has gained some visibility in higher education; however, undergraduate programs still lack structured and replicable frameworks that combine scientific rigor with creative design practice. This study addresses this gap by proposing and examining the Six-Step Biodesign Framework – which includes sensitisation, variable mapping, controlled experimentation, applied prototyping, comparative evaluation, and open documentation – centered on bacterial cellulose (BC). The research was conducted as a qualitative single-case study involving three consecutive undergraduate cohorts in Industrial Design and Architecture within a semester-based curriculum. Two research questions guided the study: (1) how hands-on work with BC relates to students' design cognition and sustainability reasoning, (2) which pedagogical principles emerge from this experimentation type. Data from studio observations, assessment rubrics, student artefacts, and semi-structured interviews were analyzed. Findings suggest a progression from procedural “making” toward more structured and reflective reasoning practices. Students increasingly articulated attention to life-cycle considerations, hypothesis formulation, and material-performance evaluation. Four recurring themes were identified: manipulability, pragmatic sustainability, adoption barriers, and curricular recommendations. BC's biodegradability and compatibility with digital fabrication supported material exploration while also revealing logistical constraints associated with biological growth cycles. The study contributes to discussions on material literacy and designer cognition, illustrating how biological experimentation creates conditions for engaging with practices aligned with scientific reasoning in undergraduate design education. Moreover, the framework supports a decolonial pedagogical orientation by positioning students as active participants in the production and interpretation of material knowledge. The Six-Step Biodesign Framework provides a structured model that may inform the integration of regenerative biomaterials into undergraduate curricula.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Biodesign has gained some visibility in higher education; however, undergraduate programs still lack structured and replicable frameworks that combine scientific rigor with creative design practice. Th","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 101415"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148526740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evolving pattern-based approaches for interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology and design","authors":"Zoë Metherell,&nbsp;Gini Lee,&nbsp;Mark J. McDonnell,&nbsp;Amy K. Hahs","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101402","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pattern languages were invented to share knowledge and aid participatory practice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pattern-based approaches evolved and proliferated in three phases since the 1960s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Innovations and refined methodologies support new applications of patterns in practice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pairing existing knowledge with design concepts could potentially aid ecological design.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our novel &lt;em&gt;pattern-graphic&lt;/em&gt; illustrates the vision the pattern language seeks to create.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pattern languages emerged in the 1960s as a means to share architectural design knowledge in a way that would empower people to participate in the design of their own environments. Since then, they have been adapted for other disciplines and purposes resulting in a proliferation of patterns and developments to the underlying approach. While there is now a substantial body of pattern-based literature, there are few publications that consider the discourse across multiple disciplines, or which seek to identify key developments within the evolution of the pattern-approach. This paper addresses these gaps through a synthesis of the pattern literature from multiple disciplines and identifies three phases of evolution: 1) invention of the original pattern-approach within architecture, 2) adaptation by software designers resulting in documented methodological advances, and 3) proliferation across many fields leading to an increasing sophistication and diversity of applications. Throughout this evolution, the pattern-format and pattern-writing methods have enabled knowledge-sharing and collaboration, contributing to advances in practice. This paper proposes schematic pattern-graphics as a further innovation that can enhance the existing pattern-approach. By facilitating knowledge co-development and strengthening interdisciplinary communication, the pattern approach now has greater potential to inform ecological design practices and thereby help address biodiversity loss and other environmental challenges.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pattern languages emerged in the 1960s as a means to share architectural design knowledge in a way that would empower people to participate in the design of their own environments. Since then, they have been adapted for other disciplines and purposes resulting in a proliferation of patterns and developments to the underlying approach. While there is now a substantial body of pattern-based literature, there are few publications that consider the discourse across multiple disciplines, or which seek to identify key developments within the evolution of the pattern-approach. This paper addresses these gaps through a synthesis of the pattern literature from multiple disciplines and identifies three phases of evolution: 1) invention of the original pattern-ap","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 101402"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148526741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the interaction between human and LLMs-based AI in creative tasks: Insights from UX professionals’ collaboration and communication with ChatGPT","authors":"Zhibin Zhou,&nbsp;Weiyue Gao,&nbsp;Yaoqi Li,&nbsp;Junnan Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101403","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Highlight #1: The research offers a comprehensive understanding of communication-based interaction patterns between designers and LLMs-based AI in real-world creative tasks from a communication perspective, particularly in a longitudinal setting.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Highlight #2: The research develops a human-LLM interaction framework for creative tasks, revealing interaction features (e.g., speech acts, task evolution) that enable prompt customization and seamless collaboration between creative-related practitioners (i.e., designers) and LLM-based AI systems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Highlight #3: The research shares implications for the design of more user-centered LLM AI applications for both creative and general tasks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Large Language Model applications (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have showcased their remarkable capability in creative tasks with exceptionally human-like responses. To effectively integrate LLMs in creativity-related activities, further research is needed to understand how humans interact with LLMs in creative tasks. In this work, we examined human-LLMs interaction in UX designers’ (N = 12) practices of incorporating ChatGPT into their professional design activities in China, from both collaboration and communication perspectives. Through participants’ longitudinal usage logs, diary surveys, and interviews, we found that participants employed different working strategies to interact with ChatGPT, revealing various collaboration and communication features. The collaboration features highlight how humans and LLMs coordinate task organization, covering task distribution, task contextualization, task fine-tuning with examples, and task evolution through iterative improvement of prompts. The communication features focus on the nature of intentions exchanged between humans and LLMs, including proactive communicator, content format, semantic continuity of prompts, and the speech acts, which cover the communicative goals, contexts, and tones. We also observed participants adjusting their interaction patterns in response to evolving design task demands, particularly shifting from personification to instrumentalization, from improvisational prompts to normalized prompts, and adapting strategies to avoid fixed responses. Grounded in these empirical findings and existing frameworks, we developed a framework to describe human-LLMs collaboration and further argue that communication could serve as an effective lens to understand human-AI interaction. Ultimately, we share implications for designing more productive and human-centered LLMs for creative tasks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Large Language Model applications (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have showcased their remarkable capability in creative tasks with exceptionally human-like responses. To effectively integrate LLMs in creativity-related activities, further research is needed to und","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 101403"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147951459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing food futures through crisis: A speculative approach to human–food symbiosis in design education","authors":"Keren Zhang,&nbsp;Kin Wai Michael Siu,&nbsp;Yijia Jiang,&nbsp;Huiyi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101405","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Crisis-driven scenarios make human–food relations tangible in design education.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Reflexive analysis reveals two entangled trajectories: &lt;em&gt;Human→Food&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Food→Human.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;The HFCP maps from &lt;em&gt;Status-quo Extension&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Radical Reconfiguration&lt;/em&gt; of food futures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;•&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;The adapted Double Diamond supports reflexive, speculative food design pedagogy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although research on speculative approaches in food design education is increasing, the practical and theoretical integration of speculative design with a critical understanding of human–food relations remains limited. This study conducted an eight-week speculative food-design workshop with 18 design students in six groups. Working with crisis scenarios linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), students collaboratively developed future-oriented food proposals that address socio-environmental challenges and expose tensions in contemporary food systems. Using reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) of workshop artefacts and speculative debates, we identify two intertwined visions of inquiry: Human→Food (perception, cognition, identity) and Food→Human (growth, production &amp; consumption, ecology). These trajectories underpin the Human and Food Symbiosis Cone of Possibilities (HFCP), a descriptive model that extends the cone of possibilities to map how proposals evolve along a spectrum of reconfiguration, from status-quo extension of food systems to more radical reconfiguration of human–food relations. Paired with the speculative Double Diamond in future iterations of teaching, HFCP offers a situated pedagogical framework that foregrounds rigour, reflexivity, and more-than-human responsibility, while providing reusable tools for analysing and teaching speculative food design.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although research on speculative approaches in food design education is increasing, the practical and theoretical integration of speculative design with a critical understanding of human–food relations remains limited. This study conducted an eight-week speculative food-design workshop with 18 design students in six groups. Working with crisis scenarios linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), students collaboratively developed future-oriented food proposals that address socio-environmental challenges and expose tensions in contemporary food systems. Using reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) of workshop artefacts and speculative debates, we identify two intertwined visions of inquiry: Human→Food (perception, cognition, identity) and Food→Human (growth, production &amp; consumption, ecology). These trajectories underpin the Human and Food Symbiosis Cone of Possibilities (HFCP), a descriptive model that extends the cone of possibilities to map how proposa","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 101405"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147995285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of designer involvement in the new product development process: Evidence from Japanese manufacturing companies","authors":"Yosuke Kanno","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101404","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101404","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the strategic importance of design in firms has increased, design is no longer understood merely as product aesthetics or styling, but as a professional function that influences the entire new product development (NPD) process through the translation of user knowledge, meaning creation, and visualization and prototyping. Prior research has repeatedly emphasized the value of designers’ early and sustained involvement in NPD. However, given that NPD unfolds as a staged process under time and cost constraints, it is not self-evident through which outcome pathways designer involvement ultimately translates into business performance. In particular, theoretical frameworks and quantitative evidence remain limited that systematically distinguish between product innovativeness and development efficiency as distinct outcome dimensions and compare the effects of stage-specific designer involvement across them.</div><div>This study bridges two largely parallel research streams—designer involvement research and concurrent engineering (CE)—by reframing designer involvement in NPD as an actor-specific resource allocation problem: at which stage, and to what extent, should professional design resources be deployed. Using project-level data from Japanese manufacturing firms, the study simultaneously measures designers’ involvement intensity at three NPD stages—market research and analysis, idea and concept development, and engineering and prototyping—and examines how such involvement affects business performance through product innovativeness and development efficiency, employing structural equation modeling. The results show that designer involvement does not operate through a single performance pathway; rather, its value creation differs by stage and by outcome dimension. Moreover, the stage at which designer involvement exerts the greatest leverage shifts depending on market uncertainty. These findings challenge uniform prescriptions that advocate front-loading designer involvement and instead offer a theoretical reconceptualization of design in NPD as a dynamic and context-dependent allocation of professional resources that mediates the tension between innovativeness and efficiency.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 101404"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147803383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Design as a tool for experiential food education: Research into practice through a proximity-based therapeutic garden","authors":"Anna C. Catania,&nbsp;Carmen Trischitta","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2026.101387","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the role of design as a catalyst in experiential food education through the Curortò project, a therapeutic garden established within the G. Di Cristina Children's Hospital. Grounded in a theoretical framework that integrates experiential learning, participatory pedagogy, and sustainability, the study reinterprets food as a vital medium for reconnecting individuals with their environment and local heritage. Employing a participatory action research methodology, the project involved hospitalised children, healthcare professionals, educators, and local community actors in a collaborative design process aimed at transforming the conventional hospital setting into a dynamic educational ecosystem. The intervention, inspired by local traditions and historical practices of urban agriculture, utilised recovered materials and hands-on cultivation activities to foster agroecological awareness and enhance cognitive, emotional, and social well-being. Detailed observation, field diaries, and qualitative interviews provided evidence of significant improvements in children's understanding of seasonal food cycles, resource management, and circular economy principles, accompanied by reduced stress levels and increased operational autonomy. The project further demonstrated the potential of design to mediate complex interactions between food, nature, and social innovation, thereby fostering collective responsibility and community resilience. As a contribution to the literature, the research proposes a comprehensive, multidimensional conceptual model that articulates how design can reconfigure care environments and promote sustainable food practices. This model encapsulates the transformative processes observed within the Curortò project and offers valuable theoretical insights for future applications in contexts characterised by vulnerability and the need for social innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101387"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-designing outdoor playspaces with children: A framework for analyzing participant design priorities","authors":"Karen Joyce,&nbsp;Janet Loebach","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Design processes increasingly embrace participatory methods, yet systematic frameworks for analyzing diverse co-design outputs remain underdeveloped, especially those from children. This study introduces the Priority Experiences of Participants (PrEP) framework, a five-stage analytical approach for synthesizing multimodal co-design contributions into actionable design guidance. The framework employs the lens of affordances to identify “umbrella experiences,” high-level experiential priorities. Through mixed-methods triangulation, including content analysis, Q-Sort rankings, and qualitative analysis, the framework systematically synthesizes participant contributions into design guidance. The framework is illustrated through a schoolyard co-design case study with 9- to 10-year-olds. The PrEP framework provides a structured approach and accessible tools to support the effective inclusion of children in decision-making and the authentic translation of their priorities into design solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146039217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptualizing place attachment affordance: Exploring an affordance-based approach to place attachment","authors":"Priya Narayanan,&nbsp;Snehal Nagarsheth","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Place attachment alludes to human attachment to places. However, studies in the field have historically focused only on the ‘human’ component, disregarding the potential of the ‘place’ component to offer valuable clues as to how design and/or policy interventions can allow people to become attached to place. Not surprisingly, discourses consistently stop short at identifying whether or not people feel attached to places without venturing to explore <em>how</em> people could potentially get attached to places and <em>what</em> strategies could be employed to improve place attachment. This exploratory study contends that the solution lies in asking ‘whether and to what degree a place allows one to form attachment bonds with it’ rather than the generally asked ‘whether and to what degree one is/feels attached to a place’. To do so, it brings affordance into the dialogue between place theory and attachment theory, and establishes the rich possibilities offered by affordance studies to better understand specific attributes of place that encourage/discourage attachment. Further, <em>place attachment affordance</em> is conceptualized as a potentially measurable entity that can facilitate the formulation of deployable design/policy strategies to ensure that places allow people to get attached to them, thus improving place satisfaction and hence quality of life of users. This is done by clarifying why and how people form attachment bonds with places as well as the physical, notional and socio-spatial properties of a place that allow people to form attachment bonds with it.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101378"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145957752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Restoring the past digitally: A 3D visualization study of the Great Mill in Gdansk","authors":"Ksenia Piatkowska,&nbsp;Katarzyna Darecka","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101376","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101376","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents an integrated digital workflow for reconstructing the chronological architectural development of the Great Mill in Gdansk, a key example of late medieval industrial heritage. The research employs digital technologies not as an end in themselves but as instruments supporting evidence-based historical interpretation. The methodological framework combines archival documentation, terrestrial laser scanning, digital photogrammetry, manual measurement, and advanced 3D modeling to establish a precise timeline of the building's transformations from the mid-14th century to the present.</div><div>Special attention is given to the structured integration of heterogeneous data sources. Point cloud analysis provided a geometric baseline, complemented by archival plans, iconography, and manual surveying to address data voids and occlusions. Sequential modeling stages reflect distinct construction phases, enabling the verification and reinterpretation of uncertain architectural features.</div><div>The resulting 3D reconstructions form a coherent visual and analytical record of the monument's evolution. Beyond their documentary function, they support historical interpretation, conservation strategies, and museum dissemination, including exhibitions and educational media. This workflow demonstrates the effectiveness of combining metric precision with historical analysis and offers a transferable methodological model for the reconstruction of other partially preserved or lost heritage structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 101376"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145981881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}