Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101333
Wei Yue, Jiahui Shen, Chun-Cheng Hsu
{"title":"Ritual design in digital age: A comprehensive analysis of development and trend","authors":"Wei Yue, Jiahui Shen, Chun-Cheng Hsu","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101333","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101333","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To systematically summarize the ritual design research in digital age, a content analysis of 161 relevant articles was conducted, revealing the interdisciplinary nature of the field with seven keyword clusters and four high-frequency keywords. Ritual design research is predominantly constructivist and practice-oriented. A framework for analysing ritual design types was proposed, highlighting ‘Design of ritual’ on secular affairs, especially in individual daily life and ‘Design for ritual’ for collectives on religious affairs as emerging research themes. Additionally, ritual design is expanding within Human–Computer Interaction. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of existing research on ritual design, analysing multiple dimensions such as epistemological positions, knowledge types, design types, and design practices. It also serves as a valuable reference for future researchers, particularly in the areas of theoretical constructs, design methods, and design practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"100 ","pages":"Article 101333"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749210","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101326
Pablo Wikander, Damian Collins, Joshua Evans
{"title":"Researching collaborative housing through design: A case study of co-design workshops involving low-income recent immigrants in Canada","authors":"Pablo Wikander, Damian Collins, Joshua Evans","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101326","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101326","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Canada's housing crisis affects low-income immigrants seeking affordable housing. One option for increasing affordability is collaborative housing. However, for collaborative housing to be adequate for immigrants, it is critical to know what designs meet their needs. This study used co-design workshops with low-income recent immigrants in Canada to explore their housing pathways, needs and preferences. Participants developed artefacts corresponding to their dream homes, to minimum acceptable housing, and to collaborative housing. These artefacts were digitally translated into five core models of collaborative housing. The results show that the Research Through Design approach, combined with co-design methods, can be used effectively to identify models of collaborative housing for low-income recent immigrants and to envision alternative housing futures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101326"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144597435","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101330
Derya Karadağ
{"title":"Pre-occupancy evaluation of wayfinding signage using immersive virtual reality","authors":"Derya Karadağ","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101330","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101330","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores how alternative wayfinding signage designs influence user experience within immersive virtual environments during early-stage architectural evaluation. A 3D model of a university building’s ground floor was developed and experienced through head-mounted displays (HMDs) to simulate spatial conditions. Eighteen participants completed structured navigation tasks in two signage settings, followed by post-task surveys and semi-structured interviews. Quantitative data—task completion times and circulation paths—were analysed alongside thematic evaluations of user feedback. Findings reveal that signage design affects spatial perception, navigational efficiency, and user satisfaction. The study shows that early-stage VR testing supports user-informed design decisions, especially for evaluating signage-based spatial strategies and related user experience considerations. VR emerges as a practical tool for integrating user-centred feedback into the pre-occupancy phase of spatial planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685727","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":"Beyond the visuals: Sri Lankan stamp designers personalized approach in postage stamp design","authors":"Dulshan Ellawela, Sumith Gopura, Ayesha Wickramasinghe, Tiziana Ferrero-Regis","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Postage stamps are significant visual artefacts that represent culture and identity. The illustrations on stamps frequently embody diverse approaches to narrating cultural heritage and historical narratives. Sri Lankan designers' lifeworlds - backgrounds, education, and experiences intrinsically shape these approaches. Through an inductive analysis of semi-structured interviews with six designers, this study identifies key themes, including background, mentorship, and the interaction between formal and informal education, and experiential learning in shaping their creative processes in stamp design. Further to the findings anchored in the Concept-Knowledge (C–K) Theory, the study highlights a framework for interpreting the Design Learning and Thinking in stamp design, offering valuable insights into how designers from diverse backgrounds negotiate personal and cultural identity in their creative endeavours.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101332"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144722134","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101329
Shiva Ghaznavi, Farzin Haghparast, Ali Pourahmad Ghalejough, Hesam Sakian Mohamadi
{"title":"Implementing user-centered design in architecture using virtual reality: A case study of a micro coworking space","authors":"Shiva Ghaznavi, Farzin Haghparast, Ali Pourahmad Ghalejough, Hesam Sakian Mohamadi","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101329","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101329","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The evolving nature of workspaces, shaped by technological advancements and modern demands, necessitates innovative design approaches that prioritize the needs of employees. This study adapts user-centered design principles, traditionally applied to digital products, to architecture, integrating these principles within an iterative design process model for coworking spaces enhanced by virtual reality. The research investigates user preferences, spatial satisfaction, and movement patterns at the Tabriz Islamic Art University Incubator, involving users in the design process through virtual reality prototyping to develop and refine design alternatives. The findings demonstrate the effectiveness of user-centered design and virtual reality within the proposed model in shaping coworking environments that align with user needs, leading to more responsive and satisfactory architectural solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101329"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714166","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101328
Hung-Hsiang Wang
{"title":"An experiential learning approach to basic design studio","authors":"Hung-Hsiang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores an experiential learning approach in basic design education by integrating observations of the real world to improve students' learning motivation, self-efficacy, and performance. A quasi-experiment with 28 first-year industrial design students used a single-group pre- and post-test design over a nine-week studio. The short course included four learning units on natural observation for pattern analysis and shape reconstruction. Learning outcomes were assessed through scales, rubrics, T tests and regression analysis, while qualitative feedback was analyzed through text clouds. The results indicated an improvement in self-efficacy but mixed motivation for learning, probably due to the challenges in the reconstruction of shapes using generative rules and CAD tools. Students showed strong interest in field observation and generative rule exploration. The approach has positively influenced self-efficacy and learning performance. Future improvements include the alignment of tasks with the previous knowledge of students, the integration of user-friendly generative AI tools and the introduction of systematic problem-solving methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101328"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144723838","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":"Unraveling the nature of design thinking disposition: Contributions of trait cognitive flexibility and trait empathy on design thinking potential","authors":"On-Ting Lo, Sun-Pui Ng, Sally Ng, Veronica Lai, Sammi S.Y. Keung","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101325","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101325","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Design thinking, a human-centered and creative problem-solving approach, has garnered significant attention across various disciplines. However, its ambiguous conceptual nature and lack of a robust theoretical framework have been points of criticism. This study seeks to address the research question: What are the key psychological traits that contribute to an individual’s design thinking disposition? To explore this, a cross-sectional survey was conducted with 904 young adults (aged 18–35) from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The survey measured trait cognitive flexibility, trait cognitive empathy (perspective-taking), trait affective empathy (empathic concern), and design thinking disposition, alongside personality traits (e.g., openness to experience), demographics, and academic performance. Results indicate that trait cognitive flexibility is strongly associated with design thinking disposition, and this relationship is mediated by cognitive empathy (perspective-taking), but not by affective empathy (empathic concern). These effects persist even when controlling for personal attributes such as age, education level, and openness to experience. The findings highlight the pivotal role of cognitive flexibility and underscore the importance of cognitive empathy over affective empathy in fostering design thinking. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the psychological foundations of design thinking and offers insights for developing evidence-based strategies to cultivate this important disposition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101325"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144321528","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101317
Andrew Gipe-Lazarou
{"title":"Accessing architecture: Career exploration opportunities for aspiring designers with vision impairment","authors":"Andrew Gipe-Lazarou","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101317","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101317","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To comprehensively address the built environment, the discipline of architecture must account for the full spectrum of bodily experiences which defines our collective experience of space. In the United States, more than 25 % of this collective experience belongs to individuals with disability, and yet, of the twenty-two major occupation groups surveyed by the CDC between 2016 and 2022, architecture and engineering had the lowest rate of disability representation at 8 %. The objective of this research was to conduct a critical survey of career exploration experiences for aspiring professionals with vision impairment interested in pursuing a degree in architecture, with the broader aim of improving the accessibility of architectural learning and practice for individuals with disability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 101317"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144298771","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101305
Hans Georg Schaathun
{"title":"On the common core of science and design","authors":"Hans Georg Schaathun","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101305","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101305","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The relationship between science and design is complicated and controversial. Over the years we have seen both authors trying to cast design as a science, and authors who aim to demarcate design firmly from science. In 2012, Farrell and Hooker argued that science is essentially a form of design. Later, in 2015, they moderated this view, and argued for a Common Core Cognitive Process underlying both science and design. This paper argues that such a Common Core should be designed and promoted in order to facilitate inter-disciplinary conversation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101305"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089679","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101316
Juan Pablo Aschner Rosselli, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Alma Sarmiento Jaramillo
{"title":"Decolonizing creative education in the global south","authors":"Juan Pablo Aschner Rosselli, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Alma Sarmiento Jaramillo","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101316","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores decoloniality and creative education in the Global South, focusing on integrating art, architecture, design, and traditional practices into contemporary educational frameworks. It highlights the benefits of incorporating local traditions and environmental principles into curricula through literature reviews, interviews, and case studies from the Americas, Africa, and Asia, promoting cultural diversity and social justice. The article critiques colonial power dynamics and suggests a more inclusive, interdisciplinary approach. It addresses challenges faced by marginalized communities, proposing strategies for universities to develop equitable and culturally responsive pedagogies. The study underscores the importance of context in creativity, advocating for curricular reforms that include educators from the Global South to foster cultural sensitivity and promote social change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 101316"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144137283","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}