Design StudiesPub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101275
{"title":"From an ethics of the eyes to ethics of the bodies: Rethinking ethics in design research through sensory practices","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101275","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Within this paper, we develop what we describe as an ethics of the bodies, which operationalises how design researchers and design students can deal with ethics through embodied reflections. Contrasting an “ethics of the eyes” and an ethics of the bodies, we argue that there are benefits when developing and using a sensory practice as an ethical approach when conducting design research in order to deal with ethics in situ and reflecting ethical dimensions that can be slippery to grasp. Based on an analysis of two empirical examples from design research projects, the paper contributes an approach for how design researchers, and students in design education, can work methodologically to activate a sensory approach to ethics by developing an ethics of the bodies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142526463","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 : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101276
{"title":"Transforming mature design management to better firm performance: The importance of top management involvement","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101276","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101276","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Design can be utilized in different manners, including as styling activities, integrating role, and strategic manner. The different way reflects different maturity of a firm. Although previous studies conceptually suggest the mature way of managing design brings considerable benefits, empirical evidence is rare. This study fills in this gap by investigating the influences of design management maturity on product innovation performance and financial performance. A survey was conducted (N = 200) and analyzed through PLS-SEM. Results show that design management maturity does not directly improve product innovation performance but mediated by top managers' design management expertise. These findings highlight the importance of top managers' design management expertise in transforming a firm's design management maturity to enhanced product and firm performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142526465","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 : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101277
{"title":"Interior design ways of knowing: Embracing unpredictability","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101277","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101277","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interiors constantly change through inhabitation. As such, interior designers value a person's post-project agency as much as a participatory design agency. We must not only be comfortable with this ambiguity but embrace subjectivity within social-cultural contexts as the material with which we operate. This way of knowing, that the process is the product, has not always been the norm in built environment disciplines that primarily concern themselves with form. A simple case is presented to demonstrate the complexity of time, space, and context that impact a typical design project and reflections of the role of designers in the process. The process and reflection demonstrate a human-oriented rather than object-oriented worldview that accommodates flexibility for unpredictability inherent in interior design practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142526464","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 : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101274
{"title":"That was fun, now what?: Modelizing knowledge dynamics to explain co-design's shortcomings","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101274","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101274","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Co-design workshops seek solutions to complex, multi-stakeholder issues. These ephemeral encounters bring together designers and uninitiated individuals who embark in a facilitated process that mobilizes a range of simplified design tools and methods. Despite co-design's benefits in terms of representation and acceptability, these workshops also come with limitations and often fall short of their intended goals. Proceeding from stylized facts informed by both our experience and the literature, this study investigates why co-design struggles at maintaining engagement and fails to consistently deliver innovative output regardless of the number of participants involved. Namely, we employ a model-building strategy to illuminate the main knowledge dynamics during workshops and to highlight a constrained ‘reactive expansion’ mechanism that explains known co-design's shortcomings. Implications for workshop facilitation and planning are offered in closing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142444761","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101265
{"title":"Beyond safety: A design examination of facial PPE in paediatric wards","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101265","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101265","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In paediatric wards, establishing therapeutic rapport with children requires employing friendly gestures or an understanding gaze, an aspect inhibited when clinicians wear facial personal protective equipment (PPE). In this case study we explore how interactions in three scenarios of a paediatric ward might inform the design of child-friendly PPE. We show how our research methods involved healthcare professionals, parents, and children to identify problems and solution pathways. Our findings indicate that PPE for paediatric wards need to be a system design solution considering emotions, engagement, communication, education, and sustainability factors. We discuss three aspects of conducting design research in healthcare contexts: working within high-risk environments, ethics in design for healthcare projects, and the translation of findings within the regulatory landscape.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X24000280/pdfft?md5=04b4ca34670cb370d6b22d46819defac&pid=1-s2.0-S0142694X24000280-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141732042","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101264
{"title":"Typologization of exclusionary design: An exploration of design interventions excluding unhoused people from urban public spaces","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101264","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101264","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this article, designs that exclude unhoused people from urban public spaces are explored. Drawing from the research project ‘Exclusionary Design: Social Exclusion in Public Spaces’, this article incorporates insights from people who live or have lived unhoused, examining urban design from their perspective. Through a postphenomenological analysis, this article illuminates how design can contribute to creating social exclusion and introduces a model for typologizing exclusionary design. The typology comprises five categories: 1) Urban furniture, 2) Technical installations, 3) Barriers, 4) Absence of ‘material’, and 5) Signs. This typology can serve as a practical operational tool for anyone involved in design and decision-making processes related to urban public spaces.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141962325","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101248
Jin Lee, Seung Wan Hong, Chang-Yeon Cho
{"title":"Reinforcement-learning agents for architects' trade-offs in designing children's play environment: A qualitative comparative analysis","authors":"Jin Lee, Seung Wan Hong, Chang-Yeon Cho","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2024.101248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although contemporary children's learning environments highlight promoting physical and social development–related play behaviours and safety, there are no valid means to analyse children's dynamic, complex behaviours. To address this limitation, the paper explores the impacts of agent-based simulation on architects' trade-offs in designing children's play-oriented learning environments. To simulate children's subtle behavioural responsiveness to the given environments, this paper adopts reinforcement learning (RL) as a method to develop autonomous play behaviours. A comparative experiment was conducted with 14 professional architects to investigate the capacities of the RL-powered agents. The systemic qualitative analysis indicates that the RL agent supported the coordination of complex physical constraints and new insights into child-oriented dimensions when evaluating the learning environment design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140342019","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101249
James Jakób Liszka
{"title":"Charles Peirce's new esthetics: Good design","authors":"James Jakób Liszka","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2024.101249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Peirce, founder of pragmatism, developed a new sense of aesthetics focused on design. He reimagined aesthetics in a chain of “normative sciences” that links the design of means to function and function to good ends. Peirce realized that means-end reasoning is amoral and needs ethical guidance. He thought, like Aristotle and Mill, that the fix would be finding a higher end that was both good and desirous and could be used as a moral test for specific ends and means. The discovery of this end would be the result of inquiry, but he realized that inquiry itself had normative constraints that functions as a higher end. I show how these normative constraints can be applied to the study of design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140190739","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101250
Wenlin Zhang, Jin Ma
{"title":"Framing under power asymmetries: A cross-level examination of the early-stage product design process","authors":"Wenlin Zhang, Jin Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2024.101250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Real-world design projects often involve designers and non-design professionals from the same or different organisations. Power asymmetries permeate such projects. However, prevailing design research implicitly assumes that framing—an essential practice that pervades the design process—unfolds within relatively equitable interpersonal negotiations. The dynamics in framing across the individual and collective levels under power asymmetric conditions remain largely underexplored. We conducted a cross-level analysis of 48 early-stage product design sessions, drawing on a field study conducted at a design consultancy. Our findings reveal how power asymmetries infiltrate and shape frame evolution, starting from individual proposals to eventual collective acceptance. This research extends framing theory in design research by reconceptualising framing as a power-laden, cross-level practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X24000139/pdfft?md5=e5d4a03ee96b47d046cfd7c0c9497364&pid=1-s2.0-S0142694X24000139-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140641532","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}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2024.101254
Sijia Wu, Ellis van den Hende, Erik-Jan Hultink, Giulia Calabretta
{"title":"Inspiration for styling tasks","authors":"Sijia Wu, Ellis van den Hende, Erik-Jan Hultink, Giulia Calabretta","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2024.101254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2024.101254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Inspiration is vital for designers. This study builds on findings on inspiration examples for problem-solving tasks and extends those to styling tasks by exploring the influence of examples on styling criteria. The generation of inspiration examples in this study is grounded in design literature and practice. This study identifies primary styling criteria (i.e., personality coherence, visual coherence, and originality) to evaluate the design outcome. The results indicate that designers who received near-field examples that communicated an intended meaning compared to designers who did not receive any examples generated concepts with a higher personality coherence yet with a similar level of originality. Also, near-field visual examples increased visual coherence. Thus, different design criteria need specific examples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X24000176/pdfft?md5=534415fc4e42fbd9aa113008184ccb61&pid=1-s2.0-S0142694X24000176-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141097267","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}