DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00743
Hassnaa Mohammed
{"title":"Designing a New Brand of Islamic Places in the United States: The Hidden Program of Third Spaces","authors":"Hassnaa Mohammed","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00743","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_a_00743","url":null,"abstract":"The article critically examines how design is used as a tool to establish a new brand of American Islamic spaces in situated contexts using four strategic mechanisms: (1) Using place as a means of institutionalizing the inclusive vision of the community; (2) Urbanizing the location by moving away from the suburbs, making it accessible to all; (3) Co-designing the space to foster ownership; (4) reflecting a new brand of space through contextually sensitive interiors. Findings suggest that these four community-based mechanisms were used to enact a vernacular brand of Islamic spaces in the US through communicating an inclusive hidden program of space.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"45-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00740
Fatima Cassim
{"title":"Design Activism in South Africa: Design Interventions as Invented Spaces to Encourage Activist Citizenship","authors":"Fatima Cassim","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00740","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_a_00740","url":null,"abstract":"This article is premised on the role of design as a vehicle for social and political intervention, with specific reference to design activism. Owing to design activism's prognostic stance, the article explores how South African design interventions facilitated new sites and actors of citizenship beyond the traditional political arena. The examples of design interventions and the subsequent discussion are grounded in empirical data. As such, the South African context of the research brings “theory from the south” into conversation with current design activism discourse. Furthermore, the article makes visible the relationship between acts of design activism and activist citizenship.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"4-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00742
Carlo Franzato
{"title":"Toward a Convivial Design","authors":"Carlo Franzato","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00742","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_a_00742","url":null,"abstract":"This article is inspired by the work of Ivan Illich, especially Tools for Conviviality, which critiques industrialization and elaborates Illich's proposal for conviviality and is a major influence on post-development theory. In the early 1970s, Illich anticipated issues that design begins to explore only at the end of the twentieth century. This article discusses what he anticipated and develops this into practical suggestions for the evolution of design. Above all, the article provides suggestions for two intertwined design fields: design for sustainability and codesign. An analysis of Illich's work allows for the identification of three methodological movements acting toward a convivial design: (1) conduct a critique of the status quo, (2) imagine alternative proposals, and (3) carefully qualify the ethos of alternatives.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"31-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00744
Juan Mendoza-Collazos;Joost van de Weijer
{"title":"“Sketching With My Mind”: The Role of Prior Intentions and Intentions in Action for the Creative Process of Design","authors":"Juan Mendoza-Collazos;Joost van de Weijer","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00744","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_a_00744","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the effects of prior intentions and intentions in action during the initial stage of a process of design in search of correlations between these cognitive processes and the quality of the design outcomes. We found that the quality of the outcomes was not influenced by sketching. Nevertheless, most of the participants said that they preferred sketching, and their verbal reports can be seen as indicative of the formation of prior intentions. Therefore, we argue that prior intentions have an important role even within a process of pure material engagement. This has important implications for understanding the active role of human agency and our capacity to form prior intentions with pragmatic effects in the world.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"61-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_r_00747
Christian de Mouilpied Sancto
{"title":"Review of Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR: Design Museum London, May 13, 2022-April 10, 2023 (Exhibition Review)","authors":"Christian de Mouilpied Sancto","doi":"10.1162/desi_r_00747","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_r_00747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"107-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00745
Fernando Secomandi
{"title":"Service Design as Formgiving: Breaking Free from the Marketing-Dominant Logic","authors":"Fernando Secomandi","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00745","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_a_00745","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a critique of Vargo and Lusch's service-dominant logic (SD Logic) and proposes an alternative basis for service design. The proposed approach builds upon the formgiving tradition outlined in Maldonado's definition of industrial design. More specifically, the article questions SD Logic's neglect of service materiality and emphasizes the need for a deliberate reevaluation of formgiving, taking into account the unique materiality of services exchanged in face-to-face interactions.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"77-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00746
Lianne Toussaint;Daniëlle Bruggeman;Jeroen van den Eijnde
{"title":"Fungi Fabrics and Living Colors: Toward Ecocentric Biodesign?","authors":"Lianne Toussaint;Daniëlle Bruggeman;Jeroen van den Eijnde","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00746","DOIUrl":"10.1162/desi_a_00746","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues for a shift toward more ecocentric, rather anthropocentric, biodesign processes for clothing and textile design. It discusses mainstream understandings of biomimicry and biodesign, rethinking these approaches in a more-than-human and ecocentric direction. The article analyzes the cases of mycelium-based garments and bacterial textile dyes to, on the one hand, show how current biodesigners are already successfully working with natural resources by growing, collaborating with, regenerating, and restoring nature. On the other hand, these two cases are used to show the potential for biodesign practices to move even further beyond a human-centered understanding of designing with nature.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"40 1","pages":"92-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00735
Danielle Lake;Judy Whipps
{"title":"Feminist Pragmatist Design: Evolutionary Systems Change","authors":"Danielle Lake;Judy Whipps","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00735","url":null,"abstract":"What might feminist pragmatist methods of engagement have to offer to design efforts aimed at catalyzing and sustaining change in complex systems? This article examines two systemic social design initiatives emerging from classical feminist pragmatists that illustrate their core commitments and social change methods. These initiatives highlight four strategies found to be critical to feminist pragmatist social design inquiry: 1) situated and relational exploration across diverse communities, 2) iterative and experimental prototyping, 3) a willingness to accept incremental change, and 4) a commitment to deep and sustained engagement within communities.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"39 4","pages":"21-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71903473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DESIGN ISSUESPub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00731
Josina Vink
{"title":"Embodied, Everyday Systemic Design - A Pragmatist Perspective","authors":"Josina Vink","doi":"10.1162/desi_a_00731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00731","url":null,"abstract":"Systemic design is gaining popularity as an emerging professional design practice that works to address complex societal problems. This elitist view of systemic design reinforces the difficulty of grappling with complexity and the need for specialized design knowledge, skills, and methods to do so. Such an understanding emphasizes the power of the designer, feeds the underlying business model through which systemic design is bought and sold in a capitalist market, and limits its transformative potential. Taking a pragmatist perspective of systemic design, this article brings forward an alternative view of systemic design as an embodied, everyday experience of shaping social structures amid communities. It repositions systemic design as a pervasive, mundane, and pluralistic practice central to autonomous communities. The article calls for an emphasis on cultivating the reflexivity of collectives so that people can continue to shape their own worlds in respectful relations with others.","PeriodicalId":51560,"journal":{"name":"DESIGN ISSUES","volume":"39 4","pages":"35-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71903474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}