{"title":"Designing Culture-intensive Artefacts. How the Design Process Interprets Craft Reiteration to Build Future Diversities.","authors":"Federica Vacca, Paola Bertola, Chiara Colombi","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.10","url":null,"abstract":"The paper approaches the subject of traditional craft and local know-how from the perspective of design practice. The specific focus is on those fields of design that produce the so-called culture-intensive goods (Hesmondhalgh, 2002; Bovone and Mora, 2003), such as fashion, home goods and food. They are the result of recombination by design of a specific cultural capital into new shapes and meanings. Thanks to \"Made in Italy\" best practices context selected in those fields, the paper will discuss how design shapes future artefacts rooted in the reinterpretation of the past. On one hand, accessing craft culture and its reiterative attitude of transmission of identity and tradition along times. On the other hand, recombining craft processes into reconfigured practice, encoding different meanings into new narratives.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136184273","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":"Translating data into narratives","authors":"Ilaria Mariani, Irene Bianchi","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.09","url":null,"abstract":"Today more than ever, it is evident the role that data can play when designing policies. Not only can understandable data orient better strategies, but they can also enable reflexive practices within Public Administrations, giving directions for knowledge management and smarter governance. However, multiple gaps concur to affect data understanding and interpretation, hindering their subsequent translation into policy-valuable information. To tackle challenges related to data interpretation and usage, the article (i) illustrates a narrative approach for building profiles of cities as narrative feedback from sets of data and (ii) investigates their potential as a (self-)evaluation and a decision-making support device. The feedback structure relies on the conceptual model built for the DIGISER Project, which investigated multidimensional digital transition processes across European cities. Dynamic feedback retrieves data from the project dataset, translating them into discursive form. The effectiveness of the approach and its device is validated through a qualitative enquiry on a textual excerpt provided to three different departments of one of the cities that participated in the survey. The study corroborates that designing narrative feedback as semantic interpretations can trigger understanding, (self-)reflection and support policy change, informing policy formulation and facilitating cross-silo interactions across administrative units engaged in digital transformation processes.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183118","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}
Gradiyan Budi Pratama, Ari Widyanti, Nadira Nurfitrisari, Sheila Amalia Salma
{"title":"Ergonomic Product Design: An Empirical Study on The Influencing Factors to Use and to Buy","authors":"Gradiyan Budi Pratama, Ari Widyanti, Nadira Nurfitrisari, Sheila Amalia Salma","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.03","url":null,"abstract":"Ergonomic design in various types of products has been introduced in many countries. This study is aimed at observing the intention to use and to buy ergonomic products. A conceptual model of intention to use and to buy ergonomic product design is developed based on the Technology Acceptance Model. Dimensions and construction of the model are developed based on the literature and an experiment. Eight hundred and three respondents were involved by filling out the questionnaire, consisting of 7 dimensions and 23 statements. The result shows that perceived design, perceived comfort, perceived social image, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness influence the intention to use ergonomic product design. The intention to use will influence the intention to buy, which finally influences the continuance to use. Implications of the result are discussed.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183120","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":"Future Self","authors":"Miso Kim, Xing Zhou, Tia Thomson","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.06","url":null,"abstract":"This project explored dignity as a design principle for a service supporting formerly incarcerated students by helping them achieve their higher education goals and career ambitions. We highlight autonomy as the foundation of dignity and explore how autonomy and dignity are intertwined in the context of education. We conducted interviews with formerly incarcerated students and their educators to develop the “Future Self” service strategy. This service inspires the students to stay motivated by assisting them to design their future identities and connect with mentors who can serve as role models, and through income share agreement (ISA) financial plans to provide upfront funding, and ways of giving back to the community by empowering them to become mentors themselves.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183117","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":"Deo Leadership: How Design Executive Officers Lead Creative Organisations in Korea","authors":"Younjoon Lee, Jaewoo Joo, Rachel Cooper","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.08","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to investigate how Design Executive Officers (DEOs) manage creative employees. It differs from prior leadership research in creative industries in three ways; it focused on DEOs, specified their influences on organisational level, and discovered Korea-specific insights. We conducted in-depth interviews with the seven DEOs who have run their own design agencies for over ten years and hired more than 50 employees in Korea. Our thematic analysis of the 287 quotations collected revealed that 75% of the quotations fit the existing leadership framework and the remaining 25% are two unique attributes of DEO leadership: attitudes toward deeds and business growth. Our findings contribute to the academic discussion on design driven entrepreneurship by shedding light on the changing role of designers in the entrepreneurial landscape.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183121","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":"Survivability Design in Hostile Environments","authors":"Tojin Eapen, Daniel Finkenstadt","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.07","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a novel ERP model of survivability design using natural analogies. Management theories frequently emerge from biological metaphors. Every entity seeks to continue existence, to survive. Firms, governments and individuals balance survivability factors of efficiency, resilience, and prominence (ERP) to stay alive. The researchers employ a comparative analysis methodology between squids, military ships, startup firms in the defense industry and strategic supply chains using these analogies and novel ERP model as an analytical framework. Comparing the cases yields general principles of strategic design that potentially extend to other entities that function in hostile environments. These principles primarily relate to the relative significance of threats, the importance of ERP factors, the nature of interrelationships among the ERP factors, and the tradeoffs involved while taking actions to improve survivability. The paper offers insights into the use of ERP analogical case analysis as a means for interdependent entities to co-create strategies to plan for and overcome dilemmas in hostile environments.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136184271","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":"Semantic Innovation as Design Strategy for Sustainability and Ergonomics – A Case Study","authors":"Julianna Faludi","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.02","url":null,"abstract":"This study deploys the framework of architectural innovation (Henderson and Clark 1990), demonstrating that a design-driven strategy leverages incremental and radical innovation through a system of core design concepts. The presented case study of an Italian high-end kitchen producer, Valcucine, is particularly interesting due to its track of innovation in sustainable and ergonomic systems with high aesthetic quality. Findings reveal how meanings are encapsulated in the core design concepts and explored in the strategy of technological innovation – from architectural to modular, radical to incremental. The findings also support previous studies arguing that semantics in design-driven industries are nested into technological innovation.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183116","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}
Matteo Zallio, Camelia Chivaran, Sonia Capece, P. John Clarkson, Mario Buono
{"title":"Inclusive spatial learning experience","authors":"Matteo Zallio, Camelia Chivaran, Sonia Capece, P. John Clarkson, Mario Buono","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.04","url":null,"abstract":"The design of the built environment strongly influences people’s needs, how they learn, behave, and build relationships. Education and learning are part of the nature of human beings, and allow them to develop skills, advance culture, and answer needs. In the current context, the incremental use of technological devices inside spaces has brought several positive outcomes, but also various challenges due to increased complexity. Limitations in considering the diversity of human needs confronted with architecture and technologies may raise stigmatization and exclusion. This article explores the links between the learning theories and the paradigms of user-centered design, providing theoretical affinities able to reduce the exclusion of people during interaction with spaces and objects. The process of the inclusive spatial learning experience aims to stimulate designers to deliver inclusive spaces that provide a progressive discovery of their characteristics and technologies, with the final goal to improve the experience for people with different abilities, age, gender, culture, and various roles within the specific architecture they use and live.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183119","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":"Flexible Thinking Value-Add: Embedding Strategic Design into Graduate Education","authors":"Kingsley Eze, Moura Quayle","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.153.05","url":null,"abstract":"This article shares experiences of embedding strategic design into graduate education including learners’ feedback, and focus group outcomes. The goal of policy education in graduate school is to engage and inspire learners to critically think and problem-solve. Modern-day problems continuously challenge the status quo of conventional thinking and require a unique approach to tackling them. Strategic design, as a model, provides a framework to tackle challenging issues across multiple sectors by applying the ASK, TRY, and DO approach. It is anticipated that the learnings of this study inspire more educators to adopt and incorporate strategic design into their curriculum. In addition, educators could embed these findings into their learning environments as part of the quest for innovation in Public Policy and Interdisciplinary Studies.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183122","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":"Complex organizations, an exploration between design practices and management","authors":"Caterina Rosini, S. Barbero","doi":"10.4013/sdrj.2022.152.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2022.152.03","url":null,"abstract":"Organisational change has become increasingly an influential process in enterprise evolution because as a fundamental step in enabling the corporate to adapt and follow the changes occurring in its environment. All types of enterprises are involved in these dynamics. However, this paper will focus on organisational change for social enterprises (SE). In SE, organisational issues are complex, and they entail satisfying both economic and social mission needs while avoiding isomorphism with for-profit companies. On these considerations, this article aims to provide an insight into the role that design can play in processes that facilitate organisational change. Moreover, the paper investigates three design processes that deal with organisational issues and evaluate which one is the most suitable for SE organisational issue. The article synthesises and discusses literature from three areas of reference: design in the organisational field, organisational evolution of SEs, and organisations as complex systems. The aim of this literature review is to understand how design can support the development path of SE in its organisational change. Specifically for the SE category, it emerges how Systemic Design could play a more significant role in designing and implementing organisational development that can guarantee resilience and social sustainability valorising the specific context where they are based.","PeriodicalId":52184,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Design Research Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47804189","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}