Editorial: Material-Enabled Changes in Design Research and Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvin Karana ◽  
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Tom Fisher ◽  
Faith Kane ◽  
Elisa Giaccardi
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Editorial Material

Making Things Visible: Opportunities and Tensions in Visual Approaches for Design Research and Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 451-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Snyder ◽  
Eric P. S. Baumer ◽  
Stephen Voida ◽  
Phil Adams ◽  
Megan Halpern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Research And Practice

Future work design research and practice: Towards an elaborated model of work design

2001 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon K. Parker ◽  
Toby D. Wall ◽  
John L. Cordery
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Work Design ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Future Work

Information design research and practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 267-268
Author(s):  
Angela Norwood
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Research And Practice

scholarly journals The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Approaching Ageing-Related Design Research and Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Comincioli ◽  
Alice Chirico ◽  
Andrea Gaggioli ◽  
Masood Masoodian
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
World Population ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Implicit Form ◽  
Related Design

Despite a rapidly ageing world population, ageism – particularly in its implicit form – is widespread in society. In this article, we propose that a paradigm shift is needed in how we approach ageing-related design research and practice in areas such as assistive technologies. We also put forward the idea of using the Healthy Ageing (HA) framework of the WHO as the basis for new lines actions that can be taken by design researchers and practitioners to address implicit ageism in society through their work.

scholarly journals Philosophy at work: Postphenomenology as a generative lens in design research and practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander van der Zwan ◽  
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Maarten Smith ◽  
Jelle Bruineberg ◽  
Pierre Lévy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Research And Practice

scholarly journals Inquiry through practice: The brief as a pedagogical method for design research

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Tatiana Tavares ◽  
Marcos Mortensen Steagall
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Design Students ◽  
The Impact

Learning and teaching in areas that require high levels of creativity, like Design and Art, can differ from other educational domains and methodologies. It may consider the complexity involving emergent properties activated from the interaction between many variables, including the researchers’ participation in what is researched. Design-based research methodology provides navigation for teaching experiences where learning outcomes are forged using briefs as design experiments or a way to carry out formative research to test and refine educational principles derived from previous knowledge. In this study, the brief operated as a pedagogical method to combine academic conventions of design research and practice. Using a learning and teaching experience with Communication Design students in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this study presents the methods applied in a paper brief that integrated social, technical, and cognitive dimensions of knowledge construction. The brief “Auckland Plan 2050: Promoting and researching a design plan for a growing city” was delivered to level seven students over twelve weeks period and employed several studio-driven activities. As a pedagogical approach, the design studio provided a space that privileged imagination, reflection-in-action over the empirical and the rational. The studio valued the learner’s worldview: their geographic localities, culture, their communities and the impact of the design to a broader context. Understanding the dynamics given by these spaces created opportunities to consider design teaching methods that were collaborative, informal, generative, and supportive. The studio-driven classroom brought research and practice together, and offered social media and emerging technologies as a tool for iteration and communication processes. The brief shed light on Social Design and started with a hypothetical research question: How do design outcomes increase awareness of a real-world problem? Using a Council’s long-term plan for Auckland city, students investigate specific issues, and challenges communities will face and design solutions that were industry, research-driven and culturally reflecting Kaupapa M?ori values. During sessions with M?ori scholars, entrepreneurs, and the design community, the brief provided a discursive platform that converged the design industry, stakeholders, and academia. The reflection about this complex social, cultural, and ecological network considered Auckland’s inhabitants’ needs and aspirations, enlightening a social perspective to design students. As a result, students developed award-winning cohesive design artefacts and extensive exegetical contextual analysis and documentation of the process. The outcomes branched from diverse media forms, including branding, graphic design, wayfinding, UX/UI, AR, and VR technologies. The moderation process between designers, academic staff, and stakeholders during a 3-year cycle demonstrated a successful model for integrating industry expertise and academic rigour, crafted through a paradigm oriented by practice. Surveys with students indicated a positive response associated with designing under real-world settings, which increased engagement and provided strategic platforms for iteration, dialogue, collaboration, and cultural diversity.

Information design, research and practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
Jorge Frascara
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Research And Practice
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