Situated Scaffolding for Sustainable Participatory Design

An extensive literature on participatory design with older adults has, thus far, little to say about the support older adults need when involved in online activities. Our research suggests that to empower older adults in participatory design, scaffolding work has to be done. Scaffolding interactions - creating temporary instructional support to help the learning of participants - is a common approach in participatory design. Yet, when applied in online participatory design with older adults, the traditional understanding of the concept does not match the way older adults' learn. Hence, we argue for a new understanding of this term, which we call situated scaffolding. We illustrate our argument with a case where older adults collaborate online as part of a participatory design project. We unpack the different dimensions of situated scaffolding and discuss how this novel understanding can be used to further inform sustainable participatory design for and with older adults.

Design Project Using 45nm CMOS

<p>this article is aimed to design two impedances matching network to let the source degeneration and common gate amplifier to achieve the ideal characteristic. In the source degeneration case as the resistance is so small, so we just use down converting matching network. As the source degeneration gives us a high resistance , we just match with a up converting network.<b></b></p><p> </p>

Design Project Using 45nm CMOS

<p>this article is aimed to design two impedances matching network to let the source degeneration and common gate amplifier to achieve the ideal characteristic. In the source degeneration case as the resistance is so small, so we just use down converting matching network. As the source degeneration gives us a high resistance , we just match with a up converting network.<b></b></p><p> </p>

Silicon Photonic Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Module Design (Project Report CIAN2-3-Y2)

Reports of a project “Silicon Photonics and Manufacturing” under the Thrust 2 “Subsystem Integration and Silicon Nanophotonics” of an NSF-funded Centre for Integrated Access Networks.

Weaving Together a Decolonial Imaginary Through Design for Effective River Management: Pluriversal Ontological Design in Practice

Looking at how we, as designers, can move beyond charges of neo-colonialism in social design, this article uses the empirical example of a design project focused on the restoration of a riverine system in New Zealand to provide an outline of ways that pluriversal ontological design can occur in practice. Exploring how the use of design tools and frameworks (e.g., boundary objects and infrastructuring) can help build out a decolonial imaginary, the article demonstrates how— through our design practice— we are able to successfully acknowledge, and work with, different “ways of being” in the world.

Problematizer Design: A Foucaultian Approach

Based on a line of inquiry initiated by Dorst, this article explores Foucault's work as a philosophical inspiration for design research and practice. In terms of foucaultian problematization, notions of discourse and problematization— instead of notions of design problems— is an alternative way of dealing with design situations. It is argued that through the problematization of the discourses interwoven in a design project, the designer takes on a critical and political dimension of their own work. In this way, through the project, designers can have the option to critically choose between reinforcing discourses— in case of agreement with them, or subverting discourses— in case of disagreement.