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- Berríos-Negrón, Luis, 1971-
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Careful Epistemológica
- 2020
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Ingår i: Konstfack Research Week 2020. - Stockholm : Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. ; , s. 10-10
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Berríos-Negrón, Luis
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Greenhouse Superstructures as Social Pedestals : displaying site-specific non-locality as a possible form of resilience
- 2015
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Ingår i: Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale. - Sheffield, UK : University of Sheffield. ; , s. 70-71
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper I will propose that greenhouse superstructures are not just the surface envelop of an industrial typology: they are more so a spatial archetype. As such, they are historiographical boundary objects that at times display the spatiotemporal dimensions and geopolitical flows of environmental form in accelerated climate change. This abovementioned hypothesis is reflected through the manifold of “resilience” as defined by Prof. Lawrence Vale - of resilience being “a window into conflicting human values”. The aim of this effort is to ultimately centre the manifold notion of “greenhouse” as an index that points away from itself towards the impact of anthropological and technocratic ideologies on agricultural and spatial production. It is these binary ideologies that arguably create what we sense to be a crisis of scale, now further articulated as the hyperobject of climate change as a disjuncture that we nostalgically entertain as a chasm between the human condition and the living environment. Parsed by augmenting the notion of 'greenhouse superstructure' – as technology, gas, and effect – the hypothesis looks to articulate the greenhouse as a 'site-specific non-local' sensation on the expanding sculptural field. What this expanding sculptural netherworld implies needs to be rigorously addressed for it may very well become what tautologically heightens the greenhouse to the providence of becoming our future atmosphere and landscape. To elaborate this potentiality, I will first present the schematics and precedents of the dissertation, including four installations of my authorship in Germany, Brazil, and Sweden. These sections then lead to an argument instantiated by thinking of the greenhouse as 'social pedestal'. The objective is therefore to embody the notion of non-local site-specific resilience as modes of pedagogy and production that aspire to destabilise the anthropological machine, as resilient modes not limited to historic, scientific, artistic, correlational, nor speculative conventions.
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- Billström, Niklas, et al.
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Can we improve acoustic environments by adding sound
- 2012
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 41st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering. - 9781627485609
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sound is central to the identity of a place, but is nonetheless a frequently neglected component in the design process. We believe that urban soundscape planning and product sound design has much to gain by collaborating with the artistic and humanistic fields of knowledge. Applying acoustics and perception psychology as well, the sound laboratory at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design examined the domain of acoustic design in the research project ISHT – The Interior Sound Design of High-Speed Trains – in collaboration with, among others, train manufacturer Bombardier. Empirical data in this study is focused on train travel, but can easily be transposed to other contexts, such as public spaces. Methods for improving sonic experience in relation to criteria such as identity and specific needs were explored. Our thesis question was: How to create a comfortable and appealing environment by adding sounds (distributed via speakers)? The interdisciplinary research methods included field observations, listening tests, and quantitative data, as well as public exhibitions and collaborations with composers.
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- Björkvall, Anders, et al.
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Connecting analogue and digital literacy practices? : On uses and semiotic potentials of digital pencils in Swedish middle school and high school
- 2023
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Ingår i: The 11th International Conference on Multimodality: Desiging Futures. - London : University College London. ; , s. 30-30
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A dichotomization of the resources used for contemporary teaching, learning, and meaningmaking may result in a simplified division of such processes as either ‘digital’ or ‘analogue’. Our presentation addresses this dichotomy, and our understanding of semiotic technologies more broadly, by analyzing the potential of the digital pencil for connecting ‘analogue’ meaning-making to ‘digital’ meaning-making in the subject of Swedish in middle school and high school. Based on data from two pilot studies, each carried out for two months, our analysis focuses on how digital pencils can be used as tools for multimodal text creation in ways that draw on how this is typically done in analogue genres. This way, the analysis will provide knowledge of the semiotic potentials, affordances and actual uses of digital pencils in school, something which is lacking in previous research, with the exception of a few recent studies (e.g. Riche et al., 2017). Two main results stand out. First, digital pencils can actually be effectively used to draw on analogue literacy practices in the classroom. Second, digital pencils have other affordances (Lindstrand, 2022) than just functioning as “digital ink”: they are multifunctional in the sense that they can be used as tools for an array of multimodal tasks that analogue pencils cannot. Thus, the analysis concludes that not only can digital pencils be used to resemiotize analogue practices, but they also afford new ways of creating texts.
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- Björkvall, Anders, 1972-, et al.
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Designing with and for digital pencils : On the potentials of writing and shapiong by hand in digitalized middle schools and high schools
- 2024
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Ingår i: Designs for Learning 2024: Conceptualizing design. - Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, IPD. ; , s. 11-12
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation reports on results from two studies of uses and potentials of digital pencils in grade 4 and 8 in Sweden. Digital pencils were provided to the students and their teachers and the teachers integrated the pencils in a number of projects. The didactic design of teaching and learning were performed by teachers and their students, without direct involvement by us as researchers.The broader background to these studies is a dichotomization of the resources used for contemporary teaching, learning, and meaning making that is present in many schools today, but also in the public debate. In this discourse, a simplified division of learning tools prevail: they are either “digital” or “analogue”. Our presentation addresses this dichotomy, and understandings of semiotic technologies more broadly, by analyzing the potentials of the digital pencil for connecting “analogue” meaning making to “digital” meaning making in middle school and high school. We look at how writing and shaping by hand – still to be considered fundamental skills and competences in society today and with a history that goes back thousands of years – can be performed in digitalized Swedish classrooms.Based on data from the two studies carried out in 2022 through 2024, our analysis provides knowledge of the semiotic potentials and actual uses of digital pencils in school, something which is lacking in previous research, with the exception of a few recent studies (Riche et al, 2017). The overall methodological framework is multimodal ethnography (Björkvall, 2012). This methodology combines tools and techniques from ethnography with those from semiotics and designs for learning.Two main results stand out. First, the digital pencils can actually be effectively used to draw on analogue practices in the classroom. We will provide examples. Second, the digital pencils have other affordances (Lindstrand, 2022) than just functioning as “digital ink”: they are multifunctional in the sense that they can be used as tools for an array of tasks that analogue pencils cannot. Thus, the analysis concludes that not only can the digital pencils be used to resemiotize analogue practices; they also afford new ways of writing and shaping by hand. These latter need to be further integrated in the didactic practices of Swedish classrooms.
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- Bjørnstad, Nina, et al.
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Anticipative Co-Creation Method
- 2022
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Ingår i: DS 117: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2022), London South Bank University in London, UK. 8th - 9th September 2022. - 9781912254163
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We experience an urgent climate crisis that shakes our whole existence and calls for change. The field of industrial design education has expanded over the past decades towards a new language of speculative design projects, aiming to influence industry and address unsustainable manufacturing. How designers typically use their capacities for change, is shown in the discursive qualities of proposed solutions. Within the current educational context, not given a commercial brief, new methods arise. This international design master's course aims to find better future product concepts that nudge sustainable ways of living. How they initiate and prototype these product ideas, is through design fiction and co-creation, conceptualizing and proposing solutions to essential problems and needs. By the use of prototypes, designers can bring essential future solutions into the present. This paper outlines how the new ‘Anticipative Co-creation Method’ emerged. As the foresighted concepts intend to address the negative trends in overconsumption and unsustainable lifestyle, the designs for the far future function as inspirational future versions of the relevant suggestions for today. Through interpersonal anticipatory engagement, concepts grow out of the design fiction. In a dialog with each other students verbalize scenarios and through co-creation concepts become ‘real’ as different videos were created. We have observed that the students build empathy for each other through co-creative activities within the method of anticipation. If we want a thriving future, we need to act now. The design profession has never been more essential in building and critically assessing design futures literacies.
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- Broms, Loove, et al.
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Coffee Maker Patterns and the Design of Energy Feedback Artefacts
- 2010
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Ingår i: DIS '10 Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450301039 ; , s. 93-102
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people’s homes with the assumption that households will make the necessary efforts to reduce their electricity consumption. However, present solutions do not sufficiently account for the social implications of design. There is a potential for greater savings if we can better understand how such designs affect behaviour. In this paper, we describe our design of an energy awareness artefact – the Energy AWARE Clock – and discuss it in relation to behavioural processes in the home. A user study is carried out to study the deployment of the prototype in real domestic contexts for three months. Results indicate that the Energy AWARE Clock played a significant role in drawing households’ attention to their electricity use. It became a natural part of the household and conceptions of electricity became naturalized into informants’ everyday language.
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- Broms, Loove, 1977-, et al.
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Persuasive Engagement : Exploiting Lifestyle as a Driving Force to Promote Energy-aware Use Patterns and Behaviours
- 2009
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Ingår i: Undisciplined! Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2008.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Electricity consumption has been rising significantly in the western world the last decades and this has affected the environment negatively. Efficient use and more energy conservative usage patterns could be ways to approach this problem. However, electricity has for a long time actively been hidden away and it is rarely thought of unless it ceases to exist. From the perspective of critical design, we have been working to find methods to visualise electricity and electricity consumption in everyday life to promote environmentally positive behavioural change. In this paper, we are looking at how aspects of lifestyles can be used in design as central driving forces that could lead to changed behaviour. Attempts to promote behavioural changes related to energy consumption might be successfully carried out when people are offered desirable alternatives that are engaging and that do not impose a perceived extra burden in their everyday life. This argument is exemplified through two design concepts, the AWARE Laundry Lamp and the Energy Plant, which are examples on how to increase people’s energy awareness and offer them means for reducing their energy consumption in the home. Both prototypes are inspired by current trends in lifestyle as well as actual observed user behaviour.
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- Broms, Loove, 1977-, et al.
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The Energy AWARE Clock : Incorporating Electricity Use in the Social Interactions of Everyday Life
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design andInverse Manufacturing (EcoDesign 2009).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- New interfaces to the energy system can facilitate changes of habits and provide means to control the household’s use of energy. In this paper, we look at energy use and such interfaces in the home from a socio- technical perspective. We describe how interviews and user observations can be used in combination with the theory of domestication to inform and inspire the design of interfaces to the energy system. As a result of our approach, we present the Energy AWARE Clock, an example of a new type of electricity meter that challenges the norm of how the electricity system is typically represented in the home. The Energy AWARE Clock makes use of a clock metaphor to visualise electricity-use in relation to time in everyday life. Energy-awareness products always challenge domestic social patterns and it is important to consider these aspects in the design process to find successful solutions for the future.
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