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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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Earthy textiles. Experiences from a joint teaching encounter between textile design and architecture
- 2017
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Ingår i: Cumulus REDO Conference Proceedings Design School Kolding 30 May - 2 June 2017. - 9788793416154 ; , s. 236-251
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents experiences from a two-day teaching workshop where first year students in architecture meet with first year students in textile design for an assignment on building structures with textile, soil and plants designing for indoor gardening with the aim of inspiring for more sustainable lifestyles. The background is a research project on textile architecture with the objective of exploring this new field and to establish a platform for long-term collaboration between the disciplines of architecture and textile design. The paper addresses pedagogical challenges in the meeting between first-years students of different disciplines and traditions, but also in the meeting between research and undergraduate teaching. The students produced creative results but had difficulties in exploring the full complexity of the task. An evaluative discussion is based on observations, photo documentation, notes during group discussions, follow-up questionnaires among the students and reflections among involved researchers.
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- Fridh, Kristina, 1961
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Exploring the “Non-Perfect” Characteristics of Materials
- 2017
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Ingår i: Symposium Making Effect at ArkDes in Stockholm 14-16 September 2017.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Today in Swedish building production, materials are often used to give the impression of plain and perfect surfaces and volumes. For several contemporary Japanese architects, among others Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito, the building materials play a role in the stage-setting of incomplete and unexpected experiences and perceptions that instead evoke wonder. In this way, the materials acquire additional meanings as intermediary links, to bridge between human being, building and landscape, preventing buildings from being experienced merely as objects. This 2012 pilot project was developed into a new research project “Urban Materiality: Towards New Collaborations in Textile and Architectural Design”, funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Artistic Research. In that project, the formation of “textile disturbances” creates latitude for new processes of renewal in urban environments, where aesthetic ideals of perfection often result in current materials and building envelopes today being replaced prematurely with inferior materials in existing environments.
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- Fridh, Kristina, 1961-, et al.
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Sound absorbing textile surfaces in the urban landscape - collaborative research in textile and architectural design
- 2019
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Ingår i: Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice Edited by: Helena Britt, Kevin Almond, Laura Morgan. - 9781527249691
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The design of woven and knitted structures can be compared with the formation of buildings’ facades and constructions. However, textile designers do not generally participate when the exterior structure and facades of a building take shape, but rather when textiles and materials for the indoor environment are chosen, often with the intention of enhancing the acoustic qualities of spaces. In this research project, two architects and a textile designer collaborate, the latter focusing particularly on sound design. Incorporating textile designers in the early stages of building projects can lead to benefits of exploring and improving sound landscapes in outdoor environments. In order to search for and develop new approaches, methods and techniques in the field described as textile architecture, textile facade modules were designed and produced, and the design process was examined and evaluated from the points of departure of the two design fields. Questions such as ‘who is actually prototyping?’ arose, as well as the search for finding common references and concepts, both historical and contemporary, to strengthen the collaborative work. A practice-based experimental approach was important for the project and the merger of the two design fields, not least to put different textile techniques and materials to the test to examine how they can affect the sound landscape and experiences of space. The key activities in the laboratory work were technique, method, perception, stage-setting and context, which connected both to textile design and architecture. The different textile materials were chosen to comply with the requirements of external climate impact and rough outdoor environments. In groups of demarcated design experiments, the textile techniques of weaving and hand tufting were explored, and the modules were tested acoustically.
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- Fridh, Kristina, 1961
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The Materiality of the Surface
- 2009
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Ingår i: Architecture and Phenomenology, June 26-29, 2009, Japan.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the project, “The Materiality of the Surface”, is to examine if, and in that case how the way of using different materials when forming space is connected with different cultures’ conceptions of space. The paper summarizes the outcome of this project, which is financed by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish government agency for research. The research project is based at the School of Design and Crafts, the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg and has been going on from 2006 to 2009. It will be presented in the form of an exhibition and a publication in autumn 2009 at the Swedish Design Museum, Rohsska, in Gothenburg. The study is a continuation of the thesis Japanese rooms, where Japanese conceptions of space are discussed in relation to characteristics of emptiness and changeability in traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, by means of a phenomenological approach and also through hermeneutic interpretations. In Japanese cultural tradition, space is conceived as a subjective perception, a physical experience and a changeable process, which differs from European tradition. In “The Materiality of the Surface”, the relation that different architects have to ways of using different building materials when forming space is examined and studied, according to different conceptions of space. The study includes contemporary Swedish and Japanese architecture, and in the first, more theoretical part of the project, two Swedish and two Japanese architects’/architectural offices’ works are examined and compared, and the point of departure is their relation to materials and spatial conceptions. The Japanese architects/architectural offices are Kengo Kuma & Associates/Kengo Kuma and SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa and the Swedish ones are Wingardhs/Gert Wingardh and Claesson Koivisto Rune/Marten Claesson. The other part of the project “The Materiality of the Surface” comprises empirical studies and examinations through design and laboratory work and focuses primarily on the building material glass. The project includes glass design – how to change the characteristics of materiality by using different techniques such as laminating and screen printing glass. Since the project includes the production of design work, it therefore belongs to the field of artistic research. The two persons working on this project are: Kristina Fridh, PhD/architect and Thomas Laurien, textile designer, who specializes in surface design. Combining the competencies of an architect and a textile designer is a new way of approaching the main questions of the project.
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- Fridh, Kristina, 1961
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The Uncompleted Materiality of the Void
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Reader, Umeå, Umeå School of Architecture, "Rethinking the Social in Architecture", conference 6–8 February 2013. ; , s. 77-79
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In different traditional Japanese works of art “the Void” [ku], which is connected to Zen Buddhism, is central. The void is given a changeable shape in the Noh theatre, ink paintings, landscape gardening and architecture, among other things. In crafts, for example, the glazing of the tea bowls in ceramics used in the Japanese tea ceremony has crackled and the shape is often asymmetrical, non-perfect. Here a “hidden beauty” is expressed, something incomplete, and the observer is involved, fills in himself and completes the form. The incomplete evokes a subjective experience of beauty, and the phenomenon has created several Japanese aesthetic notions and concepts of beauty, such as shibui and yugen. This “non-perfect” creates a relation to materials – the involvement of a perceiving subject forms a link between subject and object that dissolves the borders between them and this link is the material and the materiality. Several contemporary Japanese architects are influenced by these ideas from tradition, among others Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito. Kuma stretches and examines the boundaries for the materiality of materials to create new contexts in unexpected applications of materials, which causes surprising, haptic experiences. Through the stage-setting of this experience of ”non-perfection”, a mental process is started, which connects to the way in Japanese tradition to conceive space as a procedural, changeable experience connected to a perceiving subject – a subjective sense of space. Space is a mental experience, not an object, and in several articles and publications, Kengo Kuma has expressed his aim of forming what he calls “anti-objects”. He has started the Kengo Kuma Laboratory in the University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture, and in the studio, students, doctoral students, researchers and practitioners meet to experiment with materials and evaluate the results of research. In the work of Toyo Ito, architecture and engineering meet. Ito wants to create another relation to materiality than in Modernism. He challenges the materiality of materials in a similar way like Kengo Kuma by designing buildings in collaboration with engineers, among others Mutsuro Sasaki. He experiments with materials, their load and span capacity and structurally. Ito wants to liberate buildings from rigid grids and modular systems and inject materiality to form spatial flow and enhance the physical experience of space and the sensuous connections to material and materiality. Visually, Ito’s and Kuma’s architecture differ by the choice of materials; Ito chooses materials like concrete and glass which is associated with industrial production and Kuma prefers materials connected to craft. However, the point of departure is the same, to use stage-setting as a tool in the design work. Unexpected, incomplete experiences and perceptions are evoked through the materials and links are created between human being and building and this starts a procedural experience of space and materiality. Ito, as well as Kuma, connects to the Japanese tradition where space is a mental, changeable process, and the point of departure for changeability is that there is something incomplete, a void, enclosed in the experience.
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- Lindgren, Monica, 1958, et al.
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Potential för estetikfältets legitimering och utveckling : samtal kring forskning inom det estetiskt-pedagogiska fältet
- 2018
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Ingår i: NEÄL 2018 Abstracts. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Potential för estetikfältets legitimering och utveckling - samtal kring forskning inom det estetiskt-pedagogiska fältetAbstract till rundabordssamtal NEÄL 2018 Under 1990-talet och början av 2000-talet var intresset för estetisk verksamhet, estetiska lärprocesser och estetiska ämnen i skola och lärarutbildning stort. Forskningsinstitut finansierade studier inom området, läromedel publicerades, nya kurser i lärarutbildningen skapades och olika typer av strategiska satsningar i skola och lärarutbildning gjordes. Under det senaste decenniet har frågor om estetiska perspektiv och estetiska ämnen i skola och lärarutbildning alltmer tonats ned i takt med ett ökat intresse för individualisering, tydliga kunskapskrav och ökad måluppfyllelse. Det kan också tolkas som en ökad tonvikt på de enskilda konstarternas särart och betydelse för samhällsekonomi, på bekostnad av det estetiska som personlig utveckling och bildning. Utvecklingen betraktas av många som förödande för det estetiskt-pedagogiska fältet och det är lätt att nedslås och skylla på det som kallas New Public Management. Men samtidigt måste vi vara självkritiska. Forskning och utvärderingar visar att vi som företräder skolans och lärarutbildningens estetiska verksamhet inte lyckats med att legitimera och definiera det estetiska området, vare sig som ämnen eller som kunskapsområde. Inte heller har vi förmått utveckla detsamma. Såväl Lgr 11 som lärarutbildningsreformen samma år satte ramar som försvårade för modernisering av ämnesinnehållet i de estetiska ämnena i skolan. Här har vi forskare och lärarutbildare ett väsentligt ansvar. Hur kan vi främja kunskapsutveckling inom området? Vilken typ av forskning behövs för denna utveckling? Ska vi möta politikers krav på mer fakta och söka oss mot en annan kunskapsfilosofisk grund, i riktning mot, hjärnforskning, essentialism och falsifierbara resultat? Ska vi samarbeta med andra ämnen och söka vetenskapliga belägg för transfereffekter? Eller ska vi gå på tvärs och fortsätta söka kunskap kring estetiska ämnen i ljuset av begrepp som demokrati och bildning, i syfte att söka hållbara argument för alla barns och ungdomars rättighet att få tillgång till estetiska uttryck. Eller kanske slå in på en helt ny väg? I detta samtal kommer fyra forskare att presentera sina perspektiv och bjuda in till samtal utifrån följande fråga: Vad krävs av forskningen för att fältet ska utvecklas och ges en starkare legitimitet? Monica Lindgren, Fredrik Lindstrand, Ketil Thorgersen, Stina Wikberg
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- Vink, Josina, et al.
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Understanding the Influence of the Co-Design Process on Well-Being
- 2016
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Ingår i: Service Design Geographies. Proceedings of the Serves.2016 Conference. - Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet. - 1650-3740. - 9789176857380
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to explicitly link co-design to well-being and expand the conversation about the influence of the co-design process on well-being. This paper highlights considerations for co-design researchers and practitioners interested in enhancing the value created through co-design. The authors draw from discussions in transformative service research (TSR) to better understand how co-design influences well-being. Co-design is defined as a process of joint inquiry and imagination where diverse actors share and combine their knowledge. Based on the broad definition of service set out in service- dominant logic (SDL), the authors take the position that co-design is a form of service and therefore stress the relevance of TSR to co-design. The paper identifies six dimensions of well-being discussed in TSR that extend and highlight gaps in co-design literature related to the influence of the co-design process on well-being. The authors suggest that these dimensions become a component of future evaluations of the co-design process and point to opportunities for further research related to how co-design influences well-being and supports transformation.
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- Wetter-Edman, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Empowering transformation through design inquiry in public healthcare
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Design4Health 2015, Sheffield,13 -16 July 2015. - Sheffield : Sheffield Hallam University. - 9781843873853
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In health and care service processes the coordination between different caregivers is one of the crucial challenges. This paper presents The patient journey project as a practical application of a pragmatist pattern of inquiry (Dewey, 1938) and as fruitful way to work with/achieve transformative design. Situations of lived experience and moments of reflections perform as a carrier of knowledge and development. The paper argues that the design tools and mindset used in this project are of great importance in the ongoing transformation towards the patients focus in a Swedish public health care organization.
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