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- Groth, Camilla, et al.
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Empathy in a technology-driven design process: Designing for users without a voice of their own.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 8th biannual Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) conference, Aalto University, Finland 2–4 June 2019.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart textiles are often developed in sports- oriented contexts through technology-driven processes. In the medical context, practitioners themselves also invent and develop technological aids in response to needs that emerge in practice. In these cases, novel technology may be the first driver for design to secure functionality and reliability, but our study shows that these processes benefit from human-centric and empathic design approaches. The project develops smart textiles for infants with medical adversities, such as preterm birth, neonatal infections, or birth asphyxia, collaboratively with medical researchers. Our pilot research illuminates the need to use the interest group’s empathic understanding as a starting point for design, as the user of the garments does not yet have a voice of their own. In this paper, we develop the argument for empathic design in a technology-driven design process in the medical context
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- Groth, Camilla, et al.
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When Art meets Science: Conditions for Experiential Knowledge Exchange in Interdisciplinary Research on New Materials
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference 2019 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Tallinn, Estonia, 23-24 September. p. 237-250.. - 9789949594825
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interdisciplinary research across art and science offers the potential to open up new areas of knowledge previously hidden in-between disciplines. At the same time, differences in disciplines’ theoretical frameworks, verification methods and expectations can cause discrepancies, which can be fruitful but may also require further navigation efforts. In this paper, we discuss the potentials and challenges of combining scientific and artistic research in interdisciplinary projects studying new materials. We interviewed 11 researchers working in different projects that combined scientific and artistic research in Finland and Germany, in order to investigate how they deal with different epistemological approaches and the limitations and possibilities that they brought up the interviews. In this paper, we focus on experiential knowledge sharing between the researchers in their research of organic materials. Our findings show that the prerequisites for experiential knowledge transfer need to be built consciously, over a long period of time by engaging in handson practices and cognitive activities that surpass the personal comfort zone of all members, and the common goals and research questions need to be motivating for all involved. Although academic research funding agents encourage interdisciplinary research, funding alone is not sufficient to motivate people to work and truly learn together. Even when motivation and common goals are found, the short longevity of funding might drive researchers to multitask, which in turn may damage the ideal conditions for transformational learning and knowing together. Thus, in addition to recruiting enabling professionals who have t-shaped experience of two or more disciplines, we suggest that conscious education in a new discipline could create a new generation of thinkers and makers who feel comfortable in the possibly unsettling zone between the disciplinary borders of arts and sciences.
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- Niinimäki, Kirsi, et al.
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New Silk: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Clot magazine. ; March:23
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- New Silk is a 4 year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new types of silk-like materials in the context of synthetic biology. The project is inspired by how spiders produce their cobweb – a material with properties surpassing existing synthetic materials. The New Silk project combines the knowledge of production of silk proteins with skills in polymer processing and the creative perspective of designers. The aim is to open a new interdisciplinary research path and to lay the foundation for this type of materials design, to be able to envision materials of the far future. The design research component in New Silk aims to construct new knowledge through an experimental approach during early-stage fundamental materials research. This text focuses on moments where people from different disciplines collaborate in an experimental workshop setting.
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- Niinimäki, Kirsi
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Proactive Fashion Design for Sustainable Consumption
- 2012
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Ingår i: Nordic Textile Journal. - : The Textile Research Centre: Swedish School of Textiles. - 1404-2487. ; 1, s. 60-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents a study that investigates product satisfaction in the context of clothing. The paper furthermore presents suggestions on how this knowledge can be used to create proactive fashion design for sustainable consumption. One of the main challenges in today’s consumer society is how to design products that encourage consumers to engage in more environmentally responsible behaviour, sustainable consumption. This paper opens the discussion on how to change current unsustainable consumption behaviour related to clothing through a visionary, far-sighted design approach. Designers can create future-oriented sustainable designs that can transform consumption patterns towards more sustainable ones. Design for sustainability can thus be a redirective practice that aims for sustainable consumption, and the ways in which fashion design can be a proactive process with this aim will be described. This article shows why emotional satisfaction and enhancing a product’s quality and other intrinsic characteristics are most important when attempting to extend the product’s lifetime. Furthermore, this paper shows that services can create an opportunity to extend the enjoyable use of a product and offer satisfaction to consumers in a sustainable manner.
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- Svensson-Hoglund, Sahra, et al.
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The Role of Repair as a Resource for Resilience : Case Studies on the Effects of Repair Outcomes of Essential Products
- 2023
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 5th PLATE Conference. - 9789526413679 ; , s. 1051-1057
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In both the US and EU, policymakers and government agencies are acknowledging theimportance of having access to repair options, particularly for vulnerable product users who depend on their products. As such, repair can play an important role as a resource for resilience, but research is missing. We propose that repair can act as a resource for resilience. A comprehensive, structured way to understand this role of repair is needed to: (1) show how repair is a social interest and thereby increase public willingness to overcome current barriers to repair, and; (2) ensure that current policy efforts to increase access to repair succeed at strengthening the resilience of product users. To test this framing, we use four case studies on the breakdown of essential products; laptops in schools, tractors at farms; cell phones in refugee camps, and ventilators at hospitals. Our findings indicate that the conditions under which repair can function as a resource for resilience can be regarded as a span: on one end repair is crucial for continued functioning, due to the lack of other options in the pre-breakage context; on the other end, repair constitutes, compared to other available options, the most beneficial strategy for restoring functionality. Further, the effectiveness of repair as a resource for resilience is determined by the conditions of repair as high vs. low friction. Moreover, we find that while repair constitutes, in itself, a resource for resilience, it also has the potential to act as a gateway to other resources for resilience, such as financial and social. Implications for policy and future research are briefly discussed.
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