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- Ehrnberger, Karin, et al.
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Becoming the Energy AWARE Clock : Revisiting the Design Process Through a Feminist Gaze
- 2013
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Ingår i: Experiments in Design Research. - Köpenhamn : The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools Architecture, Design and Conservation. - 9788778303165 ; 5
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the border between technology and design (form giving) from a feminist perspective. Looking at the energy system and how it has been integrated in the household, we want to address the underlying structures that have been built into the ecology of electrical appliances used in daily life, preserving certain norms that could be questioned from both a gender and a sustainability perspective. We have created an alternative electricity meter, the Energy AWARE Clock, addressing design issues uncovered in an initial field study. In this paper, we will make parallels to these issues. We also use feminist technoscience studies scholar Donna Haraway’s theory of the cyborg in order to clarify useful concepts that can be derived from feminist theory and that can act as important tools for designers engaged in creative processes. From our own experience with the Energy AWARE Clock this approach has great potential for questioning and rethinking present norms within sustainability and gender, from the viewpoints of design research and design practice.
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- Ilstedt, Sara, et al.
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Designing Sustainable Futures
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordes 13 Experiments in design research. - : The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools Architecture, Design and Conservation. - 9788778303165 ; , s. 218-227
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how future studies and design could enable a more conscious and participatory engagement in our common future. The starting point being that representations of the future are often done in an abstract and quantitative manner, which hinders a broad engagement, and understanding of the implications of the scenarios presented. We discuss how on-going research including experimental design methodologies can be used to make images of the future more concrete and accessible. Finally, we argue, not only for prototyping as a method to make the ungraspable future more concrete, but foremost for a designerly approach to the most important of all stakes - the future.
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- Lee, Yanki, et al.
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Ageing & ingenuity : what is your design story?
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordes 2013 Online proceedings. - Copenhagen : The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. - 9788778303165 ; , s. 471-472
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This collective design workshop aims to provoke and test new design approaches towards ageing. We are looking for design stories/narratives that show how design thinking and collaborative working can enable the world to respond differently to the challenges of ageing. Can designers change our inherent ageism through the engagement of older people in the design and delivery of services and products with them? Can we change our current strategies towards ageing, turning its potential challenges into opportunities to engage, empower and improve the lives of the elderly? Together, we aim to build a collective design approach with ingenious older people and for our future selves.
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- Lundgren, Sus, 1970, et al.
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Escaping the obvious: Skewing properties of interaction
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Nordes 2013: Experiments in design research. - : Nordic Design Research. - 9788778303165 ; 1:1, s. 32-39, s. 32-39
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most design methods used within interaction design originate from other disciplines. As a result, there are few methods which can focus on designing or redesigning interaction in itself. In this paper we present a structured ideation method called Skewing, which is based on changing already identified, interaction-related properties of an artifact. Hereby, designers can generate interesting re-designs whose interaction design differs from the original product. Moreover, the structured approach in Skewing helps in finding the unusual design solutions in the outer rims of the design space. Lastly, Skewing can also be used as a means to teach the materiality of interaction.
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