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- Ericsson, Stina, et al.
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The dis/ablement of bodies in semiotic landscapes – a citizen science approach
- 2021
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Much of our built environment is constructed to accommodate ‘normate’ (Garland-Thomson 1996; Hamraie 2017) bodies. This fact may remain invisible to normate users of public space, much as the ordering of human interaction through categorisation is often invisible (Bowker & Star 1999). Reading semiotic landscapes through the dis/abling (Campbell 1999) of bodies that (attempt to) move through them, in this talk we investigate how dis/ablised bodies and places are co-constituted and how hegemonic constructions of space can be noticed and problematised.Data was collected using a citizen science approach (e.g. Purschke 2017), whereby the public were invited to contribute data on experiences of categorisation in relation to exclusion and inclusion in public places. This was done using a purpose-designed app. Participants were encouraged to take and submit photos, write a comment about the photo and their experience, and to select one of three emotions, viz. happy, sad, or angry. To date, around 100 submissions have been collected.Data is analysed using visual multimodal analysis (Ledin and Machin 2018, expanded to include movement through, and presence in, space, as well as properties ascribed to the particular body acting in the place). This is also combined with a critical, multimodal discourse approach to dis/ability (cf. Grue 2015; Machin, Caldas-Coulthard & Milani 2016). The data includes examples of both ablement and disablement. Participants’ choices and descriptions of physical objects and places (signs, the placement of buttons to be pressed, contrast markings, etc.) reveal bodily requirements (linguistic competences, body height and dexterity, sight, etc.) and pinpoint the body in the landscape.The talk adds to the field of Linguistic Landscapes by considering the dis/ablement of users in semiotic settings of signs and the built environment. It also adds to the field by further developing citizen science approaches to linguistic landscapes.ReferencesBowker, G.C. & Star, S.L. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Campbell, F. 1999. ‘Refleshingly Disabled’: Interrogations into the Corporeality of ‘Disablised’ Bodies. Australian Feminist Law Journal 12 (1): 57–80.Garland-Thomson, R. 1996. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. 1st ed. Columbia University Press.Grue, J. 2011. Discourse Analysis and Disability: Some Topics and Issues. Discourse & Society 22 (5): 532–546.Hamraie, A. 2017. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Ledin, P. & Machin, D. 2018. Doing Visual Analysis: From Theory to Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.Machin, D., Caldas-Coulthard, C.R. & Milani, T. 2016. Doing critical multimodality in research on gender, language and discourse. Gender and Language, 10(3): 301–308.Purschke, C. (2017). Crowdsourcing the linguistic landscape of a multilingual country. Introducing Lingscape in Luxembourg. Linguistik Online, 85(6).
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- Fagerholm, Anna-Sara, 1978-, et al.
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Activism online : Exploring how crises are communicated visually in activism campaigns
- 2023
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In: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. - : Wiley. - 0966-0879 .- 1468-5973. ; 31:4, s. 1034-1043
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During the past years, activist movements have increasingly turned to social media to raise awareness and critically discuss current development and future scenarios. As a contribution to the discussion of new social movements and activism in the digital age, this study aims to explore and critically discuss how environmental risks and crisis are visually communicated in activism campaigns on Instagram, through a case study on Extinction Rebellion Sweden (XRsv). The study is delimited to the first 334 posts on XRsv's Instagram between November 14, 2018 and March 1, 2020. Methods used are interview and content analysis. In conclusion, XRsv has adopted aspects of design activism including visual tactics of Informing, Activating and Explaining. These three visual aspects are used by XRsv in an online context enabling interactivity and participatory actions, which in turn forms the core of design activism.
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- Fagerholm, Anna-Sara, 1978-, et al.
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What a Waste – A norm-critical design study on how waste is understood and managed
- 2023
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In: Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances. - : Elsevier BV. - 2667-3789. ; 19
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- This article seeks to contribute new insights into inclusive recycling environments through universal design. The aim is to develop knowledge on how waste is understood and managed by exploring the practice and design of a recycling environment. Applying a norm-critical view, this is explored in a study with participants from a municipal housing company and waste management company in northern Sweden. Methods used are go-along interviews together with professionals and observations of a recycling environment. The results are discussed as: 1) the “(un)social norm;” where our results show that the waste system is perceived as a social system, contradicting previous approaches where waste systems are treated as technical environments. 2) the “(un)design factor;” where we identify how design in a recycling context that doesn´t emphasise diversity may affect activities of sorting.
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- Fagerholm, Anna-Sara, 1978-, et al.
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What a Waste – A norm-critical study on how waste is understood and managed through integrating perspectives
- 2022
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In: Book of Abstracts – The 28th Annual Conference, International Sustainable Development Research Society “Sustainable Development and Courage. Culture, Art and Human Rights” 15-17 june 2022. ; , s. 252-253
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In previous research waste is described as a design flaw, as the processes that generate waste are a result of poor design (Anastas & Zimmerman, 2006; Ordónez, 2017). Ekberg (2009) points out that waste is what is left behind when imagination fails and this also reflects a reconsidering of waste as resources if given another context. In a globalized world with international trade, there is a greater range of products on the market and the amount of waste is constantly increasing (Avfall Sverige, 2021). A challenge is therefore to reduce the amount of waste. De Laney (2018) points out that there is a huge opportunity to reduce landfill waste and improve consumer habits through design. In this process, we must learn to include new and more inclusive ways of thinking and acting that support long-term social sustainability through design (Wikberg Nilsson & Jahnke, 2018). More than forty years ago, Dilnot (1982) emphasized that through design, we humans give shape, direction and meaning to our individual and collective existence in the world. Today, there are different design solutions for household waste and recycling and Vollaard and van Soest (2020) argue that reducing unsorted waste normally requires little in the way of capital investment beyond buying a set of in-home recycling bins. Although, many times consumers aren´t aware of the impact of their disposal decisions and many facilities for local waste disposal and recycling have processes that are unique to them that could cause confusion (De Laney, 2018). In accordance, we must find a way to get consumers to care and to motivate a change in habits. The research question of this study is how waste is understood and managed and this is explored through a case study with a local housing company and waste management company, interested in improving waste sorting. In order to answer the research question, interviews are conducted with people living in the specific buildings belonging to the housing company, respondents from the local housing company and the waste management company and results are presented on perceptions of waste and what the barriers are to improve waste sorting. This is complemented by a literature review to provide a better understanding of research through design for a sustainable behavior related to waste. This paper presents a norm-critical aspect on universal design and waste in a collaborative research project with the objective of creating more inclusive solutions for waste systems. The overall ambition of this study is to build on knowledge of the role of design as an activity of shaping the human surroundings and as an expression of the culture to which it belongs (Skjerven & Reitan, 2018). The study is related to global goal number 2.5: by 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
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- Fortmann, Jutta, et al.
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Demo Hour
- 2015
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In: Interactions. - 1072-5520. ; 22:1, January + February 2015, s. 6-9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- NordiCHI'14 conference attendees got hands-on experience with a number of great new interactive systems. Among the accepted poster, video, and demo submissions, we selected the following four prototypes to illustrate the high-quality design research displayed during the conference, which was held in Helsinki, Finland, October 26--30, 2014.
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- Göransson, Karina, 1965-, et al.
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Teaching Universal Design – Key content and course design
- 2024
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In: Design for all Institue of India. - : Design for All Institute of India. - 2582-8304. ; 19:6, s. 91-112
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- There is not much written about how to teach universal design (UD) in design educations. This article aims to present the didactic experiences from teaching three courses in universal design at Mid Sweden University and Lund University: the courses Design for freedom, Universal Design Theory and Universal design of digital accessibility. By comparing and contrasting our experiences in a qualitative content analysis we end up with a model with three overall learning goal themes: to understand, create and reflect. The main insights in this article are these common three themes that constitute the key content and the base in the course design in courses teaching universal design. The structure in the courses is similar, but the content is implemented in slightly different ways. For example, achieving understanding and the practical exercises are different in the different courses. The theoretical basis lays the foundations for the students to create practical prototypes and further a possibility to reflect upon what they have done iteratively in the design process.
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- Hedvall, Per-Olof
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Aktivitetsdiamanten : Modellering av en vidareutvecklad tillgänglighet
- 2009
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Syftet med forskningen som presenteras i denna avhandling är att vidareutveckla tillgänglighetsområdet i riktning mot en större perspektivrikedom. Avhandlingen baseras på kulturhistorisk aktivitetsteori (CHAT). Den analyserar en systemisk helhet utifrån sådana mänskliga, artefaktuella och naturliga faktorer som påverkar en individs handlingsmöjligheter i konkreta situationer.Avhandlingen har två huvudresultat:En vidareutvecklad tillgänglighet innehållande:* Epitillgänglighet, tillgänglighetens tidsanda, som innefattar hur erfarenheter av aktiviteter påverkar tillgänglighetsmöjligheter, lärande, förväntningar, attityder, tillit, krav och förnekanden hos individen och hennes mänskliga, artefaktuella och naturliga omvärld.* Levd tillgänglighet, som innefattar individens förväntningar och hur hon i den aktuella situationen upplever möjligheterna att kunna göra det hon vill.* Planerad tillgänglighet, som består av alla förutbestämda tillgänglighetsfaktorer utifrån planer, riktlinjer och principer.Aktivitetsdiamanten, en modell för tillgänglighet: Aktivitetsdiamanten beskriver ett mänskligt aktivitetssystem där subjekt-objekt-kopplingen inte sker direkt utan via mänskliga, artefaktuella och naturliga inslag i miljön. Modellen bygger på samspelet mellan dessa fyra element (subjekt, objekt, omgivande natur/artefakter och människor) och är situerad i tid och rum. Olika aktörer med olika aktivitetssystem kan vara inblandade. Modellen kan också användas longitudinellt över tid.Avhandlingen är baserad på en serie explorativa studier av unika individers aktivitetssystem där människor, artefakter och natur tillsammans påverkar tillgängligheten. Handlingen står i centrum, inte funktionsnedsättningarna och inte heller de diskriminerande faktorerna i samhället.Avhandlingen består av en avhandlingskappa och följande fyra publikationer:I. The Activity Diamond: a model for multifaceted accessibility. Status: Insänd till The Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 2009-05-05.II. An Activity Systemic Approach to Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Status: Insänd till AAC Journal 2009-07-24.III. Towards the Era of Mixed Reality: Accessibility Meets Three Waves of HCI. Status: Long paper presenterat vid USAB 2009 (Usability & HCI Learning from the Extreme) 2009-11-10, http://usab.icchp.org/. Status: Insänd 2009-07-21, accepterad 2009-09-11.IV. An activity theoretical approach to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Status: Insänd till Disability and Rehabilitation 2009-10- 30.
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