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- Lambe, Fiona, et al.
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Design Devices for Human Development : A Capabilities Approach in Kenya and Uganda
- 2022
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In: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. - : Elsevier. - 2405-8726 .- 2405-8718. ; 8:2, s. 217-243
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite progress in recent decades, many crucial challenges to the eradication of extreme poverty remain intractable. Development interventions often fail to deliver sustained, transformational outcomes to households and communities. The field of design has demonstrated its capacity to deliver designed artifacts that enhance the livelihoods and well-being of people living in resource poor communities, but it remains unclear how its tools can contribute to interventions seeking multidimensional and transformational development outcomes. We present insights from two case studies, conducted in Kenya and Uganda, where a service design approach was applied to the design of two development interventions: a clean cookstove and fuel system, and an innovative insurance product to help farmers cope with climate variability. In both cases, experience mapping, archetype construction, and prototyping served to reveal individual needs, capacities, and values, and enabled the translation of this information into design features for the interventions. Using Amartya Sens capabilities approach as an ex post analytical frame, we show how these devices could guide designers seeking to deliver transformational development outcomes when co-designing services that aim for environmental sustainability and social well-being among low-income communities.
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- Palmås, Karl, 1976
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Design in Marketization: The Invention of Car Safety in Automobile Markets
- 2023
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In: She Ji. - 2405-8726 .- 2405-8718. ; 9:1, s. 5-20
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article conceptualizes the relation between design, economics, and innovation. Rather than connecting design to economics through the notion of value, it explores how economics construes negative side-effects of market activities. Aligning itself with recent She Ji contributions that tie design to the economic sociology of Michel Callon, this article argues that markets assume a constant process of managing such side-effects. The invention of car safety and the development of safety design features in 1950s Sweden illustrate this. Automotive design through safety innovations can be seen as a design process that transcended the clear separation between business and politics assumed by neoclassical economics. This article argues that this phenomenon is a concern for design scholars as well as social scientists. I assert that it is important to explore this line of inquiry by investigating design processes in different economic settings.
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- Vink, Josina, et al.
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Designerly Approaches for Catalyzing Change in Social Systems : A Social Structures Approach
- 2021
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In: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. - : Elsevier. - 2405-8726 .- 2405-8718. ; 7:2, s. 242-261
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Given the growing interest in systemic design, there is a demand for de-signerly approaches that can aid practitioners in catalyzing social systems change. The purpose of this research is to develop an initial portfolio of designerly approaches that acknowledges social structures as a key leverage point for influencing social systems. This article presents learnings from experimentation with a host of designerly approaches for shaping social structures and identifies four design principles to guide systemic design practitioners in doing this work. This research contributes to the evolving and pluralistic methodology of systemic design by presenting formats for design activities that take social structures seriously and identifying ways that systemic designers, and other practitioners, can re-entangle themselves in the systems they seek to change.
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- Von Busch, Otto, 1975, et al.
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Social Means Do Not Justify Corruptible Ends: A Realist Perspective of Social Innovation and Design
- 2016
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In: She Ji. - : Elsevier BV. - 2405-8726 .- 2405-8718. ; 2:4, s. 275-287
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article introduces designers to the dilemma that arises when twin aspects of social innovation—social means and social ends—do not align. Some academics have noted the anti-social, anti-political, and anti-inventive effects emerging from the spread of microfinance practices. We discuss the tendency for social design and innovation literature to focus on design processes rather than outcomes, and introduce ideas from realist political theory to account for the corruptibility of social innovations. We suggest that designers can prevent the corruption of social outcomes by shifting from idealist “what if” scenarios to realist “who whom?” questions instead.
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- Beck, Jordan, et al.
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Examining Practical, Everyday Theory Use in Design Research
- 2016
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In: She Ji. - : Tongji University Press. - 2405-8726. ; 2:2, s. 125-140
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper discusses how theories (as objects) are used in articles published in Design Studies. While theory and theory construction have been given time and attention in the literature, less is known about how researchers put theories to work in their written texts about practical, everyday theory use. In the present paper, we examine 32 articles and synthesize six models of theory use based on our examination.
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- Beck, Jordan, et al.
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Examining the Types of Knowledge Claims Made in Design Research
- 2016
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In: She Ji. - : Tongji University Press. - 2405-8726. ; 2:3, s. 199-214
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- While much has been written about designerly knowledge and designerly ways of knowing in the professions, less has been written about the production and presentation of knowledge in the design discipline. In the present paper, we examine the possibility that knowledge claims might be an effective way to distinguish the design discipline from other disciplines. We compare the kinds of knowledge claims made in journal publications from the natural sciences, social sciences, and design. And we find that natural and social science publications tend to make singular knowledge claims of similar kinds whereas design publications often contain multiple knowledge claims of different kinds. We raise possible explanations for this pattern and its implications for design research. Examining the Types of Knowledge Claims Made in Design Research.
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- Cooper, Rachel, et al.
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ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse
- 2018
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In: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. - : Elsevier BV. - 2405-8726. ; 4:4, s. 307-341
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The paper is the story of building a design research group from scratch. As there has been some recent interest in design research as a team based activity, this article illustrates how we built the Imagination research team and how it continues to develop. This article gives us the chance to reflect on how far we have come in the last decade. Once we were a few dedicated members of staff wanting to bring design research to a small university in the north of the UK. Now we are one of the leading centers of excellence worldwide for design research. This article uses case studies from research projects and Ph.D. research to demonstrate Imagination’s research philosophy—open-ended and anti-disciplinary. We celebrate the plurality of ways design research is carried out. The article highlights how we use design research to address global challenges, and how these have also shaped our teaching and further research. We end by considering the value of design research and how we, as a team, can take Imagination forward into the next decade.
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- Davis, Meredith, et al.
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Responding to the Indeterminacy of Doctoral Research in Design
- 2023
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In: She Ji. - : Elsevier. - 2405-8726. ; 9:2, s. 283-307
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Future of Design Education working group on doctoral education included doctoral supervisors from nine programs around the world and addressed the indeterminacy of standards for the PhD in Design. Internationally, “contributions to knowledge” under the PhD degree title range from evidence-based investigations documented in a dissertation to personal reflections on making artifacts. In some programs, quantitative and qualitative research methods are taught; in others, there is no instruction in methods. The working group suggested that reflection on one’s own creative production is the role of the professional master’s degree and recommended standards for two doctoral programs—the PhD and the Doctor of Design (DDes). The group defined the PhD as addressing unresolved problems with the goal of generalizable knowledge or theory for the field. It described the DDes as a professional practice degree in which research is done in a practice setting to frame a specific opportunity space, guide in-process design decisions, or evaluate outcomes. DDes findings do not claim generalizability and result in “cases.” The working group discussed methods, sampling, standards of evidence and claims, ethics, research writing, and program management.
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- D'Olivo, Patrizia, et al.
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Reconfiguring a new normal : a socio-ecological perspective for design innovation in sensitive settings
- 2018
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In: She Ji. - : Elsevier. - 2405-8726. ; 4:4, s. 392-406
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- What can design do to address adverse life events like childhood cancer? Cancer is not just a health matter—it strains family relationships and profoundly disrupts the stability of everyday routines. In this article, we introduce a socio-ecological perspective that untangles the systemic complexity of the challenges families face when confronted with childhood cancer. We use this lens to identify potential design opportunities for reconfiguring a “new normal” in their lives. We present and discuss the results of a participant observation of childhood cancer survivors at a large support group conference. These findings we analyze and organize into five themes corresponding to specific coping strategies: accepting the transformation of one's body, avoiding avoidance, maintaining interest in social activities, retaining a sense of belonging to one's social networks, and dealing with social stigma. These themes reveal opportunities for design innovation in sensitive settings that traverse the fields of interaction design, developmental psychology, and pediatric oncology.
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- Höök, Kristina, 1964-, et al.
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Defining Interaction Design by Its Ideals: A Discipline in Transition
- 2021
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In: She Ji. - : Elsevier. - 2405-8726. ; 7:1, s. 24-40
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As a way to capture a broadly acceptable high-level characterization of design, we focus on the guiding values or ideals of the discipline. We first reason from the notion of engineering interfaces for usability and utility up to the 1990s to the current ideal of designing interfaces for experience and meaning. Next, we identify three recent technical and societal developments that are challenging the existing ideals of interaction design, namely the move towards hybrid physical/digital materials, the emergence of an increasingly complex and fluid digital ecology, and the increasing proportion of autonomous or partially autonomous systems changing their behavior over time and with use. These challenges in turn motivate us to propose three directions in which new ideals for interaction design might be sought: the first is to go beyond the language-body divide that implicitly frames most of our current understandings of experience and meaning, the second is to extend the scope of interaction design from individual interfaces to the complex sociotechnical fabric of human and nonhuman actors, and the third is to go beyond predictability by learning to design with machine learning.
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