scholarly journals Developing Practice Fields for Interdisciplinary Design and Entrepreneurship Exposure

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Practice Fields

Interdisciplinary Design Experience for the Masses

AEI 2011 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Nuttall ◽  
Jill Nelson ◽  
Allen C. Estes
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Design Experience

Coping on the inside: Design for therapeutic incarceration interventions - a case study

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amy Wagenfeld ◽  
Daniel Winterbottom
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Women's Prison ◽  
Design Skills ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Objective Outcomes

BACKGROUND: Adjusting to incarceration is traumatic. An under-utilized strategy understood to buffer and counteract the negative impacts of incarceration are nature interventions. OBJECTIVE: Outcomes of an interdisciplinary design studio course focused on developing masterplans for a women’s prison in the Pacific Northwest (US) are presented. Course objectives included comprehension and application of therapeutic and culturally expressive design principles to increase the benefits of environmental design within a carceral setting; collaboration, developing a deeper, more representative understanding of how design processes can improve the lives of marginalized populations; and enhancing design skills, including at masterplan and schematic scale using an iterative process and reflection. METHODS: A landscape architect, occupational therapist, and architect teaching team, with support from architects and justice specialists facilitated an elective design studio course to redesign the Washington Corrections Center for Women campus. RESULTS: In a ten-week academic quarter, six student design teams created conceptual masterplans for therapeutic outdoor spaces at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. Students presented their plans to prison staff, current and ex-offenders, and architects and landscape architects in practice, and then received positive feedback. CONCLUSION: Despite well-documented need for and value of nature interventions to improve health and wellbeing for everyone regardless of circumstance or situation, the project awaits administrative approval to move forward to installation.

scholarly journals What Do You Mean by Trust? Establishing Shared Meaning in Interdisciplinary Design for Assistive Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Schwaninger ◽  
Florian Güldenpfennig ◽  
Astrid Weiss ◽  
Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Weight Method

AbstractThe topic of trust has attracted increasing interest within HRI research, and is particularly relevant in the context of social robots and their assistance of older people at home. To make this abstract concept of trust more tangible for developers of robotic technologies and to connect it with older people’s living spaces and their daily practices, we propose a light-weight method drawing on elicitation cards to be used at early stages of participatory design. The cards were designed to serve as a guide for qualitative interviews at ideation phases. This was accomplished by using the cards connected to the living spaces of the participants, their daily practices, and ‘provocative’ questions to structure conversations. We developed the method with 10 inexperienced interviewers who conducted 10 qualitative interviews on the topic of trust without cards, and who tested the cards with 10 older adults. Our findings indicate that the method served as a powerful facilitator of conversations around the topic of trust and enabled interviewers to engage with everyday practices of older adults; it also facilitated a more active role for older adults during the conversations. As indicators of findings that can come from the cards, salient trust-related themes that emerged from the analysis of card usage were the desire for control, companionship, privacy, understandability, and location-specific requirements with regards to trust.

pARTiCI[TY]pate?!

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Judith Laister ◽  
Anna Lipphardt
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Qualitative Empirical Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
Practice Fields

Over the past decades, ‘participation’ has evolved as a key concept in a multitude of practice fields and discursive arenas, ranging from diverse political and economic contexts, through academic research, education and social work, urban planning and design, to arts institutions and artistic projects. While participation originally is a political concept and practice, it has long set out as a ‘travelling concept’ (Bal 2002). This special issue focuses on its travels between three fields of practice: the city, the arts and qualitative empirical research. Each of these practice fields over the past decades has yielded distinct understandings, objectives and methods in respect to participations, yet they also increasingly intersect, overlap and fuse with each other within specific practice contexts. What is more, many of the individual actors engaging in these initiatives on behalf of the city – from temporary projects to long-term collaborations – are not situated in one practice field only. Along with Jana König and Elisabeth Scheffel we understand them as ‘double agents’ (König and Scheffel 2013: 272–3) or even ‘multiple agents’, with simultaneous entanglements and commitments in more than one practice field.

The interdisciplinary design studio

2010 ◽  
pp. 261-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Dong ◽  
J Doerfler
Keyword(s):  
Design Studio ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design
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