The Role of Socio-technical Instruments in Craft and Design Practice in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prananda Luffiansyah Malasan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Craft And Design

scholarly journals Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Spence
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Perceived Safety ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Multisensory Interactions

Abstract Traditionally, architectural practice has been dominated by the eye/sight. In recent decades, though, architects and designers have increasingly started to consider the other senses, namely sound, touch (including proprioception, kinesthesis, and the vestibular sense), smell, and on rare occasions, even taste in their work. As yet, there has been little recognition of the growing understanding of the multisensory nature of the human mind that has emerged from the field of cognitive neuroscience research. This review therefore provides a summary of the role of the human senses in architectural design practice, both when considered individually and, more importantly, when studied collectively. For it is only by recognizing the fundamentally multisensory nature of perception that one can really hope to explain a number of surprising crossmodal environmental or atmospheric interactions, such as between lighting colour and thermal comfort and between sound and the perceived safety of public space. At the same time, however, the contemporary focus on synaesthetic design needs to be reframed in terms of the crossmodal correspondences and multisensory integration, at least if the most is to be made of multisensory interactions and synergies that have been uncovered in recent years. Looking to the future, the hope is that architectural design practice will increasingly incorporate our growing understanding of the human senses, and how they influence one another. Such a multisensory approach will hopefully lead to the development of buildings and urban spaces that do a better job of promoting our social, cognitive, and emotional development, rather than hindering it, as has too often been the case previously.

Histories of Design Pedagogy Virtual Special Issue for the Journal of Design History 2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. e1-e24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Design History ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Pedagogy ◽  
Future Design ◽  
Practice Elements ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract ‘Histories of Design Pedagogy’ gathers material from across three decades of the Journal of Design History to juxtapose distinct investigations into design education across various geographies, contexts, relationships and methodological concerns. By isolating three overarching themes to structure twelve articles, this introduction also makes an argument towards future design pedagogy, suggesting an Urmodell, or master plan, of elements in design pedagogy that is informed by key issues debated by and through the articles presented. ‘Design Systems and Projects’ addresses the meaning and concept of design, relationships between education and industry, and design training networks. ‘Ethics and Methods’ advocates greater attention to the identities, subjectivities and roles of the designer and of the user as stakeholders in a designed system, the increasing role of research in design practice, elements that affect practice from global design to emerging technologies, and object collections research. The final theme, ‘Critical Histories and Theories’, looks to changes in design history and design studies to inform interdisciplinary scholarship and the future of design practice. Tensions over proportions, boundaries and structures are addressed by this Urmodell, but in the preferred definition of modelling as a mediator, it exists here as a malleable framework over a steadfast solution.

scholarly journals Using Probes for Sharing (Tacit) Knowing in Participatory Design: Facilitating Perspective Making and Perspective Taking

i-com ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Jarke ◽  
Ulrike Gerhard
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Tacit Knowing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Design Projects

AbstractThe sharing of expertise and tacit knowing is one of the core objectives in participatory design projects. This paper focuses on the role of probes for sharing users’ tacit knowing. We will introduce the concept of “boundary objects” [22], [21] to analyse how probes facilitate perspective taking and perspective making between users and between users and researchers. In so doing, we demonstrate that probes can facilitate the sharing of users’ tacit knowing and expertise (i) by making and explicating individual users’ perspectives, (ii) by enabling participants to take each other’s perspective and make a joint perspective and (iii) by subsequently enabling the making of a joint vision on the digital design outcome. The research presented in this paper is based on an EU-funded research and innovation project in which we co-created digital neighbourhood guide with older adults. We report from our fieldwork in city 1, where we used probes as part of our participatory design practice.

Making the Case for Practice-Based Research and the Imperative Role of Design Practitioners

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Freihoefer ◽  
Terri Zborowsky
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Validation Tool

The purpose of this article is to justify the need for evidence-based design (EBD) in a research-based architecture and design practice. This article examines the current state of practice-based research (PBR), supports the need for EBD, illustrates PBR methods that can be applied to design work, and explores how findings can be used as a decision-making tool during design and as a validation tool during postoccupancy. As a result, design professions’ body of knowledge will advance and practitioners will be better informed to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the society. Furthermore, characteristics of Friedman’s progressive research program are used as a framework to examine the current state of PBR in design practice. A modified EBD approach is proposed and showcased with a case study of a renovated inpatient unit. The modified approach demonstrates how a highly integrated project team, especially the role of design practitioners, contributed to the success of utilizing baseline findings and evidence in decision-making throughout the design process. Lastly, recommendations and resources for learning research concepts are provided for practitioners. It is the role of practitioners to pave the way for the next generation of design professionals, as the request and expectation for research become more prevalent in design practice.

scholarly journals A World in Flux. Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Faerm
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Global State ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Systems

The present state of the world is in flux. Globally, communities and individuals are experiencing tremendous change, instability, transition, mobility, and uncertainty. Amidst this tenuous future, how are artists, designers, and educators responding? How can we prepare and strengthen our future through pragmatic or theoretical means? What is the role of design, the designer, and design education in such pronounced states of flux? It is with this desire to examine, question, and propose new insights into the current global state of flux that we present our journal. The authors consider the contemporary landscape from diverse perspectives and offer speculations and insights in pedagogy, student development, design education, entrepreneurship, economics, design systems, globalization/localization, sustainability, commercial media, sociology, and design practice/ industry

scholarly journals The process of redrawing as an instrument of knowledge building in architecture

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima ◽  
Júlio Luiz Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Research Analysis

This communication examines the role of redrawing instruments as means of building knowledge in academic research in areas of design practice. Its structure is two folded: the first part deals with the theoretical foundation which has been built through research projects in which the authors had took part in. It points out the development and the operation of two indicators in the assessment of academic research in areas of design practice: the historic/historiographical indicator and the design indicator. The second part is dedicated to one of the authors doctoral research analysis. It proceeds to the verification of how the indicators may be operated regarding the investigation strategies adopted. The discussion focus is adjusted on the employment of redrawing instruments as fundamental strategy in building knowledge in architecture. It also takes into account that the redrawing activity is always historically situated. 

Discussion Upon the Constructed Limits of Design Studios

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Yiğit Acar
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Studio Practice

We can define architectural design studios as environments of simulation. Within this simulation limitations of real life architectural problems are constructed, yet the constructed reality is far from the reality of existing practice. In Architecture: Story of Practice, Dana Cuff, makes a sociological study of the architectural design practice and in the volume she discusses design studios as limited versions of the actual design practice. As compared to the actual practice in the studio the students are alone, there isn’t a multiplicity of actors involved in the process, and the design problems are clearly defined. Cuff points out to these shortcomings and provides guidelines to overcome them. One of the shortcomings mentioned in Cuff’s study is that: design studios do not represent the variety of actors that are present in a real life situation. Cuff suggests to include representatives of different actors in the studio practice to overcome this. If the studio fails to support itself with a variety of actors, to compensate the short coming of actors, the instructors start taking the role of many possible participants of a design process. The instructors simulate: the user, the owner, the engineer, the contractor and so on so forth. This type of an approach in the design studios leads to a certain result: the ideological construct of the instructors becomes the foundation of the constructed reality of the studio. This study explores the ideological construction of the design studio through active involvements with undergraduate students. Through the findings of two discussion sessions, students’ own ideological positions, their relationship with the external realities and limits imposed on such relations by the studio instructor’s own ideological stances are explored.

The Role of Horizon Scanning in Innovation and Design Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elies DEKONINCK ◽  
Isabel MEYTHALER
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Horizon Scanning ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Lateral Thinking ◽  
Technology Scouting

This paper aims to investigate how horizon scanning (HS) is used by practitioners to create foresight for design and innovation and which methods, tools and approaches innovation practitioners use for spotting and acting upon changes in the business environment as well as in the consumer and technological landscape. Thus, this study contributes to the field of horizon scanning and innovation management by presenting the results from 16 in-depths expert interviews with innovation practitioners. Specifically, the aim of this research was to: discuss the role and importance of horizon scanning for innovation and design; identify dominant methods and approaches used within horizon scanning; and compare the methods typically used by different types of innovation practitioners. This study discovered that HS in conjunction with creative and lateral thinking, technology scouting as well as human-centred thinking not only facilitates the early detection of emerging trends and technologies but also facilitates turning insights into actionable ideas, increasing the likelihood of more successful product development, meaningful innovations and sustainable competitiveness.

Detention time—A key decision factor in controlling algal blooms in man-made lakes

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Mulamoottil ◽  
E. McBean
Keyword(s):  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Biomass ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Detention Time ◽  
Time Criterion ◽  
Study Test ◽  
Stormwater Pond

The mechanics by which algal blooms occur are examined and from these, a set of factors is identified that are important in modifying bloom conditions. The role of the detention time, one of the key controlling conditions, is examined as it relates to field observations of the presence of different kinds of algal biomass. A case study test of the detention time for a stormwater pond demonstrates the failure of existing design practice to adhere to the detention time criterion, suggesting that algal blooms might well occur in the impoundment.

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