Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 23/June/2024
8:00am
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6:00pm
PhD Event
Location: ISEC
Date: Monday, 24/June/2024
10:00am
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11:30am
WORKSHOP: What is the status of Design for Policy?
Location: Alumni Center
WORKSHOP: Deep Listening of Climate Imaginaries - Reimagining Alternate Climate Futures with GenAI
Location: Arch Studio (Room 1)
WORKSHOP: Empowering Travelers - How Might We Improve The Airport Experience?
Location: Arch Studio (Room 3)
WORKSHOP: Metacognition in Design
Location: Arch Studio (Room 4)
CONVERSATION: The expanding scope of design
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
 
10:00am
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1:00pm
WORKSHOP: Playing out conflicts for harmony: Co-designing rules for running local businesses with community
Location: Faculty Club
WORKSHOP: TrustTech: Practice-led Design Workshop to Understand Trust in AI
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
WORKSHOP: What matters when...?: Exploring the influence of technology on roles and arrangements in at-home rehabilitation
Location: Theatre Lab
WORKSHOP: World-Making With Love!? A Collective And Open Manifesto For Just And Democratic AI Design Practices
Location: RY 236
   
10:00am
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2:00pm
WORKSHOP: Reimagining pluriversal approaches to design
Location: Acting Studio
12:00pm
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1:30pm
WORKSHOP: Developing Empathy: Learning to Listen and Create Mutual Trust to Design with People
Location: Alumni Center
WORKSHOP: How Do LLMs Impact A Designer’s Process?
Location: Arch Studio (Room 1)
CONVERSATION: Evaluating Assistive Product With Designers: How To Understand And Address User Stigma Around Visible And Invisible Disability
Location: Arch Studio (Room 4)
CONVERSATION: Mapping constellations for regenerative design
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
WORKSHOP: Story-Making for Local-Making: A Playful Multi-Stakeholder Community Workshop
Location: DO 102
CONVERSATION: Queer(ing) Design
Location: RY 236C
2:00pm
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3:30pm
WORKSHOP: Imagination is the Multiplier: Radical Futuring with the Design Justice Network
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
CONVERSATION: Reimagining Speculative Design
Location: DO 102
WORKSHOP: ‘More Than a Name Tag’—Towards a New Grammar of Relationality
Location: RY 236
2:00pm
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5:30pm
WORKSHOP: Elaborate Methodologies: Exploring Design Approaches to Complex Collaborative Research
Location: Faculty Club
WORKSHOP: Relational Design
Location: Alumni Center
WORKSHOP: Post-Growth Control Wars – Designing with Sociotechnical Fictions and Counterfactual Actions to Explore Ecosocial Transitions
Location: Arch Studio (Room 1)
WORKSHOP: Symbiotic futures. Investigating collaborative perspectives between humans and robots
Location: Arch Studio (Room 3)
WORKSHOP: User Persona, AI, and Implicit Bias
Location: Arch Studio (Room 4)
WORKSHOP: The Human-Centric Isochrone: Re-imagining the Station Study Area
Location: Acting Studio
4:00pm
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5:30pm
WORKSHOP: Uncovering Dynamics Of Tone In Workshop Facilitation
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
CONVERSATION: Designing for Transitions and Transformations: resistance, recovery, reflection, and reimagination
Location: Theatre Lab
CONVERSATION: Reflective Narratives in Social Design: towards an Autoethnographic Approach
Location: DO 102
Date: Tuesday, 25/June/2024
10:00am
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11:30am
CONVERSATION: How do we articulate design research to other academic disciplines?
Location: 1.412
CONVERSATION: Values-Based Systemic Design: A Conversation about Systems Change Across Institutions
Location: 1.414
 
10:00am
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1:00pm
WORKSHOP: Collective Counterfactual: Micro-Publishing as a Discursive Practice
Location: LL2.229
WORKSHOP: Trauma-Informed Design, Research, and Practice: A Care by Design Approach
Location: LL2.225
 
10:30am
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12:00pm
CONVERSATION: AI In human-centered design: Ethical considerations
Location: LL2.223
11:00am
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12:15pm
PAPERS (Track 5): Digital Tools for Healthy Cities
Location: 1.413
Chair: Emmanuel Tsekleves, Lancaster University
PAPERS (Track 13): Pluriversal Design as a Paradigm II
Location: LL2.221
Chair: Renata Leitao, Cornell University
Chair: Lesley-Ann Noel, North Carolina State University
 
11:00am
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12:30pm
PAPERS (Track 24): Ethics in Design: Practices
Location: 1.321 – Winokur Family Hall
Chair: Laura Ferrarello, EPFL
Chair: Linda N. Laursen, Aalborg University
11:00am
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12:45pm
PAPERS (Track 25): AI's Impact on Sketching & Workflow
Location: LL2.224
Chair: JanWillem Hoftijzer, Delft University of Technology
Chair: Jason O/ Neill Germany, University of Washington
11:30am
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1:00pm
CONVERSATION: Playable Systems: Game Co-Design for systemic intervention
Location: 1.412
CONVERSATION: Designing change: Research scope and agenda.
Location: 1.414
 
12:30pm
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1:30pm
PAPERS (Track 11): Joyful Complexity: People, Power, Positionalities
Location: 1.413
Chair: Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them), Jess Westbrook
Chair: Coraline Ada Ehmke, Organization for Ethical Source
12:30pm
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2:00pm
CONVERSATION: What is Next for Civic Design?
Location: LL2.223
12:45pm
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1:45pm
PAPERS (Track 2): D4L and Technologies
Location: LL2.221
Chair: Sheng-Hung Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Chair: Joseph F. Coughlin
1:00pm
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2:30pm
PAPERS (Track 1): Resisting Education / The Education of Resistance
Location: 1.321 – Winokur Family Hall
Chair: Lesley-Ann Noel, North Carolina State University
Chair: Naureen Mumtaz, Mount Royal University
1:30pm
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3:00pm
PAPERS (Track 16): Language in Design Process
Location: LL2.225
Chair: Senthil Chandrasegaran, Delft University of Technology
Chair: Sara Queen, NC State College of Design
CONVERSATION: Doctoral education in design. The administrative challenges
Location: 1.412
CONVERSATION: The Power of doing less: the Concept of Exnovation in Transition Design through a Multi-lens Perspective
Location: 1.414
   
2:00pm
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3:15pm
PAPERS (Track 26): Sound-Driven Design: Foundations
Location: 1.413
Chair: Stefano Delle Monache, Delft University of Technology
Chair: Nicolas Misdariis, Ircam
PAPERS (Track 8): Design for Policy and Governance Futures
Location: LL2.221
Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University
Chair: Marzia Mortati, Politecnico di Milano
PAPERS (Track 17): More-Than-Human: Becoming With the More-Than-Human
Location: LL2.224
Chair: Joseph Lindley, Lancaster University
Chair: Iohanna nicenboim, tu delft
   
2:30pm
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4:00pm
CONVERSATION: The future of human reproduction: Exploring wicked problems through interdisciplinary speculative design practices
Location: LL2.223
WORKSHOP: Shaping Interactions
Location: LL2.229
 
3:00pm
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4:30pm
CONVERSATION: Pluriversality on Earth and Beyond: Opening the Field of Critical Interplanetary Design within the Design Discipline
Location: 1.414
3:30pm
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4:30pm
PAPERS (Track 12): Design for Empowerment I: Approaches and Understandings
Location: 1.321 – Winokur Family Hall
Chair: Laura Santamaria, Royal College of Art
Chair: Ksenija Kuzmina, Loughborough University London
PAPERS (Track 20): Food Cultures and Transitions
Location: 1.413
Chair: Chun Zheng, Riverlife Pittsburgh
PAPERS (Track 10): Systemic Citizens I
Location: LL2.221
Chair: Cecilia Landa-Avila, Loughborough University
Chair: Sine Celik, Delft University of Technology
PAPERS (Track 18): Generative AI in Practice
Location: LL2.224
Chair: Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, Harvard Graduate School of Design
PAPERS (Track 27): Play Design I
Location: LL2.225
Chair: Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Kolding School of Design
Date: Wednesday, 26/June/2024
10:30am
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12:00pm
PAPERS (Track 14): Potentials for Polyphonic Speculations
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Fernando Galdon, Royal College of Art
PAPERS (Open Call): Integrating Design Perspectives
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Paul Hekkert, Top sector Creative Industries
CONVERSATION: Design for health equity in Latin America
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
CONVERSATION: Transdisciplinarity: Taking stock beyond buzzwords and outlining an agenda for design research
Location: Theatre Lab
CONVERSATION: Robotics in Design and the Makings of Embodied Interfaces
Location: Acting Studio
WORKSHOP: A Syllabus for Design for Policy
Location: RY 236
10:30am
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2:00pm
WORKSHOP: Exploring Innovation In Sustainability Transitions From A Knowledge Systems Perspective
Location: Arch Studio (Room 1)
WORKSHOP: Imagining the Unimaginable: Tools for Futuring in the Design Classroom
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
10:30am
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6:00pm
WORKSHOP: Reparative practices: Why the patch method doesn't work. A hands-on workshop exploring the limits of repair and ways forward.
Location: Arch Studio (Room 3)
12:15pm
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1:30pm
PAPERS (Track 3): Spatial Wellbeing
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Anna Pohlmeyer, TU Delft
PAPERS (Open Call): Design Cognition and Ideation
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Alayt Issak, Northeastern University
12:30pm
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2:00pm
CONVERSATION: Designing for systemic change: Weaving a web of approaches to accelerate transitions and transformation
Location: Theatre Lab
CONVERSATION: Social Design at the Brink: Hopes and Fears
Location: Acting Studio
2:30pm
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4:00pm
PAPERS (Track 15): Spatial Justice in Design Research: A Transdisciplinary Discourse
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Miriam Tedeschi, University of Turku
Chair: Jules Rochielle Sievert, Northeastern University School of Law
PAPERS (Track 25): Analogue Sketching Research
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University
CONVERSATION: Is There a Design-based Capacity-building Model for Achieving Sustainability and Circularity
Location: Acting Studio
2:30pm
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6:00pm
WORKSHOP: Crafting Interalities: Positionalities and localities through intersectional DEI in design education
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
WORKSHOP: Enhancing the end-of-life care experience: exploring touchpoints and moments of truth via material facilitation
Location: Theatre Lab
WORKSHOP: Designer's toolkit: advancing design intelligence through innovation, ethical framework, artificial intelligence, inclusivity and accessibility for all
Location: RY 236
4:30pm
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6:00pm
CONVERSATION: Does AI need designers? Exploring the contribution of designers in clinical AI development
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
WORKSHOP: Taking and Marking Time
Location: Acting Studio
4:45pm
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6:00pm
PAPERS (Track 22): Design for Manufacturing: Rehumanising Digital Manufacturing
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Mey Goh, Loughborough University
Chair: Rebecca Grant, Loughborough University
5:00pm
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6:00pm
PAPERS (Track 8): Design for Policy and Governance Theory
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University
Chair: Marzia Mortati, Politecnico di Milano
Date: Thursday, 27/June/2024
11:15am
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1:00pm
PAPERS (Track 23): Making in the Digital Era
Location: 32-144 (Classroom)
Chair: Camilla Groth, University of South-Eastern Norway
Chair: Hazal Gumus Ciftci, Arizona State University
11:30am
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12:30pm
PAPERS (Track 20): Innovative Food Systems: Networks and Partnerships
Location: Bartos Theatre
Chair: Silvana Juri, SARAS Institute
11:30am
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12:45pm
PAPERS (Track 11): Joyful Complexity: Methodological (Dis/Re)Orientations
Location: 32-155 (Classroom)
Chair: Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them), Jess Westbrook
Chair: Coraline Ada Ehmke, Organization for Ethical Source
11:30am
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1:00pm
PAPERS (Track 16): Language in Design Practice
Location: 32-141 (Classroom)
Chair: Senthil Chandrasegaran, Delft University of Technology
Chair: Sara Queen, NC State College of Design
11:30am
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1:15pm
PAPERS (Track 4): Reimagining Care through Evidence: Environment
Location: 32-124 (Classroom)
Chair: Diana Susan Nicholas, Drexel University
Chair: Isil Oygur Ilhan, University of Cincinnati
12:00pm
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1:30pm
PAPERS (Track 4): Reimagining Care through Evidence: Technology
Location: E25-111
Chair: Diana Susan Nicholas, Drexel University
Chair: Angela Mazzi, GBBN Architects
PAPERS (Track 7): Co-design for Behavior Change I: Communities & Public Space
Location: 674 (Multi-Purpose)
Chair: Haiou Zhu, University of Oxford
Chair: Gubing Wang, Tilburg University
PAPERS (Track 25): Sketching Futures with XR and AI
Location: 633 (L)
Chair: Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Western Sydney University
PAPERS (Track 1): Technology & Reimagining Education
Location: 26-100 (Classroom)
Chair: Naomi Jacobs, Lancaster Univiersity
 
12:45pm
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2:15pm
PAPERS (Track 6): Re-imagining Design Approaches for Balance
Location: Bartos Theatre
Chair: Luca Simeone, Aalborg University
Chair: Silvia Maria Gramegna, Politecnico di Milano
1:00pm
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2:15pm
PAPERS (Track 14): Polyphonic Speculation in Practice
Location: 32-155 (Classroom)
Chair: Nuri Kwon, Lancaster University
1:15pm
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2:15pm
PAPERS (Track 28): Sustainability in Retail, Hospitality and Service Design
Location: 32-144 (Classroom)
Chair: Mia B. Münster, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chair: Bethan Alexander, London College of Fashion, UAL
1:30pm
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2:45pm
PAPERS (Track 3): Health and Wellbeing
Location: 32-124 (Classroom)
Chair: Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Georgia Institute of Technology
PAPERS (Track 21): Futuring in Transitions
Location: 32-141 (Classroom)
Chair: Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Arizona State University
Chair: İdil Gaziulusoy, Aalto University
 
2:00pm
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3:15pm
PAPERS (Track 17): More-Than-Human: Designing With and Through Technologies
Location: E25-111
Chair: Arne Berger, Hochschule Anhalt
Chair: Laura Forlano, Northeastern University
PAPERS (Track 8): Design for Policy and Governance Practice
Location: 674 (Multi-Purpose)
Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University
Chair: Marzia Mortati, Politecnico di Milano
PAPERS (Track 18): Data as Design Method
Location: 633 (L)
Chair: Andrew Witt, Harvard University
PAPERS (Track 5): Healthy Cities & Communities
Location: 26-100 (Classroom)
Chair: Emmanuel Tsekleves, Lancaster University
 
2:00pm
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3:30pm
PAPERS (Open Call): Literacies, Inclusivity, and Empowerment
Location: 648 (SIL)
Chair: Hua Dong, Brunel Univeristy London
Chair: Arthi Manohar, Brunel University London
2:15pm
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3:30pm
PAPERS (Track 6): Re-imagining Design Practices for Balance
Location: Bartos Theatre
Chair: Carmen Bruno, Politecnico di Milano
Chair: Erminia D'Itria, Politecnico di Milano
2:30pm
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4:00pm
PAPERS (Track 21): Ecologies and Regeneration in Transitions
Location: 32-155 (Classroom)
Chair: Joanna Boehnert, Bath Spa University
Chair: Femke Coops, TU/e
3:45pm
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5:00pm
PAPERS (Track 3): Experiential Wellbeing
Location: 648 (SIL)
Chair: Anna Pohlmeyer, TU Delft
PAPERS (Track 28): User Experiences in Retail, Hospitality and Service Design
Location: Bartos Theatre
Chair: Mia B. Münster, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chair: Rebekah Matheny, The Ohio State University
PAPERS (Track 17): More-Than-Human: Thinking with Care
Location: 32-124 (Classroom)
Chair: Cristina Zaga, University of Twente
Chair: Elisa Giaccardi, Delft University of Technology
PAPERS (Track 24): Ethics of Design: Theories and Methods
Location: 32-141 (Classroom)
Chair: Colin M. Gray, Indiana University
PAPERS (Track 26): Sound-Driven Design in Action
Location: 32-144 (Classroom)
Chair: Stefano Delle Monache, Delft University of Technology
Chair: Elif Özcan, Delft University of Technology
4:00pm
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5:30pm
PAPERS (Open Call): Change and Impact
Location: E25-111
Chair: Laura Santamaria, Royal College of Art
PAPERS (Track 18): Social Dimensions of Data and Research
Location: 674 (Multi-Purpose)
Chair: Andrew Witt, Harvard University
PAPERS (Track 24): Ethics for Design: Positions & Relations
Location: 633 (L)
Chair: Laura Ferrarello, EPFL
Chair: Linda N. Laursen, Aalborg University
PAPERS (Track 13): Pluriversal Design as a Paradigm I
Location: 26-100 (Classroom)
Chair: Renata Leitao, Cornell University
Chair: Lesley-Ann Noel, North Carolina State University
 
4:15pm
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5:30pm
PAPERS (Track 10): Systemic Citizens II
Location: 32-155 (Classroom)
Chair: Sine Celik, Delft University of Technology
Chair: Cecilia Landa-Avila, Loughborough University
Date: Friday, 28/June/2024
10:30am
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12:00pm
PAPERS (Open Call): Health and Healthcare
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Mersha Aftab, Birmingham City University
PAPERS (Track 19): Translational Design I
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Rowan Christopher Page, Monash University
Chair: Rosie Hornbuckle, University of the Arts London
CONVERSATION: Coordinating across institutions toward less extractive models of UX design & research
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
PAPERS (Track 3): Subjective Wellbeing
Location: Theatre Lab
Chair: Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Georgia Institute of Technology
PAPERS (Track 9): Designing Policies across Institutional Boundaries
Location: Acting Studio
Chair: Sofia Bosch Gomez, Northeastern University
Chair: Francesco Leoni, Politecnico di Milano
CONVERSATION: Designing for Sustainability with Sound
Location: DO 102
CONVERSATION: Climate justice in design education
Location: RY 236
10:30am
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1:30pm
WORKSHOP: Nature led Design and Retail Futures
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
WORKSHOP: Let's play with generative AI: speculative collaging for preposterous futures
Location: Arch Studio (Room 3)
 
10:30am
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5:00pm
Labs Work and Presentations in Ryder Lobby
Location: Ryder Lobby
12:00pm
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1:30pm
PAPERS (Track 1): Recovering Education / The Education of Recovery
Location: Blackman Auditorium
Chair: Ehsan Baha, University of Montreal
12:30pm
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1:30pm
PAPERS (Track 27): Play Design II
Location: Theatre Lab
Chair: Sofie Kinch, Designschool Kolding
PAPERS (Track 2): D4L and Aging
Location: Acting Studio
Chair: Carla Sedini, Politecnico di Milano
Chair: Sofie Hodara, Northeastern University
 
12:30pm
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2:00pm
PAPERS (Track 19): Translational Design II
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Rowan Christopher Page, Monash University
Chair: Rosie Hornbuckle, University of the Arts London
PAPERS (Track 22): Design for Manufacturing: Rehumanising Digital Manufacturing
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Mey Goh, Loughborough University
Chair: Rebecca Grant, Loughborough University
PAPERS (Track 4): Reimagining Care through Evidence: Culture and Strategy
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
Chair: Angela Mazzi, GBBN Architects
Chair: Isil Oygur Ilhan, University of Cincinnati
CONVERSATION: Radical reimagining of future courts
Location: DO 102
WORKSHOP: Play a Co-creation Game for Circular Design
Location: RY 236
   
2:00pm
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3:15pm
PAPERS (Track 2): D4L and Services
Location: Theatre Lab
Chair: Sofie Hodara, Northeastern University
Chair: Carla Sedini, Politecnico di Milano
PAPERS (Track 28): Technology in Retail, Hospitality and Service Design
Location: Acting Studio
Chair: Katelijn Quartier, Hasselt University
Chair: Bethan Alexander, London College of Fashion, UAL
 
2:00pm
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3:30pm
PAPERS (Open Call): Empathy, Care, and Bodily Perspectives
Location: Blackman Auditorium
2:00pm
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5:30pm
WORKSHOP: Empathic Stakeholder Mapping With Storytelling Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)
Location: Arch Studio (Room 1)
WORKSHOP: Racism Untaught: Revealing & Unlearning Racialized Design
Location: Arch Studio (Room 2)
 
2:15pm
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3:30pm
PAPERS (Track 21): Perspectives and Pedagogies in Transitions
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: İdil Gaziulusoy, Aalto University
Chair: Joanna Boehnert, Bath Spa University
PAPERS (Open Call): Augmenting Diverse Contexts through Design
Location: Alumni Center
Chair: Federico Vaz, Royal College of Art
 
2:30pm
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4:00pm
PAPERS (Open Call): Materials and Materiality
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
WORKSHOP: For My Friend, Earth: Rethinking Data and Behaviour in a Plastic World
Location: RY 236
 
3:00pm
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4:30pm
DRSLab: What in the world do we hear? Understanding public and private spaces through soundAI
Location: CfD Conference Room
3:45pm
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5:00pm
PAPERS (Track 7): Co-design for Behavior Change II: Theories, Reflections, & Frameworks
Location: Blackman Auditorium
Chair: Haiou Zhu, University of Oxford
Chair: Gubing Wang, Tilburg University
4:00pm
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5:00pm
PAPERS (Track 12): Design for Empowerment II: Methods & communities
Location: Faculty Club
Chair: Laura Santamaria, Royal College of Art
Chair: Ksenija Kuzmina, Loughborough University London
4:15pm
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5:30pm
PAPERS (Track 21): Systems and Services in Transitions
Location: CfD Lobby and Flex
Chair: Joanna Boehnert, Bath Spa University
Chair: Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Arizona State University

 
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