Conference Agenda
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PAPERS: The Expanding Role of the Architect in Multidisciplinary Collaboration Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Manuela Triggianese, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Chair: Lee Moreau, Northeastern University Co-creation with carbon data: Reframing the designer’s role in the decarbonization of the built environment Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands Data and the Changing Landscape of Architectural Intelligence 1: Harvard Graduate School of Design, United States of America; 2: Washington University in St. Luis, United States of America Practice-as-paradigm: Towards ethical and affective methodologies in participatory architectural research University of Reading, United Kingdom Reframing architectural practice through territory and emotion: The atlas of emotions in Bajo Atrato, Colombia Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Testing the unbuilt: Design studios as research for Wicked Opportunities 1: School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
PAPERS: Knowing with Care: Means and Politics Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Chair: Zixuan Wang, University of Edinburgh Care-full Co-Production — an Aotearoa case study 1: Massey University of New Zealand, New Zealand; 2: Massey University of New Zealand, New Zealand Care-ful reorientations in design 1: Northeastern University; 2: Illinois Institute of Technology Designing with and through care: from empathy to relational accountability Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Unwording Design: Demilitarizing the Imaginaries of Design 1: Umeå Institute of Design; 2: UAM Azcapotzalco / Estonian Academy of Arts Reframing design success: Care as a chain of responses 1: Shantou University: Shantou, Guangdong, CN; 2: University of the Arts London: London, GB; 3: School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, AU Exploring Common Understandings and Bodily Experiences of Vulnerability in Design Researchers in Sensitive Contexts 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 3: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 1) Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Fernando Del Caro Secomandi, Delft University of Technology Chair: Daniel Portugal, State University of Rio de Janeiro Reading Against the Grain: Ubuntu, Sankofa, and Rhythm as Pedagogical Infrastructures in First-Year Design Education RMIT University, Australia Beyond the menace of the gaze: Archetypes, dualities, and emptiness in Alexander McQueen’s fashion philosophy University of Wollongong in Dubai Rethinking our relationship with technology through the translation of a film prop: The case of Pyle and his rifle 1: Royal College of Art, United Kingdom; 2: Feng-Chia University, Taiwan Opening portals to the posthuman: A pedagogical framework for materializing philosophy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Desiring Production: Design as an Ethical Action Tongji University, China Crafting savage futures: Translanguaging and the material politics of peripheral making 1: University of Vale dos Sinos, Brazil; 2: University of the Arts London; 3: University of South-Eastern Norway |
| PAPERS: Designing for and with taboo Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Ana Correia de Barros, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS Chair: Yoni Lefevre, LUCA School of Arts - KU Leuven Does taboo constrain self-knowledge?: A design-led inquiry into the intimate health of older women Universidade de Lisboa, ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Longing for: Designing activities to break the taboo of female sexuality in care homes 1: LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven, Caring and design research, Genk, BE; 2: The School of Health in Social Science, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 3: Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK A messy substance: Mediating the stigma and lived experience of endometriosis through participatory design 1: SDSI - Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree - Service Design Strategies and Innovations (Art Academy of Latvia, University of Lapland and Estonian Academy of Arts); 2: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal Is There Limitless Romance Behind a “Bunch of Ones and Zeros”? How Social VR Shapes Romantic Interaction and Its Design Implications 1: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary; 2: Dublin City University - School of Psychology; 3: Dublin City University - School of Communications & Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics The Invisible Playground for Taboos: A framework for recognising and designing for Inner Play to engage with Death and Anticipatory Grief 1: Independent Researcher, Portugal; 2: Kolding School of Design, Denmark; 3: University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 4: Danish National Centre for Grief, Denmark The Ecology of Effort: Aesthetics of Resistance in the Age of Frictionless Design Istituto Marangoni, Italy |
PAPERS: Opening up Design Impact: Session 1 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Cyril Tjahja, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam From metrics to meaning: Enabling iterative design for multi-stakeholder engagement and behavioural change in systemic climate transitions with quali-quantitative assessment and sensemaking 1: Politecnico di Milano; 2: Climate KIC TechWork: Developing and validating a reflective tool for impact-aware design 1: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Cornell University, USA A Perceived Value Framework for Automotive Design Innovation: Rethinking Strategic Transition of Incumbent OEMs in the Post-ICE Era School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China Navigating LCA in Circular Design: Methodological Barriers When Applying Life Cycle Assessment to Industrial Waste Upcycling Design Decisions Aalborg University, Denmark The DCF framework: Integrating Cross-Cultural and Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on comfort experience School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, People's Republic of China |
PAPERS: Culture and Knowledge Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Craft as Experiential Knowledge: Designing Workshops and Record-Keeping Practices for Cultural Transmission among Young Generations Kyoto Institute of Technology & University of the Arts London Producing knowledge for whom? Parallel knowledge worlds in Chinese doctoral education in design and international design research 1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 3: Cornell University Interdependencies of Art History and Design History curriculum in Indian undergraduate education Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Design education in multicultural contexts: Student perceptions of cultural inclusivity in the classroom Northeastern University, United States Weaving Local Knowledge into Design Education: Situated Learning in Ethnic Regions of Western Sichuan Minzu University, People's Republic of China Educating Inclusive Human Augmentation by Design: A Triadic Definitional Framework and Pedagogical Validation The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
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| PAPERS: Sketching for thinking, expression, and information Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Amos Scully, Rochester Institute of Tech Chair: Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Western Sydney University Drawn To Think: A Step Toward Decolonising Design Visualcy UAL - Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom Agreements for Collective Real-Time Sketching Practice in Design Research 1: Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands How does costume illustration sketching mediate between visual development concept art and the practical construction of film costumes? arts university bournemouth, United Kingdom Drawing in the minor key: An approach for multi-actor designing for societal transformation 1: Eindhoven University of Technology; 2: Drawing in the minor key Sketching Social Robots: Visualising Futures of Human–Robot Interaction through Participatory Imagination University of Waikato, New Zealand DDENSO: an evaluation-driven methodology for information visualisations Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
PAPERS: Design and Sustainability: Values, Behaviour Change and Direct Action Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Michael Stead, Imagination Design Research Lab, School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Chair: David Sánchez Ruano, Tec de Monterrey “Even if I do it, I cannot see any differences”: Designing Strategies to Facilitate Adolescents’ Low-Carbon Behavior Southern University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of Bridging Awareness and Action: Visual Communication Strategies for Sustainable Consumption in Fast Fashion TU Delft, Netherlands, The Buying, Consuming and Discarding: Consumer Value and Furniture Lifetimes Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Heterodox economic perspective for designing sustainability transitions: Integrating fundamental human needs and the milieu approach 1: Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Lyon, CNRS, Univ Jean Monnet, Univ Lumière Lyon 2, Univ Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, ENS Lyon, ENTPE, ENSA Lyon, UMR 5600 EVS, Institut Henri Fayol, F - 42023 Saint-Etienne France; 2: Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, I2M, UMR 5295, F-33400 Talence, France; 3: Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, I2M, UMR 5295, F-73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Towards a more sustainable industrial design sketch modelling practice: An overview of associated materials and their life cycles University of Canterbury, New Zealand Should sustainability come second? Artifact analysis toward more positive outcomes through design 1: Syracuse University - School of Design; 2: Cornell University - Department of Human Centered Design |
PAPERS: More-than-human data practices 1 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Elisa Giaccardi, Politecnico di Milano When data systems meet ecosystems: Tensions between AI platforms and vitality in corporate sustainability 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2: Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT:U), Linz, Austria More-than-human oversight: Designing a somaesthetic space for high-risk AI systems 1: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: Santiago, CL Speculative Design Through Synthetic Data: Exploring how synthetic data be used to represent missing ‘more-than-human' data RMIT University, Australia Designing algorithmic infrastructures for environmental regeneration: Autonomous systems in marine contexts 1: Izmir University of Economics; 2: Mälardalen University Grounding Artificial Intelligence: Terrestrial Cartography and Rare Earths in Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile |
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| CONVERSATION: Design Potluck: Shaping Metaphors for Better Practice Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Design Potluck: Shaping Metaphors for Better Practice 1: School of Visual Arts; 2: Meld Strategy; 3: University of Auckland; 4: Bloom Works; 5: International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at UC Berkeley; 6: Independent; 7: OCAD |
CONVERSATION: Changing Topographies of Transdisciplinarity Within Design Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Changing topographies of transdisciplinarity within Design 1: SARAS Institute, Uruguay;; 2: The Design School, Arizona State University, USA; 3: Linnaeus University, Department of Design, Sweden; 4: School of Design (EUCD-FADU), Universidad de la República, Uruguay |
CONVERSATION: Empathy in the Age of Artificial Simulation Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Empathy in the Age of Artificial Simulation 1: Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom; 2: Köln International School of Design DE, Germany; 3: Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 4: Florida Atlantic University, USA |
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| EXPLORATION: This Is Not Airport Noise – Analogue Field Sound Lab Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) This Is Not Airport Noise - Analogue Field Sound Lab UNIBZ, Italy |
EXPLORATION: Designing Through Plural Lenses: Reflection on Making Intersectionality Actionable Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Designing Through Plural Lenses: Reflection on Making Intersectionality Actionable 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Carleton University |
EXPLORATION: Co-crafting Through Rural Craft: Exploring Material Engagement As Knowledge Production Through Willow Weaving, Natural Plant Dyeing, and Textile Weaving Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Co-Crafting through Rural Craft: Exploring Material Engagement as Knowledge Production through Willow Weaving, Natural Plant Dyeing, and Textile Weaving The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
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PAPERS: Architectural Design Research: Present & Future Methods Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Manuela Triggianese, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Chair: Paolo Ciuccarelli, Northeastern University Design as Interface: From Architectural Design to Circular Systems Design Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway The future of architectural design research: An emerging niche in digital transition Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The Co-creating connections: How design, healthcare, and museum actors experience a co-creation process 1: University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Architecture + Interior; 2: University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, CAPRI; 3: KU Leuven, LINC (current); 4: University of Antwerp, Design Science Hub; 5: Stad Antwerpen, Middelheim Museum; 6: University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Ubanism and Spatial Planning; 7: University Centre of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ZAS-UKJA), Antwerp The changing role of diagrams in architectural publications: From creative to communicative Ariel University, Israel Human and nonhuman collaborators: Written information and people in the process of detailed design for early career architects. Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Practicing with Care: Context and Specificality Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Chair: Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh Decolonizing Care in Design Research: Familiness and Relational Practices from Creative Ageing in Thailand 1: Bangkok University, Thailand; 2: Thammasat University, Thailand Reconfiguring Care: Envision Postpartum Support for Women in Southern China through the Lens of Home-based IoT Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Narrativizing Care: Exploring Narrative Medicine for Designing AI-Mediated Remote Patient Monitoring 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: TU Delft, The Netherlands; 3: Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands; 4: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 5: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Re-voicing Identity: Care Ethics and the Politics of Unsilencing After Total Laryngectomy Virginia Tech, United States of America Exploring Relationality for Future Care Technology Design IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Care through ambiguity: Findings from participatory health design 1: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: School of Architecture and Design, Harbin Institute of Technology, People’s Republic of China |
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 2) Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Fernando Del Caro Secomandi, Delft University of Technology Chair: Daniel Portugal, State University of Rio de Janeiro Code Ecologies: Reclaiming design as meaning-making within human–ecological systems Royal College of Art, United Kingdom From Interface to Intuition: Rethinking Design Ontologies in the Age of Ambient Intelligence istituto Marangoni, Italy Collective handiness in prospective design: philosophical musings on a serious play workshop on articulation work 1: Federal University of Technology Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil; 2: Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil Towards Positional Citizenship: designing for the More-than-Human Political 1: TU Delft, IDE Faculty, Human Centred Design Department, Netherlands, The; 2: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions The lustre of hands University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| PAPERS: Design and Infrastructure, Part I Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University Mapping design’s contribution to policymaking: A framework for understanding design’s roles across policymaking levels Royal College of Art, United Kingdom Frame excavation: Revealing and critiquing existing problem frames to improve migrants’ awareness of public services 1: Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Finland; 2: Aalto University, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Finland From critique to city council: A design framework for inclusive public discourse University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States of America From sustainable campuses to regenerative governance: A design perspective on participation and institutional learning in the Pays de la Loire university ecosystem 1: University of Sapienza, Rome; 2: École de design Nantes Atlantique, France Seeing systemic design through policy eyes: A frame-work to navigate complexities of policy contexts 1: Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
PAPERS: Opening up Design Impact: Session 2 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Cyril Tjahja, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Enquête d’âme: A participatory visualisation of wellbeing through embodied reflection 1: Loughborough University; 2: Royal College of Art Bridging macro sustainability and everyday life: Developing a meso–micro indicator framework for sustainable design in historic districts, The case of laomendong, nanjing 1: School of design, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214100, China; 2: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Evaluating Impact as a Distributed Ecosystem: Insights from a Coral-Themed Museum Late 1: Royal College of Art, United Kingdom; 2: Queen Mary University of London; 3: City St George's University of London From Mindset to Measurement: Developing Scales for Inclusive and Reflective Design Practice 1: Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; 2: Technische Universität Berlin Capturing the impact of co-creation in circular transitions: A comparative analysis of evaluation frameworks and models TU Delft, Netherlands |
PAPERS: Curriculum and pedagogies in design Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Extending futures literacy to speech scientists and technologists Tilburg University, Netherlands, The Embracing Complexity: Reimagining Design for Health Education Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Enacting Micro-Utopias: Situated Pedagogies of Collective Imagination in Design-based Education Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland, Mondragon University, Spain Design education leadership as constellation practice: Moving beyond the heroic leader 1: Heriot-Watt University Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 2: University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Territorial Quest | A phygital urban game for Public Design Education Università di Parma, Italy Reflective Sociomaterialist Learning for Design for Sustainability (DfS) in the Global South: Evaluations of Students’ Product Service System (PSS) Design Projects at a Thai Design School Thammasat University, Thailand |
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| PAPERS: Visualizing Narratives Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University Chair: JanWillem Hoftijzer, Delft University of Technology Designing Narrative Reconstruction from Bamboo Slips: A RAG-Agent Approach for Cultural Scene Generation 1: Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China; 2: Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China Toward a culturally situated perspective: Rethinking the role of AI in intangible cultural heritage pattern creation 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China; 2: Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom Archives and graphic memory: 1980s Brazilian rock album covers as cultural heritage FAUUSP, Brazil Visual thinking with artificial intelligence and augmented and virtual reality 1: Design Program, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University; 2: Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Design Group, Stanford University Applying AI Fine-Tuning and VR 3D Sketching for Conceptual Design Proposals: A Case Study of Footwear Design 1: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; 2: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Is this the “me” they want to see? Exploring near-future adaptations of AI for professional visibility and self-presentation 1: Delft University of Technology, Department of Human-Centered Design; 2: Delft University of Technology, Department of Human-Centered Design, AI Futures Lab |
PAPERS: Design and Sustainability: Co-creation, Participation and Relationality Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Michael Stead, Imagination Design Research Lab, School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Chair: David Sánchez Ruano, Tec de Monterrey Dropping Pebbles: The Ripple Effect of Designerly Co-creation in Steering Sustainability Transitions in Hospitals 1: Delft University of Technology; 2: Erasmus Medical Center Reciprocal value between learning and circular practices University of Pretoria, South Africa The environmental citizen’s playbook: A catalogue of playful participation for environmental action 1: Sooon Studio, Denmark; 2: Escola Universitària ERAM (Universitat de Girona); 3: Aalto University, Finland “Everything that no longer relates to anything”: Discard Studies for thinking through waste in design Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Design, territory and gastronomy: Relational practices in local transformation processes Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Playing Future Places Together RMIT University, Australia |
PAPERS: More-than-human data practices 2 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Sara Lenzi, Universidad de Deusto Scaffolding Oceans Futures: Design for embedded, embodied, and emergent thinking 1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 3: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 4: Simon Fraser University, Canada Occupying the sensors: Underwater sound in an urban river Northeastern University, United States of America Everything is an Instrument: Making Data Instruments as Critical Pedagogy RMIT University, Australia Plant biographies: Expanding more-than-human modes of relating 1: Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 3: Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4: Conservation Science, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, United Kingdom More-than-Human Self-Tracking: An Uncertain Account of Urine Monitoring, Protein Excess and Ecological Entanglements Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden |
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| EXPLORATION: Sensing the Future: Embodied and Dance Explorations of Seeing and Being Seen Through Public Digital Twins Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Sensing the Future: Embodied and Dance Explorations of Seeing and Being Seen through Public Digital Twins Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
CONVERSATION: Does Scotland Do It Differently? Exploring the Role of Design Within Participatory Governance Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Does Scotland do it differently? Exploring the role of design within participatory governance 1: The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom; 2: Independent; 3: Belfast School of Art, United Kingdom |
CONVERSATION: Designing for Future Heritage: Reframing Sustainability Through Cultural and Temporal Value Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Designing for Future Heritage: Reframing Sustainability through Cultural and Temporal Value 1: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2: Lancaster University, United Kingdom |
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| EXPLORATION: Queering Interdisciplinarity: A Workshop With Riso Printed Materials Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Queering Interdisciplinarity: a workshop with Riso printed materials Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom |
EXPLORATION: Evaluating the Quality of Transformation: Exploring Key Transformation & Thriving Indicators Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Evaluating the quality of transformation: Exploring Key Transformation & Thriving Indicators 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: EIT Culture & Creativity; 3: University of Amsterdam; 4: Amsterdam University of the Arts; 5: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers; 6: Future of Now; 7: Context Undefined; 8: Umeå Institute of Design |
EXPLORATION: Fairer Fashion by Design: Visioning Sustainability With Lego® Serious Play® Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Fairer fashion by design: Visioning sustainability with Lego® Serious Play® 1: Ravensbourne University London, United Kingdom; 2: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London |
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PAPERS: Play design I: Exploring worlds Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Kolding School of Design Chair: Mathias Poulsen, Kolding School of Design Between Worlds: Play Materials As Mediators of the Lived and the Ludic 1: KLEST Lab, Bengaluru, India; 2: BITS Design School, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani Designing for transversal play: experience, materiality and connection 1: University College Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark Play and Pilina: Reimagining Play Design Through Material Kinship and Cultural Practice Okada Design, United States of America Crafting semiotic riddles: Materiality and interpretive play in speculative design Kolding School of Design, Denmark Sticky Vitalities: Developing Play Design Sensitivities Through Material-Affective Practices 1: University College Absalon; Denmark; 2: Kolding School of Design, Denmark |
PAPERS: Co-designing with Care: Methods and Materiality Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Zixuan Wang, University of Edinburgh Chair: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Build & Connect: Designing a constructive, participatory physicalization activity & toolkit for community reflection 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Glasgow Women's Library, United Kingdom Design for care-full inclusion: Foregrounding the voices of vulnerable communities through vignettes in co-design 1: National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2: RMIT University School of Design, Australia Designing with care for the end of life: a reflective co-design workshop using material facilitation Northeastern University, United States of America Material Agencies in Co-Design: A New Materialist Perspective on Workshop Practices 1: Adelaide University, Australia; 2: Monash University, Australia Cut it out: Reframing hand paper-ripping as a collage method for wellbeing and care Loughborough University, United Kingdom Participatory Design as Third Space: Iterative Ethic in Singapore’s Contemporary Multiculturalism National University of Singapore, Singapore |
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles I Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Anne Louise Bang, VIA University College Chair: Emmi Pouta, Aalto University Making Futures with Textiles: Boundaries, Practice, Sustainability Royal College of Art, United Kingdom Decoding the Visual Language of Embroidery: Making, Knowing, and Recontextualising University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Designing a toolkit to explore the Design Space of Woven Textiles Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Degree of anisotropy: A textile epistemology of making Rhode Island School of Design, United States of America Designing with changeability: Material agency and theory in textile design 1: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; 2: Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic; 3: Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic The act of crafting textile dialogues VIA University College, Denmark |
| PAPERS: Design and Infrastructure, Part II Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University Infrastructuring public participation for sustainability transitions Department of Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway From citizen innovation labs to social transformation: analysing the Conectando Cozinhas case through the lens of infrastructuring 1: Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, Brazil; 2: Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Brazil; 3: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Not another design that ends up in a drawer: mechanisms to legitimize design outcomes in the public sector Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The When frames collide: Participatory frame navigation through co-design in policy contexts Northumbria University, United Kingdom Public sector’s climate commoning and infrastructural care 1: Malmö university, Sweden; 2: City of Malmö, Environment department, Sweden |
PAPERS: Designing Strategic Change: Business Capabilities and Roles Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Violeta Clemente, University of Aveiro Design As Strategic Competence for the Evolving Energy Industry Tongji University, China, People's Republic of Embedding design capability in growth-oriented SMEs in China: A multiple-case study Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Strategic design in practice: Mapping strategy formulation and implementation in Nordic design job advertisements 1: LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland; 2: Aalto University Design Factory and Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland Strategic design in business organizations: An approach for design management, business strategy, and design strategy Arizona State University, United States of America The future of designers: A study on the transition of designer occupations and corresponding strategic responses 1: Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP), Republic of Korea; 2: Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea Service Design-Driven Formation of Dynamic Capabilities for International Service Innovation: A Case Study of a Chinese NEV Firm School of Design, Hunan University, China |
PAPERS: Relational and Situated Design Practices Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Hadas Zohar, Aalborg University Copenhagen Reciprocal Sensing: Expanding Body Mapping Through Lenca and Mestizo Ontologies of Relational Embodiment Georgia Institute of Technology Relational embodiment: Rethinking artifacts as mediators of being-with-others School of Industrial Design, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Cob Club: co-exploratory earth building experiments, foolish in technique and form The University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Disrupting and reimagining women’s identities: A feminist design methodology inspired by the self-combing women’s “Goddess Fictual” practice Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Urban typography and cultural memory: A literature review in support of a design-led approach to heritage and preservation University of Waikato, New Zealand Data and power: A tool for designing data visualisations from a feminist perspective Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil |
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| PAPERS: Sketching and generative AI Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Amos Scully, Rochester Institute of Tech Chair: JanWillem Hoftijzer, Delft University of Technology The fidelity-flexibility paradox: Student creative experience with AI-assisted visualisation in design ideation 1: School of Product Design, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; 2: School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia The Pen or the Prompt: Investigating Novice Design Students' Use of Sketching and Generative AI for Initial Concept Visualisations University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Promoting the Development of Critical Thinking Among Design Novices in AIGC-Aided Design Processes College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Emerging Hybrid Human-GenAI Workflows to Optimise Human Ideation, Sketching and Design 1: Western Sydney University, Australia; 2: Universite de Montreal, Canada; 3: University of Cincinnati, USA Friend and foe: Characterising (counter)productive prompting of generative AI to supplement exploratory sketching 1: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Canterbury, New Zealand Sketch-Based AI: How AI-Influence Levels Shape Perceived Authorship and Creativity in the Design Process 1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America |
PHD HUB: How Do We Work Together? From Experience to Critical Understanding of Agency, Power, and the Conditions of Collaboration and Participation Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 |
PAPERS: More than Human Climate Futures: Affect and Relational Practices Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Rachel Clarke, University of the Arts London Chair: Michelle Westerlaken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology More than Weeds: Thickening designer-plant relations in the Sonoran Desert Arizona State University, United States of America Imagining speculative design tools with a Capability Approach Independent researcher Mediating More-than-Human care: Art, design and climate governance 1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 3: UAL, London College of Communication, UK; 4: Tokyo Keizai University, Japan ‘Wet’ policymaking: exploring the potential of open-water swimming in agonistically designing affective environmental policies. 1: R4D Research group, School of Social Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: Civic & Policy Design (part of Arck) Research group, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, Belgium Modes of Being Amid Anthropocene: Living Through the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul Floods Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Brazil Surfacing wetlands through design ethnography and critical visualisation University of Technology Sydney |
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| CONVERSATION: Unsettling the Human in Design Research, Without Comfort: A Conversation on Antispeciesism as a Destabilizing Lens Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Unsettling the human in design research, without comfort: a conversation on antispeciesism as a destabilizing lens 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Art & Design Department, University of Madeira, OSEAN, Portugal; 3: Department of Human-Centered Design, Delft Technical University, Netherlands; 4: Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands |
CONVERSATION: Unlearning Design: Through Relational Practice, Critical Sustainability, and Material Ecology Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Unlearning Design: Through Relational Practice, Critical Sustainability, and Material Ecology 1: University of Arts Linz, Austria; 2: Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany; 3: University of Reikjavik, Iceland; 4: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 5: Technical University Dresden, Germany |
CONVERSATION: Roughing Up the Edges: Why Intentional Incompleteness Might Create Better Designs Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Roughing up the edges: Why intentional incompleteness might create better designs 1: Kristiania University of Applied Technology, Oslo, Norway; 2: Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA |
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| EXPLORATION: Listening in Repair: A Mending Circle for Relational Care Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Listening in Repair: A Mending Circle for Relational Care 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 3: Amsterdam University of the Arts, The Netherlands; 4: Kent State University, USA |
EXPLORATION: Tangible Computation: Working With Biodegradable Materials As Interfaces Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Tangible Computation: Working with Biodegradable Materials as Interfaces 1: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 2: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA |
EXPLORATION: What Does a Qubit Feel Like? An Exploration Into Making Quantum Computing Tangible Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) What Does a Qubit Feel Like? An Exploration into Making Quantum Computing Tangible Munster Technological University, Ireland |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Play Design II: Exploring practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Kolding School of Design Chair: Mathias Poulsen, Kolding School of Design Designing the playing machine: stage design as play catalyst National University of Theatre and Film "I.L. Caragiale", Romania ‘Can I cut the big box?’: Exploring doubt and material hierarchies in child-centred design Kolding School of Design, Denmark Playing with possibility: Exploring materiality, affordances and forms of participation through construction play Kolding School of Design, Denmark Building together(ness): Exploring constructive play when designing for social–emotional learning (SEL) in late childhood. Kolding School of Design, Denmark Design games as rehearsals for collaborative innovation: Playing out the future system to learn the collaborative game KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
PAPERS: Making with Care: Artefacts and Practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh Chair: Paul Rodgers, University of Strathclyde Patterns of everyday care: Translating cultural practices for online communities Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America The fair share of care: A distributed care account of circular design TU Delft, Netherlands Caring for Memory: A Neuroscientific Framework for Commemorative Exhibition Design Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Crafting Legacies with Care: Speculative Frameworks for the Digital Afterlife 1: Independent Researcher, Denmark; 2: Independent Researcher, Denmark Toward caring urban design: developing care practices through thinking with Forno Vagabondo 1: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Zukunfts*archiv; 2: La Foresta – Accademia di comunità; Basel Academy of Art and Design and the Art University Linz, Zukunfts*archiv The spectral right to the city: Cartographies of care through ethnographic projection 1: Shenkar, Israel; 2: Technion, Israel |
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles II Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Tincuta Heinzel, Loughborough University Chair: Elaine Igoe, University of Southampton (Winchester School of Art) Lifting threads, piercing fabrics, and tracing stories through stitches: An embroidery inquiry into analysing empirical material 1: Department of Health Science, Innovation and Design, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden; 2: Västmanland County Museum, Region Västmanland, Västerås, Sweden Affective Epistemologies: Textile Teaching at University of Chile, 1930-2000 1: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile; 2: Universidad de Chile, Chile Situating textile design: Practice research in interdisciplinary material science projects University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Spatial Tapestries: Negotiations between bodies, experience, and architecture Kent State University, United States of America |
| PAPERS: AI and New Technologies Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University Youth as cultural agents: Facilitating cultural and civic engagement through game design 1: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands; 2: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Netherlands Computational User Research for a Public Helpline for Continuous Service Improvement: Parents Anonymous® as a Service Ecosystem 1: Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design, University of Cincinnati; 2: Arizona State University The wicked problem of AI policy design 1: The University of Queensland, Australia; 2: Captial One Framing Data Choices: How Pre-Donation Exploration Designs Influence Data Donation Behavior and Decision-Making Institute of Design (ID), Illinois Institute of Technology, United States of America Visualisation for citizen participation: Data practices in the Copenhagen Climate Citizens' Assembly Aalborg University, Denmark Infographics as a tool for communicating and promoting public policies for women University of Brasilia, Brazil |
PAPERS: Designing Strategic Change: Sustainability and Automation Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: G. Mauricio Mejía, Arizona State University Strategic Design for Circular Transitions: Co-defining Servitisation Strategies with a Furniture Company Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Reflective practices for ESG: a framework for organisational learning and transformation 1: Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering - Design and Manufacturing, Aarhus University; 2: Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering - Design for Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark Design-led ecodesign implementation: Enabling product and organisational transformation for sustainability transitions Politecnico di Milano, Italy A Product-Service System Design Approach for the Frame Innovation of Automated Robotaxi Interior Space Cleaning 1: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; 2: Köln International School of Design, TH Köln, Cologne, Germany How automation impacts worker ecosystems in organizations: a case study of autonomous bus operations at an international airport Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands A survey of generative AI adoption amongst industrial design experts 1: AHO, Norway; 2: Lund University |
PAPERS: Material, Mind, and Machine Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Amalia De Götzen, Allborg University Research through game design 1: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK; 2: fractals co-op, UK; 3: School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, UK; 4: UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) Unlearning to Rest: Machine unlearning as a method of mitigating design fixation in human-AI creative collaboration 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom “Why Do All the Schools Look the Same?” Exploring Children’s Spatial Design Preferences through Generative AI in India Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Meaning at a Distance: Redefining Aesthetics in the Age of Intelligent Objects Istituto Marangoni, Italy Decoding physicality in human–artifact interaction: An evolutionary concept analysis College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Tectonic Computation: Crafting Logic through Material and Geometry National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
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| PAPERS: Relationality as Reconciliation: Designing for Equiponderance Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Gwendolyn Kulick, German University in Cairo Chair: Luis Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University Cuia Colab: Toward a Design Across Species, Worlds and Relations Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA) Beyond binaries of reconciliation: Working across knowledge systems at the cultural interface RMIT University, Australia Public Dialogues: A citizen participation platform for adaptive deliberation The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Mapping agents: a Fab City Full Stack geospatial framework for interdependent, community-led interventions 1: Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile; 2: Fab City Foundation; 3: Tongji University Reorienting design futures with hope Politecnico di Milano, Design Department Learning through relationality: A curated conversation between popular education and design pedagogy 1: Strate School of Design, France; 2: Tiers-lieu paysan de la Martinière, France |
PAPERS: Discourses in Design Research: Critiques, Black-Boxes, and Translations Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Haian Xue, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Translating Industry: The Reception and Evolution of Industrial Thought in Early Modern 1: Royal College of Art; 2: Shanghai University Of Engineering Sciences The black box in spatial planning: visualizations of indeterminacy in cybernetics and model theory 1: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China Environmentality's integrated design: ISO standards as infrastructural semiotics EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland Exploring Current Understandings of ‘Design Systems’: Toward a Conceptual Framework 1: Department of Communication & Culture, Aalborg University, Denmark; 2: Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 3: LEGO Group, Denmark; 4: IT University, Denmark Historicising Speculative Design with McLuhan’s Tetrad Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA User-Centered Dread: A Lovecraftian Critique of Design University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: More than Human Climate Learning: Systems, Translation and Regeneration Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Stockholm University Chair: Heitlinger Sara, University of London, UK Materialising Ecologies of Intelligence: learning to design with and within more-than-human systems The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom An autoethnographic account of noticing in practice, through a more-than-human centred lens. Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom From Fragile Remnants to Regenerative Systems: Circular Design Through Eggshell Waste 1: Institute for Future Technologies, De Vinci Higher Education, Paris, France; 2: Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India Translating nature's emotions: Building an affective design framework rooted in classical Chinese poetry School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China Co-creating with fungi: mycelium toys and pedagogies for regenerative futures 1: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria; 2: Mycotech Lab, Bandung Indonesia |
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| CONVERSATION: Researching Design in Policy and Governance: A Collective Reflection Through 60-Years of the Design Research Society Conference Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Researching Design in Policy and Governance: A Collective Reflection through 60-Years of the Design Research Society Conference 1: University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Aalto University, Finland |
CONVERSATION: Epistemic Systems in the Age of Embedded or Agentic AI Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Epistemic Systems in the Age of Embedded or Agentic AI 1: The Ohio State University; 2: ÉTS Montréal |
CONVERSATION: Rebalancing the Design Canon: Intersectionality, Invisibility and the Politics of Design History Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Rebalancing the design canon: intersectionality, invisibility and the politics of design history 1: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: Massachusetts College of Art and Design; 3: Politecnico di Milano; 4: Lebanese American University; 5: Universidade de São Paulo |
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| EXPLORATION: Weathering With Microclimates: An Embodied Design Exploration of Extreme Heat Through Movement, Sensing, and More-Than-Human Relations Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Weathering With Microclimates: An embodied design exploration of extreme heat through movement, sensing, and more-than-human relations University of Texas at Austin, United States of America |
EXPLORATION: Co-intelligence: AI as a Persona or a Tool? Agency and Accountability in Human–AI Co-creation Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Co-Intelligence: AI as a Persona or a Tool? Agency and Accountability in Human–AI Co-Creation Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic |
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Design for Scotland Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
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