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PAPERS: Power plays: Values, Place, and Community Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Sine Celik, Delft University of Technology Chair: Geertje Slingerland, Delft University of Technology Empowerment for Aging Design: A Framework to reframe the design of solutions for Older Adults in the Global South Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia Designing for Themselves: The Gearbox Model of Value-Reclaiming Design within Grassroots Sports Communities the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Understanding power at the doorstep: Examining interpersonal power of smart doorbells through speculative design TU Delft, The Netherlands From Edgeland to Gentrified-land: Graphic Communication as Intermediary for Negotiating Place Identity in Hackney Wick, London University of Southampton, United Kingdom Figurations as a situated counter-device for participatory design: Exploring time and presence in design practice. 1: Independent researcher; 2: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA; 3: Linnaeus University, Sweeden; 4: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia Co-speculating future design research opportunities in community sharing with local sharing communities Univerisity of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Futuring Practices: Design-as-practice, Co-creation, and Design-in-Action Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Marco Mason, Northumbria University Chair: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Politecnico di MIlano Exploring co-design with people with disabilities in digital museums: A systematic review and outlook University of Canterbury, New Zealand Reimagining Cultural Heritage: Designing Game Jams as Learning Spaces 1: University College Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark; 2: Aarhus University, Denmark How Sound Knowledge and Education Can Support Designers in Creating Museum Experiences: Insights from Semi-Structured Interviews with Experts in Acoustics/Sound 1: Beijing institute of technology, China; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mediating heritage through design: Participatory approaches to post-digital transformation 1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: Aegean University, Greece Designing the echo. Practices for oral heritage in the digital age Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design Weaving visual language: Encoding Gaelic in tartan length to facilitate interaction with endangered languages 1: University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; 2: Independent Designer |
PAPERS: Experiences and experiential knowledge Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Haian Xue, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Exploring Future Smellscapes with Smellwalks Tilburg University, Netherlands, The Dynamics in relating craft practices, distinguishing shifting emotional states to expand tacit knowledge transfer 1: Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ. Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5307 LGF, France; 2: ENSAD Paris, EnsadLab PSL Feeling as Raw Knowledge: A Method for Designing Future Experience 1: Design school, Hunan University, China; 2: Transport Safety Research Centre, School of Design and Creative Arts Attuned design practice: Embodied knowledge as a design vocabulary at the intersection of artistic and scientific inquiry. 1: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Framing the fuzzy: Mapping expert designers’ problem framing through C–K theory University of Canterbury, New Zealand From discontent to touchpoints: Analysing art festival experience design through participants’ critical feedback on social media 1: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
| PAPERS: Participation in Policy making, Part I Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University Erased By Default: Reorienting Digital Welfare Systems with Care and Participation South East Technological University, Ireland Countering tokenism in e-participation: Potentials of participatory design in democratic policymaking 1: Politecnico di Milano; 2: University of the Arts London Frictions and constraints of institutioning: Facilitating equitable participatory design with migrants in municipalities 1: Aalto University, Finland; 2: Tampere University, Finland From lab to line: mechanisms for anchoring human-centred design in public policy and service development 1: Delft University of Technology; 2: Karlstad University People-centred public innovation: A co-design model between university and state 1: Department of Design, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Chile; 2: Department of Planning and Territorial Ordering, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Chile; 3: Department of Design, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Chile; 4: Department of Informatics and Computing, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Chile; 5: Directorate of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTEM), Chile Driving Public Service Innovation Through Internal Ecosystem Development: Reconfiguring the Internal Management and Service System of Nanhai Bus Station 1: Beijing Jiaotong University; 2: Chinese National Academy of Arts |
PAPERS: Responsible Retail and Branded Environments: Session 1 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Mia B. Münster, Malmö University Chair: Francesca Murialdo, Middlesex University From Waste to Opportunity, Upcycling Innovation in the South African Context: The Case of Clothes to Good 1: Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Johannesburg, South Africa Exploring circular economy strategies in the fashion industry: a comparative case study analysis Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mapping the opportunity for circularity in fashion retail design and fit-out University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Restorative Retail: A Literature Review on Consumer Well-being in the Retail Environment Hasselt University, Belgium Between Consumption and Care: Restorative Design and Cultural Memory in Hong Kong Coffee Shops 1: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 2: School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Belonging across borders: a framework for transnationally resonant retail design University of Brighton, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Rethinking Inclusive Design Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Hua Dong, Royal College of Art Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London Inclusive design revisited: A paradigm of trustworthy connectedness 1: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2: Fontys University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rethinking Communication and Power Relations in a Collaboration between Designers and Welfare Communites/Organisations School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, The United Kingdom Between Assistance and Autonomy: The Home as a Field for Inclusive Design CNAM, France Inclusive Co-Learning in Transnational Design Classrooms: Bridging Linguistic and Cultural Gaps between Chinese Students and British Curricula 1: Beijing Jiaotong University, CN; 2: Lancaster University,UK; 3: Tsinghua University,CN; 4: RMIT University, AU Designing social inclusion in circular transitions: A participatory study of repair initiatives in Germany 1: Dresden University of Technology, Germany; 2: New Design University, Austria Aesthetics as a Driver for Inclusion: What Recycling Rooms Reveal About Participation in Everyday Society 1: Mid Sweden University, Sweden; 2: Lund University, Sweden |
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| PAPERS: Sonic boundary object under construction Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Stefano Delle Monache, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music Chair: Nicolas Misdariis, Ircam Make it So(und): Speculative Sonic Metaphors as Boundary Objects for Design Research Carleton University, Canada The intrusive sounds of ReSilence. 1: Casa Paganini-InfoMus Research Center, University of Genova, Genova, Italy; 2: Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Mediating Borders Through Sound: Sonic Boundary Objects in Infrastructural Listening Northeastern University, United States of America Beyond ephemerality: Boundary objects and the plasticity of listening in collaborative design 1: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, France; 2: Delft University of Technology Performer, Technologist, Machine: Co-Creating the Soul Song Sensorium Arts University Bournemouth, United Kingdom Co-designing culture: A grounded theory of participatory practice in Indian folk music 1: Anahad Foundation, New Delhi, India; 2: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India |
PAPERS: Strategic Design Practices for Learning, Attention, and Co-Creation Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Ross Brisco, University of Strathclyde Strategic design as learning infrastructure: Building organisational adaptability in early-stage contexts Independent Design Researcher, Toronto, Canada Inter-Poly-Creation (IPC): Unifying Mass Customisation and Co-Creation Loughborough University, United Kingdom The Studio model - creating space for continuous change Princeton University, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Linking an attention-based view of the firm and critical design in strategizing: Attention to harmful consequences University of Lapland, Finland |
PAPERS: Doing and Undoing Post Anthropocentric Design, session 1 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Tau Ulv Lenskjold, University of Southern Denmark Chair: Laura Forlano, Northeastern University Winds, Sand, Companions, humans: Attuning bodies for post-antropocentric Worlds 1: Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; 2: Universdidad Atlantida; 3: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Toward speculation otherwise: Correspondence and contamination in design engagements with urban renewal IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Mechanical Jewellery as Epimethean Practice: Staying with the Trouble of Human–Machine Entanglement 1: School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University,Zhejiang,China Función-Nepantla: The “Other” Functionality Inspired by Mexican Philosophy for Rethinking Industrial Design in Mexico Pratt Institute, United States of America |
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| PhD HUB: Practice made Visible: Documenting & Communicating Design Process as Research Knowledge Practice made Visible: Documenting & Communicating Design Process as Research Knowledge Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) |
CONVERSATION: Educating Within the Trouble: A Risky Experiment in Design Pedagogy Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Educating within the Trouble: A Risky Experiment in Design Pedagogy 1: LUCA School of Arts, Inter-actions Research Group, Belgium; 2: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands; 3: OsloMet, Norway; 4: Srishti Manipal Institute, India; 5: Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
EXPLORATION: Exploring Everyday Heritage Through Multimodal Storytelling in Historic Settings Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Exploring everyday heritage through multimodal storytelling in historic settings Loughborough University, United Kingdom |
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| EXPLORATION: Sketching in Space: An Interior Exploration Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Sketching in Space: an Interior Exploration Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom |
EXPLORATION: Listening Like a Tree: Designing Sonic Experiences With Community Partners for Nature Connectedness Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Listening Like a Tree: Designing Sonic Experiences with Community Partners for Nature Connectedness Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom |
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PAPERS: Methods that matter: Surfacing and operationalizing values Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Deger Ozkaramanli, Delft University of Technology Chair: Natalia Gulbransen-Diaz, University of Sydney Value co-creation, co-displacement, and co-destruction in design: Bridging value and values in human-data interaction 1: The University of Exeter; 2: The University of Edinburgh; 3: New Jersey Institute of Technology; 4: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Towards an operational framework for Design for Values: An exploration through systematic literature review College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, China Reconciling Values in Multidisciplinary Design Teams through Structured Dialogue Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Negotiating authenticity, vividness, and engagement: A design framework for GenAI in heritage co-creation 1: School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 2: Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan Democratizing the newsroom: A participatory design approach to empower citizen-participatory journalism and civic knowledge Department of Design, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea QUILT: Designing a values-driven toolkit for surfacing participant-led impact assessment of participatory design and making experiences Arts University Bournemouth, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Futuring Principles: Ethics, Agency, and More-than-Human Heritage Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Marco Mason, Northumbria University Chair: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Politecnico di MIlano The place of aesthetics in museums Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The, University of Bergamo Not Post-Digital but More-than-Human: Rethinking Digital Design for Regional Natural History Museums 1: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; 2: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; 3: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom Decolonising digital practices in Intangible Cultural Heritage. Implications from literature and funded EC research projects towards a framework of design principles Politecnico di Milano, Italy The Memory Loom: Reweaving Curatorial Power Relations with Source Communities in Virtual Reality Cultural Heritage Exhibitions Beijing Institute of Technology, China Generative AI in Digital Cultural Heritage Design Workflows: A Systematic Literature Review 1: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China; 2: School of New Media Art and Design, Beihang university, China; 3: School of Digital Media and Design Arts, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China |
PAPERS: Material-led design and prototyping Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Nithikul Nimkulrat, OCAD University Material awareness and meaning-making: Leather in handbag design Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia From matter to method: Situated and relational approaches through geothermal clays Aalto University, Finland Constraints as knowledge amplifiers: Understanding how Research-Through-Design makes design knowledge visible FLAME University, India Forking Futures: Fidelity and Resolution in Responsive Prototyping 1: University of Waikato, Aotearoa NZ; 2: University of Sydney, Australia More than Concrete: The Tacit Knowledge of Construction Workers Through Material Cognition and Embodied Experiences Southern University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of Touch Wood: Stuckness, Risk assessment, and Embodied Knowledge in Practice Northumbria University, United Kingdom |
| PAPERS: Participation in Policy making, Part II Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University Designing safer school routes in Busan, South Korea: Living Lab approach to child-centered traffic safety Dongseo University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Participatory design as an epistemic practice: Designing for institutional responsiveness in the Scottish Parliament The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom A systemic design approach to supporting children with different language parents Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Agency in the In-Between: A Reflexive Civic Design Inquiry into Agency Drift 1: Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, The; 2: University of applied science Utrecht (HU), Netherlands, The No one knew. They came. Exploring photo-elicitation in societal development 1: Regional Development Department, Region Västmanland, Västerås, Sweden; 2: Department of Health Sciences, Innovation and Design, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden From Participatory Processes to Systemic Transformation: a Service Design perspective on four Italian Case Studies 1: Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: ISIA Florence - Higher Institute of Artistic Industries, Italy; 3: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy |
PAPERS: Responsible Retail and Branded Environments: Session 2 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Katelijn Quartier, Hasselt University Chair: Zakkiya Khan, University of Brighton Reimagining Materiality: Responsible and Experiential VR Design for Fashion E-Commerce in India London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Consumer-facing technologies in stores: A longitudinal study of their impact on customer experience 1: Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom; 2: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London Becoming a coffee shop regular: Factors shaping regularity in contemporary coffee shops 1: Malmö University, Sweden; 2: The Ohio State University, USA; 3: Royal Danish Academy, Denmark Measuring the ‘in-between’: From spatial grammar to brand re-contextualisation and localisation. A case study approach in east Asian fashion flagships Design, Monash University Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Caulfield East, Australia A 4R-supported circular product–service system for luxury branded events 1: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, China; 2: Auditoire Asia; 3: School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Constructing a scenario-driven model for contextual brand experience: The case of chain coffee brands National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
PAPERS: Studying Older People - Theories and Methods Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Stella Boess, Delft University of Technology Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London Design for Healthy Ageing: Developing and Applying a Resource Model 1: Jiangnan University; 2: Royal College of Art; 3: Delft University of Technology From compliance adoption to co-design: An exploratory study of older adults’ engagement with technology National University of Singapore, Singapore Living with Multimorbidity: How Design Might Support Older Adults Use of Health Technology for Self-management. Loughborough University, United Kingdom Making the invisible visible: Supporting older adults’ expression of emotional needs for companion robots through visual co-design tools 1: Design School, Brunel University of London, United Kingdom; 2: The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom; 3: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Brunel University of London, United Kingdom Designing Inclusive Virtual Reality Experiences for Older Adults: Enhancing Digital Engagement and Challenging Digital Ageism 1: University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2: Guangxi Normal University, China An early-stage framework: Exploring narrative and co-design methods in the social care decision-making process for older people Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom |
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| PAPERS: Sonic boundary objects in action Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Stefano Delle Monache, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music Chair: Nicolas Misdariis, Ircam The Atmospheric Jukebox - A sonic boundary object for multi-sensory exhibition design Kolding School of Design, Sonic College - UC SOUTH DENMARK From boundaries to bindings. Reframing sound-driven design in narrative exhibitions 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Beijing Institute of Technology, China Sounding out service: explaining representational capacity of sound in service design Linköping University, Department of Information and Computer Science, Linköping, Sweden Investigating context in sonic interaction design for sleep: Bridging users and designers through participatory and ideation workshops 1: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; 2: Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain A Design Continuum for Autographic Sonification 1: Independent, Graz, Austria; 2: Northeastern University, Boston, USA; 3: Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain & Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain |
PAPERS: Human Experience in Product and Interface Design Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Anca Horvath, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology When can ASMR sound improve consumer product evaluation? Exploring the joint influences of ASMR sound and visual richness Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China, People's Republic of Understanding the Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision through the Lens of Experience National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Can the Thumb Point Effectively in VR? An Evaluation of Different 3D Pointing Techniques 1: Modern Industrial Design Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; 2: iQOO Software Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China Design considerations for effective in-vehicle interaction: The effects of icon type and individual heterogeneity Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Designing Motion Identity: Exploring the Aesthetic Expression of Brand Style through System Motion 1: Hunan University, China, People's Republic of China; 2: Lushan Laboratory, People's Republic of China Strategic thermal design for smartphones: An experimental analysis of zonal heat perception across hand contact regions School of Design,Hunan University, People’s Republic of China |
PAPERS: Doing and Undoing Post Anthropocentric Design, session 2 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Li Jönsson, Malmö University Chair: Alex Wilkie, Goldsmiths University of London Epimethean design in practice: Infrastructuring reproductive labour in the maternity ward 1: The Royal Danish Academy, Architecture, Design, Conservation, Denmark; 2: University of Southern Denmark Tracing oppression through things: Facilitating a slow critique in post-anthropocene design 1: Internationale Filmschule Köln (IFS), Germany; 2: University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka We found Planet B. What does this mean for design? 1: Independent Researcher, Barcelona, Spain; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Design Department, Italy Unfashionable Knowledge: Patina, Repair, and the Philosophy of Endurance in Design RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam Interspecies: a collaborative curatorial inquiry into New Romanticism Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
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| CONVERSATION: Finding Our Common Ground - Potential, Resistance and Power in Creative Technology for Design Research Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Finding our common ground - potential, resistance and power in creative technology for design research. 1: University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; 2: University of Northumbria, United Kingdom; 3: Norwich University of the Arts, United Kingdom; 4: Quicksand, India; 5: University of Dundee, United Kingdom |
CONVERSATION: Pluriversal Design Research for Equitable Transcultural Collaborations: Is It a Dream? Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Pluriversal Design Research for Equitable Transcultural Collaborations: Is It a Dream? 1: University of Salford, United Kingdom; 2: Malmö University, SE; 3: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú; Lancaster University, UK; 4: University of Notre Dame, USA; 5: National Institute of Design, India; 6: Carnegie Mellon University, USA; 7: German University in Cairo, Egypt; 8: University of Florida, USA |
EXPLORATION: Unfolding Dialogues: Annotating Teaching Statements and Mapping Pedagogical Reciprocity in Design Education Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Unfolding Dialogues: Annotating Teaching Statements and Mapping Pedagogical Reciprocity in Design Education 1: The Ohio State University, United States of America; 2: Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada |
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| EXPLORATION: An Exploration of Ethical Dilemmas Through Two Design Artefacts Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) An exploration of ethical dilemmas through two design artefacts 1: Amsterdam university of applied sciences, Netherlands, The; 2: LUCA School of Arts, University, Campus C-Mine, Genk, Belgium |
EXPLORATION: Exploring Data Otherwise: Countermapping More-Than-Human Design Practices Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Exploring Data Otherwise: Countermapping More-than-human Design Practices 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: RMIT University, Australia; 3: University of Deusto, Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Spain; 4: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 5: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 6: MIT, USA |
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Biennial General Meeting Location: 50 George Square, G.03 2026 DRS Biennial General Meeting |
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PAPERS: Dignity by Design: Ethics, Values, and Justice Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Sine Celik, Delft University of Technology Chair: Fatima-Zahra Abou Eddahab-Burke, Delft University of Technology Cultivating careful design responses to homelessness through practice, theory and education 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The Exploring designing for dignity in the context of digital community platforms 1: Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology; 2: Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam Visualising Values in Women’s Digital Labour: Design Ethics for Assembling Social Justice Tongji University “I didn’t choose to write my life”: Trauma-informed values in the design of social care records The Glasgow School Of Art, United Kingdom Designing for Dignity: A Method to Explore Emotional Lived Experiences of Stigma and Dignity in Perinatal Mental Health Environments University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Netherlands, The Design as a mediator: Bridging traditional cosmologies and scientific knowledge for climate change adaptation through value-led design 1: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Oxford Centre, UK; 2: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Africa Centre, Kenya |
PAPERS: Futuring Experiences: Multisensory, Material, and Hybrid Worlds Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Marco Mason, Northumbria University Chair: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Politecnico di MIlano Plural exhibition experiences: Co-designing multisensory storytelling with an Indigenous Sámi museum 1: University of Lapland; 2: Giellagas Institute, University of Oulu Designing for emotion: A scoping review of phygital emotional experience design in historical museums 1: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University; 2: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University; 3: Design Department, Politecnico di Milano; 4: College of Arts and Media, Tongji University Investigating the embodied aesthetics of kinetic structures at biennales and world expos 1: Middle East Technical University, Türkiye; 2: Karabuk University, Türkiye Why is the artwork no longer enough? Phygital narratives as an interplay between the real and the digital Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Research on Integrated Immersive Interaction Design for Revolutionary History Museums: A Case Study of the Hongyan Revolutionary Memorial Museum Chongqing University, China, People's Republic of |
PAPERS: Co-creation and making Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Spyros Bofylatos, Royal College of Art Fostering human-material co-creative dialogical relationship: Operationalizing the Art of Making through degeneration College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Making with virtual materials: Reframing “making as knowing” for situated narratives in large-scale VR Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dwelling, making, and digital mediation: Mani stone piles in Eastern Tibet 1: Tianjin University; 2: TIANJIN RENAI COLLEGE |
| PAPERS: Hope & Imagination Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Scott Schmidt, Georgetown University Designing hope: Civil society, empathy and peace, or avoiding World War III 1: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; 2: University of New South Wales, Australia; 3: University of Ulster, United Kingdom Civic imagining: Participatory speculative design and its opportunities in civic service design Parsons School of Design, The New School, United States of America Weaving relational dynamics: Civil servant agency in service design collaboration Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland Sustained Memory for Public Design in Latin America Northeastern University Images of humans in public sector design 1: Erasmus University Rotterdam; 2: System Shift Holding paradoxes together: Navigating institutional complexity in public design 1: School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, United States; 2: Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
PAPERS: Making Design Work: Organizational Realities and Strategic Impact Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Peiyao Cheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Dilemmas of Institutionalizing Human-Centered Design in Startups Tongji University, People's Republic of China Navigating AI in design leadership: Insights on emerging competencies and cultural challenges in China 1: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: School of Arts, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Strategies for successful collaborative engagement: Navigating organizational dynamics Tata Consultancy Services, India From speculation to strategy reflection: A case study of design-led foresight workshops at Revigrés 1: ID+, DeCA, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; 2: ID+, DeCA, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal From Co-Design to Co-Execution: A Knowledge Map of Real-Time User Participation in Service Settings (2008-2024) 1: Tongji University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of Optimizing design processes through data intelligence under resource constraints: A qualitative interview study in industry 1: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University; 2: School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University; 3: Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau; 4: Department of Design, Northwestern Polytechnical University; 5: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University |
PAPERS: Neurodivergent Groups - Adults and Children Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Yumei Dong, Jiangnan University Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London MetaTrain：a metacognitive framework–based gamified executive function training for children with ADHD ZheJiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China “it's going to be a really good place to hang out“: Supporting Diversity in Community Indoor Environments by Eliciting Autistic Adults’ Preferences 1: Keio University, Japan; 2: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Co-Designing Co-Design Workshops with ADHD Adults University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Design for Trust: A Study on the Emotional Design Method of AI Educational Robots for Children with Autism School of Design, Hunan University, People's Republic of China Design Methods as Cognitive Tools: Understanding Method Usage through Cognitive Theories Aalto Design Factory, Aalto University, Finland |
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| PAPERS: Relational Frameworks and Practices Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Herlo Bianca, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Chair: Bianca Kóczán, HBK Braunschweig Collaging queer decolonial worlds: Applied techniques in design 1: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2: University of Utrecht, Netherlands From appraisal to affect: Designing a playful activity for social emotional learning among children Tata Consutancy Services Ltd, Pune, India Reframing design activism through affirmative, relational and pluriversal practices RMIT University, Australia A gentlewoman’s agreement: Designing relational frameworks for PhD supervision Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The From tool-first to intention-first pedagogy: A framework for evaluating and selecting empathy tools in design education 1: MADA, Monash Univeristy, Australia; 2: IDC, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Reconfiguring industrial heritage: Human-centered narrative design for reconciliation and inclusive storytelling 1: Hunan Normal University, China; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
CONVERSATION: Exploring Temporalities for Transformative Futures Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Exploring Temporalities for Transformative Futures 1: Norwich University of the Arts, United Kingdom; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; 3: RMIT University, Australia; 4: RMIT University, Spain; 5: Malmö University, Sweden; 6: University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 7: Northeastern University, United States; 8: Indiana University Bloomington, United States |
PAPERS: Longevity and Environment Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Sheng-Hung Lee, University of Michigan Chair: Bruce Hanington, Carnegie Mellon University Designing the service exposome: Applying the D4L Unclock Framework to longevity challenges 1: University of Michigan, Urban Technology; 2: d-mix lab Age-Ready Suburbia: Designing Distributed Care and Housing Transitions for Longevity Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America City of Longevity: a framework to integrate emerging technologies and participatory design into urban environments 1: Voice Italia, Italy; 2: UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom Time Travelers: Bridging Generations in Boston’s Seaport Northeastern University, United States of America Human-Centred Digital Twin Design for Elderly Care: Addressing Comorbidity and Wellbeing 1: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China; 2: Lancaster University, United Kingdom |
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| CONVERSATION: Suspending Institutional Permanence: How Designing Engagements Can Operationalise Human Rights in Times of Opaque Governance Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Suspending institutional permanence: how designing engagements can operationalise human rights in times of opaque governance 1: Foundation We Are; 2: Fontys University of Applied Sciences; 3: Penal Reform International; 4: Independent |
EXPLORATION: Storytelling Pluriversality: On the Titanic, Towards a Pluriversal Archipelago Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Storytelling Pluriversality: On the Titanic, towards a pluriversal archipelago 1: Cornell University, USA; 2: Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia; 3: Malmö University,Sweden; 4: co-being design, Canada |
EXPLORATION: Making Kin in a Plastic Terrapolis: Worlding With Multispecies Companions Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Making Kin in a Plastic Terrapolis: Worlding with Multispecies Companions 1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 3: Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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| EXPLORATION: Sketching Futures Through Tension Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Sketching Futures Through Tension 1: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Western Sidney University, Australia; 3: Brigham Young University, U.S.A.; 4: Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A. |
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PAPERS: Design as Care: Values and Accountability in Practice Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Deger Ozkaramanli, Delft University of Technology Chair: Fatima-Zahra Abou Eddahab-Burke, Delft University of Technology Darker Affordances: Designing with Values as Vulnerabilities in an Age of Disinformation University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Designing with care: proposing an ethical canvas for co-design with marginalised groups 1: Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland; 2: University of Lapland, Finland; 3: University of Helsinki, Finland What Can't Be Confessed: The Structural Absence of Value Accountability in Design Culture RMIT University, Australia The Who Cares? Approach: Materializing Values in Community-Based Participatory Research 1: The Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada; 2: Department of Therapeutic Recreation, Douglas College, Canada Design Activism Pedagogy: Learning and Negotiating Values in Practice Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Speculative Woolgathering: Using design approaches to explore values in the UK wool supply chain to enable digital good 1: Lancaster Univiersity, United Kingdom; 2: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom; 3: Royal Agricultural University, United Kingdom; 4: Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom; 5: LJM Associates Ltd, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Futuring Infrastructures: From Objects to Relational Systems Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Marco Mason, Northumbria University Chair: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Politecnico di MIlano Designing Digital Ghosts: Creative access to web archives University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Exploring Everyday Heritage Futures: Co-creating Urban Narratives through Cultural Probes Loughborough University, United Kingdom Beyond the Gallery: Neurodivergent Digital Access in Australian Museums 1: RMIT University; 2: National Museum of Australia Cultureaction! An Interaction and Experience Design Project to Explore San Marino’s Historic Center as a Living Archive. Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy Co-Designing Academic Archives: Design-Led Frameworks for Post-Digital Cultural Heritage 1: UNIDCOM/IADE, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Jardim António Augusto Simenta Mordido, 2 - 1885 Moscavide, Portugal; 2: UNIDCOM/IADE, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Jardim António Augusto Simenta Mordido, 2 - 1885 Moscavide, Portugal; Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA); 3: UNIDCOM/IADE, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Jardim António Augusto Simenta Mordido, 2 - 1885 Moscavide, Portugal; Centro de Estudos de Teatro (CET-FLUL) Entangled archives: Uncovering new connections in digital interfaces 1: Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the University of São Paulo FAUUSP, Brazil; 2: Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and Design of the University of São Paulo FAUUSP, Brazil |
PAPERS: Designing Preventive Health Technologies and Practices Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Ayşe Özge Ağça, Universidade de Lisboa, ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Chair: Teresa Almeida, Universidade de Lisboa, ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Asymmetric VR Design to Support Connected Care for Older Adults with AMD 1: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2: Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, GA, USA Designing for Self-Tailoring in Adolescent Health Behavior Change Human-Centered Design, Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Tangible conversations for uncertain futures: A design-led approach with families affected by Multiple Sclerosis Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Bio-inspired Design for Preventive Healthcare: Translating Living Systems into Design Knowledge Department of Engineering, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom Questioning one’s body: overtrusting in body-sensing technology 1: IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark; 2: University of Bologna, Italy; 3: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| PAPERS: Design and Systems. Transforming Systems from Within: Capability, Friction, and Service Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Cecilia Landa-Avila, Loughborough University Chair: Peter Hayward Jones, Tec de Monterrey Design as a Distributed Capability for Organizational Strategies of New Product Development University of Pisa, DESTEC Department, Pisa, Italy Changing systems from within: Workarounds in sociotechnical system transformation KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Territorial design as frictional landscapes: reframing urban-landscape discourse and practice into multi-scalar governance L'École de design Nantes Atlantique, France Service design in practice Royal College of Art, United Kingdom Exploring How LLMs Shape Collaborative Decision-Making in Service Design The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
PAPERS: Design in the Wild: Entrepreneurship, Markets and Cultural Value Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Gianluca Carella, Politecnico di Milano Analysis of design start-up companies’ challenges and enablers in Saudi Arabian ecosystem 1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Strategic positioning in design agencies: Achieving optimal distinctiveness through portfolios Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University London, United Kingdom Beyond situated ethics: Towards a practice-based understanding of how designers do ethics The Open University, United Kingdom A Slow Ethos in a Fast World: Persistence and Compromise in Craft Commercialization Graduate School of Creative Industry Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan Exploring design thinking in entrepreneurship education: A pre-accelerator programme for the creative industries 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: CodeBase The culture communications model: Visual sensemaking and the everyday in design practice Design, Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden |
PAPERS: Assessing Accessibility and Inclusion Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London Chair: Weining Ning, Brunel University of London A Study on the Transfer Signage System in the Seoul Subway Network: Focusing on Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) 1: Hongik University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Chungbuk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) The fuzzy edges of studio: Towards inclusive online education 1: The Open University, United Kingdom; 2: Incom GmbH Evaluating visual accessibility of AI-generated interfaces University of Sydney, Australia, Australia Older Adults as a Critical Group in the Design of a Mobile Application for Hearing Screening and Monitoring 1: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru – FOB/USP, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil; 3: Loughborough University, School of Design and Creative Arts, United Kingdom; 4: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Bodystorming through Disruption: AI-assisted Design Improvisation Pedagogy 1: Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology; 3: Communication University of China |
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| PAPERS: Situated Methods, Metrics, and Meanings Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Bianca Kóczán, HBK Braunschweig Chair: Herlo Bianca, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts The ‘Cuteness Matrix’: Mapping cuteness as an affective strategy for purpose-led communication design 1: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London; 2: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore Information hierarchies for better health communication: Mapping expert-user differences for drug instruction design Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Accessibility Analysis of Hospital Lobbies in Korean Tertiary Hospitals Based on Space Syntax to Inform Design Strategies Department of Interior Architecture and Built Environment, Yonsei University, Korea Revisiting Kansei Engineering through Japanese scholarship: Toward Field Kansei Engineering 1: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 2: School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China The language of reflexivity: Investigating limitations and opportunities for reflexivity in prevailing design process models North Carolina State University, United States of America From values to metrics: A methodological framework for early-stage design of rural cultural project School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Zaragoza, Spain |
PHD HUB: Exercise in Style: Exploring Expression in Design Research Writing Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 |
PAPERS: Longevity and Technology Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Sofie Hodara, Northeastern University Chair: Miso Kim, Northeastern University The Role of Packaging in Smart Home Design 1: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massacusetts Institute of Technology; 2: AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Proximity, Technology, and Care: Towards Longevity-Friendly Urban Ecosystems 1: Department of Humanities, IULM, Italy; 2: Complexity and Collaboration Consultant, BIP Italia Telling Stories, Making Hanzi: AI-Assisted Co-Creation with Elderly Migrants in Urban China 1: Hunan University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Royal College of Art, UK; 3: University of the Arts London, UK Design for dignified longevity: Olfactory-enhanced VR meditation for sustained mindfulness practice Tongji University Neurodesign in urban environments: fMRI insights for designing cognitively supportive cities The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Critical assembly: Exploring the role of critical making in complex technology relationships Monash University, Australia |
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| CONVERSATION: Mapping Regeneration Throughout Design Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Mapping regeneration throughout design 1: Linneaus University, Sweden; 2: Malmö University; 3: Pontifícia Universidade Católica PUC-Rio; 4: Universidad Autónoma de México |
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