Conference Agenda
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Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Discourses in Design Research: Genealogies, Archaeologies, and Architectures Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Moa Carlsson, University of Edinburgh Chair: Peter Lloyd, Delft University of Technology Design knowledge archaeology: Developing the body of design knowledge and theory 1: Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Design Group, Stanford University, United States of America; 2: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University Business School, Denmark; 3: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University, United States of America The “P” in Design: Towards a Genealogy of the Political in the Field Politecnico di Milano, Italy Design Research Laboratories: A historical review Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) How to observe design practices Université de Montréal, Canada Problem–solution co-evolution research in the DRS conference community (2001-2025) 1: Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 2: Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands; 3: Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Breda, the Netherlands Toward an Architectural Model of Design Methods: Meta-Methods, Proto-Methods, and Method Building Blocks 1: Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America; 2: Pratt Institute, United States of America |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Design Philosophies Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Peter Buwert, Edinburgh Napier University Reframing design through events: Generative events as ontological units in object-oriented design ontology Loughborough University, United Kingdom Bias Reconsidered: Ecologically Rational Heuristics in Design Cognition Purdue University, United States of America Making Worlds Thinkable: Design as diffractive sensemaking. Universidad de Navarra, Spain The Embodied Turn in Design Cognition and the Implications from the “Shensi” Aesthetics Sichuan University, People's Republic of China Does knowledge in design require a distinct epistemology? A Critical Rationalist perspective x Fine observation and material care: An interactionist approach to design aesthetics 1: Aalto University, Finland; 2: Universidad de la República, Uruguay |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 1) Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 2) Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm |
Meetup: Public Design Studio Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Lunch meeting to share research interests |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles I Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles II Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Experiences and experiential knowledge Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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) |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Material-led design and prototyping Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Co-creation and making Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Designing Preventive Health Technologies and Practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: 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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Temporalities of More-than-Human Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Larissa Pschetz, The University of Edinburgh Chair: Gizem Oktay, Eindhoven University of Technology In vegetal terms: Temporal lenses in human-plant interaction 1: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Making-with Biomaterials: Attuning to More-than-Human Temporalities in Growth and Decay Practices RMIT, Australia School of Design Incommensurable durations: Fungal time and the limits of attunement in multispecies design 1: School of Science, University of New South Wales, Canberra; 2: School of Art and Design, Australian National University, Canberra Putting an ear to the ground: Attending to Frictions in Human-machine-soil Temporalities Dept. of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark Tagus estuary color swatch – Materials as affective mediators in more-than-human temporalities 1: ITI/LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; 2: ITI/LARSyS, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Design for Coastal Futures: Rethinking Space and Time with a More-than-Human and Transcultural Lens. 1: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Counter design: Changing perspectives in design action Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Yekta Bakırlıoğlu, Lancaster University Chair: Claudia Garduño García, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Recognize ourselves, understand and transform: An approach to a Latin American feminist design methodology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Escuela de Diseño Maintaining Counterpublics: Archival Recursion and Prefiguration University of Florida, United States of America Designing Archipelagic AI: Challenging the coloniality of AI through speculative metaphors 1: ITI/LARSyS, IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2: Umeå University, Sweden Default bodies: challenging gendered norms in fighting games through participatory design Glasgow Caledonian Univerisity, United Kingdom Design things in search for public concern: A study of how urban lighting is scripted in the City of Gothenburg 1: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden Who designs the designer? An anticolonial response to the world that design us back 1: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco; 2: Loughborough University London, United Kingdom; 3: Federal University of Technology – Paraná; 4: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm |
Meetup: Preparing Explorations for DRS Digital Library Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh The Meet-up is an opportunity for Explorations convenors to share ideas about how Explorations delivered at DRS2026 can become captured, formatted and shared using the DRS Digital Library. Explorations is a new stream to DRS2026, fostering and supporting design research and knowledge dissemination beyond traditional paper formats. Explorations emphasise experimentation, participation, and shared inquiry in the production of design-based knowledge. The goal is to create an environment where participants can test emerging practices, explore complex issues through methods of construction and performance, and collectively reflect on the knowledge generated through such processes, particularly if that knowledge is mediated, supported and leading to non-textual outcomes.
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Chair: Eleonora Lupo, Politecnico di Milano Chair: Lorela Mehmeti, Università di Bologna PRO-DES. Localising design research for Scientific publishing. A case study of research and experimentation in Italy 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna InfoDesign journal: Tensions and contradictions in twenty years of information design research in Brazil 1: University of São Paulo, Brazil; 2: University of Brasília, Brazil; 3: Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Brazil Knowledge Products from Applied Design Research 1: HU University of Applied Sciences; 2: Inholland University of Applied Sciences; 3: Saxion University of Applied Sciences From Scientific Publication to Scientific Impact: Designing Research for Reach and Engagement University of Twente, Netherlands Designing Knowledge Otherwise: The Bembo Officina Editoriale as a Case for Alternative Academic Publishing 1: Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy; 2: Alpaca Società Cooperativa; 3: Chialab SRL Designing for learning rhythms: A taxonomy of trajectory-aware interventions in online learning Institute of Design at Illinois Tech, United States of America |
