Conference Agenda
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Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Queer(ing) Method/ologies by Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them), Jess Westbrook Hidden Constellations: Mapping Queer Sapphic Spatiality in New York City Independent Researcher Queer/cuir methodological approaches in activist design and art research in contemporary Brazil. University of São Paulo (USP), Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil Queering Design with a Queer Community: Co-creation, Translation, and Application of Queer-positive Design Principles University of Cincinnati Unmaking AI’s classificatory ontologies: Situated annotation as design inquiry in human–AI assemblages 1: Institute of Design (IDe), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Mendrisio, Switzerland; 2: School of Design, RMIT Melbourne, Australia Hacking as a queering design practice. Insights from a visual analysis of product hacking scenes in movies. Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (UVic-UCC), Spain Queer Textiles: Spatialising Architectural Research 1: plantayvah, United Kingdom; 2: Capel Manor College, United Kingdom |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Queer(ing) Complexity by Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them), Jess Westbrook Queer(ing) Epistemology by Design: TMI-WEB—A Relational Knowledge System for Intersectional Data Science and Affective Queries 1: DePaul University, Chicago, IL, United States; 2: Organization for Ethical Source (OES), Chicago, IL, United States How epistemic uncertainty tolerance affects creative idea generation in design 1: Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands; 2: Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Atlántico Medio, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 4: Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology, Avans University of Applied Sciences, 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Absent Voices, Alternative Futures: What Design Issues Didn't Say About Design (1984-2025) 1: Future Design School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China; 2: Haikou University of Economics, China Queering empathy in/for/with/by design DePaul University, United States of America Designations drift: Exodesign and the epiphylogenesis of practice Australian National University, Australia Negotiating Control with Materials: Progressive Modes of Engagement in Design Practice Southern University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Queer(ing) Experience by Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them), Jess Westbrook Bodies in play: queering AI, sport, and medicine through design German International University Berlin, Germany Disrupting gender binaries in product language: A workshop on gender awareness Politecnico di Milano, Italy Imperfect utopias: Norms in VR design and queer counter-strategies University of Technology Sydney, Australia Queering Portobello Promenade: testing ‘queer’ inclusive spatial design and thinking. 1: Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Body Class, The Grand Museum and the Queer Archive Royal College of Art Menopause Technologies Beyond Ableism and Normativity 1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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) |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Methods in the Wild: Tools and Frameworks for Navigating Complexity Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Silvia Barbero, Politecnico di Torino Chair: Amina Pereno, Politecnico di Torino Unlocking dormant products: Systemic leverage points and strategies for household circularity 1: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; 2: University of Antwerp, Belgium The R’s Have It: Navigating the Playground of Design for Health through Design Rationale NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The Three lenses, one wicked problem: Navigating pluralism to address consumer confusion in Australia 1: School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Building 9, Level 4, 124 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 Australia; 2: School of Design, RMIT University, Building 9, Level 5, 124 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001 Australia; 3: End Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre, Wine Innovation Central Building, Level 1, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, South Australia, 5064 Australia The Fuzzy Front-End of Transformation: An Inquiry Protocol for Intervention Design 1: Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland; 2: Faculty of Art & Design, University of Lapland Surfacing design requirements. A conceptual framework for entity identification in Smart Product-Service Systems 1: University of Bath, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bath, United Kingdom; 3: North Carolina State University, United States; 4: University of Bath, United Kingdom Causal loop diagrams as a tool in textile innovation trajectories 1: Saxion University of Applied Sciences; 2: University of Twente |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Who Gets to Name the System: Pluralism of Systemic Design Knowledge Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Jotte De Koning, TUDELFT Chair: Mari Suoheimo, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design Plural epistemologies in systemic design: Bridging eastern wisdom and western traditions Tongji University, China, People's Republic of Methodologies as complex systems: Practicing pluralism in systemic design for transformations toward regeneration COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) Acknowledging the Blind Men and the Elephant in the Room Independent Academic, India Mapping How Design Engages with Systems Thinking in Complex Healthcare Systems: A Scoping Review The University of Edingburgh, United Kingdom Made to misfit: Critical design as a tool for pluriversal thinking in design education 1: University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Science, Department of Product Development; 2: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis (ASCA) |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Rooted and Reaching: Situated Practice, Pedagogies, and Futures Location: Appleton Tower, LT5 Chair: Thomas Maiorana, UC Davis Chair: Sine Celik, Delft University of Technology Introducing systems thinking in design education: Exploring systems through breakfast 1: Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen-Anhalt; 2: Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Đồng-design: Designing togetherness as a systemic approach to Vietnam’s textile and apparel transformation RMIT International University Resilient design pedagogies: Examining sustainability's translation into contemporary design education University of Applied Arts Vienna Game Design as an educational method 1: Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway; 2: Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA; 3: The University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden Speculative Co-Imagination: Participatory Visualization Informed by Design Fiction 1: Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Hunan University, China, People's Republic of; 3: Central Academy of Fine Arts, China, People's Republic of; 4: Wuhan University of Communication, China, People's Republic of Transforming a precarious equilibrium: Embracing complexity in public design practices 1: TU Delft, The Netherlands; 2: Dutch Design Foundation, The Netherlands |
