Conference Agenda
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Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Public Design Education: Plural Practices and Situated Teaching and Learning Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Luis Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University Reframing cityLabs: Worldbuilding as situated pedagogy for public design learning 1: Koç University, KUAR Research Centre for Creative Industries; 2: University College Cork, School of Engineering and Architecture; 3: University College Cork, School of the Human Environment Learning design capabilities in public administrations through sandbox experiments: Insights from a 12-City EU network 1: Aalborg University; 2: University of Southern Denmark Learning to Design with Communities: Situated Public Design Education through the ROOTS Project in The Gambia 1: Esade Business School, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; 2: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Situated Pedagogies for Public Design through GenAI 1: University of Salford; 2: Indiana University Bloomington Beyond Assumptions: Identity Mapping as a Tool for Inclusive Public Design Learning 1: Independent researcher; 2: Carleton University |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: From Histories to Materials: Aesthetic and Conceptual Approaches to Sustainability, Additive Manufacturing, and Watermarking Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Maria Maclennan, The University of Edinburgh Chair: Roberta Bernabei, Loughborough University Historical materials as materials for design The University of Queensland, Australia In search of the definitions for biodesign: Practice, identity and biodesign literacy 1: Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering; 2: Politecnico di Milano Is the trend your friend? Exploring the interior shape and material use across Australian ‘Car of the Year’ winners 1: School of Design, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; 2: Department of Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Material articulation: Toward an ornamental thinking in digital tectonics Materiability Research Group, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau, Germany Balancing aesthetics and protection: How digital artists navigate structural inequities through aesthetic watermarking School of Design, Hunan University, China Expanding curriculum and pedagogical strategies in architecture education with developments on additive manufacturing and wood composites University of Idaho, United States of America |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Embodied Design and Affective Agency: Wearables, Textiles, and Pedagogical Practices in Orthopedic Healthcare Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Maria Maclennan, The University of Edinburgh Chair: Roberta Bernabei, Loughborough University Positioning wearable design: Research-practice gaps and a practice-informed model Monash University, Australia Critical minerals in the body: towards re-use in orthopaedic healthcare 1: Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom; 2: British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Canada Affective materialities and textile Agency: The apron as a device of gender and class Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile The didactic body: Interdisciplinary design pedagogy in 1970s Denmark Royal Danish Academy, Denmark Exploring embodiment’s impact on autonomy and agency in behavioral design Institute of Design, Illinois Tech, United States of America Divergent Thinking to design a musical instrument 1: CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal & Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, 4900-347, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, Portugal; 2: CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal & Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Food design and global health Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Dolly Daou, Dolly Daou Chair: Cláudia de Souza Libânio, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre Food Morphology: food forms matter UBA, Argentine Republic From Passive List to Active Script: Menu Design as a Strategic Agent for Restaurant Sustainability Transformation The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Material Driven Design Education: Exploring Circularity and Regeneration through Waste-Based Experimentation 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China The Transformative Nature of Food and the Transition of Traditional Desserts into Industrial Products: A Case Study Through a Transformational Design Lens İstanbul Ticaret University, Turkiye Løp Gård: revitalyzing history through food and performance Nordlandsmuseet, Norway Perception-based design: An approach for engineering sustainable biobased materials 1: School of Architecture and Product Design, University of Limerick, Limerick V94T9PX, Ireland; 2: School of Product Design, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand; 3: Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand; 4: The Biological Materials Group, Biomimetics, Faculty 5, HSB–City University of Applied Sciences Bremen, 28199 Bremen, Germany; 5: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 4940 Hautcharage, Luxembourg |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Pluriversal Food Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Melanie Augusta Sarantou, Kyushu University Chair: Juan Giusepe Montalván Lume, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Designing for food system transformation: Navigating cultural complexity in cross-regional platform design EPFL+ECAL LAB, EPFL, Switzerland Learnings from Peruvian Gastronomy for the Transculturalization of Design Practices 1: Socionatural, Peru; 2: Lancaster University, UK; 3: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru Cooking rush: Designing and evaluating a cross-cultural dietary board game for Chinese international students through research through design Independent Scholar Understanding food waste practices in cross-cultural food adaptation: The case of Chinese students in the UK 1: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; 2: School of Arts, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK From Conflict to Care: A design learning experiment on food justice in Rio de Janeiro 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Department of Design, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Exploring how packaging transparency and processing level affect acceptance of edible insects in Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Analysing Language Use in Designing: Practices and Performance. Location: Appleton Tower, LT1 Chair: Lisa Elzey Mercer, University of Edinburgh Chair: Senthil Chandrasegaran, Delft University of Technology The paradox of richness: A discourse-centered framework for equitable visualization 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China; 2: Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China; 3: Innovation Institute of Industrial Design and Machine Intelligence, Hunan University, Quanzhou, Fujian, China Dialoguing with Design: How LLMs Mediate Multimodal Workflows in Zero-Waste Fashion The University of Edinburgh When play becomes language: Transforming international student experience through environmental art and eco-social design 1: Humak University of Applied Sciences, Finland; 2: Kyushu University, Faculty of Design, Japan Within the dialogue box: Exploring designer activities and linguistic features in collaboration with textual GenAI 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China; 2: School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom; 3: College of Engineering and Design, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China Conversing with scenario data: exploring experienced designers’ data-informed reasoning strategies in smart product concept exploration School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China |
