Conference Agenda
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Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Central but Decentered: Repositioning the Practitioner in Design Research Involving Practice Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Luis Vega, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Chair: Julia Valle Noronha, Aalto University Redefining design practice as a sensory and decentred experience 1: Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia; 2: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; 3: Ontario College of Art & Design University, Canada Projects as Actors in Design Education 1: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem A Researcher and a Guide Talk Into a Paper: A Dialogue on Being Many Things at Once 1: Srishti Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India; 2: Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands The meandering practitioner: When research emerges in relational resistance and intentional ambiguity 1: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 3: Independent researcher, Hong Kong SAR China; 4: Independent researcher, Hong Kong SAR China Integrating co-design and auto-ethnographic approaches: a preliminary review of methods, intentions, and potential 1: Design, Monash University Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Caulfield East, Australia; 2: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Human-AI Design Collaboration Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Beatriz Itzel Cruz Megchun, University of Portland Chair: Michael Stead, Imagination Design Research Lab, School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom NarratAIve: Using Narrative for Human–AI Co-Creation in Intelligent Cockpits 1: School of Design,Hunan University, Changsha, China; 2: Research Institute of HNU in Chongqing, Chongqing, China Bringing Characters to Vitality: Enhancing Credibility of Original Characters in Narrative Works by making the OC a Generative AI agent 1: School of New Media Art and Design, Beihang University; 2: State Key Laboratory of Virtual RealityTechnology and Systems, Beihang University; 3: Acadamy Art and Design, Tsinghua University AI-enhanced Chinese style furniture design: Integrating CNN cultural recognition with latent diffusion generation 1: School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China; 2: Key Laboratory of Ministry of Industrial Design and Ergonomics, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China; 3: Shaanxi Engineering Laboratory for Industrial Design, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China; 4: Sustainable Building and Environmental Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China;; 5: Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China Learning from inexperienced users’ early engagement with food tracking 1: University of Cincinnati, United States of America; 2: Ozyegin University, Turkey Understanding designers’ activities and cognition in co-creation with textual GenAI: Do prior experience and AI literacy matter? 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China; 2: College of Engineering and Design, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; 3: Huawei Technology, Shanghai, China; 4: School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom The In-situ AI Pattern Merchant: A Speculative Intervention in Huayao Embroidery Futures 1: Hunan University, China, People's Republic of; 2: University of the Arts London |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Critical Discourse of AI in Design Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Beatriz Itzel Cruz Megchun, University of Portland Chair: Michael Stead, Imagination Design Research Lab, School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Evaluating creative efficacy in human-AI design convergence: An experimental study of support modes 1: Tongji University,Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, China; 2: Tongji University,College of Design and Innovation,China Designing for Node-Based AI Tools: An Analysis and Synthesis of Design Principles Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Paper, pixels, and play: Designing a trauma-informed AI assessment toolkit 1: The University of Queensland; 2: Australian National University; 3: Central Queensland University Enframing Creativity: Speculations on Design Education's Transformations in the age of Generative AI Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Whose voice is it anyway?: Design resources for safely navigating deceptive AI voice scams 1: The University of Queensland, Australia; 2: Swinburne University of Technology |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Knowing with Care: Means and Politics Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Chair: Zixuan Wang, University of Edinburgh Care-full Co-Production — an Aotearoa case study 1: Massey University of New Zealand, New Zealand; 2: Massey University of New Zealand, New Zealand Care-ful reorientations in design 1: Northeastern University; 2: Illinois Institute of Technology Designing with and through care: from empathy to relational accountability Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Unwording Design: Demilitarizing the Imaginaries of Design 1: Umeå Institute of Design; 2: UAM Azcapotzalco / Estonian Academy of Arts Reframing design success: Care as a chain of responses 1: Shantou University: Shantou, Guangdong, CN; 2: University of the Arts London: London, GB; 3: School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, AU Exploring Common Understandings and Bodily Experiences of Vulnerability in Design Researchers in Sensitive Contexts 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 3: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Practicing with Care: Context and Specificality Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Chair: Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh Decolonizing Care in Design Research: Familiness and Relational Practices from Creative Ageing in Thailand 1: Bangkok University, Thailand; 2: Thammasat University, Thailand Reconfiguring Care: Envision Postpartum Support for Women in Southern China through the Lens of Home-based IoT Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Narrativizing Care: Exploring Narrative Medicine for Designing AI-Mediated Remote Patient Monitoring 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: TU Delft, The Netherlands; 3: Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands; 4: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 5: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Re-voicing Identity: Care Ethics and the Politics of Unsilencing After Total Laryngectomy Virginia Tech, United States of America Exploring Relationality for Future Care Technology Design IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Care through ambiguity: Findings from participatory health design 1: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: School of Architecture and Design, Harbin Institute of Technology, People’s Republic of China |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Co-designing with Care: Methods and Materiality Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Zixuan Wang, University of Edinburgh Chair: John Vines, University of Edinburgh Build & Connect: Designing a constructive, participatory physicalization activity & toolkit for community reflection 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Glasgow Women's Library, United Kingdom Design for care-full inclusion: Foregrounding the voices of vulnerable communities through vignettes in co-design 1: National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2: RMIT University School of Design, Australia Designing with care for the end of life: a reflective co-design workshop using material facilitation Northeastern University, United States of America Material Agencies in Co-Design: A New Materialist Perspective on Workshop Practices 1: Adelaide University, Australia; 2: Monash University, Australia Cut it out: Reframing hand paper-ripping as a collage method for wellbeing and care Loughborough University, United Kingdom Participatory Design as Third Space: Iterative Ethic in Singapore’s Contemporary Multiculturalism National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Making with Care: Artefacts and Practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh Chair: Paul Rodgers, University of Strathclyde Patterns of everyday care: Translating cultural practices for online communities Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America The fair share of care: A distributed care account of circular design TU Delft, Netherlands Caring for Memory: A Neuroscientific Framework for Commemorative Exhibition Design Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Crafting Legacies with Care: Speculative Frameworks for the Digital Afterlife 1: Independent Researcher, Denmark; 2: Independent Researcher, Denmark Toward caring urban design: developing care practices through thinking with Forno Vagabondo 1: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Zukunfts*archiv; 2: La Foresta – Accademia di comunità; Basel Academy of Art and Design and the Art University Linz, Zukunfts*archiv The spectral right to the city: Cartographies of care through ethnographic projection 1: Shenkar, Israel; 2: Technion, Israel |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Material Inspiration, Education and Archives Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Sofia Soledad Duarte Poblete, Politecnico di Milano Chair: Enza Migliore, Southern University of Science and Technology Infrastructuring transitional bio-materialities: Case of the BioMakerStudio Department of Design, Aalto University, Finland Mediating material transitions. A digital library for circular upholstery material selection. 1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: Polytechnic of Milan Deep Materialities - investigating the complex socio-technical entanglements of materials towards the designing of resilient futures ENS PARIS SACLAY, France Reflecting with Eco Material Libraries: Bridging Material Experimentation, Teaching, and Sustainability Discourse 1: University of California Davis, United States of America; 2: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 3: University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America Re-Materialising Design: Material Agency and the Reconfiguration of Creative Practice TU Delft, Netherlands, The Systematic material experimentation with photosynthetic biomineralisation across waste substrates for circular product design 1: Living Systems Lab, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1C 4AA, United Kingdom; 2: Algal Innovation Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom; 3: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1C 4AA, United Kingdom |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Mapping Materials and Practices Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Valentina Rognoli, POlitecnico di Milano Chair: Owain Pedgley, Middle East Technical University Material in Transition: Rethinking the Value of British Wool in Sustainable and Circular Futures University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Locality as a Driver for Transitional Materialities 1: Atilim University; 2: Middle East Technical University; 3: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Mapping Circular Design pathways for wearables: An annotated portfolio at the intersection of Material-Driven Design and Bio-HCI Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy In kinship with harakeke phormium tenax: how one plant and its materials facilitate transitional knowledge through inter-indigenous and inter-cultural exchange. Toi Rauwhārangi (College of Creative Arts), Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa (Massey University) Reused earthenware in the wall: Learning from vernacular dwellings as a source of tacit knowledge for material circularity 1: Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkiye; 2: İstanbul University, Turkiye Transitional materials and collaborative craft: European–Indonesian design practices from the Design Matters Lab programme toward a resilient future Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: From Materials Characterisation to Materials (R)Evolution Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Chair: Camilo Ayala-Garcia, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Chair: Miriam Ribul, Royal College of Art A hierarchical and ontology-based taxonomy of stimuli–smart materials–transformation effects in 4D printing as a new interactive modality Brunel University of London, United Kingdom Preserving material integrity: Designing for value retention in imperfect, discarded materials Aalborg University, Denmark Can textiles be alive? Exploring transitional materialities through microbial biosensors and textile fluidics 1: Northeastern University, United States of America; 2: Harvard University, United States of America Perceived Quality and Future Applications of Transparent Wood: Insights from an International Focus Group Politecnico di Torino, Italy Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication 1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, Canada; 2: School of Design, Fanshawe College, Canada; 3: Department of Visual Arts, Western University, Canada; 4: Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism & Collaborative Specialization in Environment and Sustainability, Western University, Canada; 5: Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada (Re)framing timber values: Cascade use metrics as a dynamic policy tool 1: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne (EPFL), RIOT Lab; 2: Royal Danish Academy, Center for IT and Architecture |
