Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview | |
| Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opening Plenary Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Practices During AI Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Matthew Lee-Smith, Loughborough University Chair: Jesse Josua Benjamin, Eindhoven University of Technology Mapping the identity design process for AI co-creativity: Interviews with 20 Graphic Designers 1: Abadir Academy, Catania, IT; 2: Queen Mary University of London, UK Changing Skills of Industrial Designers in the Age of GenAI: A Systematic and Practice Based Study 1: Istanbul Ticaret University, Türkiye; 2: Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Türkiye Deconstructing the Designer-genAI Interaction in the Design Process: A Framework for Surfacing Micro-Dynamics and Agency 1: Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (UVic-UCC), Spain Co-speculating with AI: From prompts to practices 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: School of Arts, Lancaster University, UK; 3: Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; 4: Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Co-living with agentic AI: Reframing design research for experiential trust in everyday domestic life Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America Uncertainty in the studio: AI as a material in the design of tangible products Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: After (En)during AI Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Jesse Josua Benjamin, Eindhoven University of Technology Chair: Mafalda Gamboa, Chalmers/GU Plundergeist: Exploring generative AI through vibe coding as reflective design practice The Open University, United Kingdom Critical Reflectors, Bridge-Builders, and Sense-Makers: How Designers Intervene in AI’s Reproduction of Gender Inequality University of Sydney, Australia AI and Thou: empathy, artificial intelligence and alterity in design Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom Small AI: A degrowth imaginary for designing with/for artificial intelligence 1: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: Weizenbaum Institute, Germany The Hauntology of Generative AI in Design 1: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: Uppsala University, Sweden Generative analogical intelligence: Speculative co-design through the fabric of analogy Texas State University, United States of America |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: Design and More-than-Human Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Laura Popplow, Köln International School of Design Experiencing the More-than-Human Through Human Augmentation 1: Reality Design Lab; 2: University of Oxford; 3: China Academy of Art Biodiverse Design and the Ethics of Bioempathy in Practice Pennsylvania State University, United States of America Becoming humus: Embodied ecological literacy through designing Berlin University of the Arts, Germany Nature-centred Biodesign for Regeneration. Design understandings in Europe. 1: ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture, University of Aveiro, Portugal; 2: Regenerative Futures Lab, Urban Reef, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 3: New Media, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada; 4: University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Syros, Greece Shifting from Creativity to Sympoiesis: A Site-Oriented Design Inquiry of More-than-Human Creative AI 1: Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; 2: School of Interactive Arts & Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada Design through co-elaboration: Friction, dysfunction, and more-than-human École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL), France |
| 6:00pm - 7:15pm |
Opening Keynote Debate Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: More-than-human data practices 1 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Elisa Giaccardi, Politecnico di Milano When data systems meet ecosystems: Tensions between AI platforms and vitality in corporate sustainability 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; 2: Interdisciplinary Transformation University (IT:U), Linz, Austria More-than-human oversight: Designing a somaesthetic space for high-risk AI systems 1: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: Santiago, CL Speculative Design Through Synthetic Data: Exploring how synthetic data be used to represent missing ‘more-than-human' data RMIT University, Australia Designing algorithmic infrastructures for environmental regeneration: Autonomous systems in marine contexts 1: Izmir University of Economics; 2: Mälardalen University Grounding Artificial Intelligence: Terrestrial Cartography and Rare Earths in Chile Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: More-than-human data practices 2 Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Sara Lenzi, Universidad de Deusto Scaffolding Oceans Futures: Design for embedded, embodied, and emergent thinking 1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 3: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 4: Simon Fraser University, Canada Occupying the sensors: Underwater sound in an urban river Northeastern University, United States of America Everything is an Instrument: Making Data Instruments as Critical Pedagogy RMIT University, Australia Plant biographies: Expanding more-than-human modes of relating 1: Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 3: Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4: Conservation Science, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, United Kingdom More-than-Human Self-Tracking: An Uncertain Account of Urine Monitoring, Protein Excess and Ecological Entanglements Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: More than Human Climate Futures: Affect and Relational Practices Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Rachel Clarke, University of the Arts London Chair: Michelle Westerlaken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology More than Weeds: Thickening designer-plant relations in the Sonoran Desert Arizona State University, United States of America Imagining speculative design tools with a Capability Approach Independent researcher Mediating More-than-Human care: Art, design and climate governance 1: Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 3: UAL, London College of Communication, UK; 4: Tokyo Keizai University, Japan ‘Wet’ policymaking: exploring the potential of open-water swimming in agonistically designing affective environmental policies. 1: R4D Research group, School of Social Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium; 2: Civic & Policy Design (part of Arck) Research group, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, Belgium Modes of Being Amid Anthropocene: Living Through the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul Floods Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS, Brazil Surfacing wetlands through design ethnography and critical visualisation University of Technology Sydney |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PAPERS: More than Human Climate Learning: Systems, Translation and Regeneration Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Anton Poikolainen Rosén, Stockholm University Chair: Heitlinger Sara, University of London, UK Materialising Ecologies of Intelligence: learning to design with and within more-than-human systems The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom An autoethnographic account of noticing in practice, through a more-than-human centred lens. Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom From Fragile Remnants to Regenerative Systems: Circular Design Through Eggshell Waste 1: Institute for Future Technologies, De Vinci Higher Education, Paris, France; 2: Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India Translating nature's emotions: Building an affective design framework rooted in classical Chinese poetry School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China Co-creating with fungi: mycelium toys and pedagogies for regenerative futures 1: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria; 2: Mycotech Lab, Bandung Indonesia |
| 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
Design for Scotland Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PAPERS: Critical Humanities and Rethinking Body Norms Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh Chair: Elif Ozden Yenigun, Royal College of Art Naming and resisting the system of fatphobia in design by a fat, queer designer and educator The Pennsylvania State University AGNES as a Critical Wearable: Mediating Age, Materiality, and Embodied Expertise 1: AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2: Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Ediburgh Reimagining Body–Instrument Relations through Feminist Design Practice: Reflections on an E-textile Musical Interface City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Re-configuring Body Perception: Colour and Dynamic Pattern Strategies to Challenge Aesthetic Norms School of Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand Reclaiming Embroidery: Uncovering the Potential of Embodied Practice for Women’s Mental Well-being 1: Tongji University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Newcastle University, UK Disrupting Walking: Rethinking the Practice Through a Podal Extension Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PAPERS: Thinking the Body through Technologies and Material Methods Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Gozde Goncu Berk, University of California, Davis Chair: Theo Hughes-Riley, Nottingham Trent University Proximity Ruff: Rehabilitating relationality through postdigital bodies Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Situated practices in digital jewellery research: The collective voices of the new generation of jewellers 1: Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom; 2: EK – Erhvervsakademi København - Business Academy Copenhagen Touchbox: A research toolkit of haptic textile cubes for experiencing, evaluating, and co-designing tangible remote communication 1: DFKI - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Germany; 2: HFC - Human-Factors-Consult GmbH Designing emotionally resonant thermal interactions for public speaking support 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China; 2: Lushan Lab; 3: Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Human Factors Design Designing Preparatory Haptics: Relational Timing and Bodily Anticipation in Industrial Driving Contexts 1: School of Design, Hunan University; 2: School of Design and Art, Hunan University of Technology and Business; 3: Innovation Institute of Industrial Design and Machine Intelligence, Hunan University, Quanzhou Designing for the Working Body: Challenges in the Development of Occupational Exoskeletons Chair of Industrial Design Engineering | Dresden University of Technology |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PAPERS: Situated Track Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Chair: Euan Winton, Euan Winton Chair: G. Arno Verhoeven, University of Edinburgh From Commodity to Commons: Creating local eco-systems for the design of sustainable NHS garments in Scotland 1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: University of Edinburgh, Uniter Kingdom; 3: Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Cianalas: How Scottish dementia friendly communities shaped design for wellbeing research 1: Heriot-Watt University; 2: University of Dundee Situated knowledge in rural craft practices: A context-sensitive approach to craft–design collaboration in Fife, Scotland The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Appropriating Edinburgh’s dead: Exploring the potential of Edinburgh’s historic burial grounds as sites for designerly conversations about grief and loss 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom "That's Fine..." Uncovering ambiguity through emotional labelling in Scottish design students’ design process University of Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Closing Plenary Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
