Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opening Plenary Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
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| 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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Discourses in Design Research: Genealogies, Archaeologies, and Architectures Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Designing with Others Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Cláudia de Souza Libânio, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre Chair: Tiago Barros Pontes e Silva, University of Brasilia Bridging the Community-Institution Divide: Multi-Level Community-Based Participatory Design for Migrant Health in China 1: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University; 2: Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh; 3: Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Monash University Co-what? A new perspective on participation and collaboration with vulnerable populations in design studies: Methodological inquiry 1: NHL Stenden University, Netherlands, The; 2: Utrecht University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands Designing within the clinic: A situated co-design approach for healthcare provider engagement University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA How can a participatory process improve the patient experience during oncology consultations? An Emotional Design Approach 1: Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (i3a), Department of Engineering Design and Manufacturing, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; 2: Water and Environmental Health-IUCA Research Group, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; 3: Aragon Institute for Health Research (IIS-A), Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain; 4: Medical Decision Making, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.; 5: Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Design with Empowerment: Developing a framework and Toolkit for Chronic Disease Management Design Lab, University of Sydney, Australia Designerly Ethics: reflections on shadowing cancer patients and ideas for embedding ethics in practice 1: University of Zaragoza, Spain; 2: Erasmus MC; 3: IISA – Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón; 4: Fractal Strategy |
PAPERS: Identities and Inspiration in Design Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Becoming Designers: Studio Instructors as Catalysts of Designerly Identity Formation Istanbul Technical University Interiority as a pedagogical approach in interior design studio education Yasar University, Turkiye Influence and potential of quintessential forms as inspirational stimuli LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland Cultivating a Teaching Mindset: Persuasive Strategies for Developing Design Thinking Skills 1: National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; 2: Chiba University, Japan Supporting deep(er) engagement with site through blended resources: A case study across two design studios The University of Melbourne, Australia Learning how to use bodystorming in service design for generating new insights and ideas: An application to out-of-hours primary care in the Netherlands 1: TU Delft, The Netherlands; 2: University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| PAPERS: Designing Environments for Wellbeing Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Siyuan Huang, University of Twente Habitability in extreme environments: A participatory design approach to assess wellbeing. 1: Technical University of Crete, Greece; 2: Technical University of Crete, Greece; 3: Technical University of Crete, Greece Understanding Sleep Challenges in Shared Dormitories: A Co-design Inquiry Lancaster university, United Kingdom Landlords' attitudes towards age-friendly adaptations: Implications for the well-being of older private renters 1: Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium; 2: School of Educational Studies, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium; 3: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Not Just One "Best" Green: Soundscape Determines the Optimal Green Wall Form Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, School of Art and Design Designing for generativity and wellbeing: Insights from visitors at the Hong Kong Space Museum 1: Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 2: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Psychological Responses to Green-Wall Layouts in Office Environments: A Virtual-Environment Study Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, shcool of Art and Design |
PAPERS: What is Regenerative Design Anyway? Foundations, Lexicons and Interdisciplinary Intersections Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Angela Kilford, Massey University Chair: Inge Panneels, University of Edinburgh Where Regenerative Design Theory Meets Ground: A Case Study of XREEF on Weizhou Island 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Xi'an Jiaotong University, China Designing for Radical Renewal: Innovation Outcomes Across Circular and Regenerative Approaches Aarhus University, Denmark Creating a regenerative design practice that gives back to people and planet: Lessons from stakeholder interactions in industrial agriculture 1: Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway; 2: Bioregion Institute, Norway; 3: UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway Three-Eyed Seeing: A framework for regenerative ecological design 1: LUT Business School, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland; 2: School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Contextualising soil to soil textile production in Aotearoa 1: Independant, Aotearoa; 2: Papahoa Fibreworks; 3: Te Waka Kai Ora An exploration into the value of ‘gap system’ within regenerative design 1: Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology; 2: TU Delft |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Entangled Responsibilities: Food, Scale and Design Research Beyond the Human Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Entangled Responsibilities: Food, Scale and Design Research Beyond the Human 1: Umeå University, Sweden; 2: Glasgow School of Art; 3: University of Southern Denmark |
CONVERSATION: Design Through Deliberation: Higher Level Education in UK Prisons Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Design through deliberation: Higher Level Education in UK Prisons University of Brighton, United Kingdom |
CONVERSATION: Challenging Extractive Pedagogies: When Students Work With Communities Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Challenging Extractive Pedagogies: When students work with communities 1: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; 2: Virginia Commonwealth University, United States; 3: IE University, Spain |
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| EXPLORATION: Maraña Specimens: Photo-Prototyping in Textile Logic for Coexistence in the Capitalocene Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Maraña specimens: Photo-Prototyping in textile logic for Coexistence in the Capitalocene 1: Universidad de los Andes, Colombia; 2: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 3: Independent Researcher |
EXPLORATION: Co-creating a Ruderal Definition of Regenerative Design as a Living System Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Co-Creating a Ruderal Definition of Regenerative Design as a Living System 1: Material Encounters; 2: Office of Planetary Research |
EXPLORATION: Action Steps Sprint: Translating User Scenarios Into Engineering Specifications With Interdisciplinary Teams Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Action Steps sprint: translating user scenarios into engineering specifications with interdisciplinary teams Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
| PAPERS: Care Takes Shape Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Sara M Goldchmit, University of Sao Paulo Chair: Cláudia de Souza Libânio, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre Making Sense of Pain: Participatory Design Approaches to Understanding and Supporting People Living with Chronic Pain Auckland University Of Technology, New Zealand Using design artefacts to transform doctor-parent communication in neonatal care 1: Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom; 2: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland; 3: Peking University Third Hospital, Peking University, China Designing Integrated, Trauma-Informed Care Pathways for Co-occurring Addiction and Trauma: Insights from Two Interrelated Co-design Workshops 1: Monash University, Australia; 2: Hamilton Centre, Australia.; 3: Spectrum, Australia.; 4: Phoenix Australia, Australia. Supporting mental health and wellbeing through a staff home food-growing project 1: University of strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: NHS24; 3: NHS Highland Designing hospitality through sensory workshops for Autistic people with eating disordered behaviour 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom Digital Platform to Foster Social Engagement for the Visually Impaired 1: Statement University of São Paulo - UNESP, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Maranhão - UFMA, Brazil |
PAPERS: Reflective Practices Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Learning through Alternatives: Fostering Reflection through Design Interventions 1: Iran University of Art; 2: Iran University of Science and Technology Sherlock Holmes in the studio: Supporting deductive and inductive reasoning skills in design education Istanbul Technical University, Turkiye Design-driven reflection: A children's metacognitive cultivation system integrating physical interaction and digital narrative Hunan University IkigAI: Co-Reflection with AI to Enhance Career Direction Clarity in Design Education 1: Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 2: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Motivation and Reflective Processes in Service-Learning Design Projects: Insights from a Visual Communication Design Studio 1: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile; 2: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile; 3: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile; 4: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile; 5: Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile Designing under uncertainty: How novices rationalize prototype choices before and after parallel testing 1: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States of America; 2: Human Factors & Ergonomics Program; 3: School of Product Design |
PAPERS: Designing Technologies and Interventions for Relational Wellbeing Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Georgia Institute of Technology Designing for being mindful: A non-instrumental turn to mindfulness technology University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom ALONG the line of emotional support: Reimagining AI companions for young adults’ wellbeing 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Research Center in Communication Pyshology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Integrating Attachment and Social Identity Theories in the Co-Design of a Hokkien Nursery Rhymes App Griffith University, Australia When grief takes shape: Codesigning creative modalities in grief support groups for children 1: University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; 2: University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; 3: University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Breaking the cycle: Understanding Self-Experimentation as a health behavior change approach for young adults with ADHD Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Enhancing social connections through co-illustration workshops among solo-living young adults School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom |
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| 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 |
CONVERSATION: More-Than-Human Design: Toward a Convivial Community Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) More-than-Human Design: Toward A Convivial Community 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom; 3: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 5: Interdisciplinary Transformation University, Austria; 6: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 7: Stockholm University, Sweden; 8: The University of Melbourne, AU |
CONVERSATION: Against the AI Tide: Institutional Stances and Design Educators’ Responses Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Against the AI Tide: Institutional Stances and Design Educators’ Responses 1: Arizona State University, United States of America; 2: Rice University, United States of America |
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| CONVERSATION: Design Research Ethics in Indigenous Contexts Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Conversation: Design Research Ethics in Indigenous Contexts 1: Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada; 2: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom; 3: University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil; 4: University of Lapland, Finland; 5: University of Los Andes, Colombia; 6: Aalto University, Finland |
EXPLORATION: Design for Emancipatory Practice: Adapting Participatory Methods for Disability Research Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Design for Emancipatory Practice: Adapting Participatory Methods for Disability Research Lehigh University, United States of America |
EXPLORATION: Thinking Partners or Thinking Replacements? Interrogating AI’s Role in Design Learning Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Thinking Partners or Thinking Replacements? Interrogating AI’s Role in Design Learning 1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: Parsons School of Design, United States of America; 3: Interdisciplinary Transformation University IT:U, Austria |
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| EXPLORATION: How to Write With Images? Exploring Visual Essay Formats for Publishing Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) How to Write with Images? Exploring Visual Essay Formats for Publishing 1: Carleton University, Canada; 2: University of Split, Croatia; 3: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Design Philosophies Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Shaping Health Futures Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Tiago Barros Pontes e Silva, University of Brasilia Chair: Sara M Goldchmit, University of Sao Paulo Understanding Digital Health Engagement Among Older Adults in India: A Cultural Probe Based Study Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Promoting equity, accessibility, and trust through co-design: Shaping a living evidence architecture for South-East Asia and the Western Pacific 1: Monash University, Australia; 2: Monash University, Indonesia; 3: University of Sydney, Australia Distributed care hubs: Rethinking disability care policy through participatory research 1: Lehigh University, United States of America; 2: Bard College, United States of America Uncovering the Health Impacts of Extreme Temperatures in Western United States Prisons through Interdisciplinary Architectural and Epidemiological Methods 1: University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Environmental Design; 2: University of Colorado Anschutz, Department of Internal Medicine; 3: University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Environmental Studies; 4: Free World Exploring intentions and use scenarios behind Geomatic Data Artefacts for public health policies in Québec from a co-design perspective École de technologie supérieure, Canada Symbiotic Behaviors and Strategic Design: A Situated Participatory Framework for Organizations Led by/for Older Adults Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia |
PAPERS: AI in Design Education Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Contextual intelligence for AI in design: A liberal education lens FLAME University, India AI' s Brush on Novice Posters: Unfolding Visual Competence Shifts of Design Students School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China Interface Cultures, Forever: speculative prototypes for technological awareness Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy The influence of generative AI on design students' confidence and self-efficacy: A case study of logotype design 1: School of Architecture, Art and Design, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; 2: HUMAN-tech, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain; 3: Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Efficiency and Empathy: Integrating AI into User Research in an Undergraduate UX Design Course Central Connecticut State Universtiy, United States of America Reimagining ID education with AI: Perceptions, practices, and pedagogical implications of AI adoption North Carolina State University, United States of America |
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| PAPERS: Rethinking Wellbeing: Theories, Frameworks, and Critical Perspectives Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Leandro Miletto Tonetto, Georgia Institute of Technology Chair: Siyuan Huang, University of Twente Design for Adversarial Growth: Post-Traumatic Growth, Resilience and Subjective Wellbeing 1: School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology; 2: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University; 3: Department of Design, Management and Production, University of Twente Fictionalized Affective Relations:Rethinking wellbeing in Human–AI Interaction from a Design Perspective 1: Guangdong University of Technology, China, People's Republic of; 2: Tongji University, China, People's Republic of Exploring Value Perceptions and Identifying Integrated Value Propositions of AI-Enabled Smart Homes for Solo-Living Older Adults’ Wellbeing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) Design for well-being: A preliminary investigation on design interventions in the context of loneliness economy Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Support designer’s wellbeing: Understanding resilience in design education as a wicked challenge University of Exeter, United Kingdom Measuring service-related subjective wellbeing in paediatric oncology 1: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; 2: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; 3: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America |
PHD HUB: The Diversity of Post-PhD Careers: Co-creating a toolkit to map your journey beyond a PhD Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Holding the Question – Taboos, Translation, and the Limits of Research Formats Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Holding the Question - Taboos, translation, and the limits of research formats 1: The Young; 2: Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS |
CONVERSATION: Beyond Overlap: Transition Design and Systemic Design Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Beyond Overlap: Transition Design and Systemic Design 1: TU Delft, Netherlands, The Netherlands; 2: Aalto University, Finland; 3: Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway; 4: Loughborough University, The United Kingdom |
CONVERSATION: In AI We Trust? A Critical Examination of AI’s Role in Design Research Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) In AI We Trust? A Critical Examination of AI’s Role in Design Research 1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: SAS Institute, United States of America |
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| EXPLORATION: Kinship Time: Designing With More-Than-Human Temporalities Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Kinship Time: Designing with More-Than-Human Temporalities 1: Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisboa, Portugal; 2: School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; 3: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
EXPLORATION: Hacking Dolls: Performing Reproductive Health Experiences Through Design Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Hacking Dolls: Performing Reproductive Health Experiences through Design 1: Queen Mary University of London; 2: University of Twente |
EXPLORATION: Dance, Disability, and Design: Towards an Advanced Understanding of Embodied Knowing at the Intersection of Artistic and Scientific Inquiry Location: Edinburgh Futures Institute, 2.55 (Room E6) Dance, Disability, and Design: towards an advanced understanding of embodied knowing at the intersection of artistic and scientific inquiry. 1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: University of Antwerp; 3: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 1) Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Opening up Design Impact: Session 1 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Cyril Tjahja, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam From metrics to meaning: Enabling iterative design for multi-stakeholder engagement and behavioural change in systemic climate transitions with quali-quantitative assessment and sensemaking 1: Politecnico di Milano; 2: Climate KIC TechWork: Developing and validating a reflective tool for impact-aware design 1: ETH Zurich, Switzerland; 2: Cornell University, USA A Perceived Value Framework for Automotive Design Innovation: Rethinking Strategic Transition of Incumbent OEMs in the Post-ICE Era School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China Navigating LCA in Circular Design: Methodological Barriers When Applying Life Cycle Assessment to Industrial Waste Upcycling Design Decisions Aalborg University, Denmark The DCF framework: Integrating Cross-Cultural and Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on comfort experience School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, People's Republic of China |
PAPERS: Culture and Knowledge Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Craft as Experiential Knowledge: Designing Workshops and Record-Keeping Practices for Cultural Transmission among Young Generations Kyoto Institute of Technology & University of the Arts London Producing knowledge for whom? Parallel knowledge worlds in Chinese doctoral education in design and international design research 1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 3: Cornell University Interdependencies of Art History and Design History curriculum in Indian undergraduate education Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Design education in multicultural contexts: Student perceptions of cultural inclusivity in the classroom Northeastern University, United States Weaving Local Knowledge into Design Education: Situated Learning in Ethnic Regions of Western Sichuan Minzu University, People's Republic of China Educating Inclusive Human Augmentation by Design: A Triadic Definitional Framework and Pedagogical Validation The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
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| PAPERS: Sketching for thinking, expression, and information Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Amos Scully, Rochester Institute of Tech Chair: Mauricio Novoa Munoz, Western Sydney University Drawn To Think: A Step Toward Decolonising Design Visualcy UAL - Central Saint Martins, United Kingdom Agreements for Collective Real-Time Sketching Practice in Design Research 1: Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands How does costume illustration sketching mediate between visual development concept art and the practical construction of film costumes? arts university bournemouth, United Kingdom Drawing in the minor key: An approach for multi-actor designing for societal transformation 1: Eindhoven University of Technology; 2: Drawing in the minor key Sketching Social Robots: Visualising Futures of Human–Robot Interaction through Participatory Imagination University of Waikato, New Zealand DDENSO: an evaluation-driven methodology for information visualisations Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
PAPERS: Design and Sustainability: Values, Behaviour Change and Direct Action Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Michael Stead, Imagination Design Research Lab, School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Chair: David Sánchez Ruano, Tec de Monterrey “Even if I do it, I cannot see any differences”: Designing Strategies to Facilitate Adolescents’ Low-Carbon Behavior Southern University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of Bridging Awareness and Action: Visual Communication Strategies for Sustainable Consumption in Fast Fashion TU Delft, Netherlands, The Buying, Consuming and Discarding: Consumer Value and Furniture Lifetimes Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Heterodox economic perspective for designing sustainability transitions: Integrating fundamental human needs and the milieu approach 1: Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Lyon, CNRS, Univ Jean Monnet, Univ Lumière Lyon 2, Univ Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, ENS Lyon, ENTPE, ENSA Lyon, UMR 5600 EVS, Institut Henri Fayol, F - 42023 Saint-Etienne France; 2: Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, I2M, UMR 5295, F-33400 Talence, France; 3: Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, I2M, UMR 5295, F-73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Towards a more sustainable industrial design sketch modelling practice: An overview of associated materials and their life cycles University of Canterbury, New Zealand Should sustainability come second? Artifact analysis toward more positive outcomes through design 1: Syracuse University - School of Design; 2: Cornell University - Department of Human Centered Design |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Design Potluck: Shaping Metaphors for Better Practice Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Design Potluck: Shaping Metaphors for Better Practice 1: School of Visual Arts; 2: Meld Strategy; 3: University of Auckland; 4: Bloom Works; 5: International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at UC Berkeley; 6: Independent; 7: OCAD |
CONVERSATION: Changing Topographies of Transdisciplinarity Within Design Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Changing topographies of transdisciplinarity within Design 1: SARAS Institute, Uruguay;; 2: The Design School, Arizona State University, USA; 3: Linnaeus University, Department of Design, Sweden; 4: School of Design (EUCD-FADU), Universidad de la República, Uruguay |
CONVERSATION: Empathy in the Age of Artificial Simulation Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Empathy in the Age of Artificial Simulation 1: Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom; 2: Köln International School of Design DE, Germany; 3: Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 4: Florida Atlantic University, USA |
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| EXPLORATION: This Is Not Airport Noise – Analogue Field Sound Lab Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) This Is Not Airport Noise - Analogue Field Sound Lab UNIBZ, Italy |
EXPLORATION: Designing Through Plural Lenses: Reflection on Making Intersectionality Actionable Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Designing Through Plural Lenses: Reflection on Making Intersectionality Actionable 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Carleton University |
EXPLORATION: Co-crafting Through Rural Craft: Exploring Material Engagement As Knowledge Production Through Willow Weaving, Natural Plant Dyeing, and Textile Weaving Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Co-Crafting through Rural Craft: Exploring Material Engagement as Knowledge Production through Willow Weaving, Natural Plant Dyeing, and Textile Weaving The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 2) Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Opening up Design Impact: Session 2 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Cyril Tjahja, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Enquête d’âme: A participatory visualisation of wellbeing through embodied reflection 1: Loughborough University; 2: Royal College of Art Bridging macro sustainability and everyday life: Developing a meso–micro indicator framework for sustainable design in historic districts, The case of laomendong, nanjing 1: School of design, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214100, China; 2: Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China Evaluating Impact as a Distributed Ecosystem: Insights from a Coral-Themed Museum Late 1: Royal College of Art, United Kingdom; 2: Queen Mary University of London; 3: City St George's University of London From Mindset to Measurement: Developing Scales for Inclusive and Reflective Design Practice 1: Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; 2: Technische Universität Berlin Capturing the impact of co-creation in circular transitions: A comparative analysis of evaluation frameworks and models TU Delft, Netherlands |
PAPERS: Curriculum and pedagogies in design Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Nicole Lotz, The Open University Extending futures literacy to speech scientists and technologists Tilburg University, Netherlands, The Embracing Complexity: Reimagining Design for Health Education Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Enacting Micro-Utopias: Situated Pedagogies of Collective Imagination in Design-based Education Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland, Mondragon University, Spain Design education leadership as constellation practice: Moving beyond the heroic leader 1: Heriot-Watt University Dubai, United Arab Emirates; 2: University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Territorial Quest | A phygital urban game for Public Design Education Università di Parma, Italy Reflective Sociomaterialist Learning for Design for Sustainability (DfS) in the Global South: Evaluations of Students’ Product Service System (PSS) Design Projects at a Thai Design School Thammasat University, Thailand |
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| PAPERS: Visualizing Narratives Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University Chair: JanWillem Hoftijzer, Delft University of Technology Designing Narrative Reconstruction from Bamboo Slips: A RAG-Agent Approach for Cultural Scene Generation 1: Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China; 2: Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China Toward a culturally situated perspective: Rethinking the role of AI in intangible cultural heritage pattern creation 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China; 2: Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom Archives and graphic memory: 1980s Brazilian rock album covers as cultural heritage FAUUSP, Brazil Visual thinking with artificial intelligence and augmented and virtual reality 1: Design Program, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University; 2: Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Design Group, Stanford University Applying AI Fine-Tuning and VR 3D Sketching for Conceptual Design Proposals: A Case Study of Footwear Design 1: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; 2: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Is this the “me” they want to see? Exploring near-future adaptations of AI for professional visibility and self-presentation 1: Delft University of Technology, Department of Human-Centered Design; 2: Delft University of Technology, Department of Human-Centered Design, AI Futures Lab |
PAPERS: Design and Sustainability: Co-creation, Participation and Relationality Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Michael Stead, Imagination Design Research Lab, School of Arts, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Chair: David Sánchez Ruano, Tec de Monterrey Dropping Pebbles: The Ripple Effect of Designerly Co-creation in Steering Sustainability Transitions in Hospitals 1: Delft University of Technology; 2: Erasmus Medical Center Reciprocal value between learning and circular practices University of Pretoria, South Africa The environmental citizen’s playbook: A catalogue of playful participation for environmental action 1: Sooon Studio, Denmark; 2: Escola Universitària ERAM (Universitat de Girona); 3: Aalto University, Finland “Everything that no longer relates to anything”: Discard Studies for thinking through waste in design Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Design, territory and gastronomy: Relational practices in local transformation processes Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Playing Future Places Together RMIT University, Australia |
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 |
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| EXPLORATION: Sensing the Future: Embodied and Dance Explorations of Seeing and Being Seen Through Public Digital Twins Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Sensing the Future: Embodied and Dance Explorations of Seeing and Being Seen through Public Digital Twins Sapienza University of Rome, Italy |
CONVERSATION: Does Scotland Do It Differently? Exploring the Role of Design Within Participatory Governance Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Does Scotland do it differently? Exploring the role of design within participatory governance 1: The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom; 2: Independent; 3: Belfast School of Art, United Kingdom |
CONVERSATION: Designing for Future Heritage: Reframing Sustainability Through Cultural and Temporal Value Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Designing for Future Heritage: Reframing Sustainability through Cultural and Temporal Value 1: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2: Lancaster University, United Kingdom |
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| EXPLORATION: Queering Interdisciplinarity: A Workshop With Riso Printed Materials Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Queering Interdisciplinarity: a workshop with Riso printed materials Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom |
EXPLORATION: Evaluating the Quality of Transformation: Exploring Key Transformation & Thriving Indicators Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Evaluating the quality of transformation: Exploring Key Transformation & Thriving Indicators 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: EIT Culture & Creativity; 3: University of Amsterdam; 4: Amsterdam University of the Arts; 5: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers; 6: Future of Now; 7: Context Undefined; 8: Umeå Institute of Design |
EXPLORATION: Fairer Fashion by Design: Visioning Sustainability With Lego® Serious Play® Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Fairer fashion by design: Visioning sustainability with Lego® Serious Play® 1: Ravensbourne University London, United Kingdom; 2: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles I Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Designing Strategic Change: Business Capabilities and Roles Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Violeta Clemente, University of Aveiro Design As Strategic Competence for the Evolving Energy Industry Tongji University, China, People's Republic of Embedding design capability in growth-oriented SMEs in China: A multiple-case study Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Strategic design in practice: Mapping strategy formulation and implementation in Nordic design job advertisements 1: LAB University of Applied Sciences, Finland; 2: Aalto University Design Factory and Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland Strategic design in business organizations: An approach for design management, business strategy, and design strategy Arizona State University, United States of America The future of designers: A study on the transition of designer occupations and corresponding strategic responses 1: Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP), Republic of Korea; 2: Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea Service Design-Driven Formation of Dynamic Capabilities for International Service Innovation: A Case Study of a Chinese NEV Firm School of Design, Hunan University, China |
PAPERS: Relational and Situated Design Practices Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Hadas Zohar, Aalborg University Copenhagen Reciprocal Sensing: Expanding Body Mapping Through Lenca and Mestizo Ontologies of Relational Embodiment Georgia Institute of Technology Relational embodiment: Rethinking artifacts as mediators of being-with-others School of Industrial Design, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Cob Club: co-exploratory earth building experiments, foolish in technique and form The University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Disrupting and reimagining women’s identities: A feminist design methodology inspired by the self-combing women’s “Goddess Fictual” practice Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Urban typography and cultural memory: A literature review in support of a design-led approach to heritage and preservation University of Waikato, New Zealand Data and power: A tool for designing data visualisations from a feminist perspective Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil |
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| PAPERS: Sketching and generative AI Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Amos Scully, Rochester Institute of Tech Chair: JanWillem Hoftijzer, Delft University of Technology The fidelity-flexibility paradox: Student creative experience with AI-assisted visualisation in design ideation 1: School of Product Design, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; 2: School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia The Pen or the Prompt: Investigating Novice Design Students' Use of Sketching and Generative AI for Initial Concept Visualisations University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Promoting the Development of Critical Thinking Among Design Novices in AIGC-Aided Design Processes College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Emerging Hybrid Human-GenAI Workflows to Optimise Human Ideation, Sketching and Design 1: Western Sydney University, Australia; 2: Universite de Montreal, Canada; 3: University of Cincinnati, USA Friend and foe: Characterising (counter)productive prompting of generative AI to supplement exploratory sketching 1: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: University of Canterbury, New Zealand Sketch-Based AI: How AI-Influence Levels Shape Perceived Authorship and Creativity in the Design Process 1: North Carolina State University, United States of America; 2: Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America |
PHD HUB: How Do We Work Together? From Experience to Critical Understanding of Agency, Power, and the Conditions of Collaboration and Participation Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Unsettling the Human in Design Research, Without Comfort: A Conversation on Antispeciesism as a Destabilizing Lens Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Unsettling the human in design research, without comfort: a conversation on antispeciesism as a destabilizing lens 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Art & Design Department, University of Madeira, OSEAN, Portugal; 3: Department of Human-Centered Design, Delft Technical University, Netherlands; 4: Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands |
CONVERSATION: Unlearning Design: Through Relational Practice, Critical Sustainability, and Material Ecology Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Unlearning Design: Through Relational Practice, Critical Sustainability, and Material Ecology 1: University of Arts Linz, Austria; 2: Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany; 3: University of Reikjavik, Iceland; 4: Technical University of Munich, Germany; 5: Technical University Dresden, Germany |
CONVERSATION: Roughing Up the Edges: Why Intentional Incompleteness Might Create Better Designs Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Roughing up the edges: Why intentional incompleteness might create better designs 1: Kristiania University of Applied Technology, Oslo, Norway; 2: Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA |
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| EXPLORATION: Listening in Repair: A Mending Circle for Relational Care Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Listening in Repair: A Mending Circle for Relational Care 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 3: Amsterdam University of the Arts, The Netherlands; 4: Kent State University, USA |
EXPLORATION: Tangible Computation: Working With Biodegradable Materials As Interfaces Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Tangible Computation: Working with Biodegradable Materials as Interfaces 1: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; 2: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA |
EXPLORATION: What Does a Qubit Feel Like? An Exploration Into Making Quantum Computing Tangible Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) What Does a Qubit Feel Like? An Exploration into Making Quantum Computing Tangible Munster Technological University, Ireland |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles II Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Designing Strategic Change: Sustainability and Automation Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: G. Mauricio Mejía, Arizona State University Strategic Design for Circular Transitions: Co-defining Servitisation Strategies with a Furniture Company Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Reflective practices for ESG: a framework for organisational learning and transformation 1: Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering - Design and Manufacturing, Aarhus University; 2: Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering - Design for Sustainability, Technical University of Denmark Design-led ecodesign implementation: Enabling product and organisational transformation for sustainability transitions Politecnico di Milano, Italy A Product-Service System Design Approach for the Frame Innovation of Automated Robotaxi Interior Space Cleaning 1: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China; 2: Köln International School of Design, TH Köln, Cologne, Germany How automation impacts worker ecosystems in organizations: a case study of autonomous bus operations at an international airport Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands A survey of generative AI adoption amongst industrial design experts 1: AHO, Norway; 2: Lund University |
PAPERS: Material, Mind, and Machine Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Amalia De Götzen, Allborg University Research through game design 1: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK; 2: fractals co-op, UK; 3: School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, UK; 4: UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) Unlearning to Rest: Machine unlearning as a method of mitigating design fixation in human-AI creative collaboration 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: University of the Arts London, United Kingdom “Why Do All the Schools Look the Same?” Exploring Children’s Spatial Design Preferences through Generative AI in India Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Meaning at a Distance: Redefining Aesthetics in the Age of Intelligent Objects Istituto Marangoni, Italy Decoding physicality in human–artifact interaction: An evolutionary concept analysis College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Tectonic Computation: Crafting Logic through Material and Geometry National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
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| PAPERS: Relationality as Reconciliation: Designing for Equiponderance Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Gwendolyn Kulick, German University in Cairo Chair: Luis Garcia, Carnegie Mellon University Cuia Colab: Toward a Design Across Species, Worlds and Relations Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA) Beyond binaries of reconciliation: Working across knowledge systems at the cultural interface RMIT University, Australia Public Dialogues: A citizen participation platform for adaptive deliberation The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Mapping agents: a Fab City Full Stack geospatial framework for interdependent, community-led interventions 1: Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile; 2: Fab City Foundation; 3: Tongji University Reorienting design futures with hope Politecnico di Milano, Design Department Learning through relationality: A curated conversation between popular education and design pedagogy 1: Strate School of Design, France; 2: Tiers-lieu paysan de la Martinière, France |
PAPERS: Discourses in Design Research: Critiques, Black-Boxes, and Translations Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Haian Xue, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University Translating Industry: The Reception and Evolution of Industrial Thought in Early Modern 1: Royal College of Art; 2: Shanghai University Of Engineering Sciences The black box in spatial planning: visualizations of indeterminacy in cybernetics and model theory 1: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China Environmentality's integrated design: ISO standards as infrastructural semiotics EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland Exploring Current Understandings of ‘Design Systems’: Toward a Conceptual Framework 1: Department of Communication & Culture, Aalborg University, Denmark; 2: Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 3: LEGO Group, Denmark; 4: IT University, Denmark Historicising Speculative Design with McLuhan’s Tetrad Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA User-Centered Dread: A Lovecraftian Critique of Design University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Researching Design in Policy and Governance: A Collective Reflection Through 60-Years of the Design Research Society Conference Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Researching Design in Policy and Governance: A Collective Reflection through 60-Years of the Design Research Society Conference 1: University of Helsinki, Finland; 2: Aalto University, Finland |
CONVERSATION: Epistemic Systems in the Age of Embedded or Agentic AI Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Epistemic Systems in the Age of Embedded or Agentic AI 1: The Ohio State University; 2: ÉTS Montréal |
CONVERSATION: Rebalancing the Design Canon: Intersectionality, Invisibility and the Politics of Design History Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Rebalancing the design canon: intersectionality, invisibility and the politics of design history 1: Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; 2: Massachusetts College of Art and Design; 3: Politecnico di Milano; 4: Lebanese American University; 5: Universidade de São Paulo |
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| EXPLORATION: Weathering With Microclimates: An Embodied Design Exploration of Extreme Heat Through Movement, Sensing, and More-Than-Human Relations Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Weathering With Microclimates: An embodied design exploration of extreme heat through movement, sensing, and more-than-human relations University of Texas at Austin, United States of America |
EXPLORATION: Co-intelligence: AI as a Persona or a Tool? Agency and Accountability in Human–AI Co-creation Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Co-Intelligence: AI as a Persona or a Tool? Agency and Accountability in Human–AI Co-Creation Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Experiences and experiential knowledge Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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) |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Responsible Retail and Branded Environments: Session 1 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Mia B. Münster, Malmö University Chair: Francesca Murialdo, Middlesex University From Waste to Opportunity, Upcycling Innovation in the South African Context: The Case of Clothes to Good 1: Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Johannesburg, South Africa Exploring circular economy strategies in the fashion industry: a comparative case study analysis Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mapping the opportunity for circularity in fashion retail design and fit-out University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Restorative Retail: A Literature Review on Consumer Well-being in the Retail Environment Hasselt University, Belgium Between Consumption and Care: Restorative Design and Cultural Memory in Hong Kong Coffee Shops 1: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; 2: School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Belonging across borders: a framework for transnationally resonant retail design University of Brighton, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Rethinking Inclusive Design Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Hua Dong, Royal College of Art Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London Inclusive design revisited: A paradigm of trustworthy connectedness 1: University of Twente, The Netherlands; 2: Fontys University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands Rethinking Communication and Power Relations in a Collaboration between Designers and Welfare Communites/Organisations School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, The United Kingdom Between Assistance and Autonomy: The Home as a Field for Inclusive Design CNAM, France Inclusive Co-Learning in Transnational Design Classrooms: Bridging Linguistic and Cultural Gaps between Chinese Students and British Curricula 1: Beijing Jiaotong University, CN; 2: Lancaster University,UK; 3: Tsinghua University,CN; 4: RMIT University, AU Designing social inclusion in circular transitions: A participatory study of repair initiatives in Germany 1: Dresden University of Technology, Germany; 2: New Design University, Austria Aesthetics as a Driver for Inclusion: What Recycling Rooms Reveal About Participation in Everyday Society 1: Mid Sweden University, Sweden; 2: Lund University, Sweden |
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| PAPERS: Sonic boundary object under construction Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Stefano Delle Monache, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music Chair: Nicolas Misdariis, Ircam Make it So(und): Speculative Sonic Metaphors as Boundary Objects for Design Research Carleton University, Canada The intrusive sounds of ReSilence. 1: Casa Paganini-InfoMus Research Center, University of Genova, Genova, Italy; 2: Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Mediating Borders Through Sound: Sonic Boundary Objects in Infrastructural Listening Northeastern University, United States of America Beyond ephemerality: Boundary objects and the plasticity of listening in collaborative design 1: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music, France; 2: Delft University of Technology Performer, Technologist, Machine: Co-Creating the Soul Song Sensorium Arts University Bournemouth, United Kingdom Co-designing culture: A grounded theory of participatory practice in Indian folk music 1: Anahad Foundation, New Delhi, India; 2: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India |
PAPERS: Strategic Design Practices for Learning, Attention, and Co-Creation Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Ross Brisco, University of Strathclyde Strategic design as learning infrastructure: Building organisational adaptability in early-stage contexts Independent Design Researcher, Toronto, Canada Inter-Poly-Creation (IPC): Unifying Mass Customisation and Co-Creation Loughborough University, United Kingdom The Studio model - creating space for continuous change Princeton University, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Linking an attention-based view of the firm and critical design in strategizing: Attention to harmful consequences University of Lapland, Finland |
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 |
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| PhD HUB: Practice made Visible: Documenting & Communicating Design Process as Research Knowledge Practice made Visible: Documenting & Communicating Design Process as Research Knowledge Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) |
CONVERSATION: Educating Within the Trouble: A Risky Experiment in Design Pedagogy Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Educating within the Trouble: A Risky Experiment in Design Pedagogy 1: LUCA School of Arts, Inter-actions Research Group, Belgium; 2: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands; 3: OsloMet, Norway; 4: Srishti Manipal Institute, India; 5: Sheffield Hallam University, UK |
EXPLORATION: Exploring Everyday Heritage Through Multimodal Storytelling in Historic Settings Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Exploring everyday heritage through multimodal storytelling in historic settings Loughborough University, United Kingdom |
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| EXPLORATION: Sketching in Space: An Interior Exploration Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Sketching in Space: an Interior Exploration Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom |
EXPLORATION: Listening Like a Tree: Designing Sonic Experiences With Community Partners for Nature Connectedness Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Listening Like a Tree: Designing Sonic Experiences with Community Partners for Nature Connectedness Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Material-led design and prototyping Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Responsible Retail and Branded Environments: Session 2 Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Katelijn Quartier, Hasselt University Chair: Zakkiya Khan, University of Brighton Reimagining Materiality: Responsible and Experiential VR Design for Fashion E-Commerce in India London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Consumer-facing technologies in stores: A longitudinal study of their impact on customer experience 1: Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom; 2: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London Becoming a coffee shop regular: Factors shaping regularity in contemporary coffee shops 1: Malmö University, Sweden; 2: The Ohio State University, USA; 3: Royal Danish Academy, Denmark Measuring the ‘in-between’: From spatial grammar to brand re-contextualisation and localisation. A case study approach in east Asian fashion flagships Design, Monash University Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Caulfield East, Australia A 4R-supported circular product–service system for luxury branded events 1: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, China; 2: Auditoire Asia; 3: School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Constructing a scenario-driven model for contextual brand experience: The case of chain coffee brands National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
PAPERS: Studying Older People - Theories and Methods Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Stella Boess, Delft University of Technology Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London Design for Healthy Ageing: Developing and Applying a Resource Model 1: Jiangnan University; 2: Royal College of Art; 3: Delft University of Technology From compliance adoption to co-design: An exploratory study of older adults’ engagement with technology National University of Singapore, Singapore Living with Multimorbidity: How Design Might Support Older Adults Use of Health Technology for Self-management. Loughborough University, United Kingdom Making the invisible visible: Supporting older adults’ expression of emotional needs for companion robots through visual co-design tools 1: Design School, Brunel University of London, United Kingdom; 2: The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom; 3: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Brunel University of London, United Kingdom Designing Inclusive Virtual Reality Experiences for Older Adults: Enhancing Digital Engagement and Challenging Digital Ageism 1: University of Southampton, United Kingdom; 2: Guangxi Normal University, China An early-stage framework: Exploring narrative and co-design methods in the social care decision-making process for older people Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom |
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| PAPERS: Sonic boundary objects in action Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Stefano Delle Monache, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music Chair: Nicolas Misdariis, Ircam The Atmospheric Jukebox - A sonic boundary object for multi-sensory exhibition design Kolding School of Design, Sonic College - UC SOUTH DENMARK From boundaries to bindings. Reframing sound-driven design in narrative exhibitions 1: Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: Beijing Institute of Technology, China Sounding out service: explaining representational capacity of sound in service design Linköping University, Department of Information and Computer Science, Linköping, Sweden Investigating context in sonic interaction design for sleep: Bridging users and designers through participatory and ideation workshops 1: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; 2: Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain A Design Continuum for Autographic Sonification 1: Independent, Graz, Austria; 2: Northeastern University, Boston, USA; 3: Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain & Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain |
PAPERS: Human Experience in Product and Interface Design Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Anca Horvath, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology When can ASMR sound improve consumer product evaluation? Exploring the joint influences of ASMR sound and visual richness Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China, People's Republic of Understanding the Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision through the Lens of Experience National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Can the Thumb Point Effectively in VR? An Evaluation of Different 3D Pointing Techniques 1: Modern Industrial Design Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; 2: iQOO Software Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China Design considerations for effective in-vehicle interaction: The effects of icon type and individual heterogeneity Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Designing Motion Identity: Exploring the Aesthetic Expression of Brand Style through System Motion 1: Hunan University, China, People's Republic of China; 2: Lushan Laboratory, People's Republic of China Strategic thermal design for smartphones: An experimental analysis of zonal heat perception across hand contact regions School of Design,Hunan University, People’s Republic of China |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Finding Our Common Ground - Potential, Resistance and Power in Creative Technology for Design Research Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Finding our common ground - potential, resistance and power in creative technology for design research. 1: University of St Andrews, United Kingdom; 2: University of Northumbria, United Kingdom; 3: Norwich University of the Arts, United Kingdom; 4: Quicksand, India; 5: University of Dundee, United Kingdom |
CONVERSATION: Pluriversal Design Research for Equitable Transcultural Collaborations: Is It a Dream? Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) Pluriversal Design Research for Equitable Transcultural Collaborations: Is It a Dream? 1: University of Salford, United Kingdom; 2: Malmö University, SE; 3: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú; Lancaster University, UK; 4: University of Notre Dame, USA; 5: National Institute of Design, India; 6: Carnegie Mellon University, USA; 7: German University in Cairo, Egypt; 8: University of Florida, USA |
EXPLORATION: Unfolding Dialogues: Annotating Teaching Statements and Mapping Pedagogical Reciprocity in Design Education Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Unfolding Dialogues: Annotating Teaching Statements and Mapping Pedagogical Reciprocity in Design Education 1: The Ohio State University, United States of America; 2: Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada |
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| EXPLORATION: An Exploration of Ethical Dilemmas Through Two Design Artefacts Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) An exploration of ethical dilemmas through two design artefacts 1: Amsterdam university of applied sciences, Netherlands, The; 2: LUCA School of Arts, University, Campus C-Mine, Genk, Belgium |
EXPLORATION: Exploring Data Otherwise: Countermapping More-Than-Human Design Practices Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Exploring Data Otherwise: Countermapping More-than-human Design Practices 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy; 2: RMIT University, Australia; 3: University of Deusto, Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science, Spain; 4: The University of Melbourne, Australia; 5: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 6: MIT, USA |
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Biennial General Meeting Location: 50 George Square, G.03 2026 DRS Biennial General Meeting |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Co-creation and making Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Making Design Work: Organizational Realities and Strategic Impact Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Peiyao Cheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Dilemmas of Institutionalizing Human-Centered Design in Startups Tongji University, People's Republic of China Navigating AI in design leadership: Insights on emerging competencies and cultural challenges in China 1: ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: School of Arts, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Strategies for successful collaborative engagement: Navigating organizational dynamics Tata Consultancy Services, India From speculation to strategy reflection: A case study of design-led foresight workshops at Revigrés 1: ID+, DeCA, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; 2: ID+, DeCA, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal From Co-Design to Co-Execution: A Knowledge Map of Real-Time User Participation in Service Settings (2008-2024) 1: Tongji University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, People's Republic of Optimizing design processes through data intelligence under resource constraints: A qualitative interview study in industry 1: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University; 2: School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University; 3: Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau; 4: Department of Design, Northwestern Polytechnical University; 5: College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University |
PAPERS: Neurodivergent Groups - Adults and Children Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Yumei Dong, Jiangnan University Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London MetaTrain：a metacognitive framework–based gamified executive function training for children with ADHD ZheJiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China “it's going to be a really good place to hang out“: Supporting Diversity in Community Indoor Environments by Eliciting Autistic Adults’ Preferences 1: Keio University, Japan; 2: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Co-Designing Co-Design Workshops with ADHD Adults University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Design for Trust: A Study on the Emotional Design Method of AI Educational Robots for Children with Autism School of Design, Hunan University, People's Republic of China Design Methods as Cognitive Tools: Understanding Method Usage through Cognitive Theories Aalto Design Factory, Aalto University, Finland |
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| PAPERS: Relational Frameworks and Practices Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Herlo Bianca, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Chair: Bianca Kóczán, HBK Braunschweig Collaging queer decolonial worlds: Applied techniques in design 1: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; 2: University of Utrecht, Netherlands From appraisal to affect: Designing a playful activity for social emotional learning among children Tata Consutancy Services Ltd, Pune, India Reframing design activism through affirmative, relational and pluriversal practices RMIT University, Australia A gentlewoman’s agreement: Designing relational frameworks for PhD supervision Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, The From tool-first to intention-first pedagogy: A framework for evaluating and selecting empathy tools in design education 1: MADA, Monash Univeristy, Australia; 2: IDC, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Reconfiguring industrial heritage: Human-centered narrative design for reconciliation and inclusive storytelling 1: Hunan Normal University, China; 2: Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
CONVERSATION: Exploring Temporalities for Transformative Futures Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Exploring Temporalities for Transformative Futures 1: Norwich University of the Arts, United Kingdom; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; 3: RMIT University, Australia; 4: RMIT University, Spain; 5: Malmö University, Sweden; 6: University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 7: Northeastern University, United States; 8: Indiana University Bloomington, United States |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Suspending Institutional Permanence: How Designing Engagements Can Operationalise Human Rights in Times of Opaque Governance Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Suspending institutional permanence: how designing engagements can operationalise human rights in times of opaque governance 1: Foundation We Are; 2: Fontys University of Applied Sciences; 3: Penal Reform International; 4: Independent |
EXPLORATION: Storytelling Pluriversality: On the Titanic, Towards a Pluriversal Archipelago Location: 50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1) Storytelling Pluriversality: On the Titanic, towards a pluriversal archipelago 1: Cornell University, USA; 2: Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia; 3: Malmö University,Sweden; 4: co-being design, Canada |
EXPLORATION: Making Kin in a Plastic Terrapolis: Worlding With Multispecies Companions Location: 50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4) Making Kin in a Plastic Terrapolis: Worlding with Multispecies Companions 1: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 2: Simon Fraser University, Canada; 3: Simon Fraser University, Canada |
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| EXPLORATION: Sketching Futures Through Tension Location: 50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5) Sketching Futures Through Tension 1: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The; 2: Western Sidney University, Australia; 3: Brigham Young University, U.S.A.; 4: Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A. |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Designing Preventive Health Technologies and Practices Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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) |
PAPERS: Design in the Wild: Entrepreneurship, Markets and Cultural Value Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Gianluca Carella, Politecnico di Milano Analysis of design start-up companies’ challenges and enablers in Saudi Arabian ecosystem 1: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 2: Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Strategic positioning in design agencies: Achieving optimal distinctiveness through portfolios Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University London, United Kingdom Beyond situated ethics: Towards a practice-based understanding of how designers do ethics The Open University, United Kingdom A Slow Ethos in a Fast World: Persistence and Compromise in Craft Commercialization Graduate School of Creative Industry Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan Exploring design thinking in entrepreneurship education: A pre-accelerator programme for the creative industries 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: CodeBase The culture communications model: Visual sensemaking and the everyday in design practice Design, Luleå Tekniska Universitet, Sweden |
PAPERS: Assessing Accessibility and Inclusion Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Abdusselam Cifter, Brunel University of London Chair: Weining Ning, Brunel University of London A Study on the Transfer Signage System in the Seoul Subway Network: Focusing on Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM) 1: Hongik University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Chungbuk University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) The fuzzy edges of studio: Towards inclusive online education 1: The Open University, United Kingdom; 2: Incom GmbH Evaluating visual accessibility of AI-generated interfaces University of Sydney, Australia, Australia Older Adults as a Critical Group in the Design of a Mobile Application for Hearing Screening and Monitoring 1: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru – FOB/USP, Brazil; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil; 3: Loughborough University, School of Design and Creative Arts, United Kingdom; 4: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Bodystorming through Disruption: AI-assisted Design Improvisation Pedagogy 1: Tsinghua University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology; 3: Communication University of China |
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| PAPERS: Situated Methods, Metrics, and Meanings Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Chair: Bianca Kóczán, HBK Braunschweig Chair: Herlo Bianca, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts The ‘Cuteness Matrix’: Mapping cuteness as an affective strategy for purpose-led communication design 1: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London; 2: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore Information hierarchies for better health communication: Mapping expert-user differences for drug instruction design Hunan University, China, People's Republic of Accessibility Analysis of Hospital Lobbies in Korean Tertiary Hospitals Based on Space Syntax to Inform Design Strategies Department of Interior Architecture and Built Environment, Yonsei University, Korea Revisiting Kansei Engineering through Japanese scholarship: Toward Field Kansei Engineering 1: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 2: School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China The language of reflexivity: Investigating limitations and opportunities for reflexivity in prevailing design process models North Carolina State University, United States of America From values to metrics: A methodological framework for early-stage design of rural cultural project School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Zaragoza, Spain |
PHD HUB: Exercise in Style: Exploring Expression in Design Research Writing Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: Mapping Regeneration Throughout Design Location: Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3) Mapping regeneration throughout design 1: Linneaus University, Sweden; 2: Malmö University; 3: Pontifícia Universidade Católica PUC-Rio; 4: Universidad Autónoma de México |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Temporalities of More-than-Human Design Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Care Infrastructures: Designing with, through, and as Care Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Josina Vink, Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO) Care-full systems: Applying Tronto’s ethics of care into systemic design processes University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Belgium Participatory design as emotional infrastructure: Supporting collective reflection and resilience after the pandemic University of Southampton, United Kingdom Pen-palling systems change: a collaborative approach to growing individual agency in light of global polycrises Linnaeus University, Sweden Care-ful sensemaking: Co-mapping lived experiences and biases in hormonal self-management tools University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedagogies under Pressure in a Design-for-Transitions Era Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Department of Design, Organisation and Strategy, Creative Processes Section, Netherlands. |
PAPERS: More-than-Human in the Real-World: Regeneration, Radical Solidarity and Learning Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Iohanna nicenboim, tu delft Chair: Joseph Lindley, Lancaster University Grounding the Interspecies Playground: A More-than-Human Framework for the GOCCIA Project Department of Design - Politecnico di Milano Minamata’s Ecological Encounters Codesheet: Designing Remembrance Lenses through more-than-human and media archaeology Keio University Multispecies convivial learning: Art-based interventions at a Japanese public junior high school Kyoto Institute of Technology More-than-Human Perspectives in Teaching Technology Design: From Research to Classroom, to the Real World? 1: Malmö University, Sweden; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 3: Aarhus University (DNK), Denmark Toward an ecology of imagination in Benwell 1: Open Lab - School of Computing- Newcastle University; 2: School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape - Newcastle University Towards a common language for representation tools in more-than-human design Koç University, Türkiye |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Counter design: Changing perspectives in design action Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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) |
PAPERS: Who Gets to Participate? Inclusion, Place and Counter-narratives Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: Cecilia Landa-Avila, Loughborough University Participatory place-shaping through collaborative counterstorying 1: Elon University, United States of America; 2: Elon University, United States of America; 3: Elon University, United States of America; 4: African American Cultural Arts and History Center, United States of America Designing within Superdiversity: Encountering Forms of Systemic Participation Through Layered Exploration of an Immigrant Neighbourhood 1: Independent Design Researcher; 2: University of Twente, Netherlands Speculative socially engaged design interventions in menopause health and post-extractive environmental regeneration University of New South Wales, Australia Towards equitable participation of Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in co-design research: An initial working framework 1: School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University, United Kingdom; 2: Ergonomics Research Centre, University of Guadalajara, Mexico; 3: School of Science, College of Science and Engineering, University of Derby, United Kingdom Co-designing equitable engagement - Home health assessment in healthcare practice in Scotland University of strathclyde, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Troubling Transitions 2: Embodied and material responses to dilemmas in designing for transitions Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Femke Coops, TU/e Chair: Marysol Ortega Pallanez, Arizona State University Practicing prototyping within Transition Design: materials, competences and meanings Service Design Lab - Aalborg University (Copenhagen), Denmark Growing pains of sustainability: Scale, care, and counter-infrastructures 1: HAAU Architecture Studio; 2: École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris Scaffolding Transition Pathways: Integrating SES Resilience as a Dialogic Tool for Community-based Co-Design 1: University of Auckland, New Zealand; 2: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Design for Mending the Rift: Rethinking Sustainable Design from an Eco-Marxist Perspective 1: School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha, China; 2: Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan Against the Given: Reframing the Brief for Transformative Design Practices 1: Elisava (UVic-UCC), Catalonia, Spain; 2: ENS Paris-Saclay, France Disruption as an ecologizing co-design method Jade University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Architecture, Oldenburg, Germany |
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| PHD HUB: AI in Design Research: Methods, Experience, and Agency Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 |
PAPERS: More-than-Human in the Real-World: Resistance while Staying in the Trouble Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Cristina Zaga, University of Twente Chair: Iohanna nicenboim, tu delft Designing with Country: Relational infrastructuring beyond technocratic urbanism Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia Practical ways of staying with the trouble: Enacting posthuman ethics through design practice 1: Interactive Technologies Institute, I.S.Técnico, Portugal; 2: Northumbria University, UK Sounding Territories: Dis/identificatory Codings as Relational Worlding 1: Delft University of Technology; 2: Universidad Pompeu Fabra; 3: Politecnico di Milano; 4: Delft University of Technology Careful Configurations: An Exploration of Smart Technologies in More-Than-Human Innovation 1: New Design University, Austria; 2: University of Salzburg, Austria; 3: Loughborough University London, United Kingdom Material agents at work in alternative food networks 1: Istanbul Technical University; 2: Politecnico di Milano |
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 |
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| CONVERSATION: From a Planetary Tripod: Architecture and Design Through the Lens of the New Environmental Extremes Location: Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2) FROM A PLANETARY TRIPOD: Architecture and Design through the lens of the new environmental extremes 1: Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada; 2: University of Innsbruck, Austria; 3: University of Edinburgh, Scotland; 4: University of Copenhagen in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Denmark |
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Designing journal Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Learn about the Designing, the new journal of the Design Research Society, published by Sage. |
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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 |
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 |
PAPERS: Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research Virtual location: Appleton Tower, LT4 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 |
| 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 |
PAPERS: Relational Participation: Situated Knowledges, Mapping, and Boundary Objects Location: 50 George Square, G.03 Chair: SImon T. Downs, Loughborough University Boundary objects for systemic insight: Relational and embodied Systemic Co-Design case studies 1: Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands; 2: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Unstructuring data, activating dialogue: How situated knowledges shape participatory Systemic Design practices Politecnico di Torino, Italy Participatory visual mapping as a systemic data collection method in complex, high-pressure context University of Arts London, United Kingdom Fostering emergence in behavioral public policy: A systemic behavioral design framework Institute of Design, Illinois Tech, United States of America Changing the Lens: Micro-Systemic Change through Design Interventions Lancaster University, United Kingdom |
PAPERS: Troubling Transitions 1: Frictions of power in futuring efforts Location: 50 George Square, G.04 Chair: Dan Lockton, Norwich University of the Arts Chair: Anja Overdiek, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences Staging dramaturgies: supporting urban curators in navigating sustainability transitions Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, The Intermediary ecologies and participatory infrastructures in wind power planning – towards a practice of design for just transitions 1: London College of Communication, University of Arts London, CoDesign4Transitions; 2: London College of Communication, University of Arts London, CoDesign4Transitions; 3: Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts, University of Arts London, CoDesign4Transitions Redesigning transition arenas for power-sensitive participation Aalto University, Finland The role of participatory architecture in urban transition 1: Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2: Universidad de A Coruña, Spain Keeping it Real with Responsible Futuring: Reflecting on the Epistemic and Political Ambition of a Transdisciplinary Approach for Societal Transitions 1: University of Twente, Netherlands, The; 2: Future Compass Transdisciplinarity in practice: Challenges and transformative potentials of Participatory Design in Sociobiodiversity contexts 1: University of São Paulo, Brazil; 2: Biodiversity and Biotechnology Directorate / SEMIL; 3: Embrapa Environment Research Center |
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| PAPERS: More-than-Human in the Real-World: Radical Solidarity and More-than-Human Solidarity Stacks Location: 40 George Square, LG.11 Chair: Arne Berger, Hochschule Anhalt Chair: Claudia Garduño García, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Olfactory prototyping as diplomatic device: Codesigning a MorethanHuman ‘Us’ with two captive pumas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile Co-evolution in practice: The wolf's disruptive return to the Netherlands Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The From Decoration to Co-Presence: Reconfiguring Human–Plant Relations in Urban Workplaces Through Aesthetic Bio-Feedback 1: Tsinghua University, China; 2: University of Michigan, the United States; 3: Dalian University of Technology, China; 4: Tongji University, China Designing with Shape-Changing Materials as Co-Agents of Interspecies Encounters Politecnico di Milano, Italy Towards More-than-Human Inclusion: Designing Artefacts that Cultivate Attentiveness for Engaging with More-than-Human Worlds University College London, United Kingdom |
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 |
CONVERSATION: Open Design Then. And Now? Location: 50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1) Open Design Then. And Now? 1: Umeå University, Sweden; 2: Lancaster University, UK; 3: University of Bologna, Italy; 4: Paraná Federal University, Brazil |
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Closing Plenary Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium |
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