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  • Collaborative design education with industry: Student perspective by reflection

    Article thumbnail: Collaborative design education with industry: Student perspective by reflection
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    This study suggests that student reflection on academic and industry collaborative projects can enhance student’s understanding on the design process to solve live industry problems. It contributes to the body of design literature to support students learning of explicit and implicit knowledge (Boling et al., 2016; Land et al., 2016; Salama, 2015). A 2017 learning- by-making (LBM) unit in the School of Architecture and Design, at the University of Tasmania, Australia, developed a unit for students to collaborate with Neville Smith Forest Products Pty. Ltd. (NSFP). NSFP is a local Tasmanian timber product manufacturer who currently stockpiles out-of-grade timber that has limited market applications. Undergraduate design students from second and third year Furniture, Interior and Architecture degrees collaborated with NSFP to value-add to their out-of-grade resource in the LBM unit. A series of design challenges, observations of industry practice and access to out-of-grade timber from NSFP exposed students to live industry problems and provided them the opportunity to build professional design skills. Students reflected on the collaborative LBM unit in a reflection journal, which was used to provide evidence of their learning experiences. The collaborative environment between academia and industry allowed students to acquire an understanding of timber product manufacturing that helped them develop empathy towards the industry problem and influence the development of new products. This study presents how student reflections influenced a change in their design process as they progressed through sequential design challenges to address an industry problem by adopting Valkenburg and Dorst (1998) reflective learning framework.
    Creator/Author:
    Kotlarewski, Nathan; Wallis, Louise; Last, Megan ; Lee, Michael , and Nolan, Gregory
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/16/2017
    Date Modified:
    05/23/2019
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Discourses on Japanese lifestyle in early modern design: A turning point from Westernization to modern design

    Article thumbnail: Discourses on Japanese lifestyle in early modern design: A turning point from Westernization to modern design
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    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Low-seated chairs for tatami mats that are characteristic of Japanese-style interior appeared after late 1940s. This article focuses on the ambivalence between Western lifestyles and Japanese lifestyles by tracing the comments of designers, critics, magazines, and so forth to clarify a background of them. The introduction of chairs in Japan was actually involved, by definition, in a dichotomy between sitting on the floor and in chairs, which therefore was far from the domestic practicality of lifestyles among the public. Then we have to observe the two points for the introduction of chairs to break through this rigid situation: (1) how did the public establish definition of chairs outside the Westernization? This article grasps the fact that the artisans and early designers accumulated their experience of producing chairs from scratch, through trial and error. (2) How did the relation between sitting on the floor and in chairs break out of the dichotomy, through ambivalence? This article focuses on the fact that the public enjoyed the physical relaxation offered by the mix of sitting on the floor and in chairs. This constituted the domestic practicality of chairs for the Japanese. Therefore, such experiences of making and using chairs can be summarized as the awakening of a universe in the distance between the floor and the seat-height of Western chairs. It was a new frontier for Japanese designers, and low-seated chairs were born in this space. This article concludes that it marked the transition from Westernization to Japanese modern design.
    Creator/Author:
    Ishikawa, Yoshimune
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    01/09/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Architectural, interior architectural and industrial design in the last phases of life: Design for wellbeing in palliative care

    Article thumbnail: Architectural, interior architectural and industrial design in the last phases of life: Design for wellbeing in palliative care
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    The environment in which patients (need to) reside has a great influence on their wellbeing (Ulrich, 1991). That is why introducing ‘Design for Wellbeing’ is key in the design of palliative environments. People in the last phase of their life become more receptive to environmental stimuli. From our perspective, this triggers design to become even more relevant in such contexts. People’s search for subjective well-being (SWB) has promoted a change in vision in the design of new products, services and environments, with a focus not only on material properties, but also on the personal values that trigger actions that can contribute to people’s SWB. Such considerations contribute also to proposing answers to the question of how design can support people to have a meaningful life and ‘be well’ in the best possible way, according to the circumstances. The purpose of this paper is firstly, if design for wellbeing can be performed in the context of palliative care, and secondly, how research could be set up in such a precious context. A thorough literature review will be performed to answer these questions. The value of this study lies in aiming to try to enable terminally ill patients and people from their immediate surroundings to cope with these events via design, and to stimulate people to be able to perform activities that they like (most) and which contribute to their SWB.
    Creator/Author:
    Gil Huerta, Ammin ; Vanrie, Jan; Petermans, Ann , and Poldma, Tiiu
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    01/11/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • A Study on Design for Diagnostic Tool for Language Processing Ability with Aging

    Article thumbnail: A Study on Design for Diagnostic Tool for Language Processing Ability with Aging
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    The deterioration of linguistic abilities is a natural phenomenon along with aging. Therefore, various assessment tools have been developed to measure linguistic abilities of seniors and diagnose degenerative diseases such as dementia. Although most of the tools are composed of images, there are not many studies focusing on the visual design, which could significantly affect performance of the subject. In this regard, this research aims to suggest a design guideline for linguistic ability assessment tools concerning the key characteristics of the elderly, focusing on visual contents and interface. Existing related researches were mostly conducted in English-speaking countries. In order to assess the language processing abilities of Korean-speaking elders more accurately, it is necessary to develop language processing assessment tools that reflect the unique linguistic features and structure of the Korean language. Regarding the existing tools, there is a lack of research on aging, focusing on ‘verb naming. In the literature review section, the paper investigated the physical, cognitive and emotional characteristics of the elderly and extracted the key elements to consider when designing for the elderly. Also, design principles were found based on case studies and problem analysis of the existing assessment tools for language processing abilities. Lastly, we created a prototype model using ‘verb naming.’ Using the model, we have conducted an experiment and comparative analysis between different age groups to verify the validity of contents. In conclusion, we provided a design guideline for visual contents and interface of linguistic assessment tools, focusing on elderly users.
    Creator/Author:
    Choi, Yoo Mi
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    10/18/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Beyond Forecasting: A Design-inspired Foresight Approach for Preferable Futures

    Article thumbnail: Beyond Forecasting: A Design-inspired Foresight Approach for Preferable Futures
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    This paper engages with the literature to present different perspectives between forecasting and foresight in strategic design, while drawing insights derived from futures studies that can be applied in form of a design-inspired foresight approach for designers and interdisciplinary innovation teams increasingly called upon to help envisage preferable futures. Demonstrating this process in applied research, relevant examples are drawn from a 2016 Financial Services industry futures study to the year 2030. While the financial services industry exemplifies an ideal case for design-inspired foresight, the aims of this paper are primarily to establish the peculiarities between traditional forecasting applications and a design-inspired foresight visioning approach as strategic design activities for selecting preferable futures. Underlining the contribution of this paper is the value of design futures thinking as a creative and divergent thought process, which has the potential to respond to the much broader organizational reforms needed to sustain in today’s rapidly evolving business environment (Buchanan, 2015; Irmak, 2005; Muratovski, 2016).
    Creator/Author:
    Buhring, Jorn H
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    11/16/2017
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Changing the Perceptions of Making

    Article thumbnail: Changing the Perceptions of Making
    Type:
    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    Traditional Industrial Design sponsored studios (when a corporation partners with a student design studio) can quickly become design for hire studios which limit student learning outcomes as well as successful outcomes for the Sponsor. In assessing instruction practices in sponsored studios, traditionally success is limited to products moving directly into production. By reframing the studio into an incubator and in-line studio setting students could work in the same fashion as an in-house design studio, with mass diminutive ideation focusing on performance initially rather than aesthetics causing an increased standard for success. Because students would be concentrating on editing down a mass amount of variables with swift precision using raw but effective mockups, time would not be wasted on improving the craft of an initial, potentially ill- developed concept, leading to more risk projects with market disrupting potential rather than just an aesthetic or materials update going into production. In a multi-disciplinary studio setting students from Industrial Design, Apparel Merchandising and Design, and Kinesiology, partnered with a corporate sponsored studio instructed in the framework premised above. The outcomes were a success with the studio functioning beyond a studio for hire scenario to learning objectives being met as well as aspects of projects moving forward into to development and projects moving directly into production as well as applications for patents. This paper investigates how studio culture can be reframed to create a diverse range of success as well as what specific instruction techniques, making techniques, and studio culture lead to this success.
    Creator/Author:
    Barnhart, Betsy
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    11/16/2017
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • IASDR 2017 Conference Proceedings

    Document thumbnail: IASDR 2017 Conference Proceedings
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    Full papers submitted
    Creator/Author:
    Alberto, Lora
    Submitter:
    Lora Alberto
    Date Uploaded:
    11/14/2017
    Date Modified:
    11/14/2017
    Date Created:
    2017-10-31
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • St. Vrain's Woods

    Media thumbnail: St. Vrain's Woods
    Type:
    Media
    Description/Abstract:
    Shot at the Ceran St. Vrain Trailhead and campground, near Jamestown, Colorado. St. Vrain’s Woods was inspired by Seurat among others. An exploration of the elasticity of time, it is a moving picture made only of still images and the spaces between them. A portrait of a place and a moment.
    Creator/Author:
    Woodman, Charles
    Submitter:
    Charles Woodman
    Date Uploaded:
    03/14/2016
    Date Modified:
    05/07/2019
    Date Created:
    2013
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Phoenecia

    Media thumbnail: Phoenecia
    Type:
    Media
    Description/Abstract:
    A few views of water and trees from my month long stay in Phoenecia, NY. This video utilizes an editing technique (a sort of continuous slow horizontal slide) that I conceptualized for more than a year. After several failed attempts I finally figured out how to make it work.
    Creator/Author:
    Woodman, Charles
    Submitter:
    Charles Woodman
    Date Uploaded:
    03/06/2016
    Date Modified:
    05/07/2019
    Date Created:
    2015
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Pattern Logic

    Media thumbnail: Pattern Logic
    Type:
    Media
    Description/Abstract:
    Live audio visual improvisation on 06/10/2016 at Modern Makers in Cincinnati, OH. Ofir Klemperer (electronics), Eddy Kwon (violin), Zach Larabee (percussion), Sayak Shome (images), Charles Woodman (images), Matt Coors (wall treatment), Andy Knolle (projector massage), Harry Sanchez (projector massage), Dan Leonard (live camera), Melissa Godoy (documentation)
    Creator/Author:
    Woodman, Charles
    Submitter:
    Charles Woodman
    Date Uploaded:
    08/08/2016
    Date Modified:
    03/12/2019
    Date Created:
    2016
    License:
    All rights reserved