Pub Date : 2025-03-27DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101315
Jesper Falck Legaard
With a primary focus on objects intended for play, the article presents an approach to understanding how artifacts shape human–world relations, drawing on phenomenological and post-phenomenological understandings of a play experience. The article draws insights from a play experiment with 22 design students who were tasked with building a Rube Goldberg-inspired creation. Following the task, the students wrote personal anecdotes, from which key themes and insights were extracted. These were analysed, first by using interpretative phenomenological analysis and second by applying Ihde's framework, reflecting how objects may act as mediators of human–world relations. The article contributes to an understanding of how the design of objects intended for play may shape human–world relations, explicated through a post-phenomenological perspective.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-14DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101297
Qingfan An, Marlene Sandlund, Sara Lundell, Christoffel Kuenen, Sebastien Chastin, Ragnberth Helleday, Katrina Messiha, Quentin Loisel, Karin Wadell
Choosing the appropriate design process is critical for the effective implementation and long-term sustainment of interventions aimed at addressing public health challenges. To address this need, we proposed a Transition Design model to identify and deliver sustainable solutions for complex healthcare problems. This model generates system-level health-intervention initiatives that can synergistically function, particularly during the development and implementation phases, to enhance healthcare delivery. Drawing from a case study on addressing the challenges of hospitalisations and early discharge for people with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), we reflected on the process and analysed the outcomes. Although further testing for the initiatives is warranted, this study contributes to the evolving discourse in design research on systems solutioning for public-health challenges.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101304
Suvodeep Misra, Debayan Dhar, Sukumar Nandi
Designers are increasingly prioritising ethics in their design solutions, utilizing Ethics-Focused Methods (EFMs) derived mainly from Occidental philosophies but applied universally. There's a dearth of EFMs rooted in non-Occidental ethical philosophies leading to a lack of representation of non-Occidental philosophies in the field of Design Ethics. Understanding ethics across cultures and philosophies is crucial for broader understanding of ethical design. This article provides a review of 63 EFMs previously studied by Chivukula, Li, Pivonka, Chen, and Gray (2022) and Gray, Chivukula, Carlock, Li, and Duane (2023), identifies their theoretical foundations and ethical approaches, and proposes integrating Indian Ethics into design methodologies. By using Indian ethical perspectives, a theoretical framework is proposed, enhancing designers' ethical perspectives and enabling more contextually relevant and culturally sensitive design solutions.
设计师在设计解决方案中越来越多地优先考虑道德，使用主要源自西方哲学但普遍应用的以道德为中心的方法（efm）。由于缺乏植根于非西方伦理哲学的efm，导致在设计伦理领域缺乏非西方哲学的代表。理解跨文化和哲学的伦理对于更广泛地理解伦理设计至关重要。本文回顾了Chivukula， Li, Pivonka, Chen, and Gray（2022）和Gray， Chivukula, Carlock, Li, and Duane（2023）先前研究的63种efm，确定了他们的理论基础和伦理方法，并提出将印度伦理纳入设计方法。通过使用印度的伦理观点，提出了一个理论框架，提高设计师的伦理观点，使更多的上下文相关和文化敏感的设计解决方案。
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Pub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101301
Dan Formosa
Design can be a powerful force for change. The industrial design profession and its education system however have been slow to escape a decades old model that focuses on things more than people. Topics covered in design education today are far too much like those taught 50 or more years ago. The stagnancy is especially surprising because the profession bases its reputation and worth on its ability to innovate for the companies or organizations enlisting their services, with many designers claiming they take a human-centered approach to their work.
The wave of interest in recent years to spur creative thinking has relegated design to a scripted methodology that to an extent has suppressed creative thinking. It celebrates process rather than knowledge.
Given current practice it is unlikely that inclusivity, or design-based innovations in topics such as healthcare, human behavior or sustainability, will be fully realized. At its core a designer's education should include psychology, physiology, biomechanics, social responsibility and other human-centered topics. Curriculums should also include courses in research methods and statistics, critical components to understanding people in a data-driven world. Redefined curriculums can redefine the profession.
It's not clear that the profession or its education system will transform significantly anytime soon. Without placing knowledge about people at its core design will continue to be determined by professionals outside of the design profession. With a legacy that can be difficult to shift, the solution can be the creation of an entirely new discipline in design, one that's centered on people.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101302
Sefora Tunc, Angelica M. Tinga, Monique Tabak, Femke Nijboer
This paper presents a comprehensive reference for an innovative low-contact co-design approach, aimed at mitigating sample bias commonly found in traditional co-design workshops for eHealth technologies. By partnering with a regional newspaper (134 000 readers), we engaged the broader public in the co-design process, to tackle the issue of late-life loneliness. We employed co-design fiction, dilemma-driven, and empathic design methods, integrating these within journalistic content to prompt the reader responses. This initiative attracted 77 responses, including 34 from older adults (65+ years), 27 of whom shared personal experiences with loneliness. Our findings highlight the potential of low-contact, co-design via newspapers to foster inclusive participation, overcoming the limitations of conventional workshops, and enabling engagement with a more representative population sample.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101303
Wendy Fangwen Yu
Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have created new opportunities for incorporating AI into creative activities. Consequently, AI has become an increasingly significant tool in the design process, changing traditional workflows. This paper explores AI's role as both a co-creator and a design material, focusing on its impact on the ideation and evaluation stages of the design process. Through a transdisciplinary literature review, this study reveals that AI enhances creativity by providing inspirational stimuli, and supports evaluation and decision-making. However, it also introduces complexities such as cognitive overload and dependency. This paper emphasizes the need for design education reform, and training students as Designer Arbiters and Integrators to effectively collaborate with AI in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101299
Monika Szopińska-Mularz
Effective management of adaptive reuse projects is essential for repurposing buildings to meet local needs with innovative uses. Shifting from project-based to research-based design empowers architects to lead value-driven projects. This study sets two correlated aims: to develop the value-driven design scenario for the adaptive reuse of a car parking structure for controlled environment agriculture and to evaluate the impact of architects on design management and organisational performance by applying the ‘Designence 2.0’ model. The results indicate that employing research-based design methods leads to a better understanding of the design problem and guides the adaptive reuse process towards value-driven outcomes. As leaders in adaptive reuse projects, architects contribute to financial and non-financial benefits for organisational performance through their design expertise.
{"title":"Planning design value-driven scenarios for innovation: A case study of adaptive reuse for food production based on the design management model","authors":"Monika Szopińska-Mularz","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101299","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2025.101299","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Effective management of adaptive reuse projects is essential for repurposing buildings to meet local needs with innovative uses. Shifting from project-based to research-based design empowers architects to lead value-driven projects. This study sets two correlated aims: to develop the value-driven design scenario for the adaptive reuse of a car parking structure for controlled environment agriculture and to evaluate the impact of architects on design management and organisational performance by applying the ‘Designence 2.0’ model. The results indicate that employing research-based design methods leads to a better understanding of the design problem and guides the adaptive reuse process towards value-driven outcomes. As leaders in adaptive reuse projects, architects contribute to financial and non-financial benefits for organisational performance through their design expertise.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 101299"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101298
Noémie Chaniaud, Sylvain Fleury, Benjamin Poussard, Thibaut Guitter, Simon Richir
Virtual Reality (VR) sketching is a valuable tool for conceptual understanding, creativity, and design, but quality issues can hinder its adoption. To address this, we conducted a study involving 15 novices and 15 experts who sketched three chair models in static, mobile, and control conditions. The results showed that mental rotation skills, training, model type, and movement impact sketch quality. The static condition negatively affected performance, particularly volume and proportion. Conversely, the mobile condition didn't improve sketch quality compared to the control group. 3D perception seems tied to movement, highlighting the need to adapt VR sketching software for these challenges. Enhancing the user experience and addressing these quality concerns will be pivotal in the widespread acceptance of VR sketching tools.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101300
Cong Fang, Yujie Zhu, Le Fang, Yonghao Long, Huan Lin, Yangfan Cong, Stephen Jia Wang
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has gained increasing attention, enhancing design productivity by elevating creativity within the conceptual design process. Despite these advancements, how GenAI will influence the conceptual design process and methods remains ambiguous, hindering its full potential. This study introduces a systematic literature review to explore GenAI's role in the conceptual design process, emphasizing the GenAI-human interactions and collaborations. We offer a critical evaluation of the current state of GenAI-human collaboration, identifying challenges, opportunities, and future research directions to leverage GenAI's design potential for enhancing creativity in conceptual design practice. Finally, a Generative AI Enhanced Conceptual Design framework was further proposed to clarify the potential collaborative design process, which can serve as a guideline for effective human-AI collaboration in the conceptual design process.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2025.101296
Adam H. Lyman, Kimberly Chung
Participatory design (PD) holds promise for developing appropriate technologies in low-income countries; yet there is little evidence of designs that are adopted by partner communities. To improve the fit and adoptability of new technologies, we developed a design model that integrates cooperative inquiry (CI), a form of action research, into the practice of PD and apply it to the design of a heavy-duty handcart in rural Zambia. The study is unique because it results in designs that are adopted and impact local work patterns. We attribute this success to a PD process that is enhanced and deepened by experiential and co-learning processes engendered by CI. We argue that incorporating CI can improve PD practices and the adoptability of PD-designed technologies.
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