Designing for Engaged Experience at Nordes 2009 – August 30 – September 1, 2009
This full day workshop explores how insights from artefacts, created during data collecting and analysis, are translated into prototypes. It is particularly concerned with getting closer to people’s experience of shaping a design space. The workshop draws inspiration from data-products resulting from interactions in specific places with the intention of supporting both those who work with integrating understandings of such experiences into design and those interested in the way material provokes ideas and inspiration for design
Aims and Objectives
The workshop will explore how designers get from the products of data collection (artefacts, recollections and ideas) to a prototype, focusing on reflexive, ongoing questioning of the values and preconceptions brought into play when exploring the design space, through the medium of hands-on prototyping. We invite participants to present their own material that will feed into collaborative group design exercises
Submissions
Prior to the workshop (i) researchers are asked to submit a short (3 pages) paper, describing their use of video and/or photographs and/or audio; and (ii) practitioners to detail their interest and processes (1 page). Please include media examples.
Recruitment for the workshop will take place through a variety of social media (facebook, linkedIn etc) as well as personal and university-wide networks.
Contact: David Browning – david.browning1 at jcu dot edu dot au
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Program
We start by presenting some of our experiences of representing place, and also ask all participants to present brief examples of their own data and/or understandings.
Next, a collaborative review of design methods using situated media will explore using reflective inquiry to illuminate values participants draw upon when understanding design spaces.
Hands-on work begins before lunch with collectively exercising our design muscles to encourage inspired thinking. Group work starts when participants interact with media material and produce initial design responses.
In the afternoon, groups will use these to make paper prototypes. Lastly, we will reconvene to discuss prototypes and facilitate reflection on the processes unfolding in design and the role of the media in getting close to ‘what it feels like’ to shape a design space