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Dissecting Innovation Drivers in Business Design: A Sustainable System Transformation Theory-Based Approach and Visualization Tool
No full textIn the domain of business design, innovation driver components are frequently charac-terized by their high complexity and dynamic interactions, rendering their extraction and analysis a challenging endeavor. This paper, leveraging the integrated theoretical framework of Design for System Innovations and Transitions (DfSIT framework), itera-tively proposes an analytical approach to dissecting innovation drivers. This approach results in the development of a corresponding visualization and analysis tool through four rounds of academic and industrial expert workshops, extensive literature review, and in-depth case studies. The approach facilitates the systematic extraction, valida-tion, structural localization, and in-depth analysis of innovation drivers in business de-sign. This not only provides an analytical advantage in the context of complex system innovation but also offers valuable insights for understanding the mechanisms, devising strategies, and managing the practice of innovation. Furthermore, this paper meticu-lously demonstrates and validates the approach through a detailed case study of Chi-na\u27s ‘Pop-up retail’ business innovation
Paradigm shifts in research assessment for scientific publishing: emerging models in a pluriverse perspectivs
No full textIn the realm of design, research publication undergoes a transformative shift in evaluation and emerging forms that prompt investigation into the distortive impact of the current assessment framework on publication diversity. The complexity of assessing research quality within institutional frameworks and career metrics hinders innovation, and globally, debates on impact factors drive a shift to qualitative, responsible evaluation. The article explores how collaborative methodologies enable new assessment practices for design communities in the Global South, challenging Western-centric peer-review norms to adopt a more pluriversal perspective. It includes an introduction problematising the status of publication assessment in the general scientific domain. The paradigm of pluriversality is then introduced as a background framework to discuss and nurture new opportunities in the assessment of scientific research and publication in the design field and adopted as a reference in two proposals, shown in the case studies
Urban and peri-urban food systems: exploring proximity and care in alternative food networks
No full textBasing on the European and Milanese context, the paper develops and presents a preliminary reflection on urban food systems, specifically related to local Alternative Food Networks (ANFs) and how their relational and geographical proximity, that might facilitate or prevent forms of care through collaboration. The authors introduce the Food System Matrix that analyses 16 case studies to investigate the main issues connected to the territorial scope and the purpose of the selected cases. Finally, the paper proposes the concepts of \u27proximity\u27 and \u27care\u27 as a framework for understanding systemic and sustainable change in food-related services, emphasizing relationships, inclusiveness, and resilience. This work lays the foundation for future investigations into AFNs for sustainable food systems, highlighting the role of design and collaboration in promoting positive social impact
Designing a crossover multisensory picturebook with older adults at a care home
No full textPicturebooks have often been studied in the children’s literature field with a focus on child readers, but recent studies have begun to discuss the cross-age aspect that embraces wider audiences. This study explores the design space for a crossover multisensory picturebook that would also engage older adults via positive design approach. In this multidisciplinary study, we aimed to nurture the positive sides of aging by transforming life-long experiences into narratives in the form of a picturebook that embodies memories and transfers heritage in an engaging way during shared reading. Within this scope, we conducted interviews and design evaluations with older adults in a care home. In this paper, we share reflections on the book-making process and discuss how picturebooks can support well-being. Additionally, we speculate on positive interactions that may arise from intergenerational shared reading experiences while adapting a media mainly geared towards children for older adults
Co-creation framework to develop and situate e-textiles with indigenous crafts
No full textThis study is part of an ongoing project in the domain of craft and technology called Anuvad. This paper discusses the value and challenges of collaborating with traditional indigenous artisans as co-designers and technical collaborators. After establishing a premise, this paper discusses the findings of a study conducted in person with the artisans in a remote village in India called Bhujodi. This paper discusses the power of creating interactive artifacts through craft by closely collaborating with artisans. The outcome is an interactive textile art frame that works as a music synthesizer. Through this study, we tried to develop experimental e-textile artifacts by collaborating with seemingly unrepresented communities. These artifacts were showcased at two large-scale events, and audience responses were noted. We discuss the context, the process, and eventually, the impact of such collaboration as a successful case study. Here, \u27human\u27 relates to a product or technology with emotive, affective properties
Speculative design positions on future liveable cities
No full textDesigning for future liveable cities demands a spectrum of perspectives, each responding in some way to global and local challenges, from climate change to safe housing. However, enabling spaces for often juxtaposed, contradictory and cooperative voices, both hopeful and cautionary, can be challenging. This paper is a first step in harnessing pluralistic expression through design fiction as an approach to speculating on design’s role in future liveable cities. In presenting individual speculative positions, authors attempt to reconcile their personal experiences, disciplinary expertise, and vision. This collective voice represents disciplinary diversity including – but not limited to – artificial intelligence, co-design, interaction design, strategic design, life-centred design, and industrial and graphic design. In presenting each position and a subsequent discussion of emerging themes, we seek to invite conversations on future design practice, education, and research, and encourage the design community to consider new approaches to for collaboratively imagining future liveable cities
Empirical Study of Problem-solution Co-evolution in Human-GAI Collaborative Conceptual Design
No full textThe problem-solution co-evolution model is a foundational framework for under-standing the emergence of creativity in both individuals and teams. With the ad-vent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), a new paradigm of co-creation in conceptual design has arisen. However, the dynamics inherent to human-GAI col-laborations remain largely unknown. In our investigation of the co-evolution dy-namics of human-GAI interaction, we employed retrospective protocol analysis to examine the verbal reasoning processes of twenty novice designers co-designing with GAI (text-to-text and text-to-image models). Drawing from the outcomes of our creativity assessments, a key revelation emerged: GAI has the potential to amplify team creativity by fostering human abductive reasoning. In further discourse, we introduce a novel human-GAI co-evolution model, which elucidates the significant role of GAI in aiding human problem-framing explora-tion. Central to our exploration, we spotlight introspection and retrospection as pivotal constructs in probing human-GAI collaborations
Re-imagining and reaffirming design pedagogy in response to generative AI tools
No full textThis paper considers how we can adapt HE design pedagogies in response to the emergence of generative AI (GenAI) tools. We focus on the authors’ own HE institution and describe our work through the first half of 2023 to understand the impact of these tools on how our students approach their work, and to adapt our design pedagogies in response. This paper includes accounts of student attitudes to these tools, and the outcomes of our own experimentation with contemporary GenAI tools (ChatGPT4, MidJourney5). We identify 12 challenges for design pedagogy that span assessment, student learning and teaching deliver which our design pedagogy and foreground the unique ways GenAI tools could disrupt the learning that takes place in a student design project. We respond with adaptations adopted by our institution for 2023, and speculate about how future pedagogic design projects could be structured to best support student learning augmented by GenAI
Penumbra of privacy: A people-centered and place-centered approach to data privacy for smart workspaces
No full textData privacy is a complex subject where current approaches primarily focus on computing-centric narratives. These approaches have proven inadequate, yet they have established the status quo for emerging technologies including IoT in workspaces, or \u27smart\u27 workspaces, disregarding the sociocultural and behavioral dimensions of privacy within spatial contexts. This paper presents two key ideas 1) advocating a theory of change that complements the computing-focused approach (the umbra), with a broader approach based on human-centered experience and values, (the penumbra); and 2) embedding this holistic privacy approach in the early stages of smart workspace innovation through a generative design process involving multidisciplinary stakeholders. The outcome of this work is the ‘Designing with Privacy’ toolkit for collaboration among architects, designers, IoT engineers, privacy professionals, and other relevant stakeholders. The toolkit offers 14 value-based privacy prompts for creating and refining a collectively agreed-upon privacy brief to guide the design and development of smart workspaces
Materials designers and the translational approach: a case from a product design company
No full textDesign professionals are inherently translators due to the multi-faceted nature of the design process that often encompasses considerations of technologies, manufacturing, materials, etc. In investigating the emerging practice of \u27materials designers\u27, it has been found that they must develop strong \u27translational design skills\u27 to address a material-driven design process when collaborations with diverse stakeholders exist. Especially to create new materials and products or to obtain exclusive material features and experiences. Through a real-life case study on developing a circularity-oriented material from waste, this paper articulates translational design practice in materials design, highlighting its relevance in the design process. The study was unfolded through observations and participation in a product design company and by interviewing the design manager within the project. Based on the results, translational design skills in materials design practice are emphasized, and translational design recommendations are proposed for accelerating the successful materials design process in complex collaborations