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Participatory Strategic Foresight Framework: Embracing Future Thinking in Design Education and Community Vision Planning
No full textChanges in society, student expectations, and technology continue to shift the ways in which we learn. The contemporary state of design education is being affected by changes in the professional realm that requires a future thinking-centered design to increase the citizen participation in designing their own future city-environment. As new forces reshape the academic landscape and conversations around educational accessibility pervade public debate, examining existing methodologies of design research and curricula is significant to enhance the student experience and equip them with the skills needed for future professional practice. Future thinking can be seen as a crucial premise to approach solving a problem in an innovative way. It is particularly essential
at circumstances in which challenges are complex, vague, and ambiguous. Any futures-focused effort, strategic foresight, or provocation about an alternate future scenario is a means of exploring and learning from generated possibilities. Design-Futures deal with the role of design in shaping future alternatives. Future thinking incorporates two particular approaches: diverging and converging. It requires both a flexible way of understanding, to come with different thoughts, and know-how to make responsible decisions. This chapter reviews the literature crossing strategic foresight and interior design with the accentuation put on how design students, educators and design practitioners may engage with the future to investigate the challenges to decision-making.
The author has developed a framework crossing the area of service & product design through future thinking, user and community centered design. The framework is structured to educate design practitioners effectively and also empower them to lead the market as change-makers. This paper will present case studies of participatory design workshops that addressed different areas of
concern but were underpinned by a shared approach. Through this framework, conclusion is presented as the elaboration of a futures thinking framework that can contribute to many other design disciplines
The Delphi Method as a Morphological Catalyst for Foresight-Oriented Design Research
No full textAnticipating expository concepts could be complex in the field of innovation management. Designers confront methodological challenges when they lock into a future framework with rapidly changing variables. The system’s users, for starters, do not yet exist. Second, ongoing changes in critical components and their interconnections make it hard to conceptualise relationships and offer synthesizable data. There is a lack of evidence in the rational core for generating forecasts. The Delphi method and morphological analysis are both well-established methods in strategic foresight. This paper suggests that using a morphology-based Delphi approach that employs a mix of the Delphi Method and Morphological Analysis to forecast future results in creative, complicated enterprises is beneficial. Furthermore, one tool compensates for the theoretical and functional shortcomings of the other by showing transparent, value-based arguments in an iterative, customizable manner. This documentary study has adopted a comparative study-based methodology that compares morphological Delphi in the context of future-oriented design to related fields in terms of procedural and theoretical parallels and differences. The results demonstrate morphological Delphi techniques through different scales of studies to provide a learning experience that is based on research, application and interaction which can be employed in future context design
Envisaging future cities within intersectional strategy in the Arab Region
No full textSince the 1980s, the term "Intersectionality" was demonstrated and was widely recognized when discussing gender issues. This also applied to gender and space, leading to the recognition of gender and urban studies as being related to one another and sharing a common foundation (Löw, 2006). Regardless of the later critique of intersectionality (Nash, 2008), the academic recognition of gender intersectionality had significant effects on education, research, and practice in the field of spatial disciplines. In order to evaluate the possibility of gender inclusive urban design in making our cities safe for everyone, especially women, this study focuses on the intersections of gender and space, and in particular the urban public space. It makes a discursive attempt to summarize the varied experiences of heterogeneity in the Arab region. It employs a socio-spatial paradigm from a theoretical and methodological standpoint. The United Nations (UN), among other international organizations that support gender equality in cities, are cited in the study's official papers, secondary sources, and literature review, which are all used to assemble its data. In order to better comprehend the gender inequities in the Arab region, the study emphasizes intersectionality as an analytical strategy and calls for a multidimensional view of gender in the Arab states. The study explains the idea of intersectionality and justifies its applicability to the area. It then explains how this idea might be used to encourage and promote development for everyone. This study explores intersectionality as a crucial theoretical resource to further develop and promote urban planning from an intersectional perspective, contributing to current debates and discussions on the use of gender mainstreaming in urban policies. The study underlines the significance of intersectionality as a tool for urban planning since it enables feminist theorists to differentiate between different experiences of women in the city. The paper is structured into four sections: 1) Outlining important ideas; 2) exploring how gender affects the city and how women have historically been disadvantaged by urban planning; 3) Examining policy documents and interviews to gauge the intersectionality of GM policies; 4) synthesizing the results to assess gender planning and make suggestions for future studies. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach, analyzing important policy documents, conducting a survey, and organizing semi-structured interviews.
This study investigates the significance of intersectionality in urban design as a result. It draws attention to the importance of the research done by many eminent academics in these crucial subjects, including anthropologists, geographers, architects, urbanists, and cultural theorists. It comes to the conclusion that women are underrepresented among those who make decisions in our urban sector, including legislators, planners, architects, and engineers. This lack of representation and precise data collection has a direct impact on the urban shape of our city. Furthermore, intersectionality has useful ramifications that may be applied to the formulation of policies to help organizations deal with the problem of gender diversity
Design Futures: Cultivating Strategic Foresight Competencies in Design Education
No full textFuture thinking and speculation practices can be seen as a crucial premise to
approach solving a problem in an innovative way. It is particularly profitable at circumstances in which
challenges are complex, vague, and ambiguous. Future thinking incorporates two particular
approaches: diverging and converging. It requires both a flexible way of understanding, to come with
different thoughts, and know-how to make responsible decisions. This paper reviews the literature
crossing Strategic Foresight and Design disciplines with the accentuation put on how innovation design
students, educators and design practitioners may engage with the future to investigate the challenges
to decision-making they highlight. Combining Foresight and Design, as part of Strategic Planning
processes, can help the emergence of new and more creative possibilities and conceivable outcomes,
cultivate the incorporation and arrangement of diverse stakeholders, and provide for continuous
learning through prototyping and experimentation by utilizing design tools and approaches to attain
more profound knowledge and arrangement around current reality. A framework was presented to
integrate speculation and strategic foresight approaches in design education highlighting the
significance of the strategic foresight Design approach and explaining the theoretical background
behind creating the framework. A participatory design workshop was conducted to explain methods
used to support and validate the results of the theoretical background in order to further develop the
framework. This framework can be adopted in the design field in order to facilitate the process and to
support practitioners’ decisions to select suitable tools
A pedagogical Context to Integrating Trend Forecasting Techniques into Innovative Design Education
No full textDespite the abundance of knowledge in trend forecasting evident within many disciplines, there is a dearth of information on the application of trend forecasting in design education in the context of determining the innovation in trends’ concepts and philosophy, theme, colour, materials and finish. This issue stems from the inadequacy of the traditional learning framework in design curriculums to keep up with the multi-layered structure of design professions’ demands that acquire expanded, cross-boundary knowledge and futurology skills. This study suggests a thematic approach that employs trend forecasting as an integral part of the design process, entwined with form, function, desirability, and other considerations that highlight the market development within the real life context. This paper aims to investigate the significance of trend forecasting incorporated in the design education development process, and to set a practical guidance to educators to create a culture of anticipatory progress in learning, teaching and assessment that is completely aligned with the strategic objectives. The study has adopted a case-study based methodology of presenting examples of senior students’ projects and assessing the learning outcomes to be applied as medium synthesizing for new ideas generation. The results demonstrate forecasting through different scales of studies to provide a learning experience that is based on research, application and interaction with the design industry
Employing Extended Reality (XR) to Expanding Narratives of Place-Making, Spatial Presence and Immersive Experience
No full textExtended Reality XR, which encompasses various forms of virtual
reality VR and augmented reality AR, has emerged as a powerful
experimental tool in design and environmental psychology research due to its
ability to produce comprehensive and immersive experiences for users
through narratives. A strong sensation of spatial presence, which may be
viewed as a subjective sense of space cognition and its surroundings, is one
sign of a good XR experience. Despite the fact that XR research has shed light
on numerous elements that may affect presence and place-making in XR
environments, there is still much to learn about the varied phenomenology of
narrative possibilities that ensure a successful immersion experience. The
paper focuses on extended reality and how it influences how we create spaces,
feel present in our surroundings, and have an immersive experience. In this
paper, the concepts of place-making and spatial presence were examined in
relation to how people might create a consistent sense of reality during both
real-world and virtual experiences. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the
ideas of place-making, presence, and immersion experience as they have been
developed in XR research while also addressing variables that could affect
expanding narratives. The study covers major elements of the "place"
literature, connects them to the idea of presence, and then exhibits their use in
the context of extended reality. It also discusses the phenomenological
properties of presence in human consciousness. A user study conducted
through a designed immersive experience as a simulation to some spaces of
the Grand Egyptian Museum. Samples of users’ responses were collected
through a survey addressing their perceptions of the virtual visit. The study
showed that place-making and spatial presence in extended reality work as a
link between real-world locations and virtual attributes. When moving from
the real world to the virtual one, boundaries become more fluid, themes can
be developed, and virtual spaces mimic the real spaces. The study outline
proposals for further work and lays out some ideas for future research
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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