Although the process of designing visual representations has been extensively studied, we still k... more Although the process of designing visual representations has been extensively studied, we still know little about the collaborative design of the different forms of agency these representations may (or should) possess at the end of the process. Design studies suggest that a “shared professional vision” convey through dialogue about the project to be designed emerges through visual representations encountered early in the trajectory. In this context, I propose to address the following research question: What is the collaborative and multidisciplinary design trajectory of the multiple forms of “anticipated agency” of a visual representation ?
Design and technology education : an international journal, 2016
How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing st... more How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing strategies and tools involved in the co-construction of a shared understanding in the early stages of a design project. We observed a team of four industrial design students working to design a popup shop. We found that, while the key design elements of the solution were present from the early stages of discussion, they were continually framed and reframed through intense verbal discussion supported by sketching reflection-in-action (individual or collective) that help each team member make sense about the popup shop branding, user experience, visibility, structure, etc. The design ideas were crystallized at the end of the fourth working session. The research presents the cycle of framing and reframing of ideas that emerged from different symbolic elements associated with a brand, allowing students to design customized, non-standard, impressive and complex forms.
How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing st... more How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing strategies and tools involved in the co-construction of a shared understanding in the early stages of a design project. We observed a team of four industrial design students working to design a popup shop. We found that, while the key design elements of the solution were present from the early stages of discussion, they were continually framed and reframed through intense verbal discussion supported by sketching reflection-in-action (individual or collective) that help each team member make sense about the popup shop branding, user experience, visibility, structure, etc. The design ideas were crystallized at the end of the fourth working session. The research presents the cycle of framing and reframing of ideas that emerged from different symbolic elements associated with a brand, allowing students to design customized, non-standard, impressive and complex forms.
Nowadays and in the future, people will interact more and more often with visual representations ... more Nowadays and in the future, people will interact more and more often with visual representations that will invite them to take actions that contribute to more sustainable ways of living. Thus, the experimental environmental label that displays the lifespan of an electronic device we were asked to design, as scholars and communication design professional, can encourage people (or not) to choose a pro¬duct that has the capacity to be kept for a longer period of time according to the infor-mation this representation, and the signs that constitute it, communicate (Gnanapragasam et al., 2017). This research illustrate how, from the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO) perspective (Schoeneborn et al., 2014), humans stakeholders such as users, manufacturers or poli-cy makers and other-than-humans « spokethings » such as behaviors, standards, habits or values etc. — coming from multiples spatiotemporalities — speaks through the collaborative and multidis-ciplinary “reflective conversation with the materials of [this] design situation” (Schön, 1992, p. 3). Even though our “professional visions” (Comi et al., 2019) of the signs and the spokespersons they embodied was (un)shared, we also show how the design process of the label’s capacity to act — it’s “anticipated agency” can contribute to “increase, or at least preserve, the habitability of the world” (Findeli, 2015, p. 51 — our translation).
Although the process of designing visual representations has been extensively studied, we still k... more Although the process of designing visual representations has been extensively studied, we still know little about the collaborative design of the different forms of agency these representations may (or should) possess at the end of the process. Design studies suggest that a “shared professional vision” convey through dialogue about the project to be designed emerges through visual representations encountered early in the trajectory. In this context, I propose to address the following research question: What is the collaborative and multidisciplinary design trajectory of the multiple forms of “anticipated agency” of a visual representation ?
Design and technology education : an international journal, 2016
How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing st... more How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing strategies and tools involved in the co-construction of a shared understanding in the early stages of a design project. We observed a team of four industrial design students working to design a popup shop. We found that, while the key design elements of the solution were present from the early stages of discussion, they were continually framed and reframed through intense verbal discussion supported by sketching reflection-in-action (individual or collective) that help each team member make sense about the popup shop branding, user experience, visibility, structure, etc. The design ideas were crystallized at the end of the fourth working session. The research presents the cycle of framing and reframing of ideas that emerged from different symbolic elements associated with a brand, allowing students to design customized, non-standard, impressive and complex forms.
How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing st... more How do ideas evolve in the context of collaborative design? This research explores the framing strategies and tools involved in the co-construction of a shared understanding in the early stages of a design project. We observed a team of four industrial design students working to design a popup shop. We found that, while the key design elements of the solution were present from the early stages of discussion, they were continually framed and reframed through intense verbal discussion supported by sketching reflection-in-action (individual or collective) that help each team member make sense about the popup shop branding, user experience, visibility, structure, etc. The design ideas were crystallized at the end of the fourth working session. The research presents the cycle of framing and reframing of ideas that emerged from different symbolic elements associated with a brand, allowing students to design customized, non-standard, impressive and complex forms.
Nowadays and in the future, people will interact more and more often with visual representations ... more Nowadays and in the future, people will interact more and more often with visual representations that will invite them to take actions that contribute to more sustainable ways of living. Thus, the experimental environmental label that displays the lifespan of an electronic device we were asked to design, as scholars and communication design professional, can encourage people (or not) to choose a pro¬duct that has the capacity to be kept for a longer period of time according to the infor-mation this representation, and the signs that constitute it, communicate (Gnanapragasam et al., 2017). This research illustrate how, from the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO) perspective (Schoeneborn et al., 2014), humans stakeholders such as users, manufacturers or poli-cy makers and other-than-humans « spokethings » such as behaviors, standards, habits or values etc. — coming from multiples spatiotemporalities — speaks through the collaborative and multidis-ciplinary “reflective conversation with the materials of [this] design situation” (Schön, 1992, p. 3). Even though our “professional visions” (Comi et al., 2019) of the signs and the spokespersons they embodied was (un)shared, we also show how the design process of the label’s capacity to act — it’s “anticipated agency” can contribute to “increase, or at least preserve, the habitability of the world” (Findeli, 2015, p. 51 — our translation).
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