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Socially Responsive Design champions a transformative approach to design that shifts from designing for people to designing with people. As metadesign researchers and practitioners we approach our work with designers, interdisciplinary specialists and community experts as a shared, creative, open, emergent and adaptive pursuit aimed at attuning behaviours towards more sustainable futures. From our ongoing collaborative experiments with the Metadesigners Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London and our involvement in SRVD projects with KHiO, Oslo Academy of the Arts, we have framed a set of eight principles and prompts for aspiring socially responsive designers.
The sustainability agenda has inspired a growing interest and re-valuing of localized food production in cities such as London. This paper presents the findings from a one-year (October 2008 – October 2009) participatory design research project entitled ‘MetaboliCity’ (www.metabolicity.com). The project explored how designers can intervene sensitively within local urban food growing communities by providing a design thinking and crafting to help to sustain these initiatives and catalyse larger positive changes in the surrounding environment. The project was based at Central St. Martins in London, UK, facilitated by the design research group Loop.pH and funded by the Audi Design Foundation. The aim of the project was to create, test and adapt tools and services for collaborative food growing in challenging city spaces. These included community workshops, urban grow-kits and an online collaborative network. A team of designers guided local participants through a set of envisioning, crafting, planting and documenting processes. This paper will introduce the project’s socio-ecological approach to revaluing ‘awkward spaces’ (Jones, 2007) in the city to create places that are at the heart of local communities. Metabolicity is the first applied design research project to test and adapt collaborative tools and processes that were developed as a part of the ‘Benchmarking Synergy Levels within Metadesign’ project. This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and based at Goldsmiths, University of London (2005-2008). Metadesign is a systemic, inter-disciplinary and emergent design process aimed at transcending existing specialist boundaries to create more joined-up solutions for the benefit of society and nature.
What happens when designers shift their focus from satisfying consumer desires, to facilitating new social possibilities? In recent design history, different labels have popped up to describe design research practices that engage with social issues. These include participatory design, service design, transformative design, metadesign and social design. This article explores the notion of socially responsive design, a term coined by design researchers Adam Thorpe and Lorraine Gamman based in the Design Against Crime Research Centre, London, UK. It describes design that makes a social impact, is driven by social issues and delivers social change. Design researchers Hannah Jones and Anette Lundebye attempt to ‘connect the dots’ between a range of socially responsive design approaches taking place in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. They set out to interview six design experts from their network to discover how they define socially responsive design, what it feels like to be involved in this practice; and how it’s likely to impact on design in the future.
This article explores the metaphor of ‘rigour’ and challenges its suitability for encouraging research ‘excellence’ within universities. By way of illustration, the author proposes a non-linear writing method that, when supported by good tutelage, renders plagiarism virtually impossible. The system grew out of the Design Futures, Masters in Art (M.A.), at Goldsmiths University of London, which help designers to write more usefully, and to enable them to re-purpose their writing. This tetrahedral writing structure was designed to subvert imposed rigour by fostering a more dynamic, collective, ethical and entrepreneurial approach.
This paper introduces design tools and approaches developed to invite and support higher levels of synergy in collaborative practice. The tools that are introduced through three individual cases have been used to prompt a proactive and imaginative engagement with the sustainability imperative. These individual cases challenge the very boundaries of design. The idea of ‘metadesign’ is adopted to advocate design that operates at systemic levels, that invites interdisciplinary collaborations and that seeds or sets up the conditions for emergent processes of change. The cases represent the fashion industry at mass-market level in Sweden and the UK, the design, production and export of home furnishings in Indonesia, and an (AHRC) funded interdisciplinary design project in the UK entitled ‘Benchmarking Synergy levels within Metadesign’.
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Metalearning - Bring personal creativity and motivation to curiosity-led learning systems (ecology of wisdom) "Today's fact becomes tomorrow's misinformation" stated Alvin Toffler, futurologist, in 1970. Now changes are accelerating due to the development of technology and connectivity. New learning methods are being developed and learners should not be passive because the knowledge cannot be relied upon for long. This project introduces the idea of "Game of Knowing" the platform to support active learners to improve their interest through self-learning and collaborating. the concept of Metal --------------------------------- You should read this if you ... : - you want to know the role of designers, not in the terms of economic. (sociology, philosophy or changes) --- see page 6 (19 in SlideShare) - you want to improve your capability, learn about self-learning or DIY your futures --- start from page 12 (25 in SlideShare) - you are cognitive designer who is interested in motivation --- see page 36 (49 in SlideShare) - you are interested in self-learning tools --- see page 46 (59 in SlideShare) and Appendix 1 page 65 (78 in SlideShare) - you are 'Metalearner' --- free the read through this book and contact me I am also looking for chatting with you too. Even I have already submitted this MA dissertation, but I think it's still not proper complete. I would like to develop it further. please feel free to give me any comments .
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ISEA 2013 Conference Proceeding
Expanded urban media: From discretized social collages to corrugated social brain.2013 •
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
Bisociation within keyword-mapping: an aid to writing purposefully in design2007 •
Textile Toolbox
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EKSIG 2019 Knowing Together — experiential knowledge and collaboration
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Alison Thomson, Bianca Elzenbaumer & Fabio Franz/Brave New Alps, Andrea Augsten, Andrew Sempere, Anuradha Reddy, Aya Musmar, Cagri Sanliturk, Caroline Claisse, Cathy Gale, elisa Pasqual, Francesco Mazzarella, Isabel Paiva, Dr Katarina Dimitrijevic, Maria Portugal, Jana Thierfelder, Daniela Peukert, Søren Rosenbak
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Makerspaces in the Early Years: A Literature Review. University of Sheffield: MakEY Project.
Makerspaces in the Early Years: A Literature Review (2017)2010 •
International Journal of Architectural Computing
Activist Systems: Futuring with Living Models2016 •
Design Research Society Conference Proceedings 2018
Co-creation in professional craft practice2018 •