Kolloquium: Friedrich W. Heubach

Katharina — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:19:04 +0100

Das Objekt – Design als Subjekt-Design
Host: Sandra Buchmüller
(Important information: Prof. Dr. Heubach will give his presentation in German.)

Anmerkungen zur gegenständlichen Modellierung des Psychischen oder wie man mit Dingen Verhalten modellieren kann.

Funktionalismus war gestern, heute gilt ‚Emotional Design’‚ ‚Joy of Use’, ‚Customization’, ‚Personalization’! Gegenstände sind nicht nur durch ihre Funktion und ihren Gebrauchswert definiert, sondern dienen dem Ausdruck des sozialen Status, der eigenen Persönlichkeit, der aktuellen Stimmung. In einer produktgesättigten Gesellschaft resultiert der Kaufentscheid wohl eher aus der kurzfristigen Bedürfnisbefriedigung, dem emotionalen Mehrwert oder der kulturelle Signalwirkung eines Gegenstands als aus seinem funktionalen Nutzen.

In diesem Kolloquium geht es jedoch nicht um psychologisch Werbe- und Marketingstrategien, sondern um Gegenständlichkeit im anthropologischen - genauer - psycho-logischen Sinne.

In der von Friedrich W. Heubach entwickelten Theorie der psycho-logischen Gegenständlichkeit werden Dinge in ihrem Beitrag zur Entwicklung der menschlichen Psyche und damit in ihrem Einfluss auf alltägliches Handeln erörtert. Auf dieser Ebene werden sie zu ‚Filialen des Selbst’, zu ‚Symptomen’, zu ‚Übergangs-‚ und Fetisch-Objekten’. Damit bietet dieser Ansatz lohnenswerte Anknüpfungspunkte für DesignerInnen, über die Bedeutung der Dinge zu reflektieren, die über kulturell zugeschriebene Funktionen und Gebrauchsweisen hinausgehen und möglicherweise zu Verhaltensweisen jenseits gestalterisch intendierter Interaktion führen.

Bio:
Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, geb. 1944

Studium der Psychologie, Soziologie und Kunstwissenschaft (Dipl.-Pych.; Dr. phil);
1968 Gründung der Kunst/Künstler-Zeitschrift >interfunktionen<, deren Herausgeber bis 1972;
1984 Habilitation für das Fach Psychologie;
1985-1989 Professor für Psychologie an der Univ. zu Köln und
1989-1992 an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg;
seit 1992 Lehrstuhl für Psychologie/Pädagogik an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Veröffentlichungen (u.a.):

Das bedingte Leben - Theorie der psychologischen Gegenständlichkeit der Dinge, München 1987;
Ein Bild und sein Schatten - Zum Bild der Melancholie und zur Erscheinung der Depression, Bonn 1996.

AMAZE Interact

Löwe — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:00:07 +0100

Within the 5+2 modules consisting of the symposium, workshops, music-games exhibition, installations and performances and the A MAZE. Jump’n Run Bonus Cheat, A MAZE. Interact aims to highlight convergences between music and games on various levels. There are two extra levels allowing for deeper reflection: the Games Culture Circle and the Global Game Jam. In doing so, the everyday use of the computer game as a cultural and industrial product, structural transformations of the cultural economy and developments within the field of contemporary music and art are focused upon and connected. Playful interaction encourages interpersonal exchange.

There are 5 modules, inviting for participation:
- the Symposium,
- the Workshops,
- the Installations and Performances,
- the Jump’n Run Bonus Cheat,
- the Music-Games Exhibition.

Plus the 2 extra levels:
- Games Culture Circle, and
- Global Game Jam.

The festival appeals to both professionals and to an audience that is interested in music, games and media. A MAZE. Interact will take place at the same time and in close cooperation with CTM.10 – OVERLAP (Club Transmediale 2010). CTM is a partner event of Transmediale 2010.
Further cooperations.

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http://amaze-festival.de
http://amaze-festival.de/interact/theme
http://amaze-festival.de/globalgamejam
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Please have a look at the attached file for more Information about the workshops..
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In addition, with four extravagant workshops, invited artists of ‘A MAZE. Interact’ share their insights into the technological side of games, art, and music.
In doing so, the program itself represents the convergence of different presentation formats. Each of the course instructors is part of another festival module: Raphaël Isdant’s installation ‘A Battre’ is shown at the opening ceremony, Leonard Paul gives a lecture at the ‘Interact Symposium’, and Tim Groeneboom performs as WiiJ Timski at the Jump’n Run Bonus Cheat clubnight where Chris Sugrue and Damian Stewart also present their performance ‘A Cable Plays’.

These artists bring a profound knowledge of the technologies they use to Berlin. Interaction is not only about presentation but also about sharing, learning, and exchanging. Workshop participants gain knowledge on trends and methods used in current art practices. These range from do-it- yourself principles to hardware hacking and software modifications, and include such diverse platforms such as ‘openFrameworks’, ‘Arduino’, ‘Pure Data’, ‘Wii Remotes’, and commercial game engines. Moreover, this module allows for effective synergies with the cooperating festival ‘CTM.10 - Overlap’ as tech-savviness is shared on an interdisciplinary level.

Research Colloquium Design: Benedict Singleton

Katharina — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:38:41 +0100

Ben Singelton takes a very different position on a field whose wide and rapid emergence is as surprising as the speed with which it has generated its own orthodoxy.

If a service is an act that benefits someone else, its design is an attempt to give human co-operation a particular shape: service design hacks the social in an effort to choreograph it. Services produce roles, habits, expectations, opportunities, etiquette, body postures, wealth, poverty, and political positions. Design's role in this production is not a priori ‘good’ nor ‘bad’, but complex, inevitable, powerfully charged, always questionable and never to be rushed into.

This research locates an alternative practice of service design at the intersection of historical attempts to push design ‘beyond the object‘ with recent forays into new political terrain stirred up across a range of disciplines. It attempts to unlock a role for service design as a medium of experimentation with new institutional forms. In the course of this talk, we will cross paths with the relationship between distributed organisations and all-out war, puzzle over whether a pregnant woman can be said to provide a service to her unborn child, outline tendencies of commercial design research we must strictly speaking call 'criminal' and 'surreal', think about how biotech challenges how we understand what ‘working for a living’ means and how we understand human habits... that is, in general, consider means of (re)starting conversation about what service design is, does, might be and could do.

Benedict Singleton, an artist and writer, is currently in the final stages of a PhD in design at Northumbria University, UK. His recent work deals with the construction of new institutions, and has been presented in the UK, US, Sweden, Italy and Korea. He also works commercially, and as an independent consultant has been involved in designing large-scale services for, amongst others, News International, Marie Stopes, and the UK’s National Health Service.

DGTF Zeitschrift Design///Praxis/Design///////Theorie //////////Workshop // 19.3. // Berlin // Einladung

J-Raff — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:26:11 +0100

//// Achtung, der Termin wurde vom 12.3 auf den 19. 3. verschoben ////

Liebe Designforscherinnen und Designforscher,
die Designforschung macht Fortschritte – zeigen wir es (ihnen)!

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF ) hat sich deshalb zum Ziel gesetzt, eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift zu entwickeln. Dazu hat sich eine Arbeitsgruppe gebildet >> www.dgtf.de/tg/78.

Am Fr, 19. März 2010 von 10:00-18:00 trifft sich die Arbeitsgruppe in Berlin – dazu möchten wir Dich/Sie herzlich einladen mitzuwirken! (der Ort wird noch bekannt gegeben)

Es sollen v. a. diskutiert werden:

Das Profil – geht es um research through, about, for design? Von wem – für wen?
Der Aufbau – welche Arten von Beiträgen soll es geben?
Die Prozesse – v. a. das Reviewing, denn so viel ist sicher: dies gehört zur Wissenschaftlichkeit dazu.
Die Technik – online soll‘s sein, aber wie?
Die Finanzierung – schreiben wir einen Förderantrag an die DFG? Usw. usf.

Bitte melden Sie sich/melde dich bei Interesse bis zum 12. Februar 2010 bei jan-henning.raff(ät)tu-dresden.de – mit kurzem Statement zu wissenschaftlichem Hintergrund und Motivation.

UPDATED: Feature Discussion auf DRNetwork 22-27 März, 2010

Rosan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:41:00 +0100

Hauptdiskutanten
22.03 - Jan-Henning Raff, TU Dresden, Medienzentrum
23.03 - Miriam Chouaib, KH Berlin Weißensee
24.03 - Charlotte Kaiser, Kaiser Matthies & Alexander Müller, TU Berlin, DRL
25.03 - Helga Aichmaier, HGK Basel, eikones NFS Bildkritik
26.03 - Du!
27.03 - Du!
28.03 - Schluss von Prof. Jonas

In den letzten zehn Jahren haben sich das Konzept und die Praxis von Forschung-durch-Design entwickelt und schrittweise an Legitimation und Gewicht gewonnen. Viele sind neugierig auf FdD geworden und möchten mehr über die theoretische Fundierung, die Prozesse, Methoden, Praktiken sowie die Konsequenzen des Konzepts für eine Dissertation wissen. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jonas hat als einer ihrer Fürsprecher die Forschung-durch-Design maßgeblich mit geprägt, und diese Online-Diskussion bietet Euch eine Gelegenheit, mit ihm und anderen einen Dialog zu dem Thema zu halten. Euer Beitrag zu dieser Debatte kann das Thema der Forschung-durch-Design weiter voranbringen.

Organisatoren:
DRNetwork & Design Promoviert

DRNetwork ist eine Online-Plattform für Designstudenten, die 2007 gegründet wurde. Ihr Ziel ist es, junge Designforschende dazu zu ermutigen, aktiv zur Entwicklung der Designforschung beizutragen.
Design Promoviert ist eine Themengruppe von Designdoktoranden innerhalb der DGTF, sowie der Name des halbjährlichen Kolloquiums, das wir organisieren. Unsere Absicht ist, junge Designforschende im deutschsprachigen Raum für Erfahrungsaustausch und Debatten zusammenzuführen.

Mach mit bei der Diskussion auf www.designresearchnetwork.org

Call For Proposals: Gender, Bodies and Technology

Bianca — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:57:07 +0200

We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore: the technological production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of embodiment, and the gendered implications of technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing, books and the built environment.

Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:

* Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
* Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced through technologies
* Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
* Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity and gender
* Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
* Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization
* Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race, age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields
* New media art and feminist aesthetics
* Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
* Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship

As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations. Using the form attached, please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual presentation, including not only the scholarship you will engage but also the format that you wish to use. For panels, include an abstract for each presentation. Please specify in your proposal any special requirements for technology or space that you anticipate. Proposals will be reviewed by Virginia Tech Women's and Gender Studies faculty/affiliates with appropriate expertise and notification of the outcome will be made no later than October 15, 2009.

Proposals should be submitted via our website at www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/.
If that is not possible, or if you have questions, please contact:

Sharon Elber
GBT Conference Co-Planner
STS/Women's and Gender Studies (0227)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
selber@vt.edu

Conference Report: Fiscar 2010

Almax — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:04:01 +0200

In May Tom and I attended the Nordic Conference on Activity Theory and Fourth Finnish Conference on Cultural and Activity Research in Helsinki, Finland (Fiscar 2010). As an offspring of its parent, the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR) it was mainly attended by sociologists, cultural scientists, educationalists and a few design researchers.
Diverse scientific perspectives and disciplinary orientations were brought together to discuss social creativity, education, design research and the transferability of Activity Theory (AT) in practical research.
More than 40 sessions and symposia were held during the three days. In our opinion – as design researchers – the most interesting talks dealt with issues about participatory and action-oriented design methods, embodied and practical knowledge as well as the analysis of artifacts and their mediating role. Keynotes were held both by designers, e.g. Professor Ranjan from India, and theoreticians: Since the 80ies Yrjö Engeström and Kari Kuutti have substantially unveiled Activity Theory to academia outside the eastern countries. Since then AT is applied to following fields:
· Learning and education, especially with focus on children
· Analysis of working environments
· HCI and cognitive sciences
· Design Research
With her opening talk Susanne Bødker failed to make her approach to AT clear and rather caused confusion. So in contrast to her elaborate publications she did not meet my expectation.

The symposium on Communicating User Research in Design by Pieter Jan Stappers and Kristina Lauche crowned the conference with active involvement and special insights about Kristina’s Design Research that tries to bridge the aims of user-centered design and concepts of AT with theatre training by Stanislavski. What we also liked: they made us high with plenty of sugar. At the beginning of the workshop they wooed us with delicious dutch waffles.

So in the future I will keep myself busy with reading stuff about AT to find out the potential of this framework of knowledge related to design research...and tell you then if it works out.

Alex Müller

Win win durch Nutzen nutzen — Mit sharing-Modellen neue Märkte erschließen

Rosan — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:41 +0200

Wer am Nutzen interessiert ist, will Dinge nicht gleichzeitig auch besitzen, sondern meist nur deren Nutzen nutzen. In der mobilen Gesellschaft zeichnet sich – vor allem bei jungen Menschen – bereits ein Wertewandel ab. „Sharing“ – die gemeinsame Nutzung – ist schon Teil ihres Lebensstils.

Die Organisatoren des 6. Design Management Forums Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wolf (Universität Wuppertal) und Frans Joziasse, MBA (Design Management Consultant, Hamburg) haben Experten aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft eingeladen, um über die Akzeptanz, Machbarkeit und Implementierung von sharing-Konzepten zu referieren und zu diskutieren. Sharing-Konzepte können als Geschäftsmodelle der Zukunft betrachtet werden und stellen somit auch zukünftige Herausforderungen für das Design-Management und die Organisation von Designprozessen. Die Frage ist, wie Produkte und Servicestrukturen gestaltet werden müssen, um den Ansprüchen kritischer und mobiler Benutzer gerecht zu werden. Unternehmen werden darüber nachdenken müssen, wie sie zukünftig Gewinne durch „Vermieten“ anstatt „Verkaufen“ erzielen können.

In den Metropolen und Ballungsgebieten erfreut sich car-sharing zunehmender Beliebtheit. Die Vorteile für die Kunden sind offensichtlich: reservierte Parkplätze, keine Wartung und Pflege, voller Tank etc. – und das alles bei vergleichsweise geringen Kosten. Christian Geiss von der car2go GmbH wird dazu über die Erfahrungen mit dem erfolgreichen Pilotprojekt car2go in Ulm berichten.
Dr. Nicole Busch, Expertin für Benutzerverhalten und Birgit Gebhardt, Geschäftsführerin Trendbüro Hamburg werden sich in ihren Vorträgen mit den Entwicklungschancen und Grenzen gemeinsamer Nutzung auseinandersetzen.

In einer Diskussionsrunde werden Spezialisten aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Ökologie Stellung beziehen zu den Chancen, Risiken und Möglichkeiten der Umsetzung von Sharing-Konzepten:
Dipl. Psych. Christian Hoffmann, InnoZ, Berlin
Dr. Christa Liedtke, Wuppertal Institut, Wuppertal
Dipl. Des. Martin Beeh, Beeh_Innovation, Köln
Burkhard Remmers, Wilkhahn, Bad Münder
Dr. Nicole Busch, Beraterin, Buschwerk, Hamburg
Omid Khodaverdi Afaghi, lend.ly, Verleihplattform, Karlsruhe
Dipl. Volksw. Peter Schreck, MBA Business Design, Coworking Cologne

Ein positiver und willkommener Nebeneffekt ist deutlich erkennbar: Sharing-Konzepte gewährleisten die effizientere Nutzung vorhandener Ressourcen.
Alle Informationen finden Sie auch auf www.design-management-forum.org

Für weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an:
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wolf
Universität Wuppertal
Designtheorie, Schwerpunkt: Methodik, Planung, Strategie
Fuhlrottstraße 10
D-42119 Wuppertal

Tel: +49 (0)202 / 4 39 - 57 35
Email: bwolf@uni-wuppertal.de
Sekretariat: Maja Luhn
Email: mluhn@uni-wuppertal.de
Tel: +49 (0)202 / 4 39 - 57 04

Akkreditierung:
http://www.design-management-forum.de/presse.html

It's Time to Register!! Prototype Symposium

Rosan — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:42:27 +0200

Twelve inspiring speakers from across the globe are coming to Dundee this summer to discuss the innovative ways they are prototyping. Leaders from Art, Business, Design, Media, Music and Science are presenting on
10-11 June, 2010.
Register online by visiting: www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping

Speakers include: boundary-pushing artists musicians, Chicks on Speed; the NASA space architect, Constance Adams; international business guru Michael Schrage; product designers Leonardo Bonanni and Pieter Jan Stappers; the Turner Prize winning artist, Simon Starling; interactive jeweller, Hazel White; cultural critic Norman Klein; participatory design methods pioneer Liz Sanders; art and architectural historian Fredrick Schwartz; biomedical engineer Stuart Brown and design theorist Rosan Chow.

The discussion and debates will be chaired by leaders from Industry,
including:

Dee Cooper, Director of Product and Service for Virgin Atlantic; Chris Van der Kuyl, CEO Bright Solid Ltd, one of the UK’s internet pioneers; Steve Gill, product designer and academic, Cardiff’s Metropolitan University; Colin Burns, independent designer, consultant, entrepreneur, educator, and former Director of IDEO’s London Studio.

We look forward to seeing you.
Best Wishes,

Dr Louise Valentine | University of Dundee Dr Glenn Adamson | V&A London

Creativity and Innovation in Design

jannicks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:18:28 +0100

The DESIRE Network is pleased to announce the First DESIRE Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, to be held in Aarhus, Denmark on August 16-17, 2010.

http://www.desireconference.org/

The conference is organized by the DESIRE Network, which is an Initial Training Network funded by the European Commission, Framework 7 under Marie Curie Actions Programme. The network aims to advance the current understanding of creative design processes applied in scientific and technological problem solving. The network involves seven partner institutions from Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and is coordinated by the Lancaster University, UK. The network brings together researchers from the fields of interaction design, computer science, cognitive modeling, and psychology of creativity as well as artists and design practitioners.

Tuuli Mattelmäki 'Human sized Research' - Talk @ Design Research Lab, T-Labs

tom_bieling — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:35:21 +0200

*** Research Colloquium Usability ***

Date: 23.08.2010
Time: 14.00 – 15:30
Location: Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Auditorium 1 (20th floor), Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin

TITLE: Human sized Research

SPEAKER: Prof. Dr. Tuuli Mattelmäki

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
I first introduce the new Aalto University and the current situation of design research in it. Then I will describe the approaches developed within design research including experience design and empathic design, design probes and co-design. Through examples and cases, such as the Ageing at work-project, I aim to draw a picture of what is valuable in human sized research.

BIO:
Tuuli Mattelmäki is a senior researcher at Aalto University School of Art and Design. Her background is in industrial design and she is specialized in developing explorative methods for user-centered design. Her doctoral thesis Design Probes was published in 2006. Her publications include articles about probes, empathic design, co-design and design for user experience. Currently she is involved in Aalto Service Factory’s activities in various research projects related to service design.

HOST: Tom Bieling

Leif Ostman 'Three Approaches towards Design Epistemology' - Talk @ Design Research Lab, T-Labs

Rosan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:49:02 +0200

Abstract of Talk:

In this presentation I will offer three different approaches towards design knowledge, as ways of describing what good design knowledge is. First of all we have the truth oriented approach, trying to determine and define which the logical rules for deciding what count as true knowledge. This is normally based on philosophy and logic and a central concept is validity. This is typical for scientific aspects of knowledge. We also have a second tradition called sociology of science. This is an empirical tradition, criticizing the truth oriented approaches and presenting evidence of how knowledge is generated in reality. By means of sociology of science we can determine what counts as good design in a historical analysis, and which aspects had a major impact and what counts as good knowledge. I here relate to the ideas by Pierre Bourdieu. Thirdly, I think we must accept that design and design knowledge is about values and that it is important to distinguish what is good knowledge in future projects. The designer must know what good knowledge is, implicating that a practical design epistemology must include a normative aspect. Designers support their thinking by some kind of reasoning. We call it design theory in a more elaborated form. It is some kind of expression of ideas, values, methods and other influencing aspects. In many cases designers construct these theories afterwards as they see what they design. In design research it seems necessary that teachers and researchers articulate what is going on in design processes. Knowledge must be explicated and open to scrutiny; otherwise they remain private or mysterious.
The pragmatist philosopher John Dewey didn’t see theory as the ultimate goal of research, but rather progress. Democracy, human joy and fulfillment are central goals in Dewey’s philosophy, where problem setting is central and the explorative application of tools constitute the basis for knowledge development. Thus a pragmatist design epistemology is not about defining and describing expressions of knowledge, but about the experimental improvement and the development of new tools, and reasoning about what are important problems, why they are important but also analysis and criticism of existing tools, methods, aims and inherent value assumptions.

Biography:
Diplomingenjör. Fakultät Architektur, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen 1987.

Teknologie doctor (PhD) (Prof. J. Lundequist, Design Methodology): School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Thesis: A Pragmatist Theory of Design – The Impact of Pragmatist Philosophy of John Dewey on Architecture and Design.

Practicing architect 1987-1996, mainly in Finland, design of schools, new housing areas and leisure facilities and plans.

Since 1996 Principal lecturer at Novia, University of Applied Sciences, Vasa, teaching building design, urban planning and project management.

Research interests: design epistemology, design theory, design competitions and pragmatist philosophy.

Recent research papers:
Fuller and Dewey on Knowledge Policy (Nordic Pragmatist Network conference 2010, Uppsala)
Learning to See (Conference on design competitions 2010, Copenhagen)
Pragmatisk och social kunskapskompetens som riktlinje för bedömning av examensarbeten (Conference on methodology, 2010, Hämeenlinna).

Why did I not enjoy DRS 2010? (Conference Note)

Rosan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:40:37 +0200

Despite my love for Montreal, the great efforts from the local organisers, and the reunion with long-time-no-see friends; I was mostly bored at the Design Research Society Conference 2010 ‘Design &complexity’ held between 7-9 July in Montreal, Canada. Why did I feel so uninspired? Was it because of the jetlag, the high temperature, and/or the fact that the German team lost in the semi-final and the prediction from octopus Paul’s was right? These played a part, no doubt, but something more essential must have been in play. Upon reflection, I came to the conclusion that there was and still is and will be a difference in perspective and understanding on what is considered as good design research worthy of presentation and dissemination.

DRS, it seems to me, favours research that involves empirical study that imitates scientific experiment. I said ‘imitates’ because, most of these studies selected by the DRS review committee and presented here, lack the level of theoretical conceptualization that is demanded and required by, might I say, real science. I said ‘favours’ because these studies were put in a two-track parallel sessions and the rest, the (for me) more interesting and thoughtful studies were put in the 8-track parallel sessions. So I ended up listening to weakly conceptualized presentations because I had no choice and missing the ones I would have enjoyed because they were happening at the same time.

It was unfortunate.

Salon Frankfurt – »Kann Design generös sein?«

Kai Rosenstein — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:32:09 +0200

Donnerstag, 9. September 2010, 19:00 Uhr, basis, Gutleutstrasse 8-12, 60329 Frankfurt

Kann Design Generös sein?
Überlegungen zur Praxis der generösen Gestaltung
Simon Husslein Studio Hannes Wettstein, Zürich
Holger Lübbe Fotograf, Darmstadt
Stephan Rein FLEX/the INNOVATIONLAB, Delft

Wie funktioniert generöses Design?
Überlegungen zur Konsumkultur
Prof. Dr. Heinz Drügh, Professor für Literaturgeschichte und Ästhetik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

Moderation Diana Djeddi und Kai Rosenstein

Generöse Gestaltung oder generöses gestalten?
Die Designforschung versandet im Theoriestreit. Was ist Forschung im, mit und für Design? Wieviel Einfluss hat Design? Wie geht Design im Postneoliberalismus? Viele Fragen zu Methoden, Richtungen und Haltungen, doch wenig Konkretes für die Designpraxis.

Design ist alltäglich, es geschieht jeden Tag und jeden Tag kommen neue Designobjekte auf den Markt. Doch nur selten steckt aktuelle Designtheorie in dieser Praxis. In der Theorie wird der vom Designer geforderte Schutz der Autorschaft auch als eine Pflicht zur Verantwortung gegenüber der Gesellschaft postuliert. Diese gesellschaftliche Verantwortung soll sich in ethischen, also nachhaltigen und sozial verantwortlichen Entwürfen genauso niederschlagen, wie es auch von Unternehmen, Institutionen und Konsumenten gefordert wird.

Im funktionalen Sinne des Designs ist das noch recht einfach. Wir gestalten leichte, rezyklierbare, effektive, sparsame also ressourcenschonende Objekte. Doch Designartefakte haben bekanntlich eine zweite Seite – eine sinnstiftende. Hier wird es schwieriger. Elegant, übersichtlich, hochwertig, robust – diese «Werte» gehören zum alltäglichen Designkanon, doch was, wenn es vielschichtiger wird? Schon bei klug, authentisch oder mutig wird es schwieriger. Aber grosszügig? Was soll das sein im Design? Wie verhält es sich mit der Generösität im Design? Dabei bevorzugen wir diesen Begriff als Ableitung vom französischen Begriff générosité, welcher sich im Wortursprung auf die noble Geburt bezieht und so im Vergleich zum deutschen Wort großzügig nicht nur die bildlich große Geste in großen Zügen darstellt, sondern wesentlich vielschichtiger erscheint.

Otl Aicher stimmt optimistisch: «die qualität der entwürfe ist die qualität der welt.» sagt er. Wir laden ein, praktische Beispiele zu suchen, vorzustellen, Antwortversuche zu formulieren oder uns die Illusion zu rauben – den Diskurs zu eröffnen.

Workshop Be-Greifbare Interaktionen in gemischten Wirklichkeiten (Duisburg 12.09.2010)

J-Raff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:36:13 +0200

Be-Greifbare Interaktionen in gemischten Wirklichkeiten
Workshop 2010 des gleichnamigen GI-Arbeitskreises
im Rahmen der Konferenz Mensch & Computer 2010 in Duisburg

am 12. September 2010

Dies wird sicherlich wieder ein spannender Workshop rund um tangible/embodied interaction in mixed/augmented reality (rückübersetzt aus dem deutschen...). Da wird nicht nur gebastelt! Ausdrücklich widmet sich der Arbeitskreis um Theorieentwicklung.

Organisiert (u.a.) von Dr. Jürgen Steimle, einem Spezialisten für paper-centric interfaces.

Mehr Informationen und Programm: http://leda.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/bi-muc2010/