Design Research
10 posts tagged with “Design Research”
Research Updates
The Designer's Role, Authority and Countertransference
The posts in this series have traced a set of connections between the systems design literature - explored on a recent Linköping University PhD course, and the Tavistock tradition of systems...
The Corruption of Co-Design
The Scandinavian participatory design tradition has, over half a century, developed a compelling account of what design can contribute to democratic deliberation and social change. From the workplace...
Aesthetic Disruption Meets Social Defences
The aesthetic disruption literature in service design - developed most fully by Vink, Wetter-Edman and Blomkvist (2018) and Wetter-Edman, Vink and Blomkvist (2017) - makes a compelling case that...
Co-creation and the Unconscious Life of the Workshop
Jones's seminar - as part of the ongoing Systems Engagements series at Linköping Univerity - on facilitating co-creation in context introduced a set of principles for convening participatory...
The Body as Container and as Defended Territory
Vink's paper on bodily entanglements in social systems design makes a case that systems design has neglected the body - that it has operated primarily through cognitive and representational modes,...
Simulations as Transitional Objects
A recent seminar - Berggren's - as part of the Systems Engagements series at Linköping University on systems simulation raised a question I have been circling around in my own practice without having...
The Image and the Organisation-in-the-Mind
Design practice is, at its core, representational work. Designers make sketches, journey maps, system maps, concept models, diagrams - visual and conceptual representations intended to change how...
Systems Psychodynamics for Design Researchers
Over the past year I have been reaching, in several posts and in the course of my industrial doctorate work, towards a set of ideas or perceptions about design and the design process that, it turns...
What I Learned at SCÖ
My employment at the coordination association ends this month. The ESF funding wasn't renewed. Up to eleven of us are being made redundant. The PhD continues, technically, but without the industrial...
Algorithm Archaeology at SCÖ
In previous posts, I've described what federated learning is and what it would actually require. This post is about what happened when I tried to understand the algorithm that the project was...