Showing papers in "She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation in 2019"

TL;DR: This work considers the value and limitations of systems thinking and systems analysis for design, the transformation of surroundings into environments for human experience, and the obstacles and problems faced by human beings in concrete situations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify desirable and productive forms of interaction between the scientific community and the public and propose a layperson typology intended to help design participatory processes that facilitate such exchanges and include the differences in opinions between men and women.

TL;DR: A radically different approach is explored, which takes the complex nature of the problem situation as its starting point, and reframes the task of design as system transformation, rather than the creation of a solution.

TL;DR: For Good Times and Bad Times as discussed by the authors is a design fiction representing a range of emotional, qualitative, and functional goals associated with wellbeing health technology, which is used to explore future wellbeing technologies for older adults.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how five public and social innovation agencies adapted and used the core design practice of problem framing to address complex problems in society, by applying systemic design principles, pursuing multiple solutions and problem frames, and operationalizing wider research and thinking methods.

TL;DR: The authors argue that understanding is a product of choices that are forced upon us as we seek to overcome the mismatch between the relentlessly rich, interwoven complexity of the world and our limited ability to cope with it all.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to turn design attentions to the political economy that underlies the problems and to post-growth politics, which offers a compelling counter-narrative to neoliberalism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report an exploratory study that revealed the diverse scope of these mood-stimulated human tendencies, such as the tendency to be attentive (when cheerful), to be cautious (when anxious), or to be impatient (when agitated).

TL;DR: The co-design process of a prototype energy advice service enabled user needs to surface and be iteratively addressed and confirms the value of adopting a content first approach when designing information intensive services and foregrounding meaning making within the complex energy demand reduction context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the thought processes of design thinking as an embodied process of experience and define the notion of brain-body-in-the-world as an outcome of mind that functions as brain.

TL;DR: This is a commentary on Michael Lissack’s two-part article “Understanding is a Design Problem: Cognizing from a Designerly Thinking Perspective”, where the design thinking framework helps us take a step back and remain open minded, consider alternative points of view, watch for bias, recognize adjacent possibilities, and innovate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a number of design actions and case studies that demonstrate how design can contribute to system change, for example via the reconnection of urban and rural ecosystems, the design of social infrastructures that enable the emergence of new enterprises, and the deployment of technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss their design thinking teaching experience in relation to a number of cognitive challenges that Lissack identifies, outline how their teaching and learning process addresses these challenges, and illustrate how activities supported by key principles of design thinking can support alleviating them.

TL;DR: In this paper, poverty is a multidimensional issue characterized by deprivations and constraints at the individual, institutional, economic, and technological level, characterized by the unmet or underserved needs of people.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a radically different approach based on the observation that we live in a world that is more complex than our minds/brains possess the ability to process in its entirety.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline and clarify the framework of the scholarly study of design thinking, introducing the major ideas and concepts upon which the field is based, and discuss in detail the various methodological issues of the field, and argue that, in its current state, design thinking cannot sustain itself as an independent area of academic research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new normative vision to guide the design of institutions and artifacts to put Planet Earth on a sustainable trajectory, which can reverse the course of environmental and social deterioration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how design advances industry development through the lens of a longitudinal inquiry into activities carried out as part of a Dutch design faculty-industry collaboration, and introduce an Industry Design Framework, which organizes the industry/design relationship as a three-layered system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the inclusion of locally-focused design research programs when rethinking complex issues such as tobacco control in places where national regulation is failing, and demonstrate how locally-organized, youth-focused anti-tobacco campaigns are less about finding a single solution to tobacco use and more about identifying, connecting, and supporting local stakeholders working together towards preferred futures.

TL;DR: The article argues that the concepts and topics found here should be taught explicitly to design students in practical ways, and researched formally as a subfield within the systemic design community as a method for recursive design.

TL;DR: In this article, Lissack's article "Understanding is a Design Problem: Cognizing from a Designerly Thinking Perspective" offers a fresh take on the intersection of design thinking and cognition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate Lissack's thesis that designerly thinking can be used as a pathway to understand the cultural and political world at large, and conclude that from a design perspective, his thesis is problematic, as design thinking in itself doesn't have the systematic checks and balances needed for achieving such a critical understanding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Lissack's claim that cognition and meaning making can be understood as design processes is a reiteration of arguments already put forward by constructivist thinkers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a radically different approach based on the observation that we live in a world that is more complex than our minds/brains possess the ability to process in its entirety.

TL;DR: A point of view is seen that while one can admit that the channel capacity for human observers is limited, it is exactly this limitation that has led to the emergence of language and the use of language to transcend these very limitations.

TL;DR: This essay presents a structured tool that enables people to engage in deep dialogue about living with the uncertainty and ambiguity found in environments characterized by chaos and complexity.

TL;DR: A commentary on Michael Lissack’s article “Understanding is a Design Problem: Cognizing from a Designerly Thinking Perspective,” which seeks to amplify attention to the pivotal role played by values in constraining the authors' cognition.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the realness of objects, whether the objects are mental, cultural, physical, imaginary or whatever, is limitedly accessible, and argued that objects, in their enormous variety and complexity, require to be acknowledged and not reduced to epiphenomena dominated by thought.

TL;DR: The authors keep an eye on the orienting track of language while trying to map my own vocabulary to that of Michael Lissack in his two-part article "Understanding is a Design Problem: Cognizing from a Designerly Perspective".