Exploring Digital Design - Multi-Disciplinary Design Practices

Preface

Contents

Part 1 A Common Ground

1: Researching Digital Design

Perspectives on Research into Digital Design

Reflexivity in Multidisciplinary Design Research

Outline of the Book

References

2: Research Practices in Digital Design

Evolving Practices in Digital Design Research

Participatory Design of a Mobile Information Device

Designing Digital Environments

Communication Design

The Digital in Choreography, Performance and Mediation

Engaging Digitally with Cultural Heritage

The Practices of Digital Design Research

Design Practice as an Object of Research

Collaboration in Design

Diversity of Artefacts and Material Practices

Closing Comments

References

3: Analytical Perspectives

Collaboration and Participation in Digital Design Work

Computer Supported Collaborative Work

Interaction Through Artefacts

Boundary Objects

Awareness

Classification Systems and Archives

Networks and Relations

Making Relations in Digital Design

Symmetry, Agency and Translations

Circulating References

Performing Relations

Socio-Cultural Perspectives

On Communication Design

Developmental and Transformative Views

Affordances and Mediating Artefacts

Polyvocality and Addressivity

Social Semiosis and Digital Design

Rhetoric, Genre, and Digital Design

Towards Communication Design

Feminist Perspectives

Voice and Gender

Pluralistic Understandings of Gender and Digital Design

Designers, Users and Boundary Crossings

Material Discursive Practices: A Different Epistemology

Closing Comments

References

4: Methods That Matter in Digital Design Research

Reflexive Approaches to Digital Design

From Ethnography in PD to Digital Ethnography

Ethnographic Studies in Participatory Design

Prototyping as a Method to Involve Users

‘I, My Workplace and My Work’ – Carthographies

Digital Ethnography

Mobile Communication, Methodological Implications and Ethical Aspects

Using Blogs for Digital Engagement

New Creative Experiential Methods

Working with Cultural Probes

Technology Probes

Setting Up a Design Space

Performative Development

Manipulate Media: A Workshop on Performative Development

Oikos as Concept for Digital Environments

Closing Comments

References

Part 2 Multiple Perspectiveson Design Research

5: A Matter of Digital Materiality

Characteristics of the Digital

Abstractions

Representations

Process

Materials in Design

Computers as Material

Concrete Abstractions

Material for Process Design

Processual Material

Digital Material

Levels of Digital Design

Close to the Material

Digital Matters in Design

References

6: On Mobility, Localization and the Possibility of Digital Genre Design

Designing for Current and Future Conjunction

The Pluralistic Character of Designing

Bridging a Gap Between Design and Aesthetics

‘Double Descriptions’

The Importance of ‘Meaningware’

Projection, Prediction and Production

Hand-in-Hand

The Future Within Grasp

On Aristotelian Rhetoric

Discovery and Invention in Digital Design

An Example of Digital Inventio and Genre Design in Education

The Intro Prototype

The Lecture

The Encyclopaedia Article

The Documentary Film

The Computer Game Introductory Video Sequence

Work in Progress: Multimodality, Mobility and Localization

Reconnaissance: Visiting Possible Precedents

Topic 1: The Reality in Fictional Visions

Consequence: Future Imaginings of History

Topic 2: Hyperspace and Real Space

Topic 3: Convergence of Cartography and the Encyclopedia

Topic 4: Travel and Guides

Topic 5: Online 3D Worlds and Shared Simulations

Potential Genre Designs Positioned Simulations

Cases of ‘Positioned Simulations’

Case 1: Past + Present – The Oseberg Viking Ship and Its Gravemound

Case 2: Past + Present – The Battle of Pharsalus

References

7: Unreal Estate: Digital Design and Mediation in Marketing Urban Residency

Mediating Real Estate

Exploratory Discourse

Selection of Sites

On Communication Design

Outline of Chapter

Contexts of Mediation

Marketing and Mediating Unreal Estate Online

A Socio-Cultural Perspective

Mediating Artefacts

A Blend of Visualizations

Hyperrealism

From Reality TV to Hyperrealistic Representation

On Remediation and Hypermediacy

Selling the Planned and Projected

Verbal–Visual Coherence: Exteriors

Inside Looking Out

Linking Real and Unreal Estate

Making the Connections

3D Visualizations in 3D

Transposing CAD Tools and Representations

Cutaway to the Bedroom

Seeing Inside the ‘Set’

The Simulated as Sold

The Full Picture

From Visiting to Moving In

Marketing Unreal Estate via Digital Mediation

Making ‘Home Pages’

Sharing Design Performances

References

8: Whisperings in the Undergrowth: Communication Design, Online Social Networking and Discursive Performativity

Introducing Contexts for Communication Design

The Phenomenon Social Software

On Underskog

On Our Research Approach

Getting to Grips with Social Networking and Software

Affordances for Collaborative Enactment

Production-Based Inquiry

Relations Between Artefacts and Objects

Designing Design

Cross-mediations

Shaping the Shaping

Social Networking Expands

Affordances for Communities of Interest

A Sociocultural Approach to Communication Design

Digital Design Matters

Core Concepts

‘Designing a Great Party’6

On Expansive Design

On Performativity and Digital Design

Changes While Building

Further into the ‘Forest’

On Underskog

Sketching on Rails

Voice and Language

Connecting the Dots

Being Through ‘Language’

Requests Rolling in

Flurries and Dips

Anonymity, Accountability and Discussion

Reflecting on Studies of Social Networking

Fora for Debate

Kudos

Crossing the Applications for Networking

In the Papers

Performativity and Practice-Led Research Revisited

Co-construction and Performativity

Developing Multiple Spaces

Deeper into Modes of Inquiry and Reflection

Into Ethnography

Finding Relationships Between Publication and Participation

Shared Object of Activity

2M and Counting…

Moving between Modes

From Whisperings to Rumblings

Designing for Performativity

‘Facing Up’

Non Fatum Est…

From Ideals to Activity

Revisioning Expansive Design

Finding and Designing Coherence

Removal and Deletion

Towards Discursive Performativity

New Forests

From Whispers to Roars

References

9: Designing for Sustainable Ways of Living with Technologies

Sustainable Development and Its Relationship to Design

Sustainablity in Design

… and Cultural Sustainability in Digital Design

Cat’s Cradle: An Actor-Network-Theory

Sustainable or Unsustainable Standards and Formats?

Behind the Scenes: The Performance of Sustainability in Day-to-Day Activities

Cash Payment or Not: Sustainable Routines

Standard Identifiers: Disciplining Technologies

Weaving Together Unsustainable Standards and Routines

Standards for Digital Cultural Heritage

Knowledge and Practice as Identifiers for Sustainable Standards

Connection Between Standards and Individual Practices and Knowledge

Designing for Cultural Sustainability

Discussion

References

Epilogue A Multidisciplinary Take on Digital Design

References

About the Authors

Index