Design touch matters: bending and stretching the potentials of smart material composites

Barati, Bahareh; Karana, Elvin; Hekkert, Paul

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-819244-3.00030-2

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“…For example, a giant multi-cell battery of oranges, which illuminates the sign, experimentally proves the possibility of obtaining energy from plant forms [27]. However, the method of energy recovery is used as an innovation in design systems with biological organisms [41], and is a promising tool for the development of renewable energy sources based on the synergy of scientific methods [42].…”

Section: Methods Of Visualization Of Living Visual Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to universalize the process of creating dynamic visual communications, an integrated design model was developed (Figure 1). Green components and biological organisms in the structure of visual communications are considered as dynamic and temporal living materials open to change [41,44]. They provide the formation of the visual language of living artefacts [4].…”

Section: The Model Of Integrated Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Living Visual Communication Design Toward to Sustainable Development: Conceptual Framework and Ecological Strategies

Skliarenko¹,

Kolosnichenko²,

Didukh³

et al. 2022

IJDNE

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In this study, the attention is focused on the essence of integrated living visual communication design. It contains plant and biological components that cause the design system transformation and ensure dynamic visualization of the images. The methodological concept of the study is based on systematic and interdisciplinary approaches, which allow to assess living visual communications as integrated design systems. The author’s methodology includes analysis and systematization of examples; the formation of the integrated design model is based on an associative-metaphorical approach and substantiation of development strategies of ecological visual communications. The study resulted in the development of two groups of visual communication systems, namely green visual communications and biological visual communications. Their visual language was created on the base of such processes as landscaping, facing, encapsulation, energy recovery, and self-organization. The developed model of integrated design of living visual communications allows to put together artificial and natural components using their associative similarities. This model is considered an instrument for decision-making that is aimed at the implementation of ecological innovations into the design of dynamic visual communications. This study broadens the possibilities of using the living organisms in design and substantiating eco-strategies of communication design development in the context of forming designers’ creative potential.

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Section: Methods Of Visualization Of Living Visual Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Model Of Integrated Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living Visual Communication Design Toward to Sustainable Development: Conceptual Framework and Ecological Strategies

Skliarenko¹,

Kolosnichenko²,

Didukh³

et al. 2022

IJDNE

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“…The method comprises the four following steps: (1) understanding the material (i.e., technical and experimental characterisation); (2) creating a visual experience of the materials; (3) manifesting material experience patterns; and (4) designing material/product concepts. The MDD method also emphasises how the potential properties of a material can guide specific forms of manipulation [28], such as material tinkering, participants documenting the material-making process to build knowledge on material tinkering, and collaborations between material stakeholders [23,26,[29][30][31][32]. By reviewing their understanding of the continuity among the design, timing of use, and structure of the materials, researchers can introduce new steps or a material taxonomy to analyse material growth environments, compositions, processing, and structures and thereby produce new findings related to the role of materials and the experiences of users.…”

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Exploring Indigenous Craft Materials and Sustainable Design—A Case Study Based on Taiwan Kavalan Banana Fibre

Lin

Meng

2022

Sustainability

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For a long time, local craft traditions were passed on through apprenticeships. Consequently, new generations of designers and industries cannot easily intervene or produce new designs. This inability to integrate craft traditions in a modern context and changing cultural environment has resulted in the stagnation, decline, or even elimination of such crafts. This study focused on the use of banana fibres in the craft traditions of the Kavalan people of Taiwan, and research-through-design concepts were applied to the creative study of materials that are essential to ecological sustainability and cultural heritage. The method, Material Driven Design (MDD), was implemented through participation to experience traditional processes and explore the visible properties of craft materials. The goal was to gain a holistic understanding of materials and leverage the participants’ expertise in determining which steps in the methods could be improved. This process was supplemented with grounded theory, which was used to analyse and summarise the data in order to understand the factors influencing the creations of participants. Lastly, in addition to producing semifinished and finished products in our experiment, we believe that our findings regarding the examined materials and material tinkering to develop a material-tinkering loop based on the MDD can be (i) combined with the unique insights and technical expertise of designers and (ii) used alongside contemporary technical and digital aids to effectively support the continued development of innovative craft designs.

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“…Concerning affordances, most empirical work in cognitive science has focused on the shape and size of objects (e.g., Bub & Masson, 2010), sometimes neglecting the analysis of other visual properties. A few studies have highlighted that there is a close link between color and shape (Garofalo and Riggio, 2022), that object's consistency can play a signi cant role (Anelli et al, 2010), and that materials' potentials and modulations can be crucial for new possibilities to emerge (Barati & Karana, 2019;Overbeeke & Wensveen, 2003). We know that affordance activation may be modulated by many factors, such as the manipulable aspects of the object (Ellis & Tucker, 2000); the spatial relation between the object and the agent (Cardellicchio et (Caravà & Scorolli, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Affordances, aesthetics, and sustainability: on the relationship between materials, language and space in everyday object perception

Grasso,

Strappini,

Borghi

et al. 2024

Preprint

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Everyday objects offer invitations to act (affordances). Most empirical work on affordances has focused on the shape and size of objects, neglecting the analysis of other visual properties, such as texture, investigated instead by designers. Texture perception depends on the type of material, which changes the familiarity, aesthetics, and action(s) an object offers. Here, we investigated the influence of aesthetics and material sustainability on affordance activation. We thus employed objects in materials. We re-adapted a well-established paradigm in literature, showing objects with the same shape, made from sustainable and non-sustainable materials (namely, plastic vs. wood) with varying degrees of familiarity and pleasantness. The objects were positioned at a near or far distance, and followed by different kinds of verbs (observation, manipulation, function, interaction). Participants also completed the Pro-Environmental Behaviors Scale (PEBS) and rated the objects according to seven dimensions: pleasantness, familiarity, sustainability, hardness, heaviness, ownership, and sociality. Results showed greater facilitation with plastic objects compared to the wooden ones when presented in the near space and followed by function verbs. However, we also found a main effect of the material, with response times (RTs) shorter for wooden objects, especially when followed by interaction verbs. We found no correlation between RTs and PEBS, though several significant interactions occurred, and we argue that the material component affected affordances within the specific interplay between object location and linguistic elaboration, hypothesizing that beauty might have transversely modulated the responses.

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Design touch matters: bending and stretching the potentials of smart material composites

Abstract: This dissertation has been approved by the promotors.

Cited by 11 publications

References 99 publications

Living Visual Communication Design Toward to Sustainable Development: Conceptual Framework and Ecological Strategies

Living Visual Communication Design Toward to Sustainable Development: Conceptual Framework and Ecological Strategies

Exploring Indigenous Craft Materials and Sustainable Design—A Case Study Based on Taiwan Kavalan Banana Fibre

Affordances, aesthetics, and sustainability: on the relationship between materials, language and space in everyday object perception

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