Instilling cultural values through bodily engagement with human rights

Marti, Patrizia; Trotto, Ambra; Peeters, Jeroen; Hummels, Caroline

doi:10.1145/2499149.2499170

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“…It produces new knowledge through testing and concretely acting in the context of application. Besides our own research in the field (Marti 2014;Marti et al 2013), the approach has been adopted as inspiration and input for synthesis in related student design-projects, developed during the Master's Degree Program in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology.…”

Section: A Poetry-inspired Approach For Cross-cultural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Poetry as a cross-cultural analysis and sensitizing tool in design

Marti

Houwen

2017

AI & Soc

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The overall trend toward globalization in design, greatly enhanced by digital technologies, has raised issues and challenges on how to preserve the cultural differences and values of different societies. There is a tendency to lose touch with local cultural values when designing artefacts for global use, and social nuances and traditions risk to be flattened or stereotyped in the pursuit of developing new technologies and products for the global society. Attempts to reduce the tension between the global and the local in design can be seen in the development of standards and guidelines for cross-cultural design, that are mostly focused on (online) user interface design. However, when moving from preferences, metaphors, appearance, and navigation toward cultural models of interaction and physical design, new methodologies and tools for cross-cultural design are needed. This paper describes a poetry-inspired design method for cross-cultural sharing within the design process. The approach uses poetry to sensitize the designer to the subtleties and diversity of a (new or known) culture so that the design can be given new aesthetic and cultural significance. The methodology is exemplified by actual design cases developed within the course “Cultural Sensitivity” of the Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology, where poetry was used for uncovering underlying or implicit assumptions, intercultural differences and similarities, as well as for general sensitization of young designers

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Section: A Poetry-inspired Approach For Cross-cultural Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Poetry as a cross-cultural analysis and sensitizing tool in design

Marti

Houwen

2017

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“…The second project we describe is [Y]our Perspective, which was developed within the larger "Light through Culture" educational project [35,36] lasting from 2011 to 2014. The project was promoted by the University of Siena, Eindhoven University of Technology and Interactive Institute Swedish ICT, Umeå.…”

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Data-Enabled Design for Social Change: Two Case Studies

2016

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Smartness in contemporary society implies the use of massive data to improve the experience of people with connected services and products. The use of big data to collect information about people's behaviours opens a new concept of "user-centred design" where users are remotely monitored, observed and profiled. In this paradigm, users are considered as sources of information and their participation in the design process is limited to a role of data generators. There is a need to identify methodologies that actively involve people and communities at the core of ecosystems of interconnected products and services. Our contribution to designing for social innovation in ecosystems relies on developing new methods and approaches to transform data-driven design using a participatory and co-creative data-enabled design approach. To this end, we present one of the methods we have developed to design "smart" systems called Experiential Design Landscapes (EDL), and two sample projects, Social Stairs and [Y]our Perspective. Social Stairs faces the topic of behaviour change mediated by sensing technologies.[Y]our Perspective is a social platform to sustain processes of deliberative democracy. Both projects exemplify our approach to data-enabled design as a social proactive participatory design approach.

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