Short description:

Proximity in Design Research explores four constituents of design: people, processes, products and philosophy, and their potential to bridge contemporary gaps through multilevel synergies.

Long description:

Proximity in Design Research explores four constituents of design: people, processes, products and philosophy, and their potential to bridge contemporary gaps through multilevel synergies.

The book brings together a variety of design approaches on several scales developed in the collaboration of different agencies and within diverse contexts. Proximity prompts us to explore the challenges and opportunities for research in design, with the widening and closing of distances in unpredictable times such as those during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the social distance imposed during this unprecedented global health scenario, researchers and professionals across different areas of knowledge have engaged in an extraordinary interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary global cooperation. This reinvented proximity enhanced the ability to cross fields, remove boundaries to collaboration between disciplines and accelerate processes towards an overarching goal: to overcome adversity. This edited collection reflects on what designers have taken from this experience so far and the possibilities that are foreseen as the concept of proximity is redefined.

This book offers critical knowledge related to both design practice and design theory. It will be of interest to researchers, teachers and students working in the design disciplines.

Table of Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

PART I – Design Proximity(ies)

Chapter 1 – New design knowledge for a new philosophical thinking. A speculation on the concept of proximity as a lens for critical thinking in creative education

Francesco Galli, Irina Suteu and Riccardo Manzotti

Chapter 2 – Amplified Experience Through Temporal Proximity

Stephen Neely and Michael Arnold Mages

Chapter 3 – Designing the Proximity – temporary exhibition of a research project’s constellation

Ambra Borin, Laura Galluzzo and Valentina Facoetti

Chapter 4 – Virtual Proximity in the factory processes: designing interfaces between industrial equipment and human operators

Sara Muscolo, Camilla Gironi, Viktor Malakuczi and Luca D’Elia

Chapter 5 – Proximity of theory and practice: framing a research through design experience for design students

Mithra Zahedi and Virginie Tessier

PART II – Design Approaches

Chapter 6 – From information to re-information: the reuse of objects from the São Joaquim marketplace as a reference to the construction of a contemporary design.

Bruna Villas-Bôas Dória Lins, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, Lara Leite Barbosa and Gil Maciel Rocha Abreu

Chapter 7 – A Disciplined Approach to Abstraction

Michelle Pannone and Kate O’Connor

Chapter 8 – Chance of Designing: Reframing Aleatoric Processes in Design Education

Ece Atacan, and K.Gelmez

Chapter 9 - From Critical Friendship to Design Critique Friendship: Disclosing the Mechanisms of Informal Design Critique Within a Design Studio Course

Gülce Apak and Koray Gelmez

Chapter 10 – Mapping the design process of Luz e Cena Laboratory, LA LUCE, linked to the Federal University of Goiás.

Viviane de Sousa Cruz e Silva and Rita Assoreira Almendra

PART III – Design “in action”

Chapter 11 – Neighbourhood, community and public space: designing the proximity together

Davide Fassi and Maria Maramotti

Chapter 12 – A Case Study of Design-Driven Social Entrepreneurship: Service Design Startup to Teach Digital Technology to Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Roya Paydarfar and Miso Kim

Chapter 13 – Integrating Care Practice into Product Design Education: Insights into Caring Behaviour, Design and Circular Economy

Yoon Jung Choi

Chapter 14 – Label and Packaging Design for Sustainability Checklist. A tailored tool for graphic design students and designers, co-designed by all stakeholders across the workflows

Pedro Matos, Vanda Correia and Josélia Pedro

Chapter 15 – Making Makers citizenships: network tools for Lazio digital manufacturers’ awareness

Luca D’Elia

Chapter 16 – Design-led Entrepreneurship Workshop: a dialogic approach

Michel De Blois and Xavier Lesage

PART IV – Design Research

Chapter 17 – Towards the histories and the pedagogies of social design in Brazil — a research outline

Rita Assoreira Almendra, Gustavo Cossio and André Luiz Carvalho Cardoso

Chapter 18 – A Map of Knowledge Transfer and Exchange in Doctoral Research in Design

Ana Neto, Rita Assoreira Almendra and João Batalheiro Ferreira

Chapter 19 – A Study on Research Methods in Design and Territory

Filipe Cruz, Fátima Rocha and Carla Rodrigues

Chapter 20 – Photovoice and research with children in Design and Architecture — Proximity between researchers and research subjects

Rosa Arma and Camila Andrade dos Santos

Chapter 21 – The DNA manifesto – Its Impact and Challenges for Design Education

Martin Racine

Chapter 22 – Ready-to-(dis)assemble: experimentations on elastic joinery for engaging and environmentally friendly furniture

Patrizio Cipollone, Viktor Malakuczi, Felice Ragazzo and Michele Russo

Index