artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
David Moorhead 1756036
Masters of Industrial Design
CODESIGN W A&B
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
PROJECT CONTEXT INTENT & OBJECTIVES PLAN SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 SESSION 4 SESSION 5 SESSION 6 CONCLUSIONS
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Project Context This project was setup with the initial premise being the exploration of relationships between Artisans, Designers and Customers. The context being cross cultural relationships between artisans from countries that still have a living cultural tradition of artisanal production (e.g. India, South East Asia, South America and Africa) and designers from countries that have destroyed their cultural traditions through the application of industrialisation and mass production. When exploring these relationships in the current body of literature several key themes stood out that deserved new exploration and research: ‘the ethics of designer-artisan engagements’; ‘whether Co-Design could be used as a tool or service for information transfer and education’; and, ‘whether there was a method or approach to design for Artisan focused Ecommerce markets’. A topic was proposed to explore these elements: “An exploration of designer artisan co-design relationships with a view to their utility as a design service, a catalyst for artisan design, a design education tool and cross cultural relationship building exercise. The focus of the co-design will be on designing for the emerging artisan specific e-commerce markets both locally (in India) and globally.” Being a design masters the decision was made to document the research into this topic in the form of an interactive web page.
artisan
designer
Customer
research based thesis exegesis
visual communication
accessible communicable Interactive
The Aim
The Form
to explore design relationships
interactive web page thesis
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Project Context The research that will underpin the development of the web page will utilise a variety of different methods:
M1
M2
M3
M4
M5
M6
M7
PEER REVIEWED LITERATURE
NON-PEER REVIEWED LITERATURE
INTERVIEW
EXPERIENCE
OBSERVATION
CROWD SOURCING
E-COMMERCE LIST
The scope of the project proposed on the previous page was very large so after conducting a significant amount of literature review and presenting the results to several academics with significant experience in this area of design three key goals for the project output were developed. These goals limit the scope of this project but also enable it to achieve some distinct outcomes that can be effectively documented in a web page format. The three goals are shown below:
Exploration of
Exploration of
Draft proposal of
codesign as a service for artisans delivered by designers
designing for artisan focused ecommerce
principals for ethical engagements by designers With artisans
It is these three key goals that will form the focus of the interview questions that will be asked if you decide to be interviewed.
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Intent and Objectives for our CoDesign testing codesign as a service
to have fun Collaborating
To experience
to help you
to help
codesign with
learn how to
you develop your
Artisans
develop designs
business ideas
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
The Plan
22 aug
12 sept
26 sept
19 oct
1 Nov
Jan 2015
what do you want to do
what do you want to make
who are you making it for
How are you going to design it
how are you going to make it
how are you going to sell it
session 1
session 2
session 3
session 4
session 5
session 6
conclusion wrap up feedback
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Session 1 - What do you want to do? brainstorming
post it notes
the internet
collect at least 2 or 3 for each
designer facilitating scribing contributing
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Session 2 - What do you want to make?
brainstorming
Quick Sketching
Develop at least 2 profiles
designer facilitating scribing contributing
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Session 3 - Who are you making it for? brainstorming
designer facilitating scribing contributing
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Session 4 - How are you going to design it?
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Session 5 - How are you going to make it?
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Session 6 - How are you going to sell it?
artisan designer codesign in the age of
ecommerce
Conclusions, Wrap Up and Feedback