Roundtable newspaper kadk fno 2016 by From Now On

Round table conversations exploring design practice, process and product

THOUGHT BRIDGE

Center for Codesign Research, CODE May-June 2016 POINTS OF VIEW

EXCHANGE

Collaboration

SKETCHING IDEAS

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s n o i tat

COFFEE

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EXAMPLES

Perspec tives

POCKETS OF TIME LINES OF THOUGHT

WHAT!?

DESIGN

The conversations were set up as a forum for exchange between Center for Research in Codesign, CODE and From-Now-On and open to colleagues and guests of the research centre

01 Topic Collaboration Session May 3, 2016 Keywords Fuzzyness Scale Ownership Fatigue

Inspiration

Word of the day

complexification Hot & Cold Frictions

Collaboration Co-authorship Gift Rewarding Dissensus Friction Condition

Cooperation Participation Exchange Exhausting Consensus Commitment Choice

Mural mural.co

Meanwhile in Tingbjerg ... M and G are fixing clothes together

collaboration

Σωεʜ Χ (ω)

E (Χ | H ) =

Topic Expectations

Mystery word 6 1

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Session May 20, 2016

2 5

Keywords Physical Emotional Intellectual Spiritual

Inspiration

UNDP project Western Asia and Central Balkans Questions by jha2907 Photograph © codesignresearch.com

1: Sadness or displeasure caused by the non-fulfillment of one’s hopes or expectations.

Expectations of innovation from elsewhere vs co-design as a process of specificity.

2: The quality of having a modest or low view of one’s importance.

Word of the day

3: Feel concern or interest; attach importance to something.

bias

Are designers motivations changing?

2x2

Is it helpful to think of expectations as theories?

6: Trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something). 7: Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.

Caretaker

LOW

Responsibility

Hot & Cold Frictions

the peculiar mix of wanting something (specific) to happen

Improvisational Scepticism

BEFORE

Uncertainty

Preconceptions Intuition Vision

Hypothetical Measuring Cynicism

DURING

Experience Perception Awareness

AFTER

Opinion Learning Judgement

Xpectation Prince, 2013

Results

What design promises vs what/how designers do Questions by ines6305 Photograph © erdc.fa.ulisboa.pt

Relational Space and Right to the City. Experimental research in Alto da Cova da Moura (Amadora, Portugal). Research project funded by national funds by FCT-Fudação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, with the reference EXP/ATP-EUR/1772/2012 coordinated by anthropologist Júlia Carolino (GESTUAL/CIAUD/FAUL). Meanwhile in Tingbjerg ... someone wins the lottery!

by thomas8374

Co-design Biorhythm

Hopeful

Mural mural.co

and being truly open to what will unfold in the encounter

“Xhalation” – 2:04 “Xcogitate” – 3:33 “Xemplify” – 5:53 “Xpectation” – 4:01 “Xotica” – 3:05 “Xogenous” – 4:12 “Xpand” – 6:11 “Xosphere” – 3:34 “Xpedition” – 8:24

ARTWORK: PAUL VILLINSKI, HEAT, 2014, ALUMINUM (FOUND CANS), WIRE, SOOT

“Mon han dog ikke skulle komme?” Christen Dalsgaard (1824–1907)

Emotional

Intellectual

in Shift

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Article from the January–February 2016 issue (pp.74–79) of Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2016/01/collaborative-overload

Physical

aim for?

Ex p e

Collaborative Overload

Unspoken What expectations can are actually you conventions dare by pet3894

process

8: A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal, an unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy.

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Critic

Trader

5: Accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly.

Ex p e

Visionary

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Solutions 1: DISAPPOINTMENT; 2: HUMILITY; 3: CARE; 4: HOPE; 5: REALIST; 6: BELIEF; 7: SKEPTICAL; 8: DREAM Definitions from Oxford Dictionary of English Copyright © 2010, 2013 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved

Expectations

HIGH

4: A feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.

Ma n

a g i ng

03 Topic Results Session May 31, 2016 Keywords Orientation Accreditation Gratification Glorification

Inspiration

Word of the day

goalification How to fail

Hot & Cold Frictions

Discovery Risk New Possible

Necessary Expected Convention Targetting

Mural mural.co

Meanwhile in Tingbjerg ... bonding through wiring

result rɪˈzʌlt noun 1. a thing that is caused or produced by something else; a consequence or outcome. synonyms: consequence, outcome, upshot, out-turn, sequel, effect, reaction, repercussion, reverberation, ramification, end, conclusion, termination, culmination, corollary, concomitant, aftermath, footprint, fruit(s), product, produce, by-product, solution; More results About 8 results (0.75 seconds)

Questioning the causality: “a thing that is caused by something else” I think that in general, within constructive design research most research project deliverables/results are delivered within the project period and thus have a short term perspective on results. The long term perspective is just as important, and even though it is very difficult to describe and justify these the field would gain from more efforts on ‘follow-up studies’ including finding ways to both identify and justify effects/results. by evb2103

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact”

result rɪˈzʌlt noun 2. an item of information obtained by experiment or some other scientific method; a quantity or formula obtained by calculation. synonyms: answer, solution, calculation. More results About 5 results (0.40 seconds) The deliverable to the incinerator plant Vestforbrænding was a box full of things. We named it: “Inspiration in a box - user driven innovation within waste handling”. Instead of the traditional project report we collaboratively wrote a book. We named it: “Rehearsing the Future”. By combining various formats we have tried to give multi-faceted images of what happened there and then including research insights and design concepts, and various materials that could spark new waste projects into being. by evb2103

What happens to the design process when evaluation leads results? A list of unintended but important ‘secondary outcomes’ from the DAIM project. Example from Herlev municipality brings DC to suggest if “reinvented municipal development policy” could be considered a valued result of DAIM by jha2907

you talk about objectives and then develop a process for it, and then present what happened primarily in terms of the objectives

result rɪˈzʌlt verb 1. occur or follow as the consequence of something. synonyms: follow, ensue, develop, stem, spring, arise, derive, evolve, proceed, emerge, emanate, issue, flow; More results About 5 results (0.75 seconds)

It struck me that we in our codesign programme may give too little priority to the production of results, but also that we must be cautious not to be stuck with traditional ideas of what a design object might be by thomas8374 It seems to have emerged out of a number of the strands in recent conversations including relating to observations on process/product balance and reflections on the role materials play in a wider context of making. Pushing a project is as much about being able to improvise into this engagement as it is about foreseeing possible outcomes

Whose sucess? Who/what for?

client

designer

user

participant

money

posterity

story

press

sponsor

love

grandchildren

win the election

people

animals

you

________

Open-endedness is not the same as ‘lacking attention to completion’. Something must be carefully crafted to be open.

Being on the side and waiting for something interesting to happen

What if all results are considered as prototypes?

More Results

About 4,500,000,000 results (0.26 seconds)

Productive design research involves a considerable openess to drifting

Topic Perspectives Session June 7, 2016

thomas8374

danino

lene1478

Keywords Distance Paradigms Implications Differences Change

I use the camera as apparatus for an investigation of youth and identity – specifically the becoming of bodies through image making. I am working with participatory photography among a group of young immigrant girls in Copenhagen, and part of the engagement is concerned with balancing the one-eyed, two-dimensional, central perspective of the camera with a commitment to the inclusion of the girls’ multiple perspectives. I have sought out to create a third space - or polyphonic (polyperspectival?) setup – where the girls way of seeing, my way of seeing them, their way of seeing themselves, their way of seeing my way of seeing their way of seeing is visually explored. I have worked with layering, photomontage, image hybridization, and mise en abyme in order to disrupt representation, address multiple perspectives and emphasize conceptual ways of seeing.

jha2907

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Inspiration

§ It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you down. It’s the pebble in your shoe. §

does not mean that we are moving towards ‘anything goes’ but rather that we acknowledge what we can acomplish in design stems from our directed engagements in collaborative encounters. 0

Mohamad Ali

polyperspectival

Utopia “Enjoyable stay”

Dystopia

Akira Kurosawa, 1950

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One could think that would split the whole thing, but no, on the contrary.

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danino

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Do you need a shared vision of the future to make a decision?

Word of the day

Tips for your next vacation what travellers are talking about

Rashomon

Richard Serra. Verb List. 1967–68. MOMA, New York

no its not a shared idea its an alignment

As these differences become more outspoken, it enables other forms of cohabitation and productive frictions. So its a concern with how frictions can be productive that codesign is all about! Reply

Elemental, querido Aravena

Sokaina (a girl of Moroccan decent having recently moved to Copenhagen from Spain) commented on one of the images I had made of her: “I think the picture is so ugly, because the picture has a lot of zoom”

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“Worst experience ever, do not waste your money!!!”

jha2907

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I dont see codesign as bending perspectives towards a common perspective, but its acknowledging many different perspectives to get the encounter going, you need the differences in perspective to be manifest.

Heterotopia “Just go! Don’t miss” danino

Atopia “This place is amazing! Details make all the difference” 0

its full of disagreements, conflicts etc, but people sign up, in order to move forward (or because they couldn’t care less or afraid not to)

What a culture house could be is [in Tingbjerg]thriving due to the differences: librarians + codesigners + industrial designers + local electrician...

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Child in Tingbjerg

what’s your perspective? Join discussion! Add your own

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott, 1884

evb2103

Meanwhile in Tingbjerg ... children are fixing things

who?

Six principles for carrying out exploratory projects. Rehearsing the future, DAIM project

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Is it even possible to really consider the future? Reply

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Hogarth, satire on false pespective, 1753

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Hello Roundtablers Tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12-14 we start our round table discussion on product, process and practice of contemporary design, with the theme COLLABORATION It will be a soft start where we also discuss the format and the coming themes, but to get started consider to bring 3-4 images of what to you is collaboration in design It is also a good idea to bring a sandwich We meet around the CODE meeting table Hope to see many of you (and friends and colleagues are also welcome)

Daniel Charny

Tuuli Mattelmäki

Sissel Olander

Dee Halligan

Joachim Halse

Creative director at From Now On, founder and director of Fixperts and Professor of Design at Kingston University https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielcharny

A Finnish industrial designer, researcher and associate professor, working and publishing in service design and human centred design. Vice head of the Department of Design, Head of the Collaborative and Industrial Design Master programme at Aalto University. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuuli-mattelm%C3%A4ki-498583

Postdoctoral Fellow at KADK currently working with citizens, community, and social workers in Tingbjerg around the new Tingbjerg library and cultural centre. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sissel-olander-b956771

Director at From Now On. Consultant on creative and cultural projects, previously head of new audiences at National Trust. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-halligan-652a824

Design Anthropologist working as an associate professor at KADK, enjoying teaching, supervising and researching co-design issues. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachim-halse-279163

An opportunity to reflect on core themes that define or blur what we consider as design practice, design process or the products of design.

Thriving due to the differences.

Changes need time and resources as well as powerful agents.

Do you need a shared vision of the future to make a decision?

Thomas (and Daniel)

Main purpose of the round table series: pockets of time for conversation.

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Collaboration

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The round table conversations were programmed as a forum for exchange between the Center for Research in Codesign, CODE and From-Now-On and open to colleagues and guests of the research centre. They were inspired by the weekend round table meetings at ‘Shopwork’, the shop/studio of El Ultimo Grito, which ran between 2010 - 2014, and which worked as an open forum to question, explore, research and advance ideas on design. The round table conversations took place in parallel with a collaborative project in Tingbjerg Library, in a suburb of Copenhagen, which brought different communities together to make and fix, testing ideas about what these activities could add to a library experience. The project was hands-on and propositional, while the round table conversations were open and curious, explorative and sometimes tangential. They created a grounding for theoretical speculation, and allowed for trying out new ways of looking at and saying things. They were much less conclusive than what we first imagined, and all the better for it. As the different points of view were exchanged the conversation became less about coming together and conclusion, and more about recognition of and respect for differing perspectives and consequently opening up of the territory.

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Exploring design ...process as working together; ...product as actually producing something new; ...practice as the things that you did to get there; ...practice as “what really happens, as opposed to what one might have thought would happen”; ...practice as “professional” vs “educational”; ...practice as “business-oriented” vs “academicresearch” vs “artistic-development” work; ...practice as in preparing for “the real thing” ...practice as a particular “disciplinary” perspective on anything.

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Other subjects considered (possible future round tables?) Experimentation Value Jobs Design Materials Participation

Dear all, I would love to join this discussion again, but unfortunately – or perhaps happily – I am back home again.

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Thomas Binder Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. Co-leading the Center for Research in Codesign (CODE). https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-binder-53b69b3 Inês Veiga

Ending our series of round table discussions under the heading: perspectives, seemed surprisingly timely as it made us dwell on the directionality of what we do without reducing to simple questions of intentions and outcomes.

Designer and researcher, PhD student at Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon. https://www.linkedin.com/in/inesveiga

Around the table we built bridges and ways of seeing design issues and practices anew, from afar and through each others eyes.

Eva Brandt

Lene Hald Researcher and photographer with an in interest in theoretical and practice-led visual sociology focusing on interdisciplinary studies between sociology and art/design. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenehald

Various perspectives and multiple stories do emerge.

Peter Gall Krogh Professor in Design at the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University where he heads the Design Research group https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-krogh-0b2b623

Unspoken expectations are actually conventions.

Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design. Co-leading the Center for Research in Codesign (CODE). https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-brandt-b9ba593

It has been great time for sharing and discussing issues that we all care about.

The theme is super relevant: just yesterday I participated in a discussion where people from ministries reflected their take-aways from the Design for Government course. It seems that implementing the resulting solution suggestions as such is extremely difficult. Even when there is positive interest and visions, changes need time and resources as well as powerful agents. So the feeling of the results’ potential to be realised was a bit lame. However, as a side note, they did report that many of the participants have gained a lot by participating the course and tutoring students’ work. The participants from ministries had mentioned especially that the students’ ‘different kind of an approach’ had revealed new insights to the given challenge as well as the human-centered, empathic attitude seemed to have touched them. I guess, it might take few more courses to make an impactful change in the attitude level before those personal experiences start to make a difference. Thanks again everyone for letting me come, participate and gain new ideas and experiences. See you again soon again, I hope, Tuuli