Search for dissertations about: "design"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9416 swedish dissertations containing the word design.

2. 1. The science of imagining solutions design becoming conscious of itself through design

   University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design

   Author : Søren Rosenbak; Umeå universitet.; [2018]
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; design; pataphysics; possibility; imaginaries; imagination; the artificial; critical practice; critical design; speculative design; design fiction; participatory design; smart cities; lies; metadata; surveillance; failures; research through design; constructive design research; practice-based design research; programmatic research; epiphenomenology; quantum poetics; design; design; industrial design; industridesign;

   Abstract : This dissertation addresses a paradox in design: we currently live in a day and age that is fundamentally conditioned by artifice on all scales, and principled by a deep sense of contingency and possibility. In this world, anything could always be something else. READ MORE

4. 2. Design for Service: A framework for articulating designers’ contribution as interpreter of users’ experience

   University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design

   Author : Katarina Wetter Edman; Göteborgs universitet.; Gothenburg University.; [2014]
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Design for Service; design practice; service logic; service design; user involvement user centered design; materialization; narrative; experience; design for service; user involvement; user-centered design; narrative experience;

   Abstract : During the past approximately 15 years designers have paid increasing attention to service and changes in our society, resulting in a new design discipline – service design. In parallel, designers’ contributions to service development and innovation have been brought forward, often emphasizing designers’ capability of involving users, acting in and through multidisciplinary teams and using visualization skills in these situations. READ MORE

5. 3. Design Space Exploration co-operative creation of proposals for desired interactions with future artefacts

   University dissertation from Stockholm : KTH

   Author : Bo Westerlund; KTH.; [2009]
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Design; Design; Design process; co-operative design; participatory design; prototype; video prototype; attention; industrial design; design space; prop;

   Abstract : This thesis critically reflects on co-operative design workshops that I have conducted. The basic method used in these workshops draws on the participants’ embodied knowing. READ MORE

6. 4. Tangible participation - Engaging designs and design engagements in pedagogical praxes

   University dissertation from Lund University (Media-Tryck)

   Author : Henrik Svarrer Larsen; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; [2015]
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Aesthetics; annotated portfolios; Certec; corporeality; critical design; criticality; design; design artefacts; design hermeneutics; design qualities; design research; designerly; disability; embodiment; experiential qualities; extended materiality; hybrid media; ideation; intellectual disability; interaction design; interactivity; multisensory; multisensory environments; MSE; participation; participatory design; probes; programmatic design research; rehabilitation engineering; research by design; research through design; sensuousness; sketching; Snoezelen; tangible computing; tangibles.;

   Abstract : This dissertation contributes to three fields within design research: - Explorations of a design space related to aesthetics of Tangible Interaction, which have led to a set of design imaginations as well as perspectives on salient design qualities. - Views on and a designerly example of knowledge construction related to Research through Design as well as to programmatic approaches to design research. READ MORE

7. 5. Opening Up Design Engaging the Layperson in the Design of Everyday Products

   University dissertation from Umeå : Umeå University

   Author : Guido Hermans; Umeå universitet.; [2015]
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; democratisation of design; toolkits; 3D printing; layperson participation; post-phenomenology; research through design; design; design;

   Abstract : This dissertation in industrial design focuses on the gap between the context of design and the context of use. It aims to open up design to the layperson and investigate an active role for the layperson in the design of everyday products. READ MORE