year 1 of research - presentation

Year 1 researchserena Pollastri 20/09/2014

research contextCities, complexity, sustainability.

Design approach:- map the system to find emerging opportunities, rather than solving single problems

- design tools for collaboration.

theoretical frameworkMetadesign approach.

metadesign:John Wood (2008, p. 4) identifies Metadesign as an approach able to “transform the world by reimagining new ways to live”. This profound rethinking of the system is needed because working within the limits of the current system to make it “sustainable” is not enough (Wood, 2009).

Metadesign is the collaborative design of the design tools, processes that are able to produce a systemic change

research contextCities, complexity, sustainability.

research Question

“How can visualisation processes contribute to the design of future scenarios of sustainable liveable cities?”

liveable cities

August 2013 Activity of mapping relationships between research topics

research structure

research structure

why why

why

what type? what type?

what types?

diagrams design orienting scenarios

visualisations future scenarios

literature review

research structure

why why

why


what types?

diagrams

methods, processes, and tools

design orienting scenarios


literature review

research question

research structure

why why

why


what types?

diagrams




literature review

research question

design experiments

research structure

why why

why


what types?

diagrams




literature review

research question

design experiments

context

cities&liveability interdisciplinarity complexity

A visualisation is an artefact (or sometimes just a mental image) that translates information, which by itself is not directly observable, into a visual representation that facilitates the understanding of such information.

This is done through the use of visual language, a type of language that is able to describe data or ideas that are complex and/or have a non-linear structure. Unlike written text, visual language allows the reader to “see content and form simultaneously” (Dondis 1973, 106).

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visualisationDefinition for Bloomsbury New Design Encyclopedia

{

vi•su•al•i•sa•tionnoun

cognitive tool (Latour, Cross)

communication device (Ashwin, Cairo, Kress)

functionsBroadly speaking...

cognitive tools communication devices

functionsDesign Visualisations


Buckminster Fuller - Geodesic Dome and Dome over Manhattan

functionsDesign Visualisations


are visualisation of an intentional (designed) future

explain how to build/make/realize/pruduce it

support:

• thinking • discussing

choraScenario Game Case study

urban Gallery methodology:Databaseinput from residents to researchers

Actionplansplanners and politicians making decisions

Scenario gamesdiscussion, test of prototypes - all partners to one table

Prototypesspecialists provide solutions

Chora.org

choraScenario Game Case study

scenarios + Diagrams

(complex) information visualisationabout the future

Chora.org

a visual historY of the future (foresiGht)Evidence based report on how future cities have been visualised in the past 100 years.

DiaGrams for DesiGnAs a method for representing the complexity of urban life

The key role of diagrams as negotiation and decision-making tools is to enable common and shared understanding in multi-actors context (Ciuccarelli, Ricci and Valsecchi, 2008). Diagrams have always been integral part of different disciplines, from architecture and engineering to mathematics and natural sciences. In design research, diagrams are “operating devices able to reveal weak links among the elements of the system and to show the driving forces that can facilitate (or hinder) a design intervention” (Scagnetti et al., 2007)

diK

diagrams (process)

Data

Acquire data Analyse Represent Relations

Manage Design Interventions

Scenarios

Scale

Pinpoint Clusters

Framing

Graining

Information Knowledge Understanding Wisdom

Scagnetti, Gaia, Donato Ricci, Giovanni Baule, and Paolo Ciuccarelli. 2007. “Reshaping Communication Design Tools. Complex Systems Structural Features for Design Tools.” In . The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Ciuccarelli, Paolo, Donato Ricci, and Francesca Valsecchi. 2008. “Handling Changes through Diagrams: Scale and Grain in the Visual Representation of Complex Systems.” In Changing the Change Proceedings. Turin, Italy.

past-present /analysis future/design

DiaGrams for DesiGnA preliminary map of the process.

DiaGrams for DesiGnInformation visualisation


DiaGrams for DesiGnInformation visualisation


change by us nyca project by Code for America and Local Projects (2011)“A social network for civic activity”

http://nyc.changeby.us/

DiaGrams for DesiGnDraft of a taxonomy organized along the design process.

(This part needs to be reviewed)

visions of future

• To speculate*

- Sci-fi

• For strategy

- policy orienting scenario

• As design tool

- design orienting scenarios

*very different aims

visions of futureScenarios

scenarios

Policy-Orienting Scenarios

Future Studies

S1

S2

S3

P1

P2

P3

Strategic Planning

S1

S2

S3

P1

PP2

P3

Design-Orienting Scenarios

Design

S1

S2

S3

P

Decision Making in the scenario(s)

Design of the scenario(s)

keyS

P P

scenario

project / potential project

DesiGn orientinG scenarios

1. Macro Trends (context)

2. Meta Scenario

4. Glimpses

3. Layers

5. Variables

internal external independent

Reference:

Jegou, F. and Manzini, E. (2004) ‘Design degli scenari’, in Bertola, P. and Manzini, E. (eds) Design multiverso, appunti di fenomenologia del design. Milan: Polidesign, pp. 177–195.

Moy, D. and Ryan, C. (2011) ‘Using Scenarios to Explore System Change: VEIL, Local Food Depot’, in Design for Services. Gower.

DesiGn orientinG scenariosTechniques from existing case studies

Written narrative Designer as mediator

DesiGn orientinG scenariosTechniques from existing case studies

collaboration as brainstorming (very beginning of the process) or consultation (discuss solutions).

research DesiGnWhat am I trying to achieve and how

Aim:

Map models, tools, techniques and processes{

future visioninG workshoPDesign experiment

“livinG in the citY” foresiGht rePortDesign experiment

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FOreSight A viSuAl hiStOry OF the Future

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literature review and theorydesign experimentsresearch on methods and toolsother projectsconferences and presentations

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