Our collection of a dozen papers, each from a different field, is now available:
Stan and Gerry were Carle Health Maker Lab Finalists
April 17,2021 Stan and Gerry made a virtual pitch for the Smart Toy project to a panel of judges at the Carle Hospital Health Maker Lab in the hopes of winning $10,000 in funding. Alas, we did not win that round, but it was great to have a chance to share the project.
Stan and Milena deliver design workshop
June 15-16, 2020, Stan and Milena led an online but synchronous design workshop for a dozen leading researchers in the Digital Humanities.
Milena invited to speak at UBC
On November 28, 2019, Milena gave a presentation at the Designing for People research cluster in the University of British Colombia. The title of her somewhat provocative talk was “From Style to Humility: 150 years of design progress.”
Milena and Stan invited to speak at University of Waterloo
From October 18-22, 2019 Milena and Stan met with other members of the qlab and gave a series of talks hosted by the Games Institute. Their subjects included the intersection of feminism and human-computer-interaction (Milena), transformational design research (Stan), and a workshop on techno-tampons (Milena).
Stan, Milena, Claudia, and Juan help lead Workshop on Community Design and Innovation in Tumaco, Colombia
Following up on the workshop in January 2018 in Guaviare, Colombia, four members of the lab helped to deliver in August 2019 a series of sessions on imagining a better future. Approximately 100 people from Tumaco and vicinity, as well as elsewhere in Colombia, spent two weeks working on 10 design projects on topics such as luxury cacao production, making musical instruments, children’s playgrounds, and the fashion industry. At the same time, we worked on achieving an improved understanding the value systems of the various participants from Tumaco.
Zhabiz and Gerry in Ankara Turkey
As chairs of the conference track on ‘Prototyping’ Zhabiz and Gerry will be hosting and presenting at the DRS LearnX Conference in Ankara, Turkey. Their paper “Structure, Function, Materials Prototype for New Currency Game”, will be part of the discussion on the use of prototyping in design.
Ricardo Triska spoke at the Design and Materials International Seminar in Lorena (São Paulo – Brazil)
On June, 7th 2019 Ricardo presented part of an ongoing research program at UIUC: the project as a tool for merging competence and issues. The audience consisted of design researchers, teachers and students (graduate/undergraduate). The presentation was named “Rethinking Design and Designer.”
Juan and Gerry at EAD 2019 in Dundee, Scotland
Juan Del La Rosa and Gerry Derksen’s paper entitled,” Design Research through simulated social complexity methods: An agent-based approach to the construction of design knowledge “, will be presented at the 2019 EAD Conference in Dundee Scotland by Dr. Juan Salamanca who is leading the project on Agent Based Modeling Systems for bicycles. Look for the paper in the conference proceedings published by Taylor and Francis.
Stan gives invited talks and workshop at KEA in Copenhagen
Stan was a visiting scholar for the month of March at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA), hosted by Petra Ahde-Deal of the Wearables lab. He gave two public talks: one on the use of prototyping to investigate concepts; the other on design for peace and reconciliation in Colombia. He also ran a workshop on using prototypes to define and address research questions.