Dear Ken and all,
Thanks for this thread for sharing our current interests and concentration.
I have been in this list since 2010 (as I remember) and have been joining
conversations and opening up threads time to time; but not so often. It has
been great to get feedback from some inquiries. For example once I had
asked ideas about the 'concept of function' and I had gained many important
and rich feedback from the members. Also I cannot forget many brilliant
feedback for my inquiry about grading rubrics regarding design education.
I gained my Ph.D degree in 2016 from Istanbul Technical University,
Industiral Product Design Doctorate program in Istanbul, Turkey. My thesis,
entitled as 'An Investigation of Transformation of Living Room Furniture:
The Idea Of Living Room, Furniture Acquirement Dynamics And Use Practices'
was actually written in Turkish. The article I derived from it: ‘Living
Rooms Occupied: Narratives on the Recontextualization of the “Museum-Salon”
Practice in Modern Turkish Domesticity
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17406315.2019.1699739>’ has
been recently published and issued in Home Cultures: The Journal of
Architecture Design and Domestic Space; co-authored by my supervisors Prof.
Şebnem Timur and Prof. Meltem Ö. Gürel. The revision process has been
a great school for me to explore even more thoroughly manifold notions of
domesticity and their relations with design discourse. You can visit the
link here for more information :
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17406315.2019.1699739
Also I still have free copies that you can provide from me through an
e-mail. In relation with this forum list, I would like to thank some
scholars who kindly helped me in some steps in my writing process. I would
like to thank Qassim Saad for sharing me his studies about Iraqi
modernization which contributed my work very well for exemplifying other
non-Western contexts. And I also would like to thank Richard Harriot for
helping me with the final touches by means of language. It has been great
opportunities to collaborate.
Another work I have been working on has been a book chapter: ‘User
Appropriation Issues’ which was published by a local publisher. This was an
attempt to bring the literature on appropriation practices performed by
users after they purchased and brought the products at home; the
differences between how the designers intend to design and how users use
them. I had also covered these subjects regarding ‘Non-Intentional Design’
by Uta Brandes and ‘Thoughtless Act’ by Jane Fulton Suri in my Ph.D. Now I
articulated further with *Domestication* literature as I also consider even
furthering it in near future.
I also would like to tell about a short essay, written in Turkish, about
Ottoman Revivalism in the context of Living Room Aesthetics for
‘Arredamento Architecture – Design Culture Journal’. It is generally about
considering the takeover of conservative politics in the cultural and
social realm of Turkey and the burgeoining of a new Islamic upper class
lifestyle manifested in home decoration. Members of this social group
identified themselves mostly referring to consumption patterns related with
signs and styles of Ottoman Revivalism. Actually consumption field and
status consumption was mostly belonging to and associated with Westernized
secular habitus and lifestyles. I analysed a conservative upper middle
living room in this essay and observed living room furniture in
Neoclassical style or some objects like Turkish delight containers or
sherbet containers or objects carrying signatures of Ottoman Sultans and
many other things were symbols of status display and impression management.
This is a short essay now but I might further it as well.
Now that the hot summer strikes Izmir, the city I live.
Sunny regards from Izmir,
Dr. Esra Bici Nasır
Design Academics
Part-time Lecturer
Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Izmir University of Economics
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:09 AM Zoltán Körösvölgyi <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Besides baking bread for my family this morning, I am a doctoral student
> and a lecturer, as well as a lurker on this list.
>
> (Baking sounds like a direct response to the current lockup still in
> effect in our city, but in reality it is a three-year-practice, sprouted
> from the ideas of sustainment in design theory I started to read at the
> beginning of my PhD studies).
>
> I live and work in Budapest, Hungary. My background is art history, but
> for more than twenty years I worked in advertising, marketing and cultural
> company management positions before taking the buoy and turning into yet
> another upwind. (The wording is not coincidental, sailing is an integral
> part of my identity.)
>
> I study at the Doctoral School of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and
> Design (MOME), profiled on design culture studies with approx. 80 students
> from several fields and various research topics. I find myself very lucky
> being able to learn in such an exciting learning environment. (Just as
> being able to follow the threads of discourse on this list.) My research
> focuses on the sacred and art/design, supervised by Márton Szentpéteri and
> Bálint Veres.
>
> I also work in education: teaching classes art/design/film history/theory,
> as well as art management to local and international students at the Liszt
> Academy of Music. My classes run both in Hungarian and English. I finished
> my 7th academic year there yesterday. I have also had classes at MOME in
> relation to my doctoral research, as well as earlier at the Eötvös Loránd
> University (ELTE) in communication.
>
> The project I am most proud of was connected to a course at MOME,
> connecting theory and practice in my field of research: the creation of the
> Forest Chapel in Pannonhalma in the summer of 2018 as one term-end
> reflection on the course, realised with students (see:
> https://epiteszforum.hu/nyitas-felfele-erdei-kapolna-a-szent-imre-hegyen <
> https://epiteszforum.hu/nyitas-felfele-erdei-kapolna-a-szent-imre-hegyen>
> in Hungarian,
> https://bigsee.eu/forest-chapel-by-ba-students-of-architecture-at-the-moholy-nagy-university-of-art-and-design-mome-hungary/
> <
> https://bigsee.eu/forest-chapel-by-ba-students-of-architecture-at-the-moholy-nagy-university-of-art-and-design-mome-hungary/>
> in English, and
> https://www.themaprogetto.it/building-a-chapel-and-a-community-the-forest-chapel-in-pannonhalma-ungheria/
> <
> https://www.themaprogetto.it/building-a-chapel-and-a-community-the-forest-chapel-in-pannonhalma-ungheria/>
> in Italian).
>
> The past year I had a research project on the relations of new
> media/intermedia in contemporary sacred art. From time to time I also
> curate exhibitions.
>
> My next major task is co-editing a thematic issue of ‘Helikon,’ a
> quarterly journal published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (the issue
> will focus on the Post Secular) together with Márton Szentpéteri. And then
> I shall turn to finish my PhD thesis.
>
> I read, translate, and write quite a lot, and also present at local and
> international conferences. Most of my papers were published in Hungarian,
> one in English with one more conference paper in English upcoming. A
> selected list is available at https://mome.academia.edu/ZoltanKorosvolgyi
> <https://mome.academia.edu/ZoltanKorosvolgyi>.
>
> It is time to remove the bread from the oven, so I finish the flow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zoltán Körösvölgyi
>
> > On 2020. May 11., at 12:39, Floris van der Marel <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey everybody,
> >
> > First time posting here, been on the list for a few years. Thank you,
> Ken, for starting this initiative, I am so enjoying reading what everybody
> is doing!
> >
> > Briefly about me. I am conducting my Participatory Design research
> project as part of a joint PhD program between Aalto University in Helsinki
> and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne (at the end of my first
> year now). I have a background in industrial design engineering and design
> research for interaction. Mostly I am interested in overcoming power
> imbalances in places where strong hierarchies exist when it comes to
> participatory design initiatives. Currently, I'm collaborating with a rural
> healthcare facility, where I have been conducting a series of workshops in
> which team members from across the organisation (managers, nurses,
> security, linen, administration, volunteers) came together to address the
> emerging issue of occupational violence (patients to nurses). Since Covid19
> that’s been on hold, so I started doing a systematic literature review. In
> my initial literature review, I took more of a cherry picking approach,
> which one of my panel members did not agree with (I protested a little, but
> she was right, I know that now).
> >
> > Looking forward to having more in-depth conversations with anybody
> working on similar projects, at similar stages, or just with similar
> interests. Happy to for example share more about the systematic literature
> review I am struggling with, and explore together how to make the world
> better. Feel free to shoot me a message privately, or publicly. Happy to
> give and receive support.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Floris van der Marel
> > linkedin.com/in/floris-van-der-marel-b987bb31 <
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/floris-van-der-marel-b987bb31?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BBAp%2FAYaoRjO1qEsRXTcv5g%3D%3D
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 9 May 2020, at 3:57 am, Hans Kaspar Hugentobler <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear list members, dear Ken (thanks for this wonderful initiative)
> >>
> >> My name is Hans Kaspar Hugentobler. I live in Zürich, Switzerland. and
> work at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts while also running
> a consulting boutique.
> >>
> >> I am a hybrid thinker who has a lot of fun exploring vast territories
> of knowledge and finding pathways besides the paths of least resistance.
> >>
> >> I have been following the list since doing my Master in Strategic
> Design Planning at the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Institute of
> Technology in Chicago. I was fortunate to study at an institution that
> assembled faculty pioneering progressive approaches of design that came
> together in a demanding program. It is no understatement to say that
> notably Patrick Whitney, John Heskett, Larry Keeley, Sharon Poggenpohl,
> Chuck Owen, and Vijay Kumar have influenced me for a long time to come, and
> infused me with a profound interest in research, teaching, and writing.
> >>
> >> My master – in combination with my studies of design in Zurich as well
> as of communication and information sciences in Berlin, Germany – brought
> me to the University of the Arts in Bremen, Germany, where I got the chance
> to lead my first design research project funded by the European Union and
> the City of Bremen. The goal was to investigate the potentiality of an
> integrated design research, planning, and management approach to
> innovation.
> >>
> >> This became a steppingstone into academia to start teaching and
> researching at the then newly founded Design Management International
> program at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. As a member of
> the core management team since its inception, I help further developing
> program rationale and curriculum. I was invited to teach some of what
> became its signature courses: “Strategic Design Planning” in the tradition
> of Doblin, “Ethnography” in the tradition of E-Lab, “Systems Design” in the
> progressive combination of systems theory with design practice, and
> “Technology, Digital Transformation, and Design” as related to one of the
> current dominant design economies.
> >>
> >> I have a profound interest in systems design going back to my studies
> at the Institute of Design where I was introduced to a software-supported
> approach to Strategic Design Planning that was pioneered at ID and reached
> back to principles developed by Christopher Alexander.
> >>
> >> At that time, it was highly novel to me to address problems through a
> design approach that focuses on the question of WHAT to design based on
> thorough understandings of people and technology in specific
> social-technical situations. Until then I was primarily concerned with
> questions of HOW to design. I was a brand development director in a
> consultant role at Zintzmeyer & Lux (which later merged with Interbrand) in
> Zurich and Cologne, Germany, which was at that time the most influential
> and largest brand consultancy on the European Continent. I was leading
> cross-disciplinary teams tasked with planning and developing large design
> systems for multinational enterprises such as BMW, German Telekom, and
> T-Mobile, and collaborated with C-suite members and boards of directors.
> >>
> >> Fast forward: while my initial research with industry and hospitals was
> largely focusing on innovation and driven by a design management approach,
> my research moved further upstream towards the strategic realm of WHY to
> design. I developed a deep interest in how to help organizations installing
> innovation management systems employing an approach that understands design
> as a particular way of thinking and acting. Now I have been translating
> that interest further upstream. One of my current research questions is:
> how could the design way be used to support organizational transformation
> to adapt to the new paradigm of the exponential economy? Inquiries are
> positioned in the realm of addressing unframed challenges through
> sense-making and aimed at exploring pathways for organizational renewal.
> >>
> >> In closing, I believe that there is an increasing need for a specific
> type of design education that addresses this question from another
> perspective: how to continuously adapt to continuous disruption through
> continuous learning. In its most abstract form, this is about developing
> higher levels of consciousness and processes about learning how to learn,
> which is, in essence, a capability for self-creation. This might require a
> new type of designer, a new type of education, and a new type of school.
> >>
> >> Enough the words, for now, thank you for your attention, and best
> wishes to all.
> >>
> >> Hans Kaspar Hugentobler
> >>
> >> My Email:
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> My Academic profile:
> >>
> https://www.hslu.ch/en/lucerne-university-of-applied-sciences-and-arts/about-us/people-finder/profile/?pid=604
> >>
> >> My Consultancy:
> >> www.maloya-labs.com
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and
> related research in <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Ken Friedman
> >> Sent: Thursday, 7 May 2020 8.19
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: 30-day Research Challenge
> >>
> >> Friends,
> >>
> >> The 30-day Research Challenge went quiet after Alexandra Crosby and Don
> Norman posted to the list on Saturday, May 3.
> >>
> >> It’s my hope that this has been a lull before an avalanche of
> interesting posts from people who are only waiting for the right day. With
> May 17 creeping toward us, today is the right day!
> >>
> >> To quote Henry V, “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more …”
> >>
> >> You’re sitting there at home in front of your computer wondering
> whether you ought to share your thoughts, tell us about your work, raise
> the research questions that interest you. Please do.
> >>
> >> “I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips Straining upon the start.
> The game's afoot!”
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >> Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji.
> The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji
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> <
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> >
> >>
> >> Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and
> Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| Eminent Scholar |
> College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning | University of
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