Hi Carlos,
I enjoyed reading your paper.
There's some early work on conceptual design you may also find helpful in your discussion of conceptual design (I'm assuming you haven't come across them as you didn't mention them). An example is the classic text on conceptual design by Michael French (French , M.J. Design (1971) Engineering Design: The Conceptual Stage, Heinemann).
French takes a different perspective and regards conceptual design as a process in which you can use a variety of design-related tools and methods to identify the best possible opportunities for designs at the earliest possible stage in design, i.e. before any brainstorming or idea generation about specific designs. In effect this is a formalised approach to design as speculation. Instead of asking 'what would be a good design?', these approaches focus on a meat-approach that asks 'What would be the likely different groupings of characteristics of designs in which the best speculative design would be found?'
To do this requires 'meta-design process' tools. These meta-design tools can be seen as having two roles in conceptual design.
The first is the use of formal design methods before any idea generation to accurately review the solution-space arena of possible designs to identify those specific sub-regions of that give the best design outcomes.
The second comprises practical design approaches operating within the characteristics of those subregions of solution space to produce the best designs.
I've outlined some of these latter methods at http://www.love.com.au/index.php/20-guidelines-for-design-thinking
French's book on bio-mimetics may also be useful (Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature and Engineering).
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dear list members,
Hoping that it could be helpful, I share a paper that I wrote on speculative design.
"Design as Speculation" was published by "Design Philosophy Papers", v.
9, n. 1, 2011.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/144871311X13968752924392?journalCode=rfdp20#.VgmZfivlRgQ
https://www.academia.edu/2593744/Design_as_Speculation
Best regards,
Carlo Franzato
>>> Joseph Lindley <[log in to unmask]> 28/09/15 5:58 >>>
Sharing this interesting call for papers involving speculative design and 'anticipatory ethnography'.
Thanks!
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*From:* Sharma, Dhruv
*Sent:* 27 September 2015 14:00
*Subject:* DUXU 2016, Toronto, 17-22 July
Dear Colleague
After a very successful year in Los Angeles (USA), the fifth * Design, User Experience and Usability (DUXU) conference will be held in Toronto, from
17
to 22 July 2016 *and will include a session on ‘Anticipatory Ethnography’
(Lindley *et al*., 2014) as part of several sessions generally focused on science fiction (sci-fi), speculative design and design fiction.
The Proceedings of DUXU15 constituted a three-volume set from Springer with more than 200 authors and co-authors from approximately twenty countries.
You can access the DUXU15 conference site by clicking here. The DUXU16 conference site will be posted shortly. The total HCI15 attendance for the primary conference and affiliated conferences was approximately 2000 people from more than seventy countries.
We are now inviting abstracts for oral presentations of written papers in this session. If you are interested in taking part, then please send your expressions of interest as soon as possible. The final deadline for the
800- word abstracts is 15 October 2015 and accepted papers should be
camera- ready by 1st February 2015.
Please feel free to share this within your network or with anyone who is interested in this area and please feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions.
Looking forward to welcoming you in Toronto!
Cheers!
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