Design Developments
What is Hidden Behind Design? How? And Why?: Could Engineering Services Change and Improve Interactivity Between Designer and Builder?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Aija Freimane, Janis Uzulens, Zane Eglite, Ineta Geipele
The concept of “design” in the English and Latvian languages is slightly different, yet we all understand that the meaning of design involves art, or creative process, which is often realized by a builder and/or a manufacturer. The design is there at the beginning and at the end of the process. When discussing buildings, we understand the whole lifetime of them. The design is realized by three subjects: the owner, the designer, and the builder. But the design conceals from public view the real things that happen once the realization of the project is initiated. Neither designers nor architects can be blamed for these things. The goal of the research is to bring all parties, designers and architects and builders and owners closer together, and to urge them to be more responsible to each other. Our study emphasizes the EN 16310 standard, one of the most useful tools to achieve this.
From Content to Context: Local Appropriation of Transport Designs from DIY Magazines
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Maria Pokataeva, Natalia Dedevich, Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk
Today, user innovation is an important phenomenon that describes the process of competing and even displacing producers in many areas (Baldwin and Von Hippel 2011). However, for almost three decades of research on user innovation, the main focus has been on economically developed settings, while its applicability in other economies remains mostly unexplored. In this paper, we draw from the specific context, i.e., the settings of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, where user-innovation activities (used to and still do) play a role of a compensatory mechanism for non-market economic relations (Fursov et al. 2016). Our research started from design exploration into the archives of the DIY-magazines of the Soviet era, with focus on self-made all-terrain transport vehicles. We present two case studies of DIY ATVs that were originated in the 1960s and are still in use: since their first appearance in a magazine they have spread across the entire Soviet Union and paved the way to new types of machines for traversing roadless terrains of tundra and taiga. By these examples, we trace how the public arenas while contributing to technology-oriented educational legacy have provided for locally embedded design skills under the strict rules of planning economy. Finally, we discuss the very meaning of the environmental and social context in adopting and inspiring entirely new kinds of technology and, eventually, in developing enduring design principles without the participation of design professionals.
Exploring the Direction of Design Using Korean Traditions
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hearan Jung, Boram Park
Korea's traditional culture appears in all aspects of human life. For example, architecture that was built with nature, foods that fit in the four seasons, clothes using the meaning of colors, Korean language, and various living tools. All of these things together in function and meaning, we can appreciate the value and discover our identity and creativity. However, in the process of becoming modernized, only Western modernism and externalizes were accepted, resulting in the extinction of tradition. Fortunately, recent and various efforts are being made to find our identity based on our tradition. However, it is a big problem that basic concepts are not currently being studied or utilized, and that our interest in traditional is also lacking. There are two main reasons why we failed to use our tradition in design. The first is how to visualize a tradition simply by applying it. Just a superficial understanding of the traditional form and its simple application cannot be a process to utilize the tradition. Most of the design results that have been utilized are still within this category. Second, they are able to utilize the tradition well, but do not exceed the global threshold. The conclusion from the well-used tradition case studies that start from identity. That was a modern design based on tradition or a re-creative approach to past lifestyles based on current aesthetic and lifestyle. This approach will be a precursor to creating new traditions. We need new approaches to the globalization of tradition.
