Program

Swiss Design Network Symposium 2009
Multiple Ways to Design Research
Research cases that reshape the design discipline

12+13 November 2009 Lugano - Switzerland

Design Museographie

ECAL - Lausanne
Creasearch

HEAD - Genève
Life Clipper 2

HGK - Basel
Visual Rhetoric

HKB - Bern
Design Managment

Hochschule Luzern
OASI

SUPSI - Lugano
Colour-Light

ZHdK - Zürich
Variable Environment

ECAL - Lausanne
IDI

HEAD - Genève
Textile Interfaces

HGK - Basel
Hospital Atlas

HKB - Bern
Babel Channel

Hochschule Luzern
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SUPSI - Lugano
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ZHdK - Zürich
Walk the edit

ECAL - Lausanne
Sustainable Design

HEAD - Genève
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HGK - Basel
Picture Language C...

HKB - Bern
S.I. through Storytel...

Hochschule Luzern
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SUPSI - Lugano
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ZHdK - Zürich

Thursday, 12 November
10.00 Registration /check-in desk / Il Ciani

Morning sessions

10.45 Giovanni Anceschi, University Iuav of Venice / Massimo Botta, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland– Hypermodern? Perspectives for the Design Education, Research and Practice

11.30 Rachel Wingfield, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins – METABOliCITY: how can design nurture amateur cultures of food production in the city?

12.15 Pelle Ehn, Malmö University Design Things and Living Labs – Participatory design and design as infrastructuring

13.00 Lunch

Afternoon parallel sessions

14.00
Workshop / Isabel Rosa Müggler, Stijn Ossevoort, HSLU Art & Design / Ralf Michel, Zurich University of the Arts – Modification of Surfaces. How to start a research perspective on the interaction of design & technology

Workshop / Arne Scheuermann, Claudia Mareis, HKB Berne / Laurent Marti, FHNW Academy of Art and Design – Actor-network theory in design research

Workshop / Lysianne Léchot Hirt, Jerome Baratelli, Carlo Parmigiani, Daniel Sciboz, HEAD - Geneva University of Art and Design – Debriefing as methodological tool for design research

Workshop / Elizabeth Roche, Gianluca Brugnoli, FrogDesign –Meet frogThink(TM): Bridging the Gap between Research and Innovation.

Panel / Alain Findeli, FHNW & School of Architecture CRESSON / Noëlle von Wyl, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland – How Political Is Design Research?

Panel / Medardo Chiapponi, Kristian Kloeckl / University Iuav of Venice / Alvise Benedetti, CIVEN University Iuav of Venice Design and Nanotechnology – Creating Connections Between Research in Nanotechnology and Industrial Design

Presentation / Luca Guerrini, Politecnico di Milano Educating for Research – The New Phd Program in Design at the Politecnico of Milan

16.00 Coffee break

End of the day sessions

16.15 Jürgen Schmidhuber, University of Lugano / University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland – Art & Science as By-Products of Search for Novel Patterns, or Data Compressible in Unknown Yet Learnable Ways

17.15 – 19.15 Swiss Universities Art and Design – Design research in the new MA-programs

19.30 Conference dinner

Friday, 13 November
9.00 Registration /check-in desk / Il Ciani

Morning sessions

9.15 Francesca Rizzo, Politecnico di Milano – Co-created by Customers or Co-designed by End-Users?

10.00 Giuseppe O. Longo, University of Trieste – The Epistemological Turn: Technology, Bricolage and Design

10.45 Coffee break

Parallel sessions

11.30
USERS
Julien McHardy, Lancaster University – Make-shift Ciopfaspovs: an exploration of users in design
Guillermina Noël, University Iuav of Venice
– Assessing language and communications impairments. The role of visual communication design
Mario Doulis, FHNW School of Engineering Virtual reality
– Between technology and imagination

PARADIGMS
Marita Canina, Politecnico di Milano – Design for pro-active wearability Giuseppe Salvia, Politecnico di Milano Nature’s contribution to design: biomimetic approach as a mediation between biological and engineering sciences
Maurizio Rossi, Andrea Siniscalco, Politecnico di Milano / Fabio Zanola, Artemide Group – From physiology to a new sustainable lighting design: the “My white light” case study

SENSE AND MEANING
Tobie Kerridge, Goldsmiths, University of London – Does speculative design contribute to public engagement of science and technology?
Björn Franke, Royal College of Art – Design as a medium for inquiry
Françoise Adler, HSLU Art & Design – Designing smart clothes for the user. Product semantics of smart clothes

COOPERATIONS
François Jégou, Strategic Design Scenarios, Brussels – Enlightening collaborative design sessions of objects proposing energy-saving practices
Stefano Vannotti, Zurich University of the Arts – Blending participatory design, agile methods, and action research in the design of digital repositories
Minou Afzali, HKB Berne University of the Arts – Aggression management in general hospitals: a collaborative nursing science-design research project

13.00 Lunch

Afternoon sessions

14.15 Turkka Keinonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki – Design Method – Instrument, Competence or Agenda?

15.00 Kristian Kloeckl, University Iuav of Venice – Changing Connections – The Role of Connections in Products Between Traditional and New Technologies

16.00 Closure

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