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Research within the School of Art and Design brings together visual artists, spatial designers, fashion designers, filmmakers, curators, entrepreneurs, graphic designers, digital designers, product designers and other cultural practitioners from New Zealand and around the world to work on expanded notions of art and design through creative-led research. Their research disciplines and study areas include: Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Spatial Design, Product Design, Digital Design, Fashion and Textile Design, and across disciplines.
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- Item3-D knit transformations(School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology, 2014) Smith, AE; Kalyanji, J; Fraser, GRapid advances in seamless knitting technology are opening up significant opportunities in the design, production and application of knitted textile preforms. Introduced in the mid 1990’s, seamless machinery enables shaped, 3-dimensional knitted forms to be produced entirely by machine. While garment producers globally adopted the technology for its economic efficiencies, the standardised templates in the technology’s software have generally reduced the sophistication of designs produced. Although the signifi cant unrealised potential in seamless technology is widely acknowledged, designers and manufacturers are facing diffi culties in understanding and integrating the complex technology into their practice. There remains a fundamental gap in knowledge and skills, in part due to a simplified and modular garment based user interface, which fronts a complex and sophisticated technology. Of the limited research in this area, most relates to garment shaping. More recently, we have started to see sophisticated applications of this technology in highly technical or artisanal design outcomes emerging from textile research centres. The design and production of knitted textile forms in 3-dimensions, as opposed to the 2-dimensional fl at pattern and construction of the past, is a significant conceptual shift for traditional textile design practice. Traditional craft and design practices are often disrupted by the emergence of new technologies. We believe that the disruption created by seamless knit technology has the potential to vastly change both the design and application of knitted textiles, moving knitted textile manufacturing up the value chain. This installation showcases the advanced capabilities of seamless knitting technology for innovative, 3-dimensional form building and high-end design outcomes. The group submitting this proposal consists of a knitwear designer, knitted textile designer and knit technician. All are experienced in this field, and will draw on current research and developments to work collaboratively in producing a collection of seamless knitted products that demonstrate unique shaping, 3-dimensionality, pattern and texture. The collection includes both garment and non-garment applications and may incorporate smart textile applications.
- ItemA case study of authentic learning underpinned by design thinking and industry collaboration(DesignEd Asia Secretariat, 2013) Inder, S; Withell, AThis paper will present a case study of a year-two product design project that has been developed alongside the specific requirements of an industry collaborator and delivered within an innovative, research-led, Design Thinking (Brown, 2008) framework, providing an authentic learning experience for students. This tightly structured approach aimed to “engage students in real-world inquiry problems involving higher order thinking skills with an authentic audience beyond the classroom” (Rule, 2006), through the integration of industry orientated needs and constraints. The paper will discuss the overarching approach to the development of the project including the key principles and theories that underpin the curriculum. The paper then discusses collaboration with an industry expert to develop the pragmatic design and industry constraints focusing on economic feasibility, functional viability and product desirability. In addition, it includes a description of an innovative Design Thinking framework that has been developed as part of a PhD research project. The paper concludes with a discussion of the impact of this tightly constrained, authentic learning approach on the design expertise development of students. It also discusses the tensions in developing a learning and teaching approach for year two students that balances Design Thinking (empathising and radical idea generation) and pragmatic, constraint driven design.
- ItemA diagram (Geology)(2011)(headland Sculpture on the Gulf, 2012-04-10) Cullen, PA Diagram was an outdoor site-based sculptural work comprising a tower, a deck structure, a vertical ladder and support structure, benches and a field of rocks. The installation of spatially dispersed objects configured a site through which viewers could walk.
- ItemA Fale Samoa at Tropical Islands Resort, Germany: performing Samoa to the world(Centre for Samoan Studies (CSS), the National University of Samoa, 2014) Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Simati, BKNo abstract.
- ItemA method to review and report literature in transdisciplinary research undertaken by individual researchers(Delft University of Technology; The Hague University of Applied Sciences; TNO, 2010-10-01) Gaziulusoy, I; Boyle, CProjects aiming to solve socially-relevant complex problems in general and sustainability related projects in particular are increasingly approached as transdisciplinary research projects. The distinguishing characteristics of transdisciplinary projects require development of unique strategies to overcome difficulties resulting from the absence of disciplinary frameworks and broadness of issues needing to be covered. Since transdisciplinary research requires broad preparation, it is particularly challenging to undertake at Ph.D. level where, traditionally, the researchers are expected to work individually. Even though review of literature in transdisciplinary research has been acknowledged as one of the challenges of transdisciplinary research, no systematic way of approaching this challenge has been proposed so far. The aim of this paper is to present a method developed to help Ph.D. researchers undertaking transdisciplinary projects in systematic structuring and prioritisation of literature review/reporting process. In this method, the transdisciplinary researcher identifies and reflects on a long-term vision that he/she aims to contribute towards its achievement. Identification of a vision is the starting point for setting filters in order to narrow the literature review. Further narrowing is done through an iterative process of identifying other filters by inquiring about the mission, context and content of the research and by answering some reflective questions. A recently finalised Ph.D. research on system innovation for sustainability at product development level is used as a case study to exemplify the use of the method.
- ItemA process of unlearning/unstitching(Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), 2014-11-21) Palmer; Engels-Schwarzpaul, T; Refiti, A; Melich, B; Tulloch, L; Jenner, RIn Aotearoa, how do we position ourselves within an academy pervaded by Western philosophical thought? During the 1980’s Post-structuralist theory was the main stay in my education as an architect. Although we live in a colonised country, local research oriented by post-structuralist thinking seemed to be unable to interrogate how our cities and rural areas are socially and ethnically segregated. Suspicious of collectives and racial or ethnic identity, Poststructuralism, has been strangely indifferent and disconnected to social, political or environmental concerns relating directly to indigenous peoples but in spite of this, Post Structuralist theory is seen as critical to supporting research within the academy. My PhD research is involved with Māori communities in the Far North of Aotearoa, to which I am affiliated, but disillusioned by Western philosophical frameworks, I have found myself unlearning its principal doxa to reposition my research practice.
- ItemA Red Line/ An aesthetics of process(The Writers Group, 2001) Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.; Jotti, D.
- ItemA scenario method for product development teams as an aid to plan for system innovation: a conceptual framework and a workshop outline(Centre for Sustainable Design, University of Surrey, 2009-10) Gaziulusoy, I; Boyle, C; McDowall, RThis paper presents a conceptual framework and a workshop design for a scenario method to help product development teams of companies in planning for system innovation for sustainability. The conceptual framework for the scenario method is developed as a result of an extensive desktop research based on the newly emerging system innovation theory, recent developments in futures studies literature/practice, and previous work aimed to steer system innovation. A workshop process is designed to implement the scenario method based on the conceptual framework. An action research methodology is currently being followed to improve and validate the method through iterative cycles of expert consultation and workshops.
- ItemA warm grey fabric lined on the inside with the most lustrous and colourful of silks: dreams of airships and tropical islands(Taylor & Francis, 2007) Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-Chr.No abstract.
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- ItemAccident + emergency: risky intervals in the design studio(WelTec, Victoria University and Massey University [on behalf of Interior Design / Interior Architecture Educators (IDEA)], 2007-07-02) Douglas, CThis paper concerns the role of accidents and generative processes in design. It discusses two studio projects carried out at the University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning in 2006. ‘Accident’ called for the design of a vehicle depot as a place for chance meetings and failures to connect. ‘Emergency’ called for the design of an emergency facility. Both projects were intended to provoke students to consider the unintentional, serendipitous and disastrous aspects of designing. In initial discussions, accidents were commonly understood as exceptions to the norm, failures of a system, or loss of control. Against this view, students were presented with concepts from emergence theory, and Paul Virilio's argument that accidents are inherent in systems. In response, students opened up what this paper describes as 'risky intervals', strategies for exposing their design to the unintentional.
- ItemActive Tense: ‘writing’ through design practice(Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, 2009) Thomassen, A; Preston, J“Active tense” stems from a collaborative research project “designing, writing”, which aims to disseminate current knowledge and best practice on the relationships between designing and writing and their mutual interest in speculation, expression and research. This paper builds on preliminary findings to the various ways that design practices and design processes contextualize and explicate an intellectual proposition, i.e. how design contributes to advancing knowledge. While most discussions around this topic adopt one of two distinct positions-- that where authority is given to written text and that where design work has the ability ‘to be read’-- our investigation looks at various media of design articulation directly linked to design as a system of inquiry , such as comics, storyboards, diaries, diagrams and choreographic notation. Each of these identify an ability to ‘write’ through design. These media expand design research as non-linear, theoretical and yet practical tools.
- ItemAdaptive Digital Capability Development: Professional Learning for Educators Across Disciplines(Academy for Design Innovation Management, 2019-06-18) Peterson, J; Lockhart, C; Raffaele, CIn a cross-university project, a mixed methods approach was adopted to design a learning model for digital work practices in line with evolving industry needs. Drawing upon industry input (n=50), developmental learning and technology affordance theory, a model was trialled with Design, Journalism and Engineering students (n=78). Workshops were held at five universities with educators (n=66) and this paper discusses their perspectives on the model. Their responses indicated a predominantly functional digital capability focus in their current learning and teaching practice; rather than integrating functional, perceptual and adaptive digital capabilities, which are in high demand but short supply in industry. The educators highlighted a need for their own professional learning and we offer practical suggestions for moving beyond a functional digital focus. We argue it is vital for students and educators to learn and use the vocabulary of technology affordances, to strengthen professional learning for digital work futures.
- ItemAdvertising, Public Relations and Social Marketing: shaping behaviour towards sustainable consumption(Routledge, 2013-07-01) Muratovski, GAs the world struggles to sustain mass consumption as a lifestyle of choice, the need for sustainable behaviour becomes increasingly evident. Even though there are already a number of technical and legislative solutions underway, we still need to work on changing our consumption habits. This calls for social marketing strategies that can lead to promotion and acceptance of sustainable behaviour on a global scale. The problem, however, is that social marketing for sustainability that dominates the media today is ineffective and even counterproductive. In this study, I will examine what drives consumerism, and argue that sustainable consumption could be promoted as an alternative lifestyle, based on the same strategies that have successfully established mass consumption as a way of life. Countering the claims made for traditional social marketing, I will suggest that appealing to people’s innermost desires in the same way commercial marketing does, is in fact a more effective means of behaviour change than the negative information campaigns that are prevalent today. This calls for a different type of social marketing—one based on positive appeals related to subjective wellbeing and self-fulfilment, and not on scare tactics and dull educational campaigns.
- ItemAfternoon House II: Radical/Conservative(Auckland, NZ: AGM Publishing, 2009) Douglas, CThe Afternoon House series is an ongoing research project leveraging belated or obsolete architectural techniques and ideas to explore the way that architecture makes world-order perceptible. It is a revision of Palladio's Villa for a world he could not imagine. It consists of a black shell of layered in-situ concrete, enclosed, partitioned, and furnished in light timber and fine steel joinery. The shell is formed by linear rhythms of solid and void. Complexity develops as simple rhythms slip in and out of phase with each other, converge and interfere. Although each pattern is rigorous and repetitive, no two of the resulting spaces are identical. Although the plan is not sensed directly in the way that heat, darkness, or solidity are sensed, it is nonetheless perceived. It is not a matter of the mind against the senses: it is incorrect to oppose cognitive order and sensory experience. Experience is also cognitive and order sensory. Rather than a centring machine like the Villa Rotonda, Afternoon House II is carved by orders that originate at a distance, and are only passing through on the way to somewhere else.
- ItemAgainst Recycling Nature(The Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, 2011-07-01) Douglas, CTimothy Morton claims ecology should not be seen as a topic or an area of study, but as an exploration of the consequences of interconnection. Being ecologically-minded is not just considering a subset of our actions that have larger-scale effects, but recognising that all of our actions have such effects. Morton and Bruno Latour argue, there is no 'outside', "no décharge where we could discharge the refuse of our activity". As a consequence, Morton contends that 'Nature' is a dangerous concept, encouraging us to imagine a world 'out there', beyond our range of affect. In architecture and urban planning, the site boundary can be imagined to be an absolute limit, while in fact many things and effects pass through and across it. Ecological design could begin with the tracing of connections across this boundary.
- ItemAgainst recycling nature - Carl Douglas considers buildings beyond site(Cheshire Architects for The Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, 2011-07-01) Douglas, C‘Ecology’ sounds like something to do with science and solar panels, animal liberationists and atmospheric chemists. But Timothy Morton, author of Ecology without Nature (2007) and The Ecological Thought (2010) claims otherwise. Rather than being a topic or an area of study, he suggests ecology is simply exploring the consequences of a single thought: that everything is connected. Because there is no outside, ecology, in Morton’s eye, has little use for the concept of Nature. To imagine that our projects are sited in Nature is to fantasise about disconnection: to imagine that there is a world out there separate and unaffected by the world within the borders of the project.
- ItemAlém da Torre de Marfim: Inquérito conduzido pela prática e pesquisa pós-disciplinar(School of Art and Design, AUT, ) Ings, WEsta proposta considera as relações entre as práticas profissionais e pós-disciplinares na medida em que se relacionam com a pesquisa em design conduzida pela prática. Quando vistos através de lentes territoriais, os artefatos e sistemas que muitos designers desenvolvem em universidades podem ser considerados híbridos porque atraem para sua composição e contextos diversos campos disciplinares. Processualmente, o discurso parte de uma discussão sobre a maneira como as designações disciplinares, originadas na secularização das universidades alemãs no início do século XIX, tornaram-se o modelo de quanto conhecimento é processado atualmente na academia. Examina-se como essas demarcações de pensamento, que incluíam linguagens e literaturas não clássicas, ciências sociais e naturais e tecnologia, foram interrompidas nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, por disciplinas baseadas em identidades que cresceram dentro das universidades. Estas incluíram estudos de mulheres, lésbicas, gays e grupos étnicos. No entanto, de igual importância durante este período foi a chegada de disciplinas profissionais como design, jornalismo, enfermagem, gestão empresarial e hospitalidade. Significativamente, muitas dessas profissões trouxeram consigo valores e processos associados à pesquisa centrada no usuário. Moldados pela necessidade de responder de forma rápida e eficaz às oportunidades, os profissionais estavam acostumados a aproveitar e integrar o conhecimento livre de demarcações disciplinares ou profissionais. Por exemplo, se um estúdio de design exigisse a contribuição de um formulador de políticas do governo, um advogado de patentes e um engenheiro, este estúdio estaria acostumado a trabalhar de maneira flexível com diversos domínios do conhecimento na busca de um resultado eficaz. Além disso, essas profissões também empregaram diversas formas de investigação conduzida pela prática. Com base em altos níveis de experimentação, reflexão ativa e conhecimento profissional aplicado, essas abordagens desafiaram muitas pesquisas e convenções disciplinares dentro da academia. Embora a investigação conduzida pela prática, argumentada como uma forma de prática pós-disciplinaridade, seja um conceito relativamente novo (Ings, 2019), pode estar associado à observação de Wright, Embrick e Henke (2015, p. 271) de que “estudos pós-disciplinares emergem quando os acadêmicos se esquecem das disciplinas e as ideias podem ser identificadas com alguma em particular: eles se identificam com a aprendizagem e não com as disciplinas”. Darbellay vai mais longe, ao enxergar a pós-disciplina como um repensar essencial do conceito de disciplina. O autor sugere que quando os acadêmicos se posicionam fora da ideia de disciplinas, eles são capazes de “construir um novo espaço cognitivo, no qual não se trata mais apenas de abrir fronteiras disciplinares por meio de graus de interação / integração, mas de desafiar fundamentalmente o fato óbvio da disciplinaridade”(2016, p. 367). Esses autores argumentam que, a pós-disciplina propõe um profundo repensar não só do conhecimento, mas também das estruturas que o cercam e sustentam nas universidades. No campo do design, essas abordagens não são desconhecidas. Para ilustrar como a pesquisa conduzida pela prática em design pode operar como uma investigação pós-disciplinar, este trabalho emprega como estudo de caso o curta-metragem Sparrow (2017). Ao fazer isso, descompacta-se a maneira como o conhecimento, de dentro e além dos campos disciplinares convencionalmente demarcados, foi reunido, interpretado e sintetizado criativamente. Aqui, sem restrições por demarcações disciplinares, um artefato projetado surgiu por meio de uma fusão de pesquisa que integrou história, medicina, desenvolvimento de software, políticas públicas, poesia, tipografia, ilustração e produção cinematográfica.
- ItemAmbientes e produtos homeodinâmicos afetivos e prazerosos: design preventivo e restaurador para a homeostase humana, saúde e bem-estar(School of Art and Design, AUT, ) Lima Ferreira, C; Ziggiatti Monteiro, E; Zuanon, RMarcada por enormes desafios, a contemporaneidade também pode ser entendida como um período histórico de ricas e inúmeras possibilidades voltadas para o desenvolvimento humano em todas as esferas. A civilização humana evoluiu em praticamente todos os campos do conhecimento e, agora, ciente dos imperativos transdisciplinares e complexos, o conceito de “Ambientes e Produtos Homeodinâmicos” é proposto para compreender a relação ambiente-produto-organismo humano a partir da ligação indissociável entre corpo, mente e espiritualidade. Na perspectiva da homeodinâmica (ROSE, 1998), os processos de regulação da vida e o equilíbrio resultante alcançado desdobram-se em um fluxo dinâmico e em contínua transformação. Isto difere da ideia possível de um equilíbrio fixo e imutável. Nesta perspectiva, destaca-se o conceito de “Ambientes e Produtos Homeodinâmicos”, cunhado pelos cofundadores da DASMind [Design, Arte, Espaço e Mente] - Rede Transdisciplinar e Cooperativa de Pesquisa e Inovação da UNICAMP, também autores desta proposta. Este conceito, em diálogo com biointerfaces inteligentes, propõe o design afetivo e prazeroso de ambientes e produtos que visam manter e restaurar a homeostase humana. Portanto, eles recorrem a uma abordagem transdisciplinar e complexa para compreender a concepção, design, planejamento, desenvolvimento e implementação de ambientes arquitetônicos e urbanos, bem como de produtos físicos e/ou digitais, em profunda sinergia com a esfera corpo-mente-espiritualidade dos indivíduos. Ambientes e objetos tornam-se elementos cruciais no processo de ajuste interno contínuo e dinâmico do corpo. Como preventivos e restauradores para a saúde e o bem-estar, os ambientes e produtos homeodinâmicos afetivos e prazerosos não são meramente concebidos como elementos passivos, mas, sim, para atuar de forma consistente e dinâmica no organismo humano. Vale ressaltar que a Ciência, por meio de suas áreas de atuação, sempre contribuiu para a saúde humana. A partir desse legado consistente, estudos nos domínios das neurociências afetivas e cognitivo-comportamentais, espaços e ambientes humanizados, design afetivo e prazeroso, medicina preventiva, medicina do estilo de vida e biointerfaces inteligentes convergiram, e resultando em um profundo conhecimento do ser humano: suas básicas e complexas necessidades; os fatores que afetam sua saúde, bem-estar e estado de espírito; e suas inter-relações com o meio ambiente, a Natureza e o Planeta. Neste alinhamento estão as propostas inovadoras e as novas abordagens conceituais e metodológicas que, por meio do pensamento e da prática do design, buscam atender de forma sustentável os anseios de equilíbrio físico, mental e espiritual de nossa espécie, como o aqui descrito. Portanto, propor o conceito, desenho e contextos e aplicações potenciais de “Ambientes e Produtos Homeodinâmicos”, preventivos e restauradores da homeostase humana, nas escalas arquitetônica, urbana e objetiva, significa responder com afeto e empatia a estes desejos. Em uma perspectiva transdisciplinar e complexa, isso é consistente com outros esforços científicos, cujo objetivo principal é a melhoria consistente e permanente da relação/interação ambiente-produto-organismo humano.
- ItemAmbientes y productos homeodinámicos afectivos y placenteros: diseño preventivo y reparador para la homeostasis, la salud y el bienestar humanos(School of Art and Design, AUT, ) Lima Ferreira, C; Ziggiatti Monteiro, E; Zuanon, RMarcada por enormes desafíos, la época contemporánea también puede entenderse como un período histórico de ricas e innumerables posibilidades orientadas al desarrollo humano en todos los ámbitos. La civilización humana ha evolucionado en prácticamente todos los campos del conocimiento y ahora, consciente de los imperativos transdisciplinares y complejos, se propone el concepto de “Ambientes y Productos Homeodinámicos” para entender la relación ambiente-producto-organismo humano a partir de la conexión inseparable entre cuerpo, mente y espiritualidad. Desde la perspectiva de la homeodinámica (ROSE, 1998), los procesos de regulación de la vida y el equilibrio resultante logrado se despliegan en un flujo dinámico y en continua transformación. Eso difiere de la posible idea de un equilibrio fijo e inmutable. Dentro de esta perspectiva, destaca el concepto de “Ambientes y Productos Homeodinámicos”, acuñado por los cofundadores de DASMind [Diseño, Arte, Espacio y Mente] - UNICAMP Red Transdisciplinaria y Cooperativa de Investigación e Innovación, también autores de esta propuesta. Este concepto, en diálogo con biointerfaces inteligentes, propone el diseño afectivo y placentero de ambientes y productos orientados a mantener y restaurar la homeostasis humana. Por ello, recurren a un enfoque transdisciplinario y complejo para comprender la concepción, diseño, planificación, desarrollo e implementación de entornos arquitectónicos y urbanos, así como de productos físicos y/o digitales, en profunda sinergia con el ámbito cuerpo-mente-espiritualidad de las personas. Los entornos y los objetos se convierten en elementos cruciales en el proceso de ajuste interno continuo y dinámico del cuerpo. Como preventivos y reparadores de la salud y el bienestar, los entornos y productos homeodinámicos afectivos y placenteros no están diseñados meramente como elementos pasivos, sino para actuar de forma coherente y dinámica sobre el organismo humano. Cabe señalar que la ciencia, a través de sus áreas de especialización, siempre ha contribuido a la salud humana. A partir de este legado constante, los estudios en los dominios de las neurociencias afectivas y cognitivo-conductuales, los espacios y ambientes humanizados, el diseño afectivo y placentero, la medicina preventiva, la medicina del estilo de vida y las biointerfaces inteligentes han convergido y derivado en un conocimiento profundo del ser humano: sus necesidades básicas y complejas; los factores que afectan su salud, bienestar y estado de ánimo; y sus interrelaciones con el medio ambiente, la naturaleza y el planeta. Dentro de este alineamiento se encuentran las propuestas innovadoras y los nuevos enfoques conceptuales y metodológicos que, a través del pensamiento y la práctica del diseño, buscan satisfacer de manera sostenible los deseos de nuestra especie de equilibrio físico, mental y espiritual, como el que aquí se describe. Por tanto, proponer el concepto, diseño y posibles contextos y aplicaciones de “Ambientes y Productos Homeodinámicos” Preventivos y Restauradores de la homeostasis humana, en las escalas arquitectónica, urbana y objetual, significa responder con afecto y empatía a estos deseos. En una perspectiva transdisciplinaria y compleja, esto es consistente con otros esfuerzos científicos cuyo objetivo principal es la mejora constante y permanente de la relación/interacción entre medio ambiente-producto-organismo humano.