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Session Chair: Prof. Mark Bailey, Northumbria University
Location:Studio 2
Presentations
Growth, Decay and Becoming: Insights from Transformation Design and Bioart
Melanie Sarantou1, Amna Qureshi2, Tarja Pääkkönen2
1Kyushu University, Japan; 2University of Lapland, Finland
Transformation design seeks to foster societal change by questioning power structures and placing ecological considerations central to systemic change. The concept of transformation is based on adaptation, resilience and change. In addition, theories of adaptive change are based on finding an equilibrium between shifting forces through the stability and strength of a given system. A resilient system must reflect dynamic adaptability to create and maintain novelty and persistence despite its vulnerability. Transformation design sets out to instigate and evaluate large-scale desirable societal change by ensuring safe and just transformational processes. Set in a transformative design framework, this paper will explore theories of change in creative bioart experiments to analyse process flows and tipping points in growth, demise, and becoming. Stemming from a bioart experiment, the results of this study will propose a framework for designers to employ mapping tools to identify needs for transformative change within society.
Exploring the Gap: Invisible Elements of Service and the Commonplaces of Discovery
Kaja Tooming Buchanan
Tongji University, College of Design and Innovation, Shanghai, China
Service is an integrated system of actions performed for the benefit and well-being of another. It is important to discover the invisible elements as aspects of service that I call “influence factors” that may improve the quality of service significantly. However, the places for discovery are ambiguous and often full of conflicts and contradictions. Influence factors have different meanings and could be interpreted in a variety of ways. My goal in this paper is to explore the places for discovery by using a Productive Science approach. In this approach, the “influence factors” could be identified as part of the material of form. A comparative study is conducted by analyzing the well-known Service Blueprinting model and its use in identifying visible and invisible elements of service and comparing it to the Issue Mapping Strategy. These two strategies have significant differences, but they also share a common ground, namely, the discovery of invisible elements (influence factors) in the places unknown. In the interpretation of a service situation, past or present, commonplaces of invention and discovery may open up the perception of new meanings and practical applications even in a familiar situation, which were not there until they were made facts of discovery.
