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In this paper we reflect on the notion of caring with in design research by discussing processes ... more In this paper we reflect on the notion of caring with in design research by discussing processes of cultivating and revaluing. Cultivating as a form of caring with other species. Revaluing as a form of caring with unwanted things. Both are addressed as everyday designing, ongoing liminal processes that have regenerative potential to revalue and care for/with dirty matters.
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Pink, S., M. Ruckenstein, R. Willim, & M. Duque ‘Broken Data’ (2018) Big Data and Society. 5(1) https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717753228
In this article we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so ... more In this article we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and improvisatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from mundane everyday activity: the incompleteness, inaccuracy and dispersed nature of personal self-tracking data; the data cleaning and repair processes of big data analysis; and how data can turn into noise and vice versa when they are transduced into sound within practices of music production and sound art. This, we argue is a necessary step for considering the meaning and implications of data as it is increasingly mobilised in ways that impact society and our everyday worlds.
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In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, w... more In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and impro-visatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from mundane everyday activity: the incompleteness, inaccuracy and dispersed nature of personal self-tracking data; the data cleaning and repair processes of Big Data analysis and how data can turn into noise and vice versa when they are transduced into sound within practices of music production and sound art. This, we argue is a necessary step for considering the meaning and implications of data as it is increasingly mobilised in ways that impact society and our everyday worlds.
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In this paper we argue that the current conceptions of sustainability through the Triple Bottom L... more In this paper we argue that the current conceptions of sustainability through the Triple Bottom Line are limited, resulting in the social and environmental bottom lines being traded off against economic concerns. Design education reinforces a linear reductionist paradigm of practice. When applied to design for sustainability this paradigm echoes the prioritisation of the economic bottom line through eco-efficient design. So when students are confronted by the complexity of wicked problems and sustainability, they can become overwhelmed and default to eco-efficiency solutions. Our insights are drawn from critical reflection on design education for sustainability practice, a literature review of design education for sustainability and a reflective workshop with education practitioners. These insights have led us to develop a reflective framework of six spheres to enable a more holistic understanding of design for sustainability. By visualising these spheres as interconnected, students and designers can engage in constructive reflection and conversations about their ideas in a world of complexity and interconnectedness.
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This report documents insights and questions that arose from teaching sustainability in design at... more This report documents insights and questions that arose from teaching sustainability in design at RMIT University, Australia. Sustainability in this context includes overlapping spheres of social, political, economical, environmental, technological, and spiritual and an awareness of how our everyday lives are already implicated relationally to all other constituents of the world. The report is also critical of the view of sustainability in design that is only limited to the environmental sphere alone, and we present a discussion of a propositional framework for design/designers to locate their practices within.
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Thesis Chapters by Melisa Duque
This thesis proposes and demonstrates Everyday Designing for Revaluing (ED4R) as a methodology an... more This thesis proposes and demonstrates Everyday Designing for Revaluing (ED4R) as a methodology and practice that happens beyond design studios and beyond use. My focus is on the stages in-between, after-use and before-reuse; when the value of objects has to be re-created. My proposal is based on my design research practice conducted at a second-hand charity shop (op-shop) in Melbourne, Australia, where I worked for over three years as a manager, volunteer, and design researcher. These embedded roles and the flexible character of this site enabled me to develop a series of collaborative design interventions, to re-create the value of things donated and transform them into products to be re-used by new owners. Through this research, I transformed my design practice from a 'traditional' industrial design orientation towards one that foregrounds participatory design (PD) and design anthropology (DA). This thesis presents Everyday Designing as an ongoing design process with revaluing as its intent. While revaluing extends the lifecycles of used things, it also involves creative forms of appropriation and improvisation as modes of designing within the socio-material routines at the op-shop. ED4R combines approaches from PD and DA through collaborations with staff, to explore forms of open-ended prototyping, to change existing systems and to work with contingent materials and situations. This approach included contesting, negotiating and deciding on how and what to revalue and why; challenging notions of planned obsolescence and reconsidering used things as resources for designing. I offer a theoretical framework, methodology and tangible illustrations of ED4R and, in doing so, seek to enrich practices and discourses of design and sustainability.
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