- AutorIn
- Mònica Gaspar Mallol HSLU DFK, Lucerne
- Burkhard MeltzerZHdK, Zurich
- Titel
- Taking design’s impact for a walk A roving panel in the Roterwald
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-952922
- Konferenz
- DGTF Annual Conference 2024 in Lucerne. Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), 26.04. - 27.04.2024
- Quellenangabe
- What could possibly go wrong?
Herausgeber: Merle Ibach, Dr. Andrea Augsten, Prof. Dr. Axel Vogelsang
Erscheinungsort: Dresden
Verlag: TUDpress
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Seiten: 240-251 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2024
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25368/2024.DGTF.020
- Abstract (EN)
- IMPACT AND MEASUREMENT – MANAGING RISK?
- Facing the complexity of conditions and relations where design performs, it has become increasingly challenging to measure and assess its desired impact. Termed a middle culture (van Winkel, 2009) between production and consumption, understandings of design often range between a heuristic drive to contribute to positive change in the world and a profile neurosis worried about finding a place in a world that may not recognise the profession’s relevance for maintaining existential infrastructures. A profession that – despite its high hopes for making the world a better place – is often being blamed for its complicity with economic-political systems that exploit resources and cause environmental damage. While an awareness of the wickedness of such problems has certainly been raised, alternatives to the impact paradigm are rarely explored. What effects does design aim for? Which assessment criteria and alternative evaluation methods could open alternative perspectives to notorious dichotomies of failure vs success, impact vs side-effect, optimisation vs obsolescence? [from the Introduction]
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Design research, design theory, transformation, design, social innovation, sustainability
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 629
- Klassifikation (RVK)
- ZG 9148
- Verlag
- TUDpress, Dresden
- Sonstige beteiligte Institution
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung e.V., Berlin
- Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
- Hochschule Luzern (HSLU), Luzern
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-952922
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 21.01.2025
- Dokumenttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY-NC 4.0
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Introduction 2 The forest as a speculative device 2.1 You at risk: Measuring the Measurement 2.2 Other paths 2.3 Design´s afterlife 2.4 Going astray 2.5 Measuring impact with blurred glasses 2.6 Critical junctions and shortcuts 2.7 What goes around comes around Acknowledgements References