Design, Pragmatism and Dewey

Dixon, Brian

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“…As discussed in the previous section, design and Design Research have been approached applying a positivist or constructivist paradigm (see also Lenzholzer et al, 2013). There are also scholars who propose to adhere RtD to pragmatism (e.g., Dixon, 2020;Lenzholzer et al, 2013;Nijhuis & de Vries, 2019). Often, Schön is said to have a constructivist approach to Design Research.…”

Section: Paradigmatic Discussion In Rtd In Architecture and The Built...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing circular building components

van Stijn

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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A building consists of building components, such as a kitchen, façade and roof. By replacing building components with more circular ones during new construction, maintenance and renovation, we can gradually create a circular built environment. In this dissertation, we develop and test 8 circular building components for housing renovation together with Dutch social housing associations and industry partners. Combining ‘Action Research’ and ‘Research through Design’ approaches, we generate knowledge on the development of feasible, circular building components. We present a design tool, assessment model, environmental design guidelines and identify key stakeholder choices. This research makes scientific contributions to circular design theories, management models for the built environment, and research methodology. We recommend 4 changes in practice to implement more circular building components.

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Developing circular building components

van Stijn

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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“…In these design approaches, designers aim to integrate users' tacit knowledge into the design of products and services by assigning them an important role in the design process [34]. These design approaches use various methods from other fields [35], such as natural sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and visual arts [36]. Design approaches have provided opportunities to all the stakeholders involved in the innovation processes to discover the user experience and to place the end users at the center of the design process by involving them as stakeholders [37].…”

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The Involvement of Service Users and People With Lived Experience in Mental Health Care Innovation Through Design: Systematic Review

Veldmeijer¹,

Terlouw²,

Os³

et al. 2023

JMIR Ment Health

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Background Mental health care faces challenges that not only necessitate innovation but also require the involvement of service users and people with lived experience in developing and evaluating mental health care services. As the development of digital interventions is becoming more prevalent, design approaches are increasingly finding their way into mental health. There is evidence that these approaches can successfully integrate user experience into mental health services. However, there is no clear overview of the studies conducted and the lessons learned concerning the involvement of service users and people with lived experience. Objective In this systematic review, we aimed to provide an overview of the involvement of service users and people with lived experience in mental health care services through design approaches and to synthesize the advantages of design approaches in mental health care. Methods The following 5 databases were searched for relevant abstracts: PsycINFO, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase. In addition, 2 health design journal archives, Design for Health and The Journal of Health Design, were searched. To categorize the results, we collected the reported added value from the included articles and conducted a thematic synthesis in which the themes were developed from the retrieved data. The themes were discussed, revised, and checked until saturation was achieved. Results We included and categorized 33 papers. Most studies involved service users, primarily adults, and used various design approaches. Most of these studies aimed to design or evaluate digital interventions. Service users and people with lived experience were involved in different roles but never as decision makers. Studies that used co-design approaches exhibited the highest levels of involvement. Various added values were reported, including tailoring and testing interventions and digital interventions, improving engagement and collaboration, gathering the needs of stakeholders, and empowering participants as resourceful actors. The challenges reported were maintaining participants’ continued participation throughout the study, managing the iterative nature of design, providing a safe space, balancing insights from design and medical science, and navigating design processes in medical environments. Conclusions This systematic review provides an overview of the studies that used design approaches to involve service users and people with lived experience in mental health care innovation. Design approaches have advantages in mental health care innovation, offering added value and having manageable challenges. Future studies using design approaches in mental health care should involve participants as partners and decision makers and report on collaboration in a systematic and clear manner.

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“…process, designers/researchers, objects) (Isley & Rider 2018). Similarly, Dixon (2019, 2020) connects RTD with Dewey’s pragmatist framework which also helps to frame the relevance of the (design) practice for design research.…”

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Research through co-design

Busciantella-Ricci,

Scataglini

2024

Des. Sci.

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Research Through Design (RTD) needs to reconsider the meaning of “designing” in the research process of “through design.” We propose Research Through Co-design (RTC) as a new application of Control System Theory (CST) that includes a research problem assigned to a co-design process in RTD. It embeds the participatory paradigm through collaborative design practice and makes the research a collaborative process for learning from all the participants. To sustain the RTC theory, we present a cognitive model of RTC. It is a “model for” – rather than a “model of” – describing how the co-design, as a neural network process, works through its nodes’ collaboration to find co-designed solutions and the research answer. Diversity increases as non-experts and non-designers with different backgrounds participate. This is valuable for the RTC learning system. The discussions highlight the possibility of considering (i) the RTC model as useful for describing a robust RTD process through CST; (ii) RTC as a cognitive model for explaining the value of co-design in research processes; and (iii) RTC as a strategy for applying the participative paradigm in formal research. Finally, new insights and implications are highlighted, including using RTC as a predictive tool through artificial intelligence.

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Design, Pragmatism and Dewey

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Developing circular building components

Developing circular building components

The Involvement of Service Users and People With Lived Experience in Mental Health Care Innovation Through Design: Systematic Review

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