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Contradictions in the design spaceFrederick van Amstel, PhD Researcher Construction Management & Engineering Dept.
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Antithesis: the design space as an abstract space with all possible design alternatives in a certain context
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Thesis: the design space as socially constructed, dealing with contradictions in society while having its own
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Problems, solutions, etc, all stem from contradictions
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Images are misleading.
Images should have
captions.
Rene Magritte
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What is this?
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This not concrete, but in this presentation it is concrete in the sense that it is not abstract (out of context)
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Research context: Medical imaging center
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Identifying contradictions in activities
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Contradiction found: from an optimized procedure to a knowledge co-creation activity
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Medical imaging center
Southeast HospitalNorthwest Hospital
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Observing collaborative/participatory design
6Second workshop for a new Medical Imaging Center.
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Design reveals how contradictions in space (in activity) becomes contradictions of space
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Productivity X
Organizational boundaries
Layout fragmentation X
Path homogeneization
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Walking paths parametric design tool
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Used to reconstruct spatial designs in relation to nurses and patient activities
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Visualizing the design space
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Superposed reconstructed alternatives. The fuzzy areas represent controversial parts of the design.
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Hypothesis: If contradictions are intrinsic to the design space, reconstructing this space in another context would reproduce the same contradictions.
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Comparing the observed practice with a teaching experiment
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All practitioner’s designs Students without initial constraints≈
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Comparing the observed practice with a teaching experiment
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All practitioner’s designs Students with paths constraints≈
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The parametric design tool was already biased to fragment the layout and homogenize the paths
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Contradiction in research activity: from a knowledge co-creation activity to an optimized procedure
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Jacob Beal
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Findings
▪The design space reproduces the contradictions in activity
▪Contradictions are simultaneously cause and effect of design
▪ If contradictions won’t go away, what can we do?
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-Enjoy life.
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My Research Interests
▪ Participatory Design
▪ Activity Theory
▪ Cultural Studies
▪ Frederick van Amstel [email protected]
▪ Twitter @fredvanamstel
▪ http://fredvanamstel.com