Browsing TKD - Department of Product Design by Title
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Applied Art: Innovative Thinking from a Material Perspective
(Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, 2013)The modern world is continuously engaged in a racing processes aimed towards building a favourable future society. In this development, the apparent tools seem to be related to theoretical thought, new technology, avant-garde ... -
Architecture, design and planning towards sustainable development: Regional approaches
(Wiley, 2019-01-10)The special issue Architecture, Design and Planning towards Sustainable Development: Regional Approaches, discusses how the shaping of the built environment may contribute to sustainability and resilience. It encompasses ... -
Carousel: A study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impact on delivering 'one week' exchange experiences
(The Design Society, 2017)To prepare students for their future careers in a globalizing society, several large-scale higher education student and staff exchange programmes focus on international collaboration. ... -
Co-creation in professional craft practice
(Design Research Society, 2018-01-01)Design practice involves several disciplines, and when the manufacturing process demands special skills, designers outsource the work to craftspersons. Traditionally, craftspersons make a living by taking orders and ... -
Co-creation in Service Design; a master’s study on how to achieve sustainable services
(The Design Society, 2017)n today’s society, services are growing into complex systems that may not always respond to the needs of the people using them. Therefore, the discipline of service design is now often used as a source to find gaps in ... -
Collaborative innovation: a study of creative teamwork in offshore industry and in design education
(The Design Society, 2014)Entrepreneurship is identified as a key activity to creating value to society as well as the successful adaption of the products and services to users’ lives. This is why entrepreneurship as concept is finding it’s ... -
Critical design for discussion about public space
(The Design Society, 2015)This research focuses on Critical Design and the use of provocative design objects to create discussion about public space. The project sets out to develop a design approach and a critical design method for making conceptual ... -
Design process and conscious problem solving through computer aided design education
(The Design Society, 2015)With rapidly changing technologies in product developemnt, it is necessary for design students to focus on inquiry-based learning in order to adapt to changes instead of simply learning form-giving and model-making skills. ... -
Designing burial monuments to increase emotional awareness in product design
(The Design Society, 2013)The motivation for writing this paper is the growing concern in society towards the amount of products we produce containing low utility and sustainability. Through emotional awareness the student can design meaningful ... -
Designing for Small Bathrooms
(The Design Society, 2016)This paper will focus on how to design a series of bathroom products that work well for small bathrooms using the principles of universal design. In home culture research, Quitzau and Røpke has studied bathroom transformation ... -
Designing for user experience in Nordic skiing
(The Design Society, 2015)Although the experience is the most important aspect of skiing, sports equipment manufacturers do not seem to take this into account in the development of skiing products. This paper examines how the sports industry can ... -
Digital Drawing Demystified: Exploring a Creative Zone of Proximal Development
(The Design Society, 2017)The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on the theoretical notion of Vygotsky’s notion of a ‘zone of proximal development’ (ZPD) where learning is supported by doing things together. In the work life product designers ... -
Dimensions of sustainable behaviour in a circular economy context
(IOS Press, 2017)Although Design for Sustainable Behaviour research has seen increasing attention over the last decade, limited attention has been directed towards behaviours relevant for a circular economy. To investigate this shortcoming, ... -
Empowerment through Product Design: Digital textile pattern design for grip development in healthcare
(The Design Society, 2017)In the meeting between textile pattern design and 3D printing techniques, there is a potential for developing inclusive products for healthcare. There is a great need for this from both patients and healthcare providers. ... -
Engagement by lamination of autopoietic concentric interaction systems in games: A study of football and Pokemon GO
(Open Science Center, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)The aim of this paper is to rethink games and game design within the theory of self-producing interaction systems. With this research, I seek to identify several dynamics of play and engagement elicited by games that, by ... -
Enhancing communication skills through student and enterprise interaction
(The Design Society, 2015)Collaboration between a university and an industry is a common way to create “realistic” student projects that provide opportunities for gaining useful knowledge of “real-world problems,” skill development, and project ... -
Envisioning versus realizing products for use in poor communities: The case of Victor Papanek and Nordic designers
(Wiley, 2019-01-13)An increasing number of people is currently living under poor conditions in enclaves of rapidly growing urban areas. Many of them are of indigenous origin. They are in urgent need of basic equipment for living a healthy ... -
The essential dialogue: a Norwegian study of art communication in mental health care
(Slack, 2012-08)This study focuses on how semi-structured art dialogues can be used to communicate with older patients with impaired mental health. The study was conducted on a geropsychiatric ward at a university hospital in Norway. To ... -
Experiences from implementation of sustainability in a civil engineering course at the University of Agder
(The Design Society, 2017)Design and assessment of sustainability is expected to be a mandatory part of the competence of the engineers of the future. Sustainability in design and engineering education has often been solved by choosing environmental ... -
Exploring the design of mousetraps
(The Design Society, 2013)Based on a case study of a collection of a couple of hundred mousetraps this paper presents a systematic categorisation of their principles of technical construction, material consistence and principles of function. This ...
