| Title | Understanding Transformations Through Design: Can Resilience Thinking Help? |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | van der Veen, Rosa, Hakkerainen, Viola, Peeters, Jeroen, Trotto, Ambra |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-5568-1 |
| Keywords | Computing Theory and Resilience, constructive design research, embodied interaction, pubcrawl, resilience thinking, Resiliency, Transformation, transformative qualities |
| Abstract | The interaction design community increasingly addresses how digital technologies may contribute to societal transformations. This paper aims at understanding transformation ignited by a particular constructive design research project. This transformation will be discussed and analysed using resilience thinking, an established approach within sustainability science. By creating a common language between these two disciplines, we start to identify what kind of transformation took place, what factors played a role in the transformation, and which transformative qualities played a role in creating these factors. Our intention is to set out how the notion of resilience might provide a new perspective to understand how constructive design research may produce results that have a sustainable social impact. The findings point towards ways in which these two different perspectives on transformation the analytical perspective of resilience thinking and the generative perspective of constructive design research - may become complementary in both igniting and understanding transformations. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3173225.3173261 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3173225.3173261 |
| Citation Key | van_der_veen_understanding_2018 |
Understanding Transformations Through Design: Can Resilience Thinking Help?