[Commlist] Call for Participation: Diversifying Approaches to Co-Designing the Smart Everyday

*Call for Participation: Diversifying Approaches to Co-Designing the 
Smart Everyday*

IASDR 2021, 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies 
of Design Research, Hongkong, 5 December 2021

3 pm-9pm (HKT). Start: 7am GMT and 2am EST.
https://www.iasdr2021.org/iasdr2021-attend-workshops 
<https://www.iasdr2021.org/iasdr2021-attend-workshops>


Workshop Description

In this workshop, we will venture into the current state of co-design 
for imagining and creating smart objects and services within the context 
of “the home”. Together with a diverse group of workshop participants, 
we will use a curated set of three co-design methods and toolkits to 
imagine smart objects and services for the smart home. Collectively, 
participants get the opportunity to reflect on the implicit assumptions, 
goals, and values backed into the co-design methods and toolkits. This 
helps us to articulate desiderata beyond standard solutions for the 
self-contained habitat of cost-efficient consumers, and instead 
appreciate the contingent and idiosyncratic needs and expectations 
enveloping “the home”. In particular, we will critically inquire about 
the eurocentric perspective of the available co-design methods and 
toolkits. In response, we will collectively explore and interrogate 
goals and values of co-design for “the home” from a non-Western 
perspective. In what follows, we give a short overview on what to expect 
in the workshop: 1) a background of the topic; 2) aim of the workshop; 
participants expected & methods employed; 3) a thematic link to the 
conference; 4) expected outcome; 5) prior experience of each workshop 
organizer with short bio.

Workshop organizers

Alexa Becker (University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany), Benedikt Haupt 
(University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany), Christian Pentzold (University 
Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany), Arne Berger (Hochschule Anhalt, Köthen, 
Germany), Albrecht Kurze (Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, 
Germany), Dries De Roeck (Studio.Dott, Antwerp, Belgium & Hongkong), 
Jesse Josua Benjamin (UTwente, Enschede, The Netherlands), Simone Mora 
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

More information here https://tinyurl.com/3sy3mz25 
<https://tinyurl.com/3sy3mz25>

For registration, send an email to arne.berger (at) hs-anhalt.de 
<http://hs-anhalt.de>


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