Welcome to a K3 seminar with Maliheh Ghajargar, Associate Senior Lecturer in Interaction Technologies at K3. The title of her talk is:<\/p>\n
A journey from (Industrial) design to (Interaction) design… and vice versa<\/em><\/p>\n The talk will take place on Wednesday, April 24, at 10.15-12.00 in The K3 Open Studio, NIC 0541, Niagara.<\/p>\n Below you will find an abstract for the talk:<\/p>\n During my first K3 seminar I would like to mainly introduce my previous works<\/strong>, present a synthesis<\/strong> and then introduce a preliminary research idea<\/strong> that I am currently developing! So, my seminar will have three main parts: The first part will be an introduction about my previous design and research projects as a design researcher and design practitioner, with a particular focus on my PhD dissertation project entitled: Designing Tools for Reflection: a Concept-driven Approach\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n The second part will be about a design approach and probably also a design methodology, that I think it has been developing during and after my PhD dissertation and it is still in progress! That approach is inspired by research through design and concept-driven approaches (e.g. Stolterman, E. & Wiberg, M., 2010). It favours a cross-disciplinary<\/strong>, inclusive<\/strong> and critical <\/strong>approach in design (Ghajargar, M., & Bardzell, J., 2019) and it has four main phases from informing by theories to constructing theories.<\/em><\/p>\n And the last part of my seminar will be focused on my research project idea, that I am currently developing. The topic is around aesthetics<\/strong> and forms<\/strong> of interaction with everyday use objects<\/strong> that make us think<\/strong> and reflect on actions, by using IoT technologies \u2014 e.g. in the areas of education, energy consumption or health. From a design perspective, I would use aesthetics as an approach that does not only value the arts and the beauty<\/strong> of everyday life, but also as an integral and essential part of the usefulness of interactive artefacts. I will inform my work by available literatures across different disciplines on form giving practices, aesthetics of interaction, and design for reflection, so hopefully, to be able to (re-)open up to some areas to (re-)explore.<\/em><\/p>\n Hence, as the title of my presentation suggests, I wish to make sense of my journey from being an industrial designer to an interaction design researcher, by constructively <\/strong>building upon the resources and values that these different areas of design, share<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to a K3 seminar with Maliheh Ghajargar, Associate Senior Lecturer in Interaction Technologies at K3. The title of her talk is: A journey from (Industrial) design to (Interaction) design… and vice versa The talk will take place on Wednesday, … Continue reading