Industrial Design Seminar 2012

Welcome to the annual Industrial Design Seminar 2012 at Konstfack. This is an opportunity for you to participate in discussions on emerging transformations of design practices. Are there indications that design work is getting increasingly demanding and complex? How does emerging societal issues, shortage of resources, and transformations of businesses effect the knowledge designers need to have? How can designers work in order to create a sufficient knowledge regarding desirable futures? What does the trajectory of the design profession seem to be heading towards, shifting, converging or diverging? Will co-creation, workshops, probes, etc. become common in design practice? We will inquire into these issues at the seminar by exploring some current and emerging design practices, as well as discussing future challenges and opportunities. The aim is to create a better understanding of what additional knowledge, methods and approaches designers might need in a near future. At the seminar there will be presentations by researchers and practitioners as well as discussions among them. The topics will include reflections on the concept of design thinking, as well as the challenges and opportunities with interdisciplinary work. Theories and practices of service design and product service systems will be presented, and issues of sustainability will be addressed. We will see several examples of current ways of working and also explorations of novel ways. 10:00-16:00 Public program of lectures and discussion (incl. lunch break) 10:00 Introduction, Bo Westerlund 10:10 Sara Ilstedt, A sustainable future – a challenge for design? 10:30 Oksana Mont, Sustainable Lifestyles, through Systems of Joint Use 10:50 Transformator, a Case, 11:10 Fika/Break 11:30 Anna Rylander, Design-Driven Innovation – a pragmatistic reflection 11:50 Fredrik Sandberg, Design methods for creating knowledge on desirable services 12:10 Stefan Magnusson, Designers facilitate workshops in order to create knowing relevant for the assignment 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Reflection and discussion. All presenters get five to ten minutes each for reflections on the others’ talks. The presenters then form a panel that discusses questions and comments from the audience. 16:00 Wrap-up and thanks Program can be subject to change. About the presenters Sara Ilstedt Hjelm is a Professor in product and service design at KTH. Her research has focus on issues such as health, wellbeing and sustainable design. Stefan Magnusson is a Founding Partner and Senior Industrial Designer at No Picnic. Oksana Mont is a Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University. Anna Rylander is a senior researcher at Business and Design Lab at the University of Gothenburg. Anna’s Research interests revolve around the roles of identity and design in knowledge work. She is currently exploring designers’ practices, identity constructions and roles in clients’ innovation processes. Fredrik Sandberg is a PhD student in design at the Linnæus University and his research concerns exploring and developing design methods for design practitioners working in complex design situations. One of the questions that interests him is: what methods can be used to create and share knowledge in complex design situations? Transformator. A person from Transformator will present their ways of working and a few examples. Bo Westerlund is a Professor in Industrial Design at Konstfack, his research has focus on how designers might work; the design approaches and processes that can lead to design proposals that are experienced as meaningful.