WELCOME TO DEB100 Week 8 Activities Video: Design as a Redirection + note taking activity Discussion Re-directing design practice: theory, methods and tools. Introduction to Assignment 3 Q & A Homework and program for the next few weeks WORSHOP TUTORIAL WEEK 8 Timing (80 mins) 20 15 15 15 10 5 https://mediawarehouse.qut.edu.au/QMW/player/?dIB=33723&dDocName=QMW_029 108 VIDEO –GAVIN SADE –ON DESIGN REDIRECTION Write down these question, try to answer the questions as you watch the video, also refering to the knowledge from the intro to week 8’s lecture and the lecture! • What is meant by design redirection/design as a redirective practice? • How is Design defined? • What does “futuring” & “defuturing” mean? • What is meant by “sustain-ability”? • What are the different tools and techniques for design redirection/design as a redirective practice? How would you define them? Class discussion • Question 1: What is meant by design redirection/design as a redirective practice? Class discussion • Question 1: What is meant by design redirection/design as a redirective practice? • Design beyond the idea of “the making of things” but rather design as the process by which we interact with the world that we live in, both by creating, destroying, but also making decisions that will affect the environment that we inhabit. Design need to become a redirective practice capable of making meaningful changes in relation to the issues the world is facing. • For change to happen, we as humans, and even more as designers, need to recognise the issue with design and that design is still, in many ways, sustaining the unsustainable. We need to understand the consequences of design and the imperative for re-direction. • In order for design to address un-sustainability, we need a common goal: becoming sustainable, but plural solutions to achieve this goal. Diversity and difference in design is essential in order to become more sustainable. • Designers need to become re-directive practitioners. Class discussion Question 1: How is Design defined? Class discussion Question 1: How is Design defined? • Design as result (the final product/thing/building/garment/website/service/site) • Design as the agency of the designer, the client and the tools that are used. • Design as process that shapes the world and the future. Class discussion Question 2: What is de-futuring/futuring? Class discussion Question 2: What is de-futuring/futuring? • Defuturing: practices that take the future away from us/ threaten our future as a species. • Futuring: practices that enable us to have a future with a future = sustainability/ability to sustain ourselves. Class discussion Question 3: What is meant by “sustain-ability”? Class discussion Question 3: What is meant by “sustain-ability”? • Focusing on the idea of design process and human ability to understand issues and change their practice accordingly. “Sustain-ability” is used deliberately by Fry instead of “Sustainability” not to be confused with the many different definitions attributed to this word and that, in many cases, only contribute to sustaining the unsustainable (e.g Green washing). Class discussion • Question 4: What are the different tools and techniques for design redirection/design as a redirective practice? How would you define them? Class discussion • Question 4: What are the different tools and techniques for design redirection/design as a redirective practice? How would you define them? - Prohibition - Needs vs Wants - Dematerialisation - Functional substitution - Multi-purposing - Interrogative design - Speculative futures Design as redirectivepractice: Methods and Tools : Theory • Elimination design In a practice dominated by creation – we need to also considered what is destroyed and how to move away from destroying the things we need most. • Recoding Analysing design practices, projects, ideas, patterns from a critical perspective, exposing what is unsustainable and transforming these into something else that is more sustainable. Re-coding involves a change in meaning and purpose. Elimination as a redirectivedesign practice Functional substitution Functional substitution De-materialisation Multi-purposing Re-Materialisation Elimination of “sign value” Prohibition Re-coding as a redirectivedesign practice Exposure of the unsustainable and Identifying better ways: Interrogative Design What is likely to happen? What can I, as a designer, do now, to make thing better in the future? Speculative futures What else can we do/design instead? What is this the way it is? Can this be questioned? Does it need to be changed? What if … ? Pre - figuration How could the Olympics be transformed into something really beneficial? What if, Brisbane was a carbon neutral city? Anticipating the end of mining. Why has food become so detached from nature? Re-directive design practice: Fashion The following methods/tools for re-direction were used in the lecture. How do these relate to fashion? Do you see how these could also relate to other disciplines? Class discussion – 5 minutes. Functional substitution De-materialisation Re-Materialisation Elimination of “sign value” Exposure of the unsustainable Download the brief from blackboard (under the Assessments folder) and read through (15 min). ASSESSMENT 3 –Re-directing your examplar Q & A (10 min) ASSESSMENT 3 –Re-directing your examplar Week 9 Lecture: Example of re-directive practices in Graphic Design/IVD Tutorial: Specific examples on how to apply re-directive methods and tools to your chosen exemplar + activity: redirecting your exemplar, design intervention in relation to Assignment 3. Week 10 Lecture: redirective practice in other disciplines and inter-disciplinary projects Tutorial: Prezi activity and one on one consultations. Week 11 No lecture or Tutorials – Assignment 3 Due. PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT 3 WEEKS In small teams – reflect on this first session. As a team, write any questions/constructive comments and feedback about what has been presented in this first tutorial. Write it on the question sheet and hand in to your tutors. These questions will be addressed and answered on Blackboard before next week’s tutorials, unless they are to be addressed in the coming weeks. REFLECTIVE ACTIVITY For Week 9: • Read: ➢ Fry, T. 2007, "Redirective Practice: An Elaboration", Design Philosophy Papers, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 5-20. Available here: https://qut.summon.serialssolutions.com/?spellcheck=true&q=redirective+practice#!/search?ho=t&l =en-AU&q=redirective%20practice ➢ Fry, T. 2009, Design futuring: sustainability, ethics and new practice, Chapter 5, Australian edn, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. Available on blackboard under Learning resources – QUT readings • Create a Prezi account + make yourself familiar with this platform: https://prezi.com/ • Watch: intro to prezi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVaJuTYKss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWY3MXCBI9g&feature=youtu.be • Bring Markers and papers for the tutorial activity next week. HOMEWORK –5 minutes