Provotyping

Provotyping
Author: Stefaan Vandist
Publisher: Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9401430349

How do you create a unifying future narrative for your organisation? In an era of growing awareness of biodiversity, climate change, and new regulations like ESG, sustainability is transforming our society. Stefaan Vandist draws inspiration from groundbreaking examples at the intersection of science, technology, and creativity. His mission? To encourage organisations to 'provotype': gently construct future visions, making them visible and tangible to foster strong engagement. Discover how this approach stimulates impactful innovation, and make this book your toolkit for a more sustainable and connected future. 'This is a book you'll miss even before you've finished reading it entirely. Provotyping reads like a series of thrilling young adult novels, tales of rebels, and legends that inspire asking the Great Question of Innovation: 'what if?' This book is a push for the agent of change. The journey from idea to impact often takes a long time, and the path is fraught with obstacles and detours. But more importantly, Provotyping ignites the agent of change within us. Humanity is always evolving, but a book like Provotyping has a directional influence; it instills hope and challenges us to take action.' - Arash Aazami | Impact Entrepreneur, Internet of Energy Architect 'Our society is in need of more Provotyping, of tangible, inspiring stories about sustainable change that is already taking place today. Stefaan Vandist shares stories in his book about places, ideas, and people who are taking concrete action. Innovative, entrepreneurial, and collaborative individuals who prove in practice that things can be different. This book gives the reader hope and faith in a more sustainable future, with a higher quality of life in every corner of our planet.' - Rik Menten | Director of Buildings, Arcadis Belgium 'Loved it! A very practical guide to our better future together, full of crazy magic yet already offering real working solutions.' - Elena Doms | Head of +EARTH+ 'More governments, companies, and individuals recognise the necessity of sustainable living, utilizing Earth's resources wisely. Addressing biodiversity decline and climate change is crucial. But using opportunities is also necessary. Stefaan Vandist's book Provotyping arrives at a timely moment, offering inspiring examples for a promising future. Bold actions from unexpected sources drive change. Guidance is key in navigating this path. Read the book to transform from dreamer to active contributor in shaping a sustainable future.' -Koos Biesmeijer | Scientific Director, Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Disruptive Environmental Communication

Disruptive Environmental Communication
Author: Christian A. Klöckner
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3031171659

This book proposes a radical change in communication strategies about environmental problems, advocating for more active and emotionally engaging methods that drive people to action. Based on new theoretical developments and research, the book provides a new framework for designing such communication strategies and suggests practical implementations of these ideas for practitioners, policy-makers, and scientists. Among the topics discussed: • The psychology of change and why disruptive communication is necessary • Virtual reality technologies used to communicate complex ideas • Reflections on the value of science fiction and climate fiction in addressing environmental issues • Analyzing the impact of youth climate activism Disruptive Environmental Communication provides an innovative new framework for designing effective communication strategies to address large-scale environmental problems, challenging the assumption that environmental problems can be communicated and handled through non-disruptive methods.

Design Beyond Devices

Design Beyond Devices
Author: Cheryl Platz
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1933820497

Your customer has five senses and a small universe of devices. Why aren't you designing for all of them? Go beyond screens, keyboards, and touchscreens by letting your customer's humanity drive the experience—not a specific device or input type. Learn the techniques you'll need to build fluid, adaptive experiences for multiple inputs, multiple outputs, and multiple devices.

Designing Collaborative Systems

Designing Collaborative Systems
Author: Andy Crabtree
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006-05-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1852338482

An invaluable introduction to the new ‘ethnographic’ approach to designing effective and user friendly collaborative and interactive systems. Here, designers are shown how to analyse the social circumstances in which a particular system will be used. Consisting of four sections the book covers: the requirements problem; how to describe and analyse cooperative work; the design process; and how to evaluate systems supporting cooperative work. Practical examples are provided throughout, based on the development case of a collaborative library database system.

Adaptive Instructional Systems

Adaptive Instructional Systems
Author: Robert A. Sottilare
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-06-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031058879

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Adaptive Instructional Systems, AIS 2022, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which was held virtually in June/July 2022. The total of 1271 papers and 275 posters included in the HCII 2022 proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 5487 submissions. The AIS 2022 proceedings were organized in the following topical sections: Learner Modeling and State Assessment for Adaptive Instructional Decisions; Adaptation Design to Individual Learners and Teams; Design and Development of Adaptive Instructional Systems; Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adaptive Instructional Systems.

The Role of Prototypes in Design Research

The Role of Prototypes in Design Research
Author: Silvia D. Ferraris
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031245490

This book provides a theoretical framework for design researchers interested in developing their research work about and with prototypes. It describes prototypes' multiple definitions and possible functions in the multifaceted landscape of today's design research. Indeed, while the manufacturing and digital evolutions enable and require new types of advanced prototypes, the design evolution as an academic discipline continuously widens its perspectives, fields, and research methods, among which are the prototypes' applications, features, and purposes. The framework originates from an interpretation of these interrelated phenomena and a collection of case studies. Additionally, it defines those criteria that characterize the relation between the research (context, discipline, and general scope) and the prototype (nature and specific aims) and, altogether, it presents an overview of prototypes' roles in design research.

Design Anthropology

Design Anthropology
Author: Wendy Gunn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000189546

Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design thinking and anthropological research.This book is written by anthropologists who actively participate in the development of design anthropology. Comprising both cutting-edge explorations and theoretical reflections, it provides a much-needed introduction to the concepts, methods, practices and challenges of the new field. Design Anthropology moves from observation and interpretation to collaboration, intervention and co-creation. Its practitioners participate in multidisciplinary design teams working towards concrete solutions for problems that are sometimes ill-defined. The authors address the critical potential of design anthropology in a wide range of design activities across the globe and query the impact of design on the discipline of anthropology.This volume will appeal to new and experienced practitioners in the field as well as to students of anthropology, innovation, science and technology studies, and a wide range of design studies focusing on user participation, innovation, and collaborative research.

Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design

Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design
Author: Francesca Zanella
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2023-12-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3031498119

This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the designer’s self-reflective moment which is focused on the analysis and on the definition of processes in various contexts, spanning innovation, social engagement, reflection on emergencies or forecasting), experiences (design as a theoretical and practical strategy aimed at facilitating experiential interactions among people, people and objects or environments), and narratives (making history, representing through different media, archiving, narrating, and exhibiting design). The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.

The Nordic Wave in Place Branding

The Nordic Wave in Place Branding
Author: Cecilia Cassinger
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release:
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788974328

The widespread international interest in the Nordic region and the mobility of Nordic brand imaginaries call for more research into the global relevance of Nordic place-branding practices. This book offers a timely attempt to unpack the specificity of the Nordic in regard to place branding by gathering different transdisciplinary accounts written by researchers in marketing, tourism, geography, communication, sociology and political science.

Convention

Convention
Author: National Electric Light Association. Convention
Publisher:
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1907
Genre: Electric lighting
ISBN: