Essays about: "Design for Cohabitation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Design for Cohabitation.
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1. Back to the Roots : Re-Connecting Humanity and the Natural World by Merging Interactive Technology and Plants
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This thesis project explores combining interactive technology and the natural world, through a more-than-human design approach. This project aims to step away from an industry-driven design by valuing plants as equal in the design process. Throughout this report, an overview of the relevant theory and examples are elaborated on. READ MORE
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2. Sport for Peace : exploring the contribution of sport to cohabitation in a divided society
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Sport-for-peace programs rely on sport and contact in order to contribute to intergroup reconciliation efforts and a peaceful society. This thesis asks ‘how contact in a sport-for-peace program influences the willingness to live together in a deeply divided society’? Specifically, this thesis poses that more years of intergroup contact (hypothesis 1) and a better quality of intergroup contact (hypothesis 2) will lead to more willingness to live together. READ MORE
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3. Internet of Beings : Speculating about more-than-human interactions in the urban environment
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : Designing for societal engagement and benefit, aiming for the inclusion of humans, has been largely implemented within interaction design research. However, recent studies on entanglements and more-than-human worlds in interaction design, participatory and speculative design, in combination with Science & Technology Studies (STS) and ANT (Actor-network theories), revealed new opportunities for designers for the development of methods and practices, particularly about designing new forms of engagement with and through design artefacts for the benefit of the natural environment in the city. READ MORE
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4. Inclusive online social play through non-verbal communication
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This research focuses on the connection between voice-based interactions and harassment in online games, from the point of interaction design. It points out severe faults in privacy afforded by voice-based communication and explores beyond this medium to design a communication system that relies only on non-verbal communication (NVC). READ MORE
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5. Designing for and with Care in Multispecies Kinship: Exploring Methods of Decentering the Human in Design
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : In the current climate crisis, creating a symbiotic collaboration between all members of an ecosystem has become a prominent topic. By reevaluating human-centered methodologies through a cultural probe and an orienting activity, I address notions of collaboration, cohabitation and extending one’s body beyond the skin. READ MORE
