Things of Design

An ongoing workshop series on research through design

Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research (CHI 2016)

• Magical Patter and Guerilla Demonstrations with a Portable Collection of Resonant Bits. Peter Bennett
• Weather-in-a-Box: Exploring Physical Representations of Internet Information. Frank Bentley and Cheng Xu
• ProbeTool Cam: A Work in Progress Research Prototype. Andy Boucher and William Gaver
• Artefact As Bridging Concept For Designing Future Economies. Fergus Fullarton Pegg, Catherine Mulligan, Gerard Briscoe, Joe Lockwood, and David Freer
• Tracking The Imperceptible: Designs to Visualise Time Dilation. Daniel Buzzo and David Jonas
• Ritual Machine V: Where are You?. David Chatting, David S. Kirk, Paulina Yurman, and Jo-Anne Bichard
• Lessons from Living In A Prototype. Audrey Desjardins
• On the Elusiveness of Interactive Objects. Nick Dulake and Daniela Petrelli
• Designing Garments to Evolve Over Time. Lynda Grose and Vibeke Riisberg
• Intermediate objects during research through design. Kim Halskov
• Energy Babble: embodiment of a research device. Liliana Ovalle and William Gaver
• Framing process and practice: reflections on intermediate material outcomes. Sumit Pandey, Swati Srivastava, and Jorun Børsting
• Haptic Design with Objects and Actors. Adam Parkinson
• DIY Gamer Kit: An Open Ended Product. Michail Vanis

The Things of Design Research: Diversity in Objects and Outcomes (CHI 2017)

• Multisensory Prototyping for Smart Connected Things. Arne Berger, Kevin Lefeuvre, and Sören Totzauer
• A Data-enabled Design Canvas as Research through Design facilitator. Janne van Kollenburg and Sander Bogers
• Ritual Machine IV: A Message in a Jam. David Chatting, Paulina Yurman, Jo-Anne Bichard, and David S. Kirk
• DIYbio Incubator: A ‘design thing’ at the boundaries of DIY Making and DIY Biology. Piyum Fernando
• HaptiSonic Artefacts: Malleable Prototypes & Audio Diaries for Designing with Visually-Impaired Practitioners. Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Tony Stockman
• Things and 物 in In-situ Making and Evaluating: A Case Study. Wei Wang, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Jennifer G. Sheridan, Yi Shen, Tie Ji, Lucia Marengo, Alessia Milo, Tongtong Ning, Yongmeng Wu, Xiang Xu, and Yating Zou
• Design Research Artifacts: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Saying. Zachary Winegardner

Doing Things with Research through Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends? (CHI 2019)

• Thought Projectors: Autoethnographic Research-through-Design Artifacts. Aubree M. Ball
• A Tangible Color-Picker Toy Designed for Young Children Balancing Physical Properties and Play Elements Through Design. Florian Güldenpfennig, Peter Fikar, and Roman Ganhör
• Heart Sounds as a Means of Giving Form to Critical Alternatives with Biosensory Data. Noura Howell
• Careful Devices: outline of a research program Tom Jenkins, Anna Vallgårda, Laurens Boer, Teresa Almeida, and Sarah Homewood
• Using Research through Design to Study Future Everyday Life. Lenneke Kuijer
• Reifying Through Design(ing). Dan Lockton
• Designing Creative Tensions between Concept and Embodied Practice. Andrew McPherson, Fabio Morreale, and Andrea Guidi
• When making things with code makes nothing. Troy Nachtigall
• Material improvisations with a new sensor material. Charlotte Nordmoen, Andrew McPherson
• Murmur: Exploring how Awareness of Being Under Surveillance can Lead to Dialogue and Control. Jonathan Rankin
• The Desktop Odometer: Situating Speculative Design in the Amazon Marketplace. Jeremy Viny
• Robot Re-embodiment: Case of How We Funded and Executed RtD for Basic-Exploratory Research. John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, and Aaron Steinfeld

RtD in Situ: Discussing the Domains and Impact of Design Research (DIS 2020)

• The Stuffness of Research Through Design. David Chatting
• Situated Temporality through Design: Engaging Personal Photo Viewing Experience at Home. Amy Yo Sue Chen and William Odom
• The way of understanding the relational in a complex manner also determines Co-Ability. Renata Deszo
• PizzaBlock: Can a Workshop be a Research Product? Chris Elsden and Jonathan Rankin
• Traces, Glimmers, Residues, and Specks of Things: In Praise of Ephemera. Cally Gatehouse
• Creating and Staging Interactive Costumes–Wearables and E-textiles in the Performing Arts. Michaela Honauer
• Inclusion and the ‘new normals’ of design practice. Maxim Labarande
• This is a design imaginary. Ruth Neubauer
• ‘Station of Being’ – Design Research into Practice. Jeroen Peeters, Rosa van der Veen, and Ambra Trotto
• From Studios to Laptops: Challenges in Imparting Design Education Virtually. Surbhi Pratap, Abhishek Dahiya, and Jyoti Kumar
• Exploring Location Histories as a Design Material for Reflection with Memory Compass & Memory Tracer. Jordan White and William Odom
• Research Through Design with Differently Abled People: Participation, Ownership and Equitable Conclusions. MinYoung Yoo, William Odom, and Arne Berger
• So I drew this thing: Conversations through Artefact Drawing. Paulina Yurman
• RtD for Self-Inquiry: Sleep Ecologies. Tammar Zea-Wolfson, Dan Lockton, Jackie Chou, Yuhan (Antonio) Song, Erin Ryan, CJ Walsh