Twelfth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices “No Boundaries Design” ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering | Barcelona, Spain | 5–7 March 2018 www.designprinciplesandpractices.com www.facebook.com/DesignPrinciplesAndPractices @designpap | #DPP18 Twelfth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices www.designprinciplesandpractices.com First published in 2018 in Champaign, Illinois, USA by Common Ground Research Networks, NFP www.cgnetworks.org © 2018 Common Ground Research Networks All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism, or review as permitted under the applicable copyright legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without written permission from the publisher. For permissions and other inquiries, please contact [email protected]. Common Ground Research Networks may at times take pictures of plenary sessions, presentation rooms, and conference activities which may be used on Common Ground’s various social media sites or websites. By attending this conference, you consent and hereby grant permission to Common Ground to use pictures which may contain your appearance at this event. Dear Conference Attendees, Welcome to Barcelona! We hope you will enjoy the coming three days of debate, presentations, and plenaries that will bring together academics, professionals, researchers, and practitioners to explore the present and the future of design around the world. With this, the Twelfth Conference on Design Principles and Practices, we wanted to prompt some reflection on the traditional boundaries collapsing between people, things, ideas, and places in the face of new forces of technological, political, social, and cultural evolution. Often it seems that we are losing our awareness of what could be our future and our role and responsibility to participate in its building. What will be our identities, needs, or expectations? Design stands in-between such new material and immaterial relations. Designers can play a unique role in answering these questions by facilitating debate, reflection, and transformative actions. This conference aims to explore how designers assume a social and a political role by defining our material world. Today, this seems to be a key responsibility: combining new knowledge and critical thinking, as well as consciousness and creativity, to transform large-scale issues based on the real needs of the community—which is where human life happens. The emerging missions and visions of design education, research, and practice—along with the economic, political, and social impacts—will be discussed. In general terms, we are asking for our keynotes, scholars, academics, and professionals to open the conversation about the ways in which design is overpassing any established boundaries between cultures, disciplines, social rules, and political places. “No Boundaries Design” is the new challenge: Where and how do we implicitly construct boundaries, explicitly deconstruct them when they act as barriers, or build them in resilient ways when they are necessary? How can design play a role in giving people the voice to choose their own way of thinking and acting, allowing them to be agents of change within and beyond boundaries? The conference is hosted by ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering and DESIS Lab ELISAVA in Barcelona, which should be considered one of the most interesting and creative institutions of design in Spain. This should also be considered to examine the character of design in Spain: its roots, professional context, and emerging design research. Spanish culture lies in the heart of Europe and at the crossroad of a variety of historical influences, making it a cradle for creativity and a living place. At a time when we see new and old borders rising, the conference in Spain at ELISAVA is tacking the issue of design crossing the boundaries, to understand the chances we have to enable bottom-up social innovation crossing borders and cultures. We hope you will enjoy the Spanish and international leading thinkers on design that we have selected as Plenary Speakers. Marti Guixè (Interior and Industrial Designer, Barcelona, Spain, and Berlin, Germany) will introduce a non-conventional way to understand the culture of products bridging food and performance. Oscar Tomico (Head of the Design Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Program at ELISAVA) will focus on the design process of creating ultra-personalized smart textile services in the form of soft wearables involving stakeholders of the textile industry. Ariel Guersenzvaig (Senior Lecturer and Researcher at ELISAVA) will discuss design theory and methodology, service design, and the ethics of design and technology. Albert Fuster (Academic Director at ELISAVA) and Ezio Manzini (Founder of DESIS Network and Honorary Professor at Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy) will focus on “Design for City Making,” a program lead by DESIS Lab ELISAVA and the DESIS Thematic Cluster on Collaborative Cities. In addition, we hope you will appreciate the choice of the conference venue and the activities connecting design, culture, food, and life across this city. The conference is located in the ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering in the heart of Las Ramblas, 30-32, in Barcelona. Finally, as Spain is a rich and complex mix of cultures and a place to share different ideas and fuel creativity, we look forward to connecting and learning about each other’s different stories and ingenious expressions. Loredana Di Lucchio, Arianna Mazzeo, Lorenzo Imbesi Co-Chairs of the Conference Design Principles & Practices designprinciplesandpractices.com Dear Design Principles and Practices Delegates, Welcome to Barcelona and to the Twelfth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. The Design Principles and Practices Research Network—its conference, journal collection, and book imprint—was created to provide a transdisciplinary forum that explores the purpose of design as well as the use of designed artefacts and processes. It is a forum that brings together a diverse range of researchers, teachers, and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design–resulting in conversations that weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, and market pragmatics and social idealism. Conferences can be ephemeral spaces. We talk, learn, get inspired, but these conversations fade with time. This Research Network supports a range of publishing modes in order to capture these conversations and formalize them as knowledge artifacts. We encourage you to submit your research to the Design Principles & Practices Journal Collection. We also encourage you to submit a book proposal to the Design Principles & Practices Book Imprint. In partnership with our Editors and Network Partners the Design Principles & Practices Research Network is curated by Common Ground Research Networks. Founded in 1984, Common Ground Research Networks is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Common Ground is a meeting place for people, ideas, and dialogue. However, the strength of ideas does not come from finding common denominators. Rather, the power and resilience of these ideas is that they are presented and tested in a shared space where differences can meet and safely connect—differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. These are the kinds of vigorous and sympathetic academic milieus in which the most productive deliberations about the future can be held. We strive to create places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves. I would like to thank everyone who has poured such a phenomenal amount of work into this conference including our co- organizers, ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, and our recognized Conference Chairs: Professor Loredana Di Lucchio from Sapienza University of Rome, Professor Lorenzo Imbesi from Sapienza University of Rome, and Arianna Mazzeo from ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, as well as our supporters, DESIS Lab ELISAVA and DESIS Network. I’d also like to thank my Design Principles & Practices colleagues, Jeremy Boehme, Sara Hoke, McCall Macomber, Tatjana Portnova, Helen Repp, and Jessica Weinhold-Brokish, who have put such a significant amount of work into this conference. We wish you all the best for this conference, and we hope it will provide you every opportunity for dialogue with colleagues from around the corner and around the globe. Yours sincerely, Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope Chief Social Scientist Common Ground Research Networks | About Common Ground Our Mission Common Ground Research Networks aims to enable all people to participate in creating collaborative knowledge and to share that knowledge with the greater world. Through our academic conferences, peer-reviewed journals and books, and innovative software, we build transformative research networks and provide platforms for meaningful interactions across diverse media. Our Message Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations—of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground identifies some of the pivotal ideas and challenges of our time and builds research networks that cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the