Stakeholder involvement facilitation: Reframe towards the common good

The research aims at designing an approach to support process developers at Schiphol Group to effectively incorporate their stakeholders within their project. The introduction of a common use departure hall at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, has been a use case to explore the potential of the Frame Innovation method by Kees Dorst (2015). A proposed...

Design rationale in conceptual design: a longitudinal study of professional design teams‘ practice

A design rationale is a representation of the reasoning behind a design concept, explaining why the solution is designed the way it is. This makes design rationale a critical part of concept development. However, there is little exploration on how to build a design rationale. This study sheds light on professional designers’ reasoning in...

Climate model results: Optical solution or illusion?: A case study on the visual framing effects of extreme rainfall model results on the interaction between municipal actors

In the Netherlands, the frequency and severity of extreme rainfall events are expected to increase. This can result in severely detrimental effects. It is complicated for municipal actors to effectively manage these events, as it requires judgement on probabilities, costs, and uncertain impacts. As a result, obtaining scientific knowledge...

Identifying problem frames in design conversation

Design thinking concepts such as framing, storytelling, and co-evolution, have been widely identified as part of design activity though generally have been evidenced from manual coding of design conversations and close reading of transcripts. The increase in easy-to-use computational linguistic methodologies provides an opportunity not only to...

Ceci n’est pas une Chaise:: Emerging Practices in Designer-AI Collaboration

Emerging practices of using ‘off the shelf’ AI as a creative partner in design processes are receiving increasing attention in design research. This paper takes the well-known concept of ‘framing’ in design, along with the Schönian concept of ‘surprise’ to explore how a human-AI dialogue could work. The approach taken is practice-based, with the...

Decarbonization and Destabilization: a Multi-Level Perspective on the Dutch steel-making industry

Nowadays a growing concern among the scientific community, and the wider public are pushing politicians and countries to design policies for reversing the course of warming the plant. These efforts are backed up by, for example, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. As resources are limited, studies have<br/>tried to identify sectors and...