Developing a Design Inquiry Method for Data Exploration

The increasing availability of large-scale datasets such as sensor data or social media data and increasingly accessible data science tools create unique<br/>opportunities for design. However, the relationship between data science practices and design methods is still underdeveloped. In this paper, we propose that data exploration activities can...

Hacking, Making, and Prototyping for Social Change

Even though emerging city-makers are increasingly organized to trigger social changes, it is still hard to apprehend their real power to transform space and the way we live together. In this chapter, we explore how designerly approaches, such as hacking, making, and prototyping, can empower emerging city-makers to trigger a broader change and...

Data Exploration for Generative Design Research

The current work elaborates upon a Generative Data Exploration method, which is a design technique aiming at supporting designers in integrating data in their design activities. Digital data offers new opportunities in all sort of professional domains, yet existing approaches and tools to manipulate data are predominantly targeted at data...

Prototyping for Citizen Engagement: Workshop outcomes Design and the City Conference, 22 April 2016

This document aims to bring together snippets from the Prototyping Citizen Engagement workshop that happened at the Design and the City conference in Amsterdam, on 22 April 2016.<br/><br/>We wish to have this document be a summary of the workshop, consisting of snapshots of the discussions that went into several directions along citizen...

From quantified self to quantified neighbourhood