The aim of this DASP course is to discuss action-research in the design field as the means to reframe socio-technical aspects of urban challenges.
\nAs a practice, design activity delves into man-made things (defined in literature as what characterises material culture and\/or the artificial world). The designer is concerned with both how things are and how they ought to be in order to attain goals and to function. Therefore, being related to the social definition of goals and functioning, design problems are recognised as ill-defined, ill-structured, or \u201cwicked\u201d [Simon, 1996 (1968); Rittel & Webber, 1973]. In this light, design has been conceptualised also as a specific approach to reasoning: \u201cDesign has its own distinct \u2018things to know, ways of knowing them, and ways of finding out about them\u2019\u201d and places at its core the language of \u201cmodelling\u201d [Cross, 1982]. We adopt here the definition of research-by-design as actions of defining, redefining, and challenging the problem-as-given mindset \u2013 from the early stages of problem setting throughout the transformative attitude by which problems are addressed, up to the test and evaluation of possible applications.<\/p>\n
The course builds on the activities of FUL<\/em>L-Future Urban Legacy<\/em> Lab, that aims to provide knowledge and action in the field of relevant global urban challenges and support to local decision-making processes. The ambition is for FUL<\/em>L to establish a model of research practice that can be transferred to advanced education at POLITO.<\/p>\n 7th June | 9.30-12.30 Itinerant workshop:<\/strong><\/p>\n 22nd June | 14.00-18.00 23rd-24th June Date To Be Defined, July The aim of this DASP course is to discuss action-research in the design field as the means to reframe socio-technical aspects of urban challenges. As a practice, design activity delves into man-made things (defined in literature as what characterises material culture and\/or the artificial world). The designer is concerned with both how things are and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"primo-piano":[],"research-tag":[],"research-tematictag":[],"agenda-type":[359],"class_list":["post-9302","agenda","type-agenda","status-publish","hentry","agenda-type-seminar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nImportant dates:<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nIntroductory seminar<\/u>
\nLocation<\/em>: Future Urban Legacy Lab. Toolbox (via Agostino da Montefeltro, 2), Torino, IT<\/p>\n
\nBouwmeester ma\u00eetre architecte (BMA) with Tania Vandenbroucke and Julie Collet<\/u>
\nLocation<\/em>: Laboratory of BMA, Brussels, BE<\/p>\n
\n\u201cObserving Research by Design in Action\u201d with Ivo De Jeu of IABR<\/u>
\nGuided visit to IABR with Floris Alkemade<\/u>
\nField Exploration of M4H+ area<\/u>
\nLocation<\/em>: Laboratory IABR, Rotterdam, NL<\/p>\n
\nFinal wrap-up<\/u>
\nLocation<\/em>: Torino, IT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"