Background

• Cross-institutional teaching & research collaboration:– DJCAD at The University of Dundee

– T-Labs, Deutsche Telekom, Berlin, Germany (Funding Supplier)

• Master of Design (MDes)

• International & inter-disciplinary team with varying levels of experience

Research Context

• Investigating the case transfer approach:– Other approaches to innovation – Design knowledge within existing artefacts– Local, Regional and Long-Distance Transfer

• Rip + Mix: a design method emerging from case transfer– Builds on these previous arguments

– Aims to further develop and test the approach (Chow 2008 & 2009)

• Operational issues– Design cycle, milestones, face-to-face meetings

– Student stipends, assessments

– Content management system & documentation

Aims and objectives

explore case transfer as a method to develop new designs for information and communication products and services for older people

research and disseminate new design methods through collaboration between academics, postgraduate students and an external partner

to provide unique learning opportunity for MDes students

(Re)Creativity

The law is strangling creativity (http://tiny.cc/VqBZY)

LAWRENCE LESSIGPROFESSOR OF LAWSTANFORD UNIVERSITY

Image by Neil Will (http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilwill/2775796242)

Rip1 - Exploration

• Collect existing Information and Communication Products and Services (ICPS) for older people

• Sort the collection into groups (intuitively)• Choose an archetype from each group• Analyse and describe the design principles that underlie each archetype

Rip2 - Development

• Collect existing ICPS for people who are similar to older people

• Intuitively sort the collection into groups.

• Choose ICPS that are different from existing ICPS for older people

• Analyzing in words and sketches the chosen ICPS

Rip3 – Mix and Transfer

• Transfer the formal and material elements

• Descriptors: form, material, infrastructure, stakeholders and function

• Mix and transfer to make something NEW

Rip3 – Where’s my bus?

RIP 1Digital Radio

The broadcastingfunction of radio

RIP 2Bus Stop

The act of waiting ata bus stop

MixA service that speaks to the user through the radio informing them when the bus is nearby

Rip3 – Shake n’ News

When the e-paper is physically shaken the content changes

Mix: The playful interaction of an ‘Etch A’ Sketch and the material and form of a newspaper

Rip3 – Mix and Transfer

Graduate Attributes

Future Development Potential

• Rip+Mix:– Creative workshops

– Evaluate in a commercial context

– Develop visualisation methods

– Develop educational and professional tools

– Strategic alignment (filtering ideas)

• Curriculum:– Enhancing live projects

– Feeding back into the system (360 degrees)

– Employability

– Pedagogy research

– Design as research

References

• Chow, Rosan. 2008. "Case Transfer Vs. Case Study. An Evaluation of Case Study as a Method for Design Research." in Swiss Design Network Symposium 'Focused'. . Bern.

• Chow, Rosan, W. Jonas, and N Schaeffer. 2009. "Pericean Abdcution, Signs & Design Transfer." in 8th European Academy of Design Conference. Aberdeen