2015 Proceedings
Below we list the full RTD 2015 proceedings, organised as per the conference schedule with individual paper downloads and links to the archive on FigShare.
A booklet detailing the RTD 2015 programme, which includes illustrated Abstracts, is downloadable here.
Day One
MAKING REAL
Day One, AM (1115 – 1255) – Pink Room
Session Chair: Joyce Yee
Understanding The Human Object: ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?’
Agi Haines
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328006
Design in the Age of Living Technology
Natsai Audrey Chieza and John Ward
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327971
FATBERG: Chapter 1
Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327972
REALISING NEW MATERIALITIES
Day One, AM (1115 – 1255) – Blue Room
Session Chair: Richard Banks
Botanical Fabrication – A research project at the intersection of design, botany and horticulture
Carole Collet and Guillaume Foissac
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327976
Mutate: The Evolution of a Responsive Knit Design System
Jane Scott
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327974
Obscura 1C Digital Camera
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328005
MULTIPLE VOICES IN DESIGN
Day One, AM (1115 – 1255) – Black Room
Session Chair: Nick Gant
Making Polychronic Objects
Jane Norris
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327941
Photo-parshiya – Discursive Assemblages in an International Women’s Centre
Rachel Clarke, Paul Dunphy and Peter Wright
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328007
HapticWave: presenting the multiple voices, artefacts and materials of a design research project
Adam Parkinson, David Cameron and Atau Tanaka
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327979
EXPERIENTIAL ENGAGEMENT
Day One, PM (1400 – 1540) – Pink Room
Session Chair: Simon Bowen
Kindred Spirits: Smell fictions + performative design research
Susana Cámara Leret
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327997
Walking off the garden path: a design journey
Liz Edwards, Paul Coulton and Mike Chiasson
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327981
Reflections on Designing for Aesthetic Engagement
Jeroen Peeters and Ambra Trotto
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327999
DIALOGUE WITH PRACTICE
Day One, PM (1400 – 1540) – Blue Room
Session Chair: Jayne Wallace
Exploring interpretation as a creative strategy within type design
Caroline Powley
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327995
Ways of Being Strands: Exploration of Textile Craft Knots by Hand and Mathematics
Nithikul Nimkulrat and Janette Matthews
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327996
Engineering the Book: the relevance of material design to investigations of the picturebook, comic and graphic novel
Martin Salisbury, Becky Palmer and Katherina Manolessou
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327987
IMAGINED WORLDS
Day One, PM (1400 – 1540) – Black Room
Session Chair: Jon Rogers
R.O.V. Digital Artwork as Narrative Controller
Guy Schofield
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327982
Experiential Manufacturing: The Earthquake Shelf
Mark Selby and David Kirk
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327994
Seeing the light – finding the poetic content of design objects
Anthony Forsyth, Joyce Yee, Trevor Duncan and James Thomas
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328002
Day Two
DIGITAL CIVICS
Day Two, PM (1400 – 1540) – Pink Room
Session Chair: David Kirk
RootIO – Platform Design for Civic Media
Chris Csíkszentmihályi and Jude Mukundane
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328001
Drones for Foraging
Carl DiSalvo and Tom Jenkins
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327990
Encouraging ‘young digital citizenship’ through co-designed, hybrid digi-tools
Nick Gant, Kelly Duggan, Tanya Dean and Josh Barnes
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327988
EXPERIENCING DATA
Day Two, PM (1400 – 1540) – Blue Room
Session Chair: Chris Speed
Certainty as a Provocation: The Design and Analysis of 2 Quant-Qual Tool Dyads for a Qualified Self Technology Project
Shruti Grover, Ross Atkin and Chris McGinley
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328004
Data Tourism
Sarah Pennington, Nadine Jarvis, David Cameron, Andy Boucher and William Gaver
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327985
A Pixel is Not a Pixel: Simple Data Charting Made Physical
David Sweeney, Tim Regan, Alex Taylor and Siân Lindley
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327998
HYBRIDITY
Day Two, PM (1400 – 1540) – Black Room
Session Chair: Rachel Clarke
Beyond conversation: Palpating the hybrid materials
Jonas Löwgren
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327980
The Instrument as the Source of new in new Music
Kristina Andersen and Dan Gibson
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327992
Architectural drawing as premise for PhD project
Anna Katrine Hougaard
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328009
Day Three
SPECULATION IN THE FIELD
Day Three, AM (1045 – 1225) – Blue Room
Session Chair: Tim Regan
Free as in wifi, public as in network: A practice based investigation of networked public space
Cally Gatehouse
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327989
Trojans & Drones: Materializing possibilities for transforming industrial infrastructures
Lorenzo Davoli, Heather Wiltse and Johan Redström
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328010
The Blue Plaque: Co-Creating Design Fictions in the Wild
Mel Woods and Deborah Maxwell
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328000
MATERIALISING FUTURES
Day Three, AM (1045 – 1225) – Pink Room
Session Chair: Justin Marshall
Investigating Lay Design through Prototyping a Toolkit for Audio Equipment
Guido Hermans
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327986
Synthetic Anatomies, Co-designing desirable 3D printed facial prosthetics
Bernard Guy, Ross Stevens, Zach Challies and Wayne Gillingham
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327991
Re-knitting: exploring openness through design
Amy Twigger Holroyd
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1327993
col·lec·tion
Ruby Hoette
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328008