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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

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