Abstract
As society is constantly changing and crises emerge, opportunities to develop society arise. A series of technology developments are coming from the research field. But research needs to be brought into practice. Designers can go from a vision to the making. This article presents a journey between three points of view on systems design by means of three iterations from a project done on creating rural energy in India. It started with a design approach ‘from brief to production’, based on technological opportunities, followed by a co-design approach. Without success (approach one was lacking insightful values behind the project and the other did not stimulate ownership of the design challenge by the stakeholders), a third point of view combined research valorization and Base of the Pyramid (BoP) entrepreneurship into design action. Reflections on outcome helped to analyze the multiple roles; the designer had to become the system and being it, enable stakeholders to build around it.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | NordiCHI '12 Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Pages | 180-188 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1482-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 7th Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 6 Aug 2012 → 10 Aug 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 7th Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design |
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| Country/Territory | Denmark |
| City | Copenhagen |
| Period | 6/08/12 → 10/08/12 |