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Andersson, Anders-Petter; Edeholt, Håkan; Ek, Anne-Charlotte & Hansen, Anne-Marie
(2023).
WHAT DO WE CREATE IN A RESPONSIBLE WORKSHOP IN 2030?
I Buck, Lyndon; Grierson, Hillary & Bohemia, Erik (Red.),
DS 123: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2023).
The Design Society.
ISSN 9781912254194.
doi:
10.35199/EPDE.2023.94.
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This paper is relevant because of the current dire health situation of several critical human and non-human systems. In the paper we take a Nordic perspective, being critical of mainstream challenges currently facing many of our most existential systems. We suggest that design disciplines and their educations, together with others, urgently need radical change during the few years that remain until 2030. The paper argues that a holistic and systemic view is required that rather focuses on root problems, than the symptoms these root-problems cause. Based on a multidisciplinary selection of scientific literature, the paper shows how espoused systemic approaches often harm the health of both human- and non-human systems. In addition, the paper argues that these espoused systemic approaches tend to suggest ‘solutions’ that stand in the way of more realistic solutions emerging from supportive and social environments. One of the insights conveyed by the literature visited is how a reconnection of individuals in community- and practice-based activities promotes health and hopes that better futures can be achieved. The paper, therefore, suggests how design and its different educations, with others, can act in an interdisciplinary manner to become agents towards the kind of holistically and radical changes required to heal all broken systems we humans, together with so many others, inhabit today. In other words, as an output, we suggest what and how we designers should ‘design’ in our ‘workshops’ in 2030. And what tools, materials, methods, crafts, social processes and thoughts-to-think-with, we need to change to get there.
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Makunda, Collins & Edeholt, Håkan
(2019).
The Unsustainability of Urban Habitat Transformation: A Case Study of Kileleshwa in Nairobi, Kenya.
Africa Habitat Review Journal.
ISSN 2524-1354.
13(1),
s. 1547–1560.
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Mainsah, Henry; Morrison, Andrew & Edeholt, Håkan
(2017).
Building networks for knowledge exchange and design strategies for climate futures.
The Design Journal.
ISSN 1460-6925.
20(1),
s. S102–S109.
doi:
10.1080/14606925.2017.1352660.
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Morrison, Andrew; Edeholt, Håkan; Røise, Øivind; Bjørkli, Cato Alexander & Hoff, Thomas
(2014).
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design. Toward a Taxonomy of Design Competencies.
FormAkademisk - Forskningstidsskriftet for design og designdidaktikk.
7(2),
s. 1–17.
doi:
10.7577/formakademisk.788.
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What is it that designers talk about as mattering in their professional competencies? In this article, we empirically investigated industrial designers’ own assumptions on their design practice in relation to innovation. In applying a method potentially suitable for design research, interview statements from design professionals (n=17) were categorised according to 12 pre-selected categories of potential design core competencies. Of a total of 2,267 statements, 1,990 were classified as related to design competence. A qualitative classification of the statements revealed that 1,259 (63.3%) of these could be classified under the pre-set categories. The results showed that out of the 12 categories, ‘creativity’, ‘particular design methods and techniques’ and ‘user’ were emphasised. From the remaining statements, two additional categories were revealed: ‘teamwork’ and ‘project management’. These results can be used to reveal design professionals’ self-understanding of their contributions to innovation processes.
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Edeholt, Håkan
(2012).
Innovative Foresights in Sustainable Design and Architecture - How to Promote Seemingly Impossible, but Still Crucial, Radical Changes.
Sustainable Development.
ISSN 0968-0802.
20(3),
s. 155–165.
doi:
10.1002/sd.1532.
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Edeholt, Claes Håkan
(2011).
Why Design Matters More Today Than Ever Before.
I Koskinen, Ilpo; Härkäsalmi, Tiina; Mazé, Ramia; Matthews, Ben & Lee, Jung-Joo (Red.),
MAKING DESIGN MATTER! Proceedings of the Nordes'11: The 4th Nordic Design Research Conference.
School of Art and Design, Aalto University.
s. 202–205.
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Edeholt, Håkan; Joseph, Jomy & Xia, Nan
(2021).
Walk the talk: Towards an ecological futures framework for our designed cultures.
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Based on the bleak trajectory of the near and far future due to climate change, this paper outlines some of the assumptions that makes relevant actions so hard to implement. We suggest a framework that enables us to radically rethink sustainability as well as both human and design agency. Based on a simple “Walk-the-Talk” model, potential actions are mapped for both (i) established and (ii) more alternative approaches. The former being the one espoused in today’s discourse, while the latter seems to get surprisingly little support. By describing three concrete product concepts we illustrate how by shifting focus to more alternative approaches, we can precisely address the challenges that more traditional approaches have obviously failed to address. In order to find relevant leverage points for both design and required systems change, the paper finally discusses why the traditional approaches still are so dominant in our quest to address climate change.
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Mainsah, Henry; Morrison, Andrew & Edeholt, Håkan
(2017).
Building networks for knowledge exchange and design strategies for climate futures.
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Makunda, Collins & Edeholt, Håkan
(2016).
How African Design Perspectives Challenge Sustainable Development.
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When the World Commission on Environment and Development presented their seminal 1987 report, “Our Common Future”, they sought to address the conflicts between environment and development goals by formulating a definition that highlighted that: Sustainable development is development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (WCED, 1987). In the extensive discussion and use of the concept since then, there has generally been a recognition of three aspects of sustainable development: The environmental, the social and the economical. Arguably this diversification of the concept has not only made it cumbersome to use but also diverted the focus from the conflicts and tensions it initially tried to address. The tension between environment and development are expressed and reinforced by tensions between, for example; today and future, we and them, local and global, poor and rich, nature and culture, new and old, rural and urban, sparse and dense, etcetera. Arguably these gaps have profound implications on the kinds of obstacles the transformation from a ‘Development as we know it’ towards a more long term ‘Sustainable Development’ experiences. The tensions and conflicts inherent in the notion of sustainable development provide a lens with which to look at fast growing cities in Africa such as Nairobi with a population in excess of three million. Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, may be perceived as a "New World" given its rapid urbanization and population growth. It is a city faced with the challenge of housing its residents many of whom moved from rural areas that are experiencing poor agricultural prospects in the wake of Climate Change. They arrived in the city with aspirations for a better Quality of Life role-modeled on a consumption driven Standard of Living which the wealthier part of the world enjoys. While slums have historically developed in the city to cope with the enormous need for affordable shelter, a more recent occurrence has been the rapid transformation of the city’s historically low density residential neighbourhoods into higher density residential habitats to meet the pressing housing demand. The need for a viable residential habitat in a rapidly transforming urban context challenges the notion of what sustainability can and should be in a particularly African context: What is the appropriate model for sustainable development in a dynamic urban context? The paper discusses the role design perspectives and locally appropriate strategies play in fostering new role-models for sustainable development. Through cases and review of current strategies employed in a rapidly transforming residential neighbourhood in Nairobi, the authors question business as usual approaches of today and instead suggest a number of more radical alternatives. Their findings suggest the benefits of design perspectives informed by the local context, in better encountering the challenges.
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Edeholt, Håkan; Chisin, Alettia & Johan, van Niekerk
(2014).
Participatory Design without Borders.
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Edeholt, Håkan
(2014).
A Design Educational Strategy for Scaling Up Climate Change Approaches in South Africa and Norway.
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This paper reflects on the crucial combination of design education and global fairness when it comes to addressing Climate Change in an effective way. It also reflects on the just as important feature of, some sort of, "fairness" to future generations. Arguably these two features could be at odds with, or at least be a challenge for, two very typical and espoused features in contemporary design education; i.e. its focus on present and local conditions. Underpinned by this tension, this paper discuss how two design schools, one in Global North and one in Global South, intend to scale up its present local approaches to more glocal ones, that also takes future generations into account. In doing so, the paper describe the schools' attempts to nurture public democratic discourses by back-casting future scenarios to present day and scaling it up by using a special kind of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The paper is not conclusive but hope to nurture a creative debate about issues being necessary in, and beyond, all strands of design.
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Edeholt, Håkan
(2013).
Key note title - Design, Development and Climate Change Challenges.
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Edeholt, Håkan & M'Rithaa, Mugendi
(2013).
TOWARDS AN AFRICAN RENAISSANCE: sustaining development by design.
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Edeholt, Claes Håkan
(2013).
Designing for Creative Public Discourses – a critique of methodologies used to address climate change –.
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Edeholt, Håkan
(2011).
Design, design research and researching design– exploring methodological diversity.
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Edeholt, Håkan; Romm, Jonathan & Røise, Øivind
(2010).
Hvordan kan design tilføre verdi til det medisinsk tekniske og e-helseområdet.
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Edeholt, Håkan & Ek, Anne-Charlotte
(2008).
Research design and the professional model.
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Edeholt, Håkan & Capjon, Jan
(2008).
Design (x) Diaspora : implementing sustainable development in develping countries.
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