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TY - JOUR
T1 - Planting and Tending Digital-nature Hybrids in a Walled Kitchen Garden
AU - Edwards, Elizabeth Ruth
AU - Coulton, Paul
AU - Darby, Andy
AU - Chiasson, Mike
N1 - © 2017 The MIT Press
PY - 2017/7/5
Y1 - 2017/7/5
N2 - This paper presents various digital-nature artifacts that were designed to support visitor engagement with nature in a public garden environment. We refer to these artifacts as hybrids, as an acknowledgment of their combined digital and physical characteristics. Although selections from critical theory guided initial aspects of the inquiry, we examine here how a research through design (RtD) approach and attending the Research through Design (RTD) 2015 conference affected our subsequent design practice—notably, in relation to iterations of the artifacts. The paper discusses our RtD practice and the hybrid artifacts’ place within it. In particular, we reflect on the ways in which each design iteration in the RtD process revealed knowledge about materials, values, engagement, and place. Although we wrote this paper collaboratively, only the first author attended RTD 2015. Thus, the sections addressing the experience and influence of the conference are written based on the experience only of the first author, although the conference undoubtedly subsequently affected each of us through the research.
AB - This paper presents various digital-nature artifacts that were designed to support visitor engagement with nature in a public garden environment. We refer to these artifacts as hybrids, as an acknowledgment of their combined digital and physical characteristics. Although selections from critical theory guided initial aspects of the inquiry, we examine here how a research through design (RtD) approach and attending the Research through Design (RTD) 2015 conference affected our subsequent design practice—notably, in relation to iterations of the artifacts. The paper discusses our RtD practice and the hybrid artifacts’ place within it. In particular, we reflect on the ways in which each design iteration in the RtD process revealed knowledge about materials, values, engagement, and place. Although we wrote this paper collaboratively, only the first author attended RTD 2015. Thus, the sections addressing the experience and influence of the conference are written based on the experience only of the first author, although the conference undoubtedly subsequently affected each of us through the research.
KW - Research through Design
KW - digital-nature artifacts
KW - value-led design
KW - digital interpretation
KW - public gardens
U2 - 10.1162/DESI_a_00452
DO - 10.1162/DESI_a_00452
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 65
EP - 78
JO - Design Issues
JF - Design Issues
SN - 0747-9360
IS - 3
ER -