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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Product/Part Longevity in Open Design of Small Kitchen Appliances
AU - Bakırlıoğlu, Yekta
AU - Doğan, Çağla
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/10/7
Y1 - 2020/10/7
N2 - Emerged at the intersection of open-source, do-it-yourself and maker movements, and blurring of the lines among users, designers and producers, open design suggests a continuous process of co-designing open to everyone and demonstrates opportunities for repair, reuse and upgrading through transparent processes and design sharing. While such opportunities are conceptualized in literature, how they can (or should) be reflected in design is an open question worth exploring. This paper presents an exploratory study on product/part longevity, personalization and reuse to find out the implications of open design for transforming an already established product category like small kitchen appliances. For this purpose, research through co-designing methodology was developed and utilized through two design workshops on practices shaped around small kitchen appliances. The study revealed sustainable design considerations for idea-generation, open part properties that respond to them, the strategies for iterating open designs and their implications for product/part longevity, personalization and reuse.
AB - Emerged at the intersection of open-source, do-it-yourself and maker movements, and blurring of the lines among users, designers and producers, open design suggests a continuous process of co-designing open to everyone and demonstrates opportunities for repair, reuse and upgrading through transparent processes and design sharing. While such opportunities are conceptualized in literature, how they can (or should) be reflected in design is an open question worth exploring. This paper presents an exploratory study on product/part longevity, personalization and reuse to find out the implications of open design for transforming an already established product category like small kitchen appliances. For this purpose, research through co-designing methodology was developed and utilized through two design workshops on practices shaped around small kitchen appliances. The study revealed sustainable design considerations for idea-generation, open part properties that respond to them, the strategies for iterating open designs and their implications for product/part longevity, personalization and reuse.
KW - co-design
KW - design considerations
KW - design for sustainability
KW - open design
KW - research through designing
KW - small kitchen appliances
U2 - 10.1080/14606925.2020.1826635
DO - 10.1080/14606925.2020.1826635
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85092175248
VL - 23
JO - Design Journal
JF - Design Journal
SN - 1460-6925
IS - 6
ER -