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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Stories in a beespoon
T2 - DRS 2016 : Future Focused Thinking
AU - Maxwell, Deborah
AU - Edwards, Liz
AU - Pillatt, Toby
AU - Downing, Niamh
PY - 2016/6/27
Y1 - 2016/6/27
N2 - This paper explores the role and potential for design as process, artefact and experience to help frame and address societal problems. We consider this through examining a future folklore dialogical object, designed to stimulate conversation and question assumptions. Beekeeping is a particularly rich context with which to adopt this methodological approach, given the significance of global threats to insect pollination aligned with beekeeping’s extensive cultural heritage.By drawing on past narratives and contemporary knowledge and practices, the Beespoon, a small copper spoon representing the amount of honey a single bee can make, was codesigned as an experience that actively engaged people with conceptsof work, value and pollination. Our design process oscillated across past, present and future stories – the Beespoon as future folklore artefact and experience reflects this complexity, operating across time and value systems to provide newways to think about how we perceive and understand bees.
AB - This paper explores the role and potential for design as process, artefact and experience to help frame and address societal problems. We consider this through examining a future folklore dialogical object, designed to stimulate conversation and question assumptions. Beekeeping is a particularly rich context with which to adopt this methodological approach, given the significance of global threats to insect pollination aligned with beekeeping’s extensive cultural heritage.By drawing on past narratives and contemporary knowledge and practices, the Beespoon, a small copper spoon representing the amount of honey a single bee can make, was codesigned as an experience that actively engaged people with conceptsof work, value and pollination. Our design process oscillated across past, present and future stories – the Beespoon as future folklore artefact and experience reflects this complexity, operating across time and value systems to provide newways to think about how we perceive and understand bees.
KW - future folklore
KW - codesign
KW - storytelling
KW - objects
U2 - 10.21606/drs.2016.503
DO - 10.21606/drs.2016.503
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
VL - 9
T3 - Proceedings of DRS 2016
SP - 3485
EP - 3502
BT - Proceedings of Design Research Society Conference 2016
A2 - Lloyd, Peter
A2 - Bohemia, Erik
PB - Design Research Society
Y2 - 27 June 2016 through 30 June 2016
ER -