Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media

10 February 2012

Cumulus Working Papers Shanghai 26/10

26/10 Cumulus Working Papers Shanghai

Publication Series G

Aalto University, School of Art and Design

2011

WP_ShanghaiCumulus conference Shanghai

Young Creators for Better City & Better Life

6 -10 November 2010

Tongji University

Shanghai, China

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Editor in chief

Eija Salmi

Editors

Justyna Maciak

Lou Yongqi

Xiaocun Zhu

ISBN 978-952-60-0044-2 (print)

ISBN 978-952-60-0045-9 (pdf)

ISSN 1795 1879 Cumulus working papers (pdf)

ISSN 1456 307X Cumulus working papers (print)

Kyriiri Oy

Helsinki 2011

PDF VERSION

  WP_Shanghai_26_10.pdf

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Contents

5 Lou Yongqi – Foreword

Designing the Young Creators for Better City & Better life

8 Christian Guellerin – Opening speech

“Better cities, better life”

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KEYNOTES

9 Ezio Manzini

Social innovation and design: How designers can trigger and support sustainable changes

15 John Thackara

Design for a new restorative economy

18 Jeremy Myerson

A landscape of change for design challenges

22 WU Zhiqiang – Yrjö Sotamaa

Sustainable Design – Design for sustainable life – Design for Future

24 Tim Brown

What happens if we move from design to design thinking? Seeing the big picture nets bigger results

 

SELECTED PAPERS

Session 1

Social Innovation & Sustainability

 

27 Luigi Ferrara – Elise Hodson – Yen Trinh

Renovating the Suburbs for a Sustainable Future: A World House Year 3 Project at the Institute without Boundaries

32 Anna Meroni

Design for services and place development. Interactions and relations as ways of thinking about places: the case of periurban areas

41 Ulla Johansson – Maria Nyström – Henning Eklund – Jill Woodilla

Reality Studios: A Combined Device for Education, Research & Social Change

46 Penny Herscovitch – Dan Gottlieb – Liliana Becerra – Mariana Amatullo – David Mocarski

Safe Agua: A Collaboration between Un Techo Para mi País and Art Center College of Design

56 Carla Cipolla – Nadia Carvalho

Designing a new food system for Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ): A “Slow Food” perspective

59 Virginia Tassinari – Nik Baerten

Design for togetherness

65 Eduardo Staszowski

Amplifying Creative Communities in New York City Contents

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Session 2

Local Wisdom & Globalization

 

73 Federica Vacca – Paola Bertola

Fashion Artisan in Design Culture. An interpretative model.

81 Jacqueline Otten – Michael Krohn

Regional Knowledge and Global Design Or: The Better You Look, the More you see…

85 Stuart Walker

Design, Aesthetics and Spiritual Values: exploring technology and meaning through propositional objects

 

Session 3

Socio-Economics & Design

 

95 Keneilwe Munyai – Mugendi M’Rithaa

Local indigenous cultures and moderndesign innovations: a South African perspective

101 Anne Flemmert Jensen – Mette Mikkelsen – Poul Rind Christensen

Between User Driven and Design Driven Innovation – Towards a New Innovation Concept?

109 Yanki Lee – Denny Ho Kwok Leung

Designing with People: Developing a digital platform for knowledge transfer and exchange of inclusive design methodology

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Session 4

Old & Young

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119 Ian McArthur

Creating Culturally Adaptive Pedagogy

127 Katie Gaudion

The Multi-Sensory Environment (MSE): Encouraging Play and Promoting Well-being for all ages: The role of the Textile Designer

135 Jo-Anne Bichard – Gail Knight

Everybody Goes: Designing Age- Friendly Public Toilet Solutions

142 List of Cumulus members