Publication Series G
Aalto University, School of Art and Design
2011

Cumulus conference
26-29 May 2010
Media & Design Academy
Genk, Belgium

Editor in chief
Eija Salmi

Editors
Ann Laenen
Jeroen Lievens
Justyna Maciak
Virginia Tassinari
Andrea Wilkinson

ISBN 978-952-60-0048-0 (print)
ISBN 978-952-60-0049-7 (pdf)
ISSN 1795 1879 Cumulus working papers (pdf)
ISSN 1456 307X Cumulus working papers (print)

Kyriiri Oy
Helsinki 2011

PDF version
WP_Genk_25_10

Contents

4 Ann Laennen – Introduction
6 Organizers -Foreword Borderline – pushing design over the limit
8 Christian Guellerin – opening speech Cumulus in Genk…to go over the borders

Selected abstracts and papers
9 Andreas Hopf – Damien Motte – Axel Nordin
Out of focus – The limits of a border-line profession

10 Ann-Marie Tully
Becoming Art, Becoming Design, [Becoming Wolf]: The Rhizomic Dimensions of Contemporary Conceptual Design

18 Barbara N.E. Kok – Peter Vink – Karin Slegers
Tools for more user friendly design: do they really improve the quality of the design?

19 Kris de Tollenaere and Jeanine Eerdekens
The hybrid book genre of word & image narratives – Results from an artistic research project, 2008-2010: Transitionality between word and image in fictional stories for adults.

20 Liesbeth Huybrechts
Participation is a risky thing -The role of hybrid and risky things in participatory design processes

25 Lorenzo Imbesi
Hybrid in Design: Design as a Cultural and Collective Process

30 Mads Nygaard Folkmann
The Inner Border Crossing: Imagination in Design

36 Mahmoud Keshavarz
Experience Design as an Activity

37 Miaosen Gong – Linghao Zhang – Xian Zhang
Design for Collaborative Services: Two service design workshops as intercultural experiences of design intervention in grassroots social innovation

42 Miia Lammi
Service Design challenges Designers’ Competence

47 Peter Stebbing
Back to a Future

48 Rosanne van Klaveren
The Art of Lying

52 Rudi Knoops
DIORAMATIZED #01

56 Sanne Jansen – Jessica Schoffelen
‘Not quite 100′. A description of design with people with schizophrenic symptoms.

61 Virginia Tassinari
Wunderkammer: archaeology of wonder

65 Yanki Lee – Denny K L HO
http://www.designingwithpeople.org/: enabling designers to cross borders for social inclusion