Design synthesis: An act of Research through Design
2019
We present a reflective practice where
challenges of assembling, making sense of and
drawing conclusions from co-created materials were
addressed through a process of design synthesis that
improved the clarity and meaning making during the
interpretation process. In this paper, we illustrate our
point by presenting a set of design research artifacts
resulting from design synthesis: a manifesto, a scale
model, a set of storyboards and illustrated characters. Inspired by the arts and creative practice in
other disciplines such as film making, we adapted
these methods as a means of transforming participants’ contributions into inspirational resources for
interactive design. This process encouraged the
production of new creative and active forms of
documentation and enabled us to handle interpretation in a way that embraced the inspirational and
provisional nature of our creative and participatory
processes. By doing so, we broaden the current practice of documentation in design and show how our
process of design synthesis can serve the purpose of
co-creation. Finally, we encourage design practitioners to adapt and develop design-based methods to
filter and externalize insights, making their thinking
tangible for them and others so they can be collectively discussed, tested and reflected upon to inspire
future ideas.
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