A Design Archival Approach to Knowledge Production in Design Research and Practice

Søren Rasmussen; Jonas Fritsch; Nicolai Brodersen Hansen

doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369476

A Design Archival Approach to Knowledge Production in Design Research and Practice

Søren Rasmussen, Jonas Fritsch, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen

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In this paper, we develop the notion of design archives to understand how different forms of knowledge are systematically accumulated and shared in and across design processes. Drawing on philosophy and media theory, we present a working definition of design archives as more than documentation. Through an interview study, we investigate how various archives systematically inform design work and govern the way design processes are represented and reflected upon. The study provides insights into an abundance of tools used to access, record, store and share information. We highlight the difference between personal, shared, and public archives, different archival barriers for sharing, how prototypes act as (an)archival conduits of design potentials, and how information (and people) tend to get lost in the archives. Finally, we discuss how a design archival approach might help identify power relations in design while also facilitating a move from 'dead' to 'living' archives in design work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	Dec 2019
Pages	233-243
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450376969
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369476
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019
Event	OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction: Experience Design across Asia-Pacific - Perth, Perth, Australia Duration: 3 Dec 2019 → 5 Dec 2019 Conference number: 31 http://ozchi2019.visemex.org/wp/

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Conference	OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction
Number	31
Location	Perth
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth
Period	03/12/2019 → 05/12/2019
Internet address	http://ozchi2019.visemex.org/wp/

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Rasmussen, S, Fritsch, J & Hansen, NB 2019, A Design Archival Approach to Knowledge Production in Design Research and Practice. in OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 233-243, OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 03/12/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369457.3369476

A Design Archival Approach to Knowledge Production in Design Research and Practice. / Rasmussen, Søren; Fritsch, Jonas; Hansen, Nicolai Brodersen.
OZCHI'19: Proceedings of the 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 233-243.

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