Three roles for textiles as tangible working materials in co-design processes

Heimdal, E; Rosenqvist, T

Three roles for textiles as tangible working materials in co-design processes

Heimdal, E Rosenqvist, T

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: CoDesign, 2012, 8 (2-3), pp. 183 - 195
Issue Date:: 2012-06-01

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dc.contributor.author	Heimdal, E	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rosenqvist, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3899-6694	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-06-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	CoDesign, 2012, 8 (2-3), pp. 183 - 195	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1571-0882	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/113128
dc.description.abstract	Textiles are increasingly complex materials used in a growing number of applications, e.g. in architecture. The textile industry must therefore engage with other professions when developing both textiles and products of which textiles are a part. In this article, we argue that tools taken from the field of participatory design represent a potential for staging such co-design situations and report on our experience from a co-design process where architects, engineers and textile experts engaged in designing future textile solutions for Danish hospital environments. During this process we used what we call tangible working materials to stage the collaboration between the stakeholders engaged as co-designers. Our experience using the tangible working materials showed us that they can be divided into three types, with different attributes and roles in the design process: real, mediating and representative materials. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	CoDesign	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/15710882.2012.672579	en_US
dc.title	Three roles for textiles as tangible working materials in co-design processes	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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Textiles are increasingly complex materials used in a growing number of applications, e.g. in architecture. The textile industry must therefore engage with other professions when developing both textiles and products of which textiles are a part. In this article, we argue that tools taken from the field of participatory design represent a potential for staging such co-design situations and report on our experience from a co-design process where architects, engineers and textile experts engaged in designing future textile solutions for Danish hospital environments. During this process we used what we call tangible working materials to stage the collaboration between the stakeholders engaged as co-designers. Our experience using the tangible working materials showed us that they can be divided into three types, with different attributes and roles in the design process: real, mediating and representative materials. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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