THE MOST EXCITING DESIGN STUDIO IN THE WORLD
Help us find out what makes design studios a great place to work and study!
This is a citizen science project. If you are an interaction design student, working in a design studio, please join our research.
PROVIDE DATA
Take a photo of your design studio and upload it. Compare your studio to other schools and place your photo along each dimension.
ANALYSE
Move around photos of other studios if you think that their placement does not fit and add a comment on why you moved it. Watch what other people do.
THEORIZE
As our analyses get more refined, add your own explanations to the 'Brilliant Thoughts' board.
MEET
Join our workshop at SIDeR 2018 to help build theory - or see the results on this site.
JOIN US*
*Please leave your e-mail for us to contact you
DIMENSION BOARDS
PRACTICALITIES
Your studio photo:
We only accept one photo from each studio/school, so make it count!
- find a position in a corner, a bit elevated, to get a good overview
- include people to show life – but make sure to ask their permission to put their photo on the web
- shoot the photo a time, when the activity level is typical.
Upload your photo:
Your photo needs the name of your school as a title and a one-liner saying which programme you study.
Organising the photos:
Check the dimension we are currently discussing (e.g. productivity vs comfort). Compare your studio to the other photos, and place it somewhere appropriately along the dimension. If you think other photos ought to shift position, you are free to move them – but add a short note to argue why you did so.
Add explanations:
If you learn something new about what makes a studio exciting, feel free to suggest explanations on the Discussion Board below
New dimensions:
Once the discussion of one dimension comes to a stand-still, we will open a new dimension. You are very welcome to suggest new dimensions down in the Discussion Board.
And when does it end?
We will close the discussion after SIDeR 2018, May 18-19. This is when we will also post results of the workshop we run there to ‘build theory’ about design studio environments!
THE GOAL
Design students seem to like learning in a design studio.
But do we ever do something to improve the environment, or just accept it as it was organised by faculty?
And if we like to improve, in which way can we make it more exciting?
This is what we want to find out.
And in the process we want to test what citizen science can do for design research.
We’d like to see every interaction design programme in the world upload a photo!
Dimensional Analysis is a grounded theory method that challenges you to find opposits, dimensions, along which to place the qualitative data entries. The first dimensions may sound too naive, but the more dimensions we try, the better we get to understand the data. (Kools et al. 1996)
Kamila Halabura and Nele Schmidt, graduate students IT Product Design
Jacob Buur, Professor of User-Centred Design SDU Design, University of Southern Denmark
DISCUSSION BOARD
Please feel free to join the discussions below. We are looking forward to receive suggestions and comments related to literature as well as anything else!