Indiscipline
Social design principles and practices: how designers work in this realm
- Name
- Inês Veiga
- Year
- 2020
- Institution
- Lisbon School of Architecture Universidade de Lisboa
- Supervisors
- Rita Almendra, Thomas Binder
- Discipline
- Design
- Scope
- Social Design
- Taxonomy
- Epistemology/Praxiology
- Type
- Theoretical
- Language
- English
- Wordcount / Pagecount
- 126,423 / 327
- Joint supervision
- No
Social and activist critical practices in Co-design.
Research Process (5 methods)
x
The ERC Project in Bairro da Cova da Moura: experimental project using bottom-up processes of spatial intervention departing from the struggles to reclaim the Right to the City experienced by the people of the Cova da Moura neighbourhood.
The ERC Project, follow up project.
A BIP/ZIP initiative with local partners to adress ethnic conflicts and spatial issues in the neighbourhood near the Lisbon School of Architecture.
Collaboration in the Vitoria Gardens Collection by Sofia Borges; including designers, the artist, the Portela Ward, the Hindu community, the ward gardeners, the dwellers of Quinta da Vitória.
| # | Name of Method | Research Phase | Research Approach | Researcher Role | Object of Study / Participants | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Literature review | Exploratory | Qualitative | x | x | x |
| 2 | CoDesign | Exploratory/Generative/Evaluative | Qualitative | Participatory | The ERC Project in Bairro da Cova da Moura: experimental project using bottom-up processes of spatial intervention departing from the struggles to reclaim the Right to the City experienced by the people of the Cova da Moura neighbourhood. | unspecified |
| 3 | CoDesign | Exploratory/Generative/Evaluative | Qualitative | Participatory | The ERC Project, follow up project. | unspecified |
| 4 | CoDesign | Exploratory/Generative/Evaluative | Qualitative | Participatory | A BIP/ZIP initiative with local partners to adress ethnic conflicts and spatial issues in the neighbourhood near the Lisbon School of Architecture. | unspecified |
| 5 | CoDesign | Exploratory/Generative/Evaluative | Qualitative | Participatory | Collaboration in the Vitoria Gardens Collection by Sofia Borges; including designers, the artist, the Portela Ward, the Hindu community, the ward gardeners, the dwellers of Quinta da Vitória. | unspecified |
Knowledge Transfer & Exchange
Knowledge Exchange (PhD Process): Exchange with community
| IK&T | Academia | Design Practice | Society |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context | No | No | No |
| Vision | No | No | No |
| Means | No | Yes | No |
Recommendations (5)
Take the research as a starting point to continue performatively deconstructing and recomposing visual communication design so that its possibilities for different kinds of social design practices become visible.
- Scope:
- Macro
- Time Horizon:
- Long
- Evidence Strength:
- Exploratory
- Feasibility:
- Medium
Take indiscipline further as both a hypothesis and a method in studies with and about diffuse designers, and in research that combines theories from within and beyond design.
- Scope:
- Macro
- Time Horizon:
- Long
- Evidence Strength:
- Exploratory
- Feasibility:
- Medium
Explore in depth the diffuse side of design as a way for design experts to better understand the politics of designing things with others.
- Scope:
- Macro
- Time Horizon:
- Long
- Evidence Strength:
- Exploratory
- Feasibility:
- Medium
Expand the inventive and pedagogic potentials of indiscipline as a concept for understanding the social turn and for practicing socially engaged design in ways that are better for others and for designers themselves.
- Scope:
- Meso → Macro
- Time Horizon:
- Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Indicative
- Feasibility:
- Medium-High
Articulate indiscipline in design education by investigating how and when students may be ready for design practice to become a more living thing.
- Scope:
- Meso
- Time Horizon:
- Medium
- Evidence Strength:
- Exploratory
- Feasibility:
- Medium