02. December 2010
Fiction in Design Research
Report on the 6th Swiss Design Network Conference in Basle, 2010
By Evert Ypma
‘Negotiating Futures – Design Fiction’ was the leitmotif for the Swiss Design Network’s (SDN) annual design research conference on 28-30 November, 2010.
During the three-day event around 200 professionals – design researchers, students, practitioners and other experts with “hybrid” or interdisciplinary interests – shared their perspectives on design research, methods and projects. Invited speakers and workshop leaders from various fields, such as design history, product design, technology, art, visual communication, brand development and marketing, and physics, were asked how they use fiction within their creative processes of research and/or design. ...Read further.
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