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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Dundee
BESPOKE/Insight Journalism. (Four Artifacts/prototypes. Exhibited: London Design Festival, Sackler Centre, V & A, London (15-23.09.2011); London Design Festival 2012: 100% Design, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, (19-22.09.2012); Unbox Festival, Delhi, India, (7-10.02.2013)
The core research that the artefacts generated was the testing of the capability of a new design research method Insight Journalism. The artefacts were part of an RUCK Digital Economy research project Bespoke that took place between 2009 and 2011. Bespoke partnered the Universities of Dundee with the Falmouth University, University of Surrey, University of Newcastle, and University of Central Lancashire. The process included Rogers benchmarking established design ethnography techniques to establish a framework for a new method of Insight Journalism as a catalyst for community innovation and engagement. A series of six objects were designed as responses to test this hypothesis in a trial that included 2,000 homes on the Callon and Fishwick estate in Preston.
The core insights generated included: Access to, and engagement with the digital economy is significantly enhanced by bespoke, or tailor made, physical objects; Insight Journalism is a valid and effective method for enabling and evaluating responsive design within communities.
Insight Journalism has been implemented by MIT Media Labs in a research project by the Civic Media group who have benchmarked the work alongside IDEO’s Human Centered Design toolkit as an exemplar of excellence in participatory co-design. Bespoke design responses and method of Insight Journalism deployed at the Unbox Festival in Delhi (7-10th February 2013) In the cultural sector Insight Journalism has been used to evaluate the impact and processes of two of Nesta’s Cultural R&D in the Arts awards that includes: The Future of The Opera’s MIT Media Labs collaboration with the UK theatre company Punchdrunk (2012) and Storything’s collaboration with the theatre group Untheatre (2013). As a direct consequence of the work presented relating to Physical Apps, Mozilla now include the idea of a Physical Web as a core stream in Mozilla Festivals which is the future of the web.
