E&PDE: BEST PAPER
This article is based on ‘Sketched: Students Identify Trends at Dutch
Design Week’, winner of the best paper award at the International
Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, 12-13
September 2019, University of Strathclyde, based on the scores provided
by the international scienti c board of reviewers.
Questioning
design practice
How do we view,
create and de ne
design?
Example: Marcel
van Brackel &
Frederik Duerinck’s installation of
a sensory experience for a visitor
lying inside a morgue refrigerator
compartment (www.is.gd/zatoma)
Reinterrogating
history
Challenging the
role of designers
and their impact on
culture and nature.
Designers ask: are
we ultimately doing good?
Example: bureaus (pictured right)
feature components
with a variety of historic
styles of production and
ornamentation, evoking
dichotomies between old
and new, craft and chaos,
completion and decay
(www.is.gd/nonife)
Naturalised
technology
Ultra-speculative
design, making
digital additions
to our natural
or analogue
life. Designers ask: how is our
humanity enriched (or attacked) by the
technological advances around us?
Example: Studio Drift’s dandelion clock
lamp (pictured above; www.is.gd/jimaso)
Speculative
Breaking
boundaries to elicit
a desired reaction
and to challenge
the status quo for
objects and
experiences
Example: Veerle Kluijfhout’s Domesticat:
a woven top made not from lambswool
but from cat hair (pictured below;
www.is.gd/vaxoko)
Kostas Lambridis’s
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