With 11 Sao Paulo-based and 9 London-based designers we were involved in a Design Challenge at Villiers Highschool in Southall, London. The goal was to design a product or service for the school, in close collaboration with a group of their students, using video as a material to do research and cardboard as a material to explore the concepts.
Tag Archives: design documentaries
PhD thesis Design Documentaries
June 25, 2007 – 9:21 pm
by Bas Raijmakers. Completed in 2007 at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, London, UK. (PDF, 4,7 MB)
Design Documentaries
June 1, 2007 – 1:15 pm
Design documentaries are a new, visual way of bringing everyday life into design processes, as a source of inspiration. This method is used in the early stages of design processes, when designers want to discover what matters to the people they are designing for.
Smart textiles
June 1, 2007 – 1:11 pm
For the conference How Smart Are We?, organised by Design Plus in London, STBY produced two design documentaires and creative workshops on the themes Drift and Swim. The first theme explored how smart textiles can help people to navigate in a city in case they want to wander around rather than just going from A to B.
Rich viz – Design Documentaries
May 25, 2007 – 9:05 pm
by Bas Raijmakers. Paper on design documentaries, published in ‘Rich Viz! Inspiring design teams with rich vizualizations’, edited by Pieter Jan Stappers et al., StudioLab Press, Delft University of Technology, 2007.
Design Documentaries: Inspiring Design Research Through Documentary Film
August 25, 2006 – 9:02 pm
by Bas Raijmakers, William W. Gaver and Jon Bishay. Presented at DIS2006 conference in State College, Pennsylvania. (PDF, 3.5 MB)
Design documentaries with heart patients
February 1, 2006 – 1:08 pm
For Philips Medical Systems in Seatle, STBY produced three design documentaries that portray the daily lives of heart patients in London. These documentaries were made to complement the paper-based personas of heart patients in San Diego, as developed by Philips.
Storage and clutter
December 1, 2004 – 1:07 pm
Two design documentaries on how people store and display things around the house. Produced by STBY in collaboration with the interaction design research team at the Royal College of Art, as part of the EPSRC-funded Equator project.