Cyprus Interaction Lab
Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol Cyprus
Cyprus Interaction Lab
Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol Cyprus
Many designers have turned their efforts to projects geared toward positive community impact and design for public participation and social change (design for good). Design for public participation and social change encourages designers to play a catalytic role in communities through community engagement for projects that create positive social impact. Community engagement refers to the process by which a community is actively involved in building a collective solution for its own benefit.
This tutorial will guide participants through the process of developing the strategic foundations for socially minded, design-driven projects with social impact at their center and equip them with an understanding of the steps needed to make positive community impact a reality.
This tutorial will explore all the elements of a design problem to gain an understanding of where and how to intervene for positive public participation and social change. Creative sessions will help to develop best practices in forming well-articulated key questions for guiding inquiry, along with designing effective ideation sessions. Participants will then work in groups for rendering quick, rough prototypes of their ideas.
In this tutorial participants will become familiar with the theories of design for public participation and social change, empathic design, participatory design, and how these drive design decisions for public participation and social change. We will investigate how design can make a strategic contribution to public participation and social change and improve the lives of people living and working in excluded communities.
The tutorial will start with a coverage of the importance of Design for public participation and social change by addressing topics like:
In addition the tutorial will provide: Definitions, theories, rational/motivation and social impact of design; methodologies for designing for public participation and social change; case studies and examples on Design for public participation and social change.
Upon completion of this tutorial, participants will:
Target audience includes (but is not limited to): designers, researchers working in areas related to design for public participation and social change or sustainable design, interface architects, activists, policy and opinion makers.
Prof. Panayiotis Zaphiris is a Professor at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology. He is also the Dean of School of Fine and Applied Arts where he also directs and teaches on the online MSc in Interaction Design. Before returning to Cyprus he was a Reader at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design , School of Informatics of City University London where he still hold the title of Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow. Before City University, he was a researcher at the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University from where he also got his Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). His research interests lie in HCI with an emphasis on inclusive design and social aspects of computing. He is especially interested in HCI issues related to the elderly and people with disabilities. He is also interested in internet related research (web usability, mathematical modelling of browsing behaviour in hierarchical online information systems, online communities, e-learning, web based digital libraries and finally social network analysis of online human-to-human interactions).
Andreas Papallas holds a BA in Architecture from the University of Sheffield and an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge with distinction. Work in his thesis project has received the Twining Egginton Scholarship from Downing College. He has presented research and design work at conferences and exhibitions in San Francisco, London, Cambridge, Madrid and Nicosia. He has been co-directing a series of workshops about co-creative design, design thinking and social change for the past few years in international conferences. As such, his interest lies in developing creative design methods for social innovation and impact. Andreas has recently completed posts as Visiting Fellow at the University of Cyprus and Researcher at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research at the University of Cambridge while he is a frequent design guest critic at the University of Cyprus and the University of Nicosia. He is the recipient of the 2017 Urban Communication Research Grant by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Currently he is a Research Associate at the Cyprus University of Technology and a practicing architect.