Friday 14 October 2011

DRS Abstract, Bangkok, 2012

My Abstract got accepted by the DRS for their conference in Bangkok next year. Have a read:


Extended Abstract:

Among designers and design researchers there exists a common belief that there is a relationship between storytelling and the design process. For example, Strickfaden (2001, p. 1) asserts that ‘The Design Process is a journey, towards the development of an artefact that has a traceable narrative that can be retold like any other story’.

Tuesday 4 October 2011

Preview of my PGR Presentation:

The Global Studio, The Gift: My Contribution

During my PhD I have been involved in undergraduate teaching on certain projects. For The Gift project I delivered a lecture on storytelling and how it relates to design, then compared different students approaches to storytelling within their projects across different cultures. To find out more about the Gift project and view my lecture, follow this link; http://theglobalstudio.eu/global_studio_projects_gift.htm

Below is a summary of my observations:


David Parkinson
PhD Candidate, Design School, University of Northumbria
Designer Storytelling
‘All designers, like all designed objects, tell stories, sometimes deliberately, many other times without much degree of consciousness’ (Porter et al. 2004). During The Global Studio: The Gift project, student teams from each university were asked to present their outcomes through a storyboard, film or animation, making storytelling an explicit, conscious part of the brief. As a PhD candidate exploring the storytelling legacy of the design process, it was this aspect of the project that was of most interest. The Gift project provides a basis to observe cultural similarities and differences in approaching storytelling, in the context of a design process.

Welcome!

This is the very first post - one year in and I have finally got round to this. I have a presentation coming up on the 12th October 2011, summarising my research so far - I'll post the video.