• Welcome to issue five of Iterations, Ireland’s Design Research and Practice Review 

  McMahon, Muireann (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Editing Issue 05 of Iterations has been a pleasure, from the first submission, right after we posted the call, to the enthusiasm of the authors in reacting to the double blind peer reviews. The response to the call was the ...
• Institute of Designers in Ireland: President’s Address 

  McKenzie-Doyle, Kim (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The theme for my presidency Balance by Design, hinges on two very important initiatives that I am very passionate about. The first ‘Why Design’ aims to address the gender imbalance in the Irish Design Industry
• Delivering design fundamentals using relevant learning theories in the delivery of an interior design project at third level 

  Dalton, Tracey (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This is a reflection on teaching practice, focusing on design process in a BA Honours in Design – Interior and Furniture, in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). An intrinsic case study approach (Stake 1995) was taken for ...
• Conceptions of design research: discursive phenomenography in undergraduate visual communication design research 

  Puay-Hwa Yeo, Jesvin (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This article adopts discursive phenomenography as a viable qualitative approach to identify the different conceptions that visual communication undergraduate students have of design research. Phenomenographic method was ...
• Experience design: embracing transdisciplinarity 

  Cheatham, Dennis (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The emergence of experience design marks a progression from what design creates to the experiences it facilitates. While this progression activates familiar concepts from formal and interaction-based design disciplines, ...
• 90 years of Philips Design: from designing artistic advertisement to designing for ecosystems with data -Interview Paul Gardien,Vice President Philips Design 

  Bogers, Sander; van Kollenburg, Janne (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health by serving both professional and consumer markets. With a multinational workforce of approximately 69,000 employees, they touch billions ...
• The politics of interdisciplinarity: an interview with experimental jetset 

  Hudson-Miles, Richard (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This article transcribes an interview with the Graphic Design collective Experimental Jetset from Amsterdam, Netherlands. The interview was responsively structured, with three famous quotes from revolutionary critical ...
• Beyond critical: the importance of introspective conceptual design 

  O'Shea, John (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Conceptual design is an emerging area of design research and practice which shares much in common with conceptual art. Both are driven by the idea that the concept or question behind the artefacts they produce is often ...
• New ways of thinking about the future design fiction for public reflection to new and emerging technologies 

  Heidingsfelder, Marie Lena; Kimpel, Kora; Schraudner, Martina (University of Limerick, 2017)

  While public appreciation is vital to technological inventions, the ramifications of these inventions remain extremely difficult to predict. This paper presents an original design fiction methodology intended to encourage ...
• Older adults and self-service banking: a user centred study into the behaviour of older adults interacting with automated teller machines, collected and synthesised using visual research methods 

  Grincell, Alan; Dempsey, Hilary; White, P.J. (University of Limerick, 2017)

  It is now well documented that the world’s population is ageing and living longer. Thus, there is a growing emphasis on social inclusion and integration for this ageing demographic. Financial institutions implement ...
• Reality of embedding design 

  Dempsey, Hilary (University of Limerick, 2017)

  In my role as an Industrial Design Lecturer, I enable Design graduates to build the requisite skills, knowledge and competencies to start them on their professional Design journey. In recent years, graduates have been ...
• PIVOT Dublin: A discussion on the bid for Dublin to become World Design Capital 

  Grehan, Ali (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Barry Sheehan discusses PIVOT Dublin and it’s legacy with Dublin City Architect, Ali Grehan
• Design practice reflection: Joseph Walsh 

  Ó Riain, Marc (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Marc Ó’Riain sat down with Joseph Walsh in the Bulman in Kinsale, a few miles from the workshop, to chat to him about his work. It turned out to be an engaging discussion.
• Frontend: The growth of an international UX consultancy in the changing world of design 

  DeEyto, Adam (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Frank Long is a Director at Frontend.com, Europe’s leading User Experience design agency. After working as an Industrial Designer for LG Electronics in the late 1990s, Frank joined Frontend in 1999 and helped navigate ...
• Erwin Springbrunn (1939-2015): master gold and silversmith 

  Charleton, Muireann (University of Limerick, 2016)

  On a desk in his studio, Erwin Springbrunn kept a picture of the Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), one of Spain’s most influential architects. It says much about one of Ireland’s most important master gold and ...
• POST: Delivering Denmark’s newest design festival 

  McCole, Aideen (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This article is a brief reflection on the delivery and impact of POST, a new design festival which ran from 17-20 August 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. POST was delivered by an international team – including Irish curator ...
• The development of an evaluation methodology to assess the efficacy of a furniture design for STEM education 

  Healion, Donal; Russell, Sam (University of Limerick, 2016)

  The nature of the delivery of education is changing. Traditional “chalk and talk” methods of delivery, featuring hierarchical class structures where knowledge is handed down to students from a teacher located at the front ...
• Alternative pathways to understanding and designing for happiness in the home 

  Corrigan-Doyle, Emily; Escobar-Tello, Carolina; Pui Ying Lo, Kathy (University of Limerick, 2016)

  his article considers the value of making long-term happiness a key priority in designing for the home and how creative methods, art therapy techniques, in particular, can be fundamental in this process. It presents ...
• Let the power of live projects combine 

  Flood, Nuala (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This paper proposes a method by which schools of architecture and design can engage with the development of their surrounding contexts in a meaningful and practical way. This method will be illustrated using a case study ...
• Institute of Designers in Ireland: President’s address 

  Boyle, George (University of Limerick, 2016)

  “The world is in perpetual motion, and we must invent the things of tomorrow .... Act with audacity” Madame Cliquot. As we progress through 2016, our IDI theme of “Design:Rising” matures - with our commitment to elevating ...

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