The Dialectic Between System Space and Design Space: A Systems Thinking Approach to Addressing Complexity in the Design Process
2022 (English)In: Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Practice in Contemporary and Emerging Technologies: 11th International Conference, DUXU 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings, Part III / [ed] Marcelo M. Soares; Elizabeth Rosenzweig; Aaron Marcus, Cham: Springer, 2022, Vol. 13323 LNCS, p. 33-48Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
System space is introduced as a conceptual design space and as a distinct space from that traditionally addressed by most design processes. The paper intends to address the increasing complexity deriving from the ongoing blend of physical and digital in a postdigital culture and contribute to the current understanding of the effect of “systemic” ways of thinking in design disciplines. We argue that a systemic perspective cannot simply be “added” to the design process and that addressing postdigital complexity, that is, producing solutions to contemporary design problems, requires instead its own conceptualization, in its own space, to be acknowledged, practiced, and formalized as a different way of thinking. We propose that system space lives in a dialectical relationship with design space within the space of the experience and that it provides a way to escape the cognitive traps in design space. We posit that the relationships between system space and design space can be apprehended by means of an exo-process adapted from systems thinking, and that the exo-process provides a supporting structure for the intentional and necessary movement between the different spaces, scales, and modes of thinking required by contemporary design work. We then illustrate such a dialectical relationship through the analysis of three different cases and draw final considerations. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2022. Vol. 13323 LNCS, p. 33-48
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349
Keywords [en]
Complexity, Design space, Dialectics, System space, Systems thinking
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-49328DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05906-3_3ISI: 000870207200003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85133284988ISBN: 978-3-031-05905-6 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-05906-3 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-49328DiVA, id: diva2:1725731
Conference
11th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2022 Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, 26 June-1 July, 2022
2023-01-112023-01-112023-10-05Bibliographically approved