Form follows story: An approach to designing for commercial space travel

Jason Germany; Justin Lund

doi:10.35199/epde2019.53

Form follows story: An approach to designing for commercial space travel

Jason Germany, Justin Lund

Product Design

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Abstract

Designers are increasingly taking on the role of future forecaster. As a result, the problem of future framing and designing for experiences that have not yet materialised is something that educators are beginning to introduce into regular design and engineering curriculum. This paper disseminates an approach to designing for this emerging future through an industry collaborative course that explored commercial space travel for the year 2030. To approach the intangible experience of space travel, students were challenged to consider activities and environments that were far removed from their everyday experiences. Unlike some traditional user-centred research methods, this course asked students to develop their own empathic and immersive research methods. These methods were then leveraged to develop journey stories as a launching point for the actual design concepts. Coupling these two problems framing strategies of empathic immersive research and storytelling exposed both benefits and some challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Subtitle of host publication	Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019
Editors	Erik Bohemia, Ahmed Kovacevic, Lyndon Buck, Ross Brisco, Dorothy Evans, Hilary Grierson, William Ion, Robert Ian Whitfield
ISBN (Electronic)	9781912254057
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.53
State	Published - 2019
Event	21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: Sep 12 2019 → Sep 13 2019

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	9/12/19 → 9/13/19

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Institution of Engineering Designers, The Design Society. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Empathic research
Space travel
Speculative design
Storytelling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Germany, J., & Lund, J. (2019). Form follows story: An approach to designing for commercial space travel. In E. Bohemia, A. Kovacevic, L. Buck, R. Brisco, D. Evans, H. Grierson, W. Ion, & R. I. Whitfield (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019 (Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019). https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.53

Germany, Jason ; Lund, Justin. / Form follows story : An approach to designing for commercial space travel. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019. editor / Erik Bohemia ; Ahmed Kovacevic ; Lyndon Buck ; Ross Brisco ; Dorothy Evans ; Hilary Grierson ; William Ion ; Robert Ian Whitfield. 2019. (Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019).

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Germany, J & Lund, J 2019, Form follows story: An approach to designing for commercial space travel. in E Bohemia, A Kovacevic, L Buck, R Brisco, D Evans, H Grierson, W Ion & RI Whitfield (eds), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019, 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 9/12/19. https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.53

Form follows story: An approach to designing for commercial space travel. / Germany, Jason; Lund, Justin.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019. ed. / Erik Bohemia; Ahmed Kovacevic; Lyndon Buck; Ross Brisco; Dorothy Evans; Hilary Grierson; William Ion; Robert Ian Whitfield. 2019. (Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019).

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Form follows story: An approach to designing for commercial space travel

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