Description
Effective communication is crucial in participatory and co-creation design activities. Designers make use of external representations (e.g., from drawing and models to narratives and prototypes) as cognitive devices to achieve mutual understanding and agreements.Design research represents the natural playground to investigate the pragmatic nature of sound-based displays and representations.
Overall, the problem of designing sound, in contexts which are inherently interactive and multisensory, is to reach a consensus on the meaning of the listening experience.
Addressing the semantic gap problem by design research relates to how people talk about sound, how they externalise and communicate the sonic experience.
In this talk, I will offer a survey of recent studies to characterise the concept of sound in current design practices and position the role of non-verbal, yet auditory representations in the design process.
Grounding the design process in the sensory-motor nature of the auditory experiences contributes to broaden the scope of a practice that can be renamed as sound-driven design.
| Period | 11 Feb 2022 |
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| Held at | University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |