Description
“Framing for the Protein Shift” is a 1.5-hour on-campus workshop where participants will explore the diverse frames underlying design interventions and their impact on fostering a societal transition.Framing, and more specifically reframing, is recognized as a core competence of designers (Bijl-Brouwer, 2019; Dorst, 2015; Fokkinga et al., 2020; Hekkert & Van Dijk, 2011; Koskela et al., 2018; Schön, 1984; Stompff et al., 2016). Both the way we frame systemic issues in the present and the way we frame a desirable future for that system and impact the effectiveness of our design interventions.
How can we best apply framing to bring about systemic change and more specifically, a societal transition?
Framing transitions
Unpacking what we know about societal transitions, framing and design, we find the following. Extensive research has been done on managing transitions (Avelino and Wittmayer, 2016; Geels and Schot, 2007; Köhler et al., 2019; Rotmans and Loorbach, 2009), which is complemented in the field of design by the recent emergence of Transition Design (Dahle, 2019; Irwin, 2015). Recent research on framing for complex, open, dynamic and networked problems (Dorst and Watson, 2020; Sturkenboom et al., 2019; Vink et al., 2019) and social innovation (Bijl-Brouwer, 2019; Bijl- Brouwer and Malcolm, 2020) inform our understanding of framing in a systemic context yet does not explicitly discuss fostering societal transitions. Popa et al. (2015) look at framing for sustainability transitions, but not as it relates to design practice. Let’s try to connect these dots!
This workshop provides an opportunity to explore a variety of design interventions aiming to foster a societal transition, their underlying frames and their effectiveness in accelerating that transition. We focus on the ‘Protein Shift, the societal transition involving our collective dietary shift from animal to plant-based proteins. We look at ‘breaks in scale’ by alternating between frames on a systemic and situational level, and address systems change and transitions with a focus on framing in the context of societal transitions. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of framing at various systemic scales (and how to bounce back and forth between those levels) and Transition Design in practice.
Facilitation
Anna-Louisa Peeters (PhD student at the TU Delft) facilitates this workshop. Her research revolves around framing in the context of societal transitions. This workshop showcases her findings to date, which are the means to explore frames at various systemic scales.
Workshop format
90-minutes | on-campus | maximum of 15 participants
| Period | Oct 2021 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 10 |
| Location | Delft, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- transition design
- protein transition
- reframing
- framing
- workshop