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A FRAMEWORK MODEL FOR FACILITATING DO-IT-YOURSELF DESIGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

JanWillem Hoftijzer  and
David Keyson
JanWillem Hoftijzer*
Affiliation:
TU Delft
David Keyson
Affiliation:
TU Delft
*
Hoftijzer, JanWillem, TU Delft, Netherlands, The [email protected]

Abstract

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Today's global context of mass-produced items has resulted in an increasing ‘distance’, or alienation, between people and the origins of the items they buy and use: an unhealthy human-product relationship.

This observation permits the search for an alternative interpretation of well-being: a transformation that would support resilience and self sufficiency, and a better human product relationship or ‘a new partnership’, as advocated by various scholars.

In this paper, this new partnership is considered through supporting ‘Do-It-Yourself’ (DIY) product design: a scenario in which professional designers facilitate laypersons to design for themselves. Anticipating (1) the designer's responsibility, and (2) the layperson's innate desire to create, this paper introduces a ‘Design for DIY’ framework method to help bridge the knowledge gap between the product designer and the layperson.

The initial starting points of this study, complemented by a range of ‘Design for DIY’ studies, and an exploration of existing design frameworks and design models, resulted in the design of a ‘Design-for-DIY’ framework. This paper concludes with recommendations for the testing and further development of the Design-for-DIY framework.

Keywords

Do-It-YourselfCollaborative designDesign methodologyParticipatory designhuman-product-relationship
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 181 - 190
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