Designing design for safety: How emergent methods indicate new safer future design practices
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Royal College of Art(The)
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- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
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- Hall2
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- E - Conference contribution
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- Design revolutions: IASDR 2019 Conference Proceedings. Volume 3: People
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- 237
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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https://iasdr2019.org/research-papers
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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4
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- Additional information
- Design for Safety is an under-researched critical field of investigation for improving future interactions between people and technology in complex dynamic environments. Through the combination of an applied Design for Safety grand challenge to improve the saving of lives at sea and on rivers, and a follow-on strategic Foresight Review (Anderson, Hall, Ferrarello, Cooper, Ross 2018), this research developed a new methodology for investigating gaps in current practices and weaknesses in design’s readiness to tackle major future global risks. The originality lies in using a new combination of design
innovation research methods, uncovering the need for a new relationship between design and safety, the value of collaborative creative networks in designing safer human-machine relationships and a new approach to risk in design pedagogy. The methodology was developed iteratively and included
the creation of a new research mapping tool for collaboratively identifying global Design for Safety issues. The research also detected a weakness in educational methods at a global level. The research allowed the identification of three major gaps in how design is positioned to address major
future risks including a lack of Design for Safety ethics, principles, practices and culture. Related dissemination included an approach for implementing new Design for Safety solutions incorporating social, cultural and psychological factors into safety design and balancing users’ needs, documented
in Ferrarello, Hall, Kann, Hee Lee (2017) Collaborating Design Risk, IASDR Conference, November 2017, Cincinnati, USA. We also uncovered insights into training designers for safety critical environments: Hall, Kann, Ferrarello, Pulley (2017) Encouraging Creative Risk to Reduce Risk to Life, Engineering and Product Design Education Conference, Oslo, Norway, September 2017. Further
dissemination has taken place through 8 applied design projects, 4 exhibitions, further academic publications and a symposium of global safety and design experts. See also Impact Case Study.
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- Non-English
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