(Trans)forming Knowledge and Design Concepts in the Design Workshop
Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard · 2020
This chapter deals with the transition from research to design within the Body Games project—an interdisciplinary design project focused on the development of a digital playground for children. It describes how various forms of knowledge and field material are turned into design concepts at a particular workshop through the creation, circulation, combination, and transformation of knowledge pieces. The design team was not simply on a joint mission to save children from obesity. The obesity framework served to combine different research, funding, and business interests within a single framework, and was thus as much an instrument in the service of the Body Games project as the other way around. At the very end of the design workshop we were left with a single design vision or strategy, fixed in a single drawing. Like a rite of passage the design workshop facilitated the transition from research to design.