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SUMMARY: 'Designing in' informal interaction in bioscience architecture: d
 esign intent and scientists' practices - Alison McDougall-Weil\, Engineeri
 ng Design Centre
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CONTACT:Mari Huhtala
DESCRIPTION:Designing contemporary bioscience architecture now often centr
 es on ‘designing in’ collaborative atmospheres and informal interactio
 n\, to inspire and speed up new multi-disciplinary science work. The archi
 tecture\, charged with intentions developed by the design team of client a
 nd architects\, experiments with the culture of science with aims to chang
 e scientists’ everyday interactional practices\, their informal interact
 ions. What do architects and design teams think they are doing during desi
 gn with regard to users and informal interaction? What do scientists do al
 l day? What of benefit to designers\, researchers and humans who use build
 ings emerges from comparing design intentions to the everyday practices of
  scientists? What kind of relationship between design intent and user expe
 riences can we see in practice and can we theorise it?\n\nI undertook a mu
 lti-site\, multi-modal\, multi-year ethnography of several bioscience buil
 dings to explore these questions\, in contrast to more common methods. Thi
 s talk centres on one site of study\, a prominent University laboratory in
  the USA. The point of the talk is to ask the audience a question: what is
  your level of interest (from whatever your disciplinary perspective) in t
 hree test conclusions derived from jointly analysing the two sets of data\
 , on design intent and on user’s experiences? 
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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