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SUMMARY:'Designing in' informal interaction in bioscience architecture: de
 sign intent and scientists' practices - Alison McDougall-Weil\, Engineerin
 g 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 i
 nteraction\, to inspire and speed up new multi-disciplinary science work. 
 The architecture\, charged with intentions developed by the design team of
  client and architects\, experiments with the culture of science with aims
  to change scientists’ everyday interactional practices\, their inf
 ormal interactions. What do architects and design teams think they are doi
 ng during design with regard to users and informal interaction? What do sc
 ientists do all day? What of benefit to designers\, researchers and humans
  who use buildings emerges from comparing design intentions to the everyda
 y practices of scientists? What kind of relationship between design intent
  and user experiences can we see in practice and can we theorise it?\nI un
 dertook a multi-site\, multi-modal\, multi-year ethnography of several bio
 science buildings to explore these questions\, in contrast to more common 
 methods. This talk centres on one site of study\, a prominent University l
 aboratory in the USA. The point of the talk is to ask the audience a quest
 ion: what is your level of interest (from whatever your disciplinary persp
 ective) in three test conclusions derived from jointly analysing the two s
 ets of data\, on design intent and on user’s experiences? 
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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