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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 interaction\, 
 to inspire and speed up new multi-disciplinary science work. The architect
 ure\, charged with intentions developed by the design team of client and a
 rchitects\, experiments with the culture of science with aims to change sc
 ientists' everyday interactional practices\, their informal interactions. 
 What do architects and design teams think they are doing during design wit
 h regard to users and informal interaction? What do scientists do all day?
  What of benefit to designers\, researchers and humans who use buildings e
 merges from comparing design intentions to the everyday practices of scien
 tists? What kind of relationship between design intent and user experience
 s can we see in practice and can we theorise it?\n\nI undertook a multi-si
 te\, multi-modal\, multi-year ethnography of several bioscience buildings 
 to explore these questions\, in contrast to more common methods. This talk
  centres on one site of study\, a prominent University laboratory in the U
 SA. The point of the talk is to ask the audience a question: what is your 
 level of interest (from whatever your disciplinary perspective) in three t
 est conclusions derived from jointly analysing the two sets of data\, on d
 esign intent and on user’s experiences? 
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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