1. Staging User Inspired Design making
Turkka Keinonen & Luke Feast

2. Staging Planning, making, appropriating and applying
physical, visual, verbal or other types of props
for shared understanding, framing, elaboration and documentation
of the design topic, challenge or opportunity
Within a relevant physical, functional, social and spatial context

3. how people feel and dream self-recording (?)
what people think
SAY
interviews
how people do and use DO
observations
MAKE
how people feel and dream
self-recording (?)
Sanders, E. B. N. & Dandavate, U. (1999), Designing for Experiencing: New Tools, in C. J. Overbeeke & P. Hekkert, ed., Proceedings of the First International Conference on Design and Emotion, tuDelft.

4. Staging challenges
How to tell the rationale and objectives of the session?
How to make the phase of design process understood?
How to tell the how the results of collaboration are going to be used?
What is the relevant background information?
How to communicate that so that it is comprehensible for different participants?
What are the identified interesting paths of exploration?
How to focus attention to those without limiting the scope of ideation?
How to underline the importance of the project and create relaxed atmosphere?
How to find balance between goal orientation and free creativity?
How to respect, empathize, stimulate and challenge the participants?
How to combine leaning of the participants’ domain knowledge and breaking their old fixed patterns of thought?
How to make the props flexible in case of surprises during the process?
How are the results documented and analysed?

5. Staging assignment | week 2
Plan you stakeholder involvement approach
ask your participants to document their everyday using photo studies or diaries OR
collect personal accounts through situated artefact enhanced interviews OR
create generative toolkits to involve participants in creative acts of making ‘things’ OR
A combination of these OR
Something else that supports you and your participants to bring knowledge out of experience into articulate focus
constructing staging material for a human-centred / co-design
use stories, images, and artefacts in to make issues more real and clear and bring out empathy and imagination
use multimodal communication that acts on the participants’ senses as well as their intellect to get the other people to listen and to establish communion within the group.
Use your invitation to recruit participants – min 10 should be the target
You must keep any signed consent forms in a safe place until the course has been completed.

6. Staging assignment | week 2
Be prepared for peer tutoring on 22.9
Class divided into three groups each including 4 teams
Each team has 30 min to share their ideas, objectives, methods, problems with others
collect as much advice and constructive criticism as possible
Each listener responsible to ask one critical question & give one idea to improve the process / approach
Be prepared for intermediate review on 29.9
15 minute presentation of the process that far + 10 min discussion
Include invitation, staging and story
Teams who present will be chosen by lottery

11. Buchenau, M. & Fulton Suri, J. (2000). Experience prototyping
Buchenau, M. & Fulton Suri, J. (2000). Experience prototyping. Proceedings of DIS 2000 concerence, ACM

12. Mattelmäki, T. (2006). Design Probes
Mattelmäki, T. (2006). Design Probes. University of Art and Design Helsinki