Student
Master student Hannah Zenk is eager to understand human behaviour and needs, to inspire social impact and to create experiences that move people.
Mentors
Karmen Franinovic - IAD
Peter Vetter - Visuelle Kommunikation
How can design help social youth work play an important, trendsetting role in the future? Which design tool can foster its mutability, credibility and efficiency? This Master Thesis shows an interdisciplinary approach with the aim to motivate positive social change through design.
The research process (Guided Interviews, Cultural Probes) revealed that the specific target group requires new, adequate methods. A target group that is looking for orientation, who is not keen on going to school anymore and whose favorite media are not texts.
The design idea is therefore the interactive workshop-toolbox "Seismo" providing a qualitative, audio-visual demand analysis. "Seismo" is about self-reflexion and creative expression, play and social interaction.
The Toolbox was tested in 10 workshops in the context of the Bachelor course "Empathic Design: Interaction Design Process" http://id-process.wikispaces.com/
100 teenagers helped to optimize "Seismo" through Participatory Design. "Seismo" is in use in Switzerland and Germany since June 2010.
http://seismo-toolbox.com/seismo/Development.html
For publications see downloads.
Hannah Zenk
MA Student in the field of excellence «Communication». Her master project and thesis was co-mentored by Karmen Franinovic.
Karmen Franinovic
Karmen is an architect and designer working with critical and playful uses of technology in everyday life. She pursues research in fields of sonic interaction, responsive environments, basic design, enaction and ...