If you were not one of the 150 designers and design researchers from industry or 200 students and academics who attended the contextmapping symposium Designing for, with, and from User Experiences, but you had actually wanted to, this is your chance. The presentations, by Liz Sanders, Jacob Buur, and Froukje Sleeswijk Visser can now be viewed online.

Contextmapping?
Under the flag of 'contextmapping', the tools and techniques group at IDE/TU Delft has been exploring designerly techniques of user/context research, in close collaboration with education (600 students) and industries in the Netherlands and across Europe. The symposium took place after five years of this program, on the occasion of the PhD defense of Froukje Sleeswijk Visser, on communicating user experiences to design teams (pdf of thesis and other publications).

Liz Sanders, of MakeTools, talked about large-scale co-creation she has been doing with architectural firm NBBJ, discussing the difficulties in bringing these processes in architecture. Besides giving an impression of the sheer size of the projects (building whole hospitals), and the complexity of developing user-centered design insights, she discusses the tools and techniques that have been used to bring the user experience into building processes.
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Jacob Buur, of the University of Southern Denmark, discussed his experiences in applying ethnographic provocation in companies, and showed examples how video as a co-creation tool can be used to bring out misunderstandings in design communication.
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Froukje Sleeswijk Visser introduced the education program at Delft, and led a series of 10 graduates who related their experience in applying contextmapping, co-creation and other user-centered design processes during and after their studies. These 10 presentations in pechakucha style give an impression of the diversity of companies trying out these techniques, and of the changing Zeitgeist, ranging from the first graduate finding a non-receptive market to several recent graduates who set up their own design research consultancies.
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