Over the last ten years, there has been an increasing interest in studying the role of
aesthetics in design research and the new dimensions that this discipline could bring in our
subjective relation with the environment around us. Much has been written in order to
understand the factors that contribute to an aesthetic experience with products but little of
this research is transferred in the design process in order to create this kind of experience
to researchers, designers and engineers as a team. We use a theoretical framework that
describes an aesthetic experience, and focus on the narrative quality of such an experience.
By providing narrative triggers to the persons involved in a design process of a work-inprogress
web platform called SenseTale, we aim to see the influence of these triggers on the
collective experience during a design workshop.
DRS 2012 Bangkok
aesthetics in design research and the new dimensions that this discipline could bring in our
subjective relation with the environment around us. Much has been written in order to
understand the factors that contribute to an aesthetic experience with products but little of
this research is transferred in the design process in order to create this kind of experience
to researchers, designers and engineers as a team. We use a theoretical framework that
describes an aesthetic experience, and focus on the narrative quality of such an experience.
By providing narrative triggers to the persons involved in a design process of a work-inprogress
web platform called SenseTale, we aim to see the influence of these triggers on the
collective experience during a design workshop.
DRS 2012 Bangkok
