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Storm in Amsterdam

Samenvatting: Voor een succesvolle organisatietransformatie is een verandering van de organisatiecultuur noodzakelijk. Een ingrijpende verandering in de organisatieconfiguratie (structuur) dient gepaard te gaan met een verandering in de mindset van de medewerkers (cultuur) die hen in staat stelt de vereiste verandering te realiseren. Dit uitgangspunt wordt in deze casestudy verder verkend. Daarbij is onderzocht hoe cultuurverandering vorm krijgt in relatie tot een transformatie. Inzicht in deze relatie is niet alleen voor onderzoekers interessant. Managers die van plan zijn een ingrijpende herstructurering door te voeren, moeten direct aandacht besteden aan de organisatiecultuur, zo toont dit onderzoek aan.

Een perfecte storm : Hoe klimaatverandering in het Nederlandse luchtvaartdebat kwam

Mixing realities: reflections on presence and embodiment in intermedial performance design of Blue Hour VR

Created for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial’s 36Q°, Blue Hour VR was a site-responsive mixed reality performative installation that placed the spectator, as experiencer, within a hybrid landscape of real- time three-dimensional computer graphics and 360-degree video. This article describes the design process, staging and experience of Blue Hour VR from the vantage point of its creators. Using a phenomenological perspective, the article discusses how Blue Hour VR staged presence and embodiment within an intermedial haptic experience. Blue Hour VR demonstrates how virtual reality technology can be harnessed by a mixed reality performance design, which includes both the material and virtual environment, creating a complex stratigraphy of intermedial textures and visual dramaturgies that co-exist inside, outside and in between perceptual realities. In doing so, the article aims to contribute to the limited body of work on mixed and virtual reality in the context of theatre and performance design.

Centre for Design Informatics: Blockchain City

Performative prototyping in collaborative mixed reality environments: an embodied design method for ideation and development in virtual reality.

Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments (CMREs) enable designing Performative Mixed Reality Experiences (PMREs) to engage participants’ physical bodies, mixed reality environments, and technologies utilized. However, the physical body is rarely purposefully incorporated throughout such design processes, leaving designers seated behind their desks, relying on their previous know-how and assumptions. In contrast, embodied design techniques from HCI and performing arts afford direct corporeal feedback to verify and adapt experiential aesthetics within the design process. This paper proposes a performative prototyping method, which combines bodystorming methods with Wizard of Oz techniques with a puppeteering approach, using inside-out somaesthetic- and outside-in dramaturgical perspectives. In addition, it suggests an interdisciplinary vocabulary to share and evaluate PMRE experiences during and after its design collaboration. This method is exemplified and investigated by comparing two case studies of PMRE design projects in higher-art education using the existing Social VR platform NEOS VR adapted as a CMRE.

Exploring the Embodied Experience of Walking Meetings through Bodystorming – Implications for Design

Walking meetings are a promising way to reduce unhealthy sedentary behavior at the office. Some aspects of walking meetings are however hard to assess using traditional research approaches that do not account well for the embodied experience of walking meetings. We conducted a series of 16 bodystorming sessions, featuring unusual walking meeting situations to engage participants (N=45) in a reflective experience. After each bodystorming, participants completed three tasks: a body map, an empathy map, and a rating of workload using the NASA-TLX scale. These embodied explorations provide insights on key themes related to walking meetings: material and tools, physical and mental demand, connection with the environment, social dynamics, and privacy. We discuss the role of technology and opportunities for technology-mediated walking meetings. We draw implications for the design of walking meeting technologies or services to account for embodied experiences, and the individual, social, and environmental factors at play.