The design studio of the future: insights from a practical experiment in remote collaboration

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Holmquist, LE ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0229-2345 and Nemeth, S, 2025. The design studio of the future: insights from a practical experiment in remote collaboration. In: [Proceedings of ARPPID 2025, Working Conference on Academic Research and Professional Practice in Interaction Design]. Springer. (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

A design studio is sometimes seen as an example of an almost ideal creative workplace – a rich and dynamic environment that facilitates many different types of collaborative work. In this project, we aimed to recreate the posi-tive features of a design studio in an educational and workplace setting us-ing distance-spanning digital technology. We first set up a series of experi-mental collaboration systems to facilitate teaching and research at a univer-sity during the early days of the Covid pandemic. We quickly found that many concepts proposed in the research literature were not practically fea-sible. Instead, we constructed realistic solutions using off-the-shelf hard-ware and software that afforded novel and efficient ways of blending co-located and distance collaboration. This included informal interaction set-tings with one or multiple participants both online and in-person, as well as formal hybrid teacher/student presentations. From this we learned that although much of the required hardware already exists, it is not generally being used to its potential. We also found much that the standard meeting software is not fit for this kind of creative collaboration settings. The in-sights from this will support the creation of better support for combining remote and in-person creative work.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Description:	Paper to be presented at ARPPID 2025, Working Conference on Academic Research and Professional Practice in Interaction Design, London, 10-11 July 2025. Title of proceedings not yet known.
Creators:	Holmquist, L.E. and Nemeth, S.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	15 March 2025
Identifiers:	Number Type 2466890 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	09 Jul 2025 09:55
Last Modified:	09 Jul 2025 09:55
Related URLs:	https://arppid2025.org/
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53915