Carstens, Lizette

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Lizette started in 1994 as communication designer for an NGO where she designed voter education material for the first democratic elections. She joined QData in 1998 as a multimedia designer. In 2002, she founded her own design agency.

Lizette started lecturing at the University of Pretoria in 2012 and completed her Master's Degree in 2013 on using participatory design approaches during the design process to support SMME's. Lizette joined IIE-Vega in 2014 and is the Programme Manager in Digital and Game Design. She is pursuing Doctoral studies at IIE-Vega.

Research Passions: Co-design; interdisciplinary collaboration, design for social good, decolonisation of design; design management.

Lizette Carstens

Towards 4IR and African scholarship: Exploring research capacity in the widening discipline of communication design

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Media & Communications Design

Scholarship has many dimensions, such as the scholarship of research/discovery; the scholarship of integration, application, and teaching; and the scholarship of public and democratic engagement where knowledge is co-constructed. These broader notions of scholarship challenge the traditional understanding of a university and position scholars and researchers in a broader socio-economic, historical, and cultural context. Design as a field developed and widened as a result of new challenges and opportunities – for example the fourth industrial revolution – and changes in the discipline.

Towards human-centered design solutions: Stakeholder participation during brief development

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Carstens, LizetteVega School

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Graphic Design & Visual Art

"...the [designer's] task is to design for the individual placed in his or her immediate context." (Buchanan 1998, p. 20)

This  paper  about  a  graphic  design  case  study  discusses  the  positive  impact  of  stakeholder participation during the problem-setting phase of the design process on the designer's ability to reframe the design problem and to conceptualise human-centered design solutions that add value and enrich people's everyday lives.

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