Embodied design ideation practices work with relationships between body, material and context to enliven design and research potential. Methods are often idiosyncratic and due to their physical nature not easily transferred. This presents challenges for designers wishing to develop and share techniques or contribute to research. We present a framework that enables designers to understand, describe and contextualise their embodied design ideation practices in ways that can be understood by peers, as well as those new to embodied ideation. Our framework developed over two conference workshops provides a frame for discussion of embodied design actions that leverage the power of estrangement. We apply our framework to eight embodied design ideation methods. Our contribution is thus twofold: (1) a framework to understand and leverage the power of estrangement in embodied design ideation, and (2) an inspirational catalogue demonstrating the diversity of ideas that embodied design ideation methods can foster.

Physical engagement with data necessarily influences the reflective process. However, the role of interactivity and narration are often overlooked when designing and analysing personal data physicalisations. We introduce Narrative Physicalisations, everyday objects modified to support nuanced self-reflection through embodied engagement with personal data. Narrative physicalisations borrow from narrative visualizations, storytelling with graphs, and engagement with mundane artefacts from data-objects. Our research uses a participatory approach to research-through-design and includes two interdependent, studies. In the first, personalised data physicalisations are developed for three individuals. In the second, we conduct a parallel autobiographical exploration of what constitutes personal data when using a Fitbit. Our work expands the landscape of data physicalisation by introducing narrative physicalisations. It suggests an experience-centric view on data physicalisation where people engage physically with their data in playful ways, making their body an active agent during the reflective process.