Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Continue with the concept of assemblage

I'll probably continue with the concept of assemblage and to an extent wearable environments rather than redesign of a totally different system/tool.

The next steps of the study are:
1) Review and assess relevant IXD methods/activities.
2) Assess workshop-1 and workshop-2 production and use phases
3) Analysis framework and suggestions for Lian's workshop
4) Design of workshop-3 (two phases) and Ethics application

Research Questions:
a) What does designing for agency mean?
b) How can we, as designers, assess our own design approach or processes?
c) How can we design for agency? How can we apply Agency Sensitive Design? What skills do I need? What do I need to do differently?

Project aim: Redesign of human-machine-environment assemblage to serve the activity of guiding a human actant over a track. thus it is not redesign of Enactive Coupler devices but relations between humans machines and environment.

Participants will have more choice and authority to configure their relationships. Here are the four things that I'm planning to do in order of priority:
i- customization/re-configurability
ii- increased role of space
iii- focus on a few ASD qualities: relationality, material agency, awareness in different forms( awareness of actors, artifacts, processes and as a designer design and agency relations). Support of tuning and design-in-use, some form of design tensions framework can be integrated.
iv- more AI

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