ASD Contribution and Formulation

1. What can be the contribution of ASD to design domain?
2. What can this PhD research say about ASD?
3. How do we understand after a case whether we would have designed for agency or not? what are the indicators of promoted agency? or increased awareness for agency and design relations? are the indicators indicators in design phase or use phase? are they processual indicators or artefactual indicators?
4. Are the qualities of ASD derived from literature really supportive for developing sensitivities of agency in design? Is this study for testing their applicability? or ways to apply them or integrate them into existing practices?
   

Answer 1:

• ASD can provide ways and insight for responsible and ethical design
• ASD can facilitate creative possibilities (this can be the connection with the C&C conference by also using improvisation theme) (creativity required tasks, entertainment, artistic studies. not for high performance studies)
  
• ASD can support sustainable systems by its features of adaptability and configurability.

Answer 2:

• this study is the start point of establishing ASD theory and practice.
• it aims to understand what designing for agency means and find ways of how to do it. what do we need to know, what skills do we need to have and generally what does ASD involve?

Answer 3:

• new ways of perceiving and acting. ( different forms of agency, I need to concretely define them!!!)
• Can there be processual indicators? what can they be? increased awareness, increased participation, temporary assemblages in design and use?? (temporary, reliable, visible, accountable), inclusion or consideration of marginal values, concerns of adaptability, configuring or design-in-use. engagement of participants. material agency?? visibility of actors, their relations and roles! design&use are intertwined. so are process and product.
  
• what can be the artefactual indicators? customizability, being composed of many modular elements, flexibility, transparency or structural honesty/visibility, accessibility. capacity or extent to be designed in use. how may different couplings it can allow/facilitate.
  
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