Visibility and Accessibility Lens/Quality

Visibility is probably the most important quality for supporting agency. if actants can see or perceive the environment and other actants in it (related to his interests), this brings a possibility of creating a connection between perceiving and perceived actants. This connection is the starting point of relational agency. By means of making visible all the actants in a design case, we can facilitate the emergence of different forms of agency (each temporary assemblage with different configurations may lead to a different capacity and series of effects and we can consider them different forms of agency). it is directly related with increasing the awareness of one actant towards self, others and environment. if an actant has awareness, it can get connected.

Questions and Answers: 

- One fundamental question: what does making visible mean? so there should be someone who "makes" things which are apparently hidden or invisible, and in need of more attention or in need of being recognized. does it mean that the thing becomes perceivable by others. does this guarantee that it is going to be recognized? not necessarily, but this process may help it to become one of the matters of concerns. 

- What to make visible? actants, artefacts, processes, roles, infrastructure (any contextual element. however, too much visibility might create confusion and may invade privacy, it should be carefully managed. for instance, peripheral or ambient awareness/visibility might be a suitable way. )

- when to make visible?  visibility in production phase (for cognitive justice(initial step, more needed), for recognition of roles and contributions and for  explicating possibilities of new couplings or assemblages ) and visibility in use phase (more control and care are needed for preserving privacy, but explicit interaction at some degree can still be beneficial for accountability and emergent, improvised and collective action)

- how to make visible? focus/nimbus model?? participatory design techniques, awareness literature. public availability of resources. e.g. co(a)gents- stuvidpi... To Be Investigated.