Designing Smart Objects in Everyday Life (eBook, ePUB)

Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies
Redaktion: Rozendaal, Marco C.; Odom, William; Marenko, Betti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The dramatic acceleration of digital technologies and their integration into physical products is transforming everyday objects. Our domestic appliances, furniture, clothing, are growing in intelligence. Smart objects are increasingly capable of interacting with humans in a purposeful manner with intentionality. This collection of essays, descriptions of empirical work, and design case studies brings together perspectives from interaction design, the humanities, science and technology studies, and engineering, to map, explore and interrogate ways in which our relationships with everyday smart objects might expand and be re-imagined.

By offering a critical assessment on the growing place of smart technology in everyday environments, this book outlines a transdisciplinary research agenda for the future of 'smartness' to help define, envision, and inspire future collaborative design practices. These essays propose an understanding and design of smart objects that embrace their hybrid nature as shifting and blending tools, agents, machines, or even 'creatures'. Authors argue that smart objects have the potential to enter into multiple kinds of relationships with humans, and form complex human-nonhuman ecologies that are both meaningful and empowering in the context of everyday life. This book also shines a light on the hidden infrastructures behind the functioning of smart objects with stirring debates tackling questions of technology, human values, and economic and ecological impact.

Whether you are a design scholar, design practitioner or design activist this book will inspire through offering theoretical insights, design concepts and practical ways on how to engage in this research agenda for future smartness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350160132
• Artikelnr.: 62084578

Autorenporträt

Marco C. Rozendaal is Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Betti Marenko is Reader in Design and Techno-Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. William Odom is Assistant Professor in Design at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction Perspectives 1. An Illustrated Field Guide to Fungal AI for Designers
David Kirk (Northumbria University
UK)
Effie Le Moignan and David Verweij (Newcastle University
UK) 2. Dramaturgy of Devices: Theatre as Perspective on the Design of Smart Objects
Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University
the Netherlands) and Marco C. Rozendaal (TU Delft
the Netherlands) 3. The Telling of Things: Imagining With
Through and About Machines
Kristina Andersen (Eindhoven University of Technology
the Netherlands) and Tobias Revell (London College of Communication
UK) Interactions 4. What are you? Negotiating Relationships with Smart Objects in Intra-Action
Christopher Frauenberger (TU Wien
Austria) 5. The Dynamic Agency of Smart Objects
Jelle van Dijk (University of Twente
the Netherlands) and Evert van Beek (TU Delft
the Netherlands) 6. What can Actor-Network Theory Reveal about the Socio-Technological Implications of Delivery Robots? Nazli Cila (TU Delft
the Netherlands) and Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Institute of Technology
USA) Methodologies 7. Sketching and Prototyping Smart Objects
Philip van Allen (ArtCenter College of Design
USA) 8. Co-Designing and Co-Speculating on Different Forms of Domestic Smart Things
William Odom (Simon Fraser University
Canada)
Arne Berge (Technische Universität Chemnitz
Germany) and Dries De Roeck (Studio Dott
Belgium) Critical Understandings 9. Marx in the Smart Living Room: What Would a Marx-Oriented Approach to Smart Objects Be Like? Betti Marenko (Central Saint Martins
UK) and Pim Haselager (Radboud University Nijmegen
the Netherlands) 10. Not a Research Agenda for Smart Objects
Ann Light (University of Sussex
UK and Malmö University
Finland) 11. Towards Wise Objects: The Value of Knowing When to Quit
Pim Haselager (Radboud University Nijmegen
the Netherlands) Conclusion Index