Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
Makeshift users. / McHardy, Julien; Wolf Olsen, Jesper; Southern, Jen; Shove, Elizabeth.
Design Research: Synergies from interdisciplinary perspectives. ed. / Jesper Simonsen; Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt; Monika Büscher; John Damm Scheuer. London : Routledge, 2010. p. 95-108.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Makeshift users
AU - McHardy, Julien
AU - Wolf Olsen, Jesper
AU - Southern, Jen
AU - Shove, Elizabeth
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This chapter draws on thoughts from user-centred and participatory design and participatory art as well as ideas from practice theory, actor-network theory and material semiotics to investigate the conceptual status of users in the process of designing.Designing is understood as a distributed process of drawing together and stabilising otherwise fluid objects, systems and interactions between many different actors. We investigate the role of users through three case studies from the NEETs public service design, PalCom pervasive computing and ‘Running Stitch’ participatory art, chosen to illustrate a broad range of methodological approaches and applications. The contribution of this chapter is to explore the proposition that thinking of users as make-shift and processual entities, rather than as preconstituted figures that actually exist in the ‘real’ world provides a method of integrating concepts of user, utility and users with dynamic accounts of design.
AB - This chapter draws on thoughts from user-centred and participatory design and participatory art as well as ideas from practice theory, actor-network theory and material semiotics to investigate the conceptual status of users in the process of designing.Designing is understood as a distributed process of drawing together and stabilising otherwise fluid objects, systems and interactions between many different actors. We investigate the role of users through three case studies from the NEETs public service design, PalCom pervasive computing and ‘Running Stitch’ participatory art, chosen to illustrate a broad range of methodological approaches and applications. The contribution of this chapter is to explore the proposition that thinking of users as make-shift and processual entities, rather than as preconstituted figures that actually exist in the ‘real’ world provides a method of integrating concepts of user, utility and users with dynamic accounts of design.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-0-415-57263-7
SP - 95
EP - 108
BT - Design Research
A2 - Simonsen, Jesper
A2 - Ole Baerenholdt, Jorgen
A2 - Büscher, Monika
A2 - Damm Scheuer, John
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -