Design by Society: Science and Technology Studies and the Social Shaping of Design

Woodhouse, Edward J.; Patton, Jason

doi:10.1162/0747936041423262

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“…The argument is not that building cultures are irrationally or maliciously manipulated, but that 'relevant social groups' (Cowan, 1989) within the building culture make seemingly rational design decisions, based on coherent epistemological assumptions, without recognizing how their own frames influence technological decision-making (Guy & Shove, 2000;Pinch & Bijker, 1985;Shilton, 2013;Winner, 1999Winner, [1980; Woodhouse & Patton 2004). This proposition provides the context in which the case of net-zero housing in Austin, Texas, can be empirically considered.…”

Section: Second Challenge To the Unit-e⁄ciency Modelmentioning

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Epistemological conflict: modern and non-modern frameworks for sustainability

Moore¹,

Gelfand²,

Whitsett³

2015

Building Research & Information

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A basic epistemological conflict is found to exist between modern and non-modern practitioners of sustainable development. These categories distinguish the ways professionals interpret or frame reality. The hypothesis developed is that this inconsistency, at least partially, explains the limited success that energy-efficiency research has realized in the prediction and control of climate change catalysed by the built environment. An analysis employs both historical and empirical methods to understand how the North American air-conditioning industry has framed, and subsequently regulated, the inseparable problems of human comfort and energy consumption. Historically, the dominant framework long-inhabited by moderns has constructed a unit-efficiency model of evaluation that is concerned with universal standardization and normal design. In the empirical analysis of the selected case, an emergent framework inhabited by non-moderns constructed a unit-efficacy model of evaluation concerned with local implementation and post-normal design. The two models came into conflict when designers applied code-required energy models and financing formulae based on unit-efficiency assumptions to a case of sustainable, affordable housing. The analysis concludes with seven findings designed to move building energy research and practice beyond the current epistemological divide.

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Section: Second Challenge To the Unit-e⁄ciency Modelmentioning

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Epistemological conflict: modern and non-modern frameworks for sustainability

Moore¹,

Gelfand²,

Whitsett³

2015

Building Research & Information

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“…The sociological approach of Science and Technology Studies (STS) understands professional design activity as situated within, and shaped by, society [37]. Foundational to this viewpoint of design is a distinction between 'proximate design' and 'design by society' [37].…”

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“…Foundational to this viewpoint of design is a distinction between 'proximate design' and 'design by society' [37]. The first relates to design professionals 'at the drawing board', 'including industrial, graphics and urban designers and architects' who 'exercise direct control over the details of design' (p. 1), the second relates to a much wider range of social arrangements that directly influence design, such as, market forces, business priorities social policy and standards.…”

Section: Design By Society: Appropriationmentioning

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“…In an assertion that might strike professional designers as odd, this approach claims that 'no simple boundary adequately delineates what counts as design, or who engages in it' (ibid., p. 2). So, for example, Woodhouse and Patton [37] say that, to the core design professionals mentioned earlier, one might add computer scientists, nanotechnologists and members of research and development departments. Academic researchers in areas such as HCI, who see themselves as engaging in design, can also be added to this list.…”

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Inclusive design: beyond capabilities towards context of use

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Monk

2010

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…For instance, in an article exploring design's societal position, Woodhouse and Patton (2004) contrast views about the term designer and whom it should include. In a conventional sense, designers are understood by many to be those "product, industrial, graphics and urban designers and architects who exercise direct control over the details of design" (p. 1).…”

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Creating Responsible Designers: Recognizing and Responding to Professional Immunity Claims

Owens¹

2006

Visual Communication Quarterly

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Design by Society: Science and Technology Studies and the Social Shaping of Design

Cited by 53 publications

References 5 publications

Epistemological conflict: modern and non-modern frameworks for sustainability

Epistemological conflict: modern and non-modern frameworks for sustainability

Inclusive design: beyond capabilities towards context of use

Creating Responsible Designers: Recognizing and Responding to Professional Immunity Claims

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