<i>Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects</i> by Prasad Boradkar

Fallan, Kjetil

doi:10.2752/175470811x13002771868247

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“…During the interaction process, people and objects jointly configure each other and construct the appearance of the whole material world (Boradkar, 2010).…”

Section: The Impact Of Design Objects-non-human Actors Connecting Soc...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Design for Social Advocacy: Some Experiences from Taiwan

Wong,

Lin

2023

Blucher Design Proceedings

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This study centers on three large-scale social movements that have occurred in Taiwan in recent years as case studies: (1) the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, (2) the fundraising movement by Taiwanese people to publish an advertisement on the New York Times during the COVID-19 pandemic, (3) and the first successful recall of the mayor of Kaohsiung City in 2020. These three mass movements have profoundly impacted Taiwanese society, and design was involved therein. In addition to examining these movements and how design intervened in this process, this case study also interviewed designers who had participated in these social movements. The theoretical meanings of these data will be further clarified in the discussion section from the perspective of design activism. The present study provides a new perspective to examine how the design profession can be used as a practice that promotes social advocacy outside of business operations.

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“…During the interaction process, people and objects jointly configure each other and construct the appearance of the whole material world (Boradkar, 2010).…”

Section: The Impact Of Design Objects-non-human Actors Connecting Soc...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Design for Social Advocacy: Some Experiences from Taiwan

Wong,

Lin

2023

Blucher Design Proceedings

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“…Most ads and descriptions for commercial products articulated their usefulness in terms of improving aesthetics to make the touchscreen device look new. Unlike a pair of jeans that could acquire meaning and desirability from its aging process and wearor the painting that might accumulate value for its historical patinathe touchscreen device inspired love by looking virginal, as though it had never been touched (Boradkar, 2010;Kilker, 2009). Indeed, whereas signs of age, dirt and/or decay may meaningfully mark time's passage or even trigger nostalgia, the smudged mobile device disrupted a notion of the 'ideal pristine artifact' (Kilker, 2009: 52).…”

Section: Clean Up That Smudge: Making Hygienic Digital Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

You Must Touch It: Touchscreen Hygiene and the Sin of the Smudge

Plotnick

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article examines how people have constructed touchscreen smudges, those oily marks left behind by users’ fingers on shiny glass, as a form of ‘mess’. It offers an historical account of smudges between 2007 and 2010, when users, corporations, journalists, third-party accessory manufacturers and others began to first frame smudges as a problem for mobile media due to users’ constant touching and the evidence of their finger trails which functioned as a kind of ‘ visible tactility’. Solutions took the form of engineering special screen coatings or cultivating responsible users who would maintain their devices through cleaning and caretaking practices. In both these cases, smudges were denigrated not for degrading media content or breaking the device’s functionality, but rather for violating high-tech aesthetics and drawing attention to porous, tactile and germ-riddled bodies. The piece, bringing together this case with the present, encourages scholars to attend to the ways that users are entreated to tame and groom both their bodies and their media devices in particular socio-historical contexts.

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“…Values may refer to social and personal principles of designers that guide their actions. In the design literature, the term 'values' may refer to worth (den Ouden 2012;Boradkar 2010), priorities (Lynn Fitzpatrick 2007), ethics (Le Bail, Baker, and Détienne 2020Manders-Huits 2011;Lloyd 2009;Friedman, Kahn, and Borning. 2006), or motivational drivers (Schwartz and Sortheix 2018;JafariNaimi, Nathan, and Hargraves 2015;Le Dantec and Do 2009).…”

Section: Values Value Differences and Value-based Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Designers embed a wide range of values in their work (Bonsiepe 1999;Lloyd 2009) and can strive for qualities as beauty, novelty, purity, and justice (Brouillette 2013). They can also ponder on the user, business, and societal values, such as comfort, viability and sustainability (Boradkar 2010;JafariNaimi, Nathan, and Hargraves 2015). Designers transfer and transform user, business, and societal values into design values (Le Dantec and Do 2009).…”

Section: Values Value Differences and Value-based Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Value-based conflicts experienced by junior design professionals in collaborative practice

2020

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Junior design professionals experience conflicts in collaboration with others, with value differences being one of the issues influencing such conflicts. In a retrospective interview study with 22 design professionals, we collected 32 cases of perceived conflicts. We used a grounded theory approach to analyse these cases, resulting in five conflict categories that group 24 distinct value differences arising in 10 critical moments, an event that causes the value-based conflict. Thus, value differences are underlying the perceived conflicts of junior design professionals on many different occasions during collaboration with others. Conclusions are drawn on setting up guidelines for addressing values in co-design practices and supporting junior designers in their professional development.

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Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects by Prasad Boradkar

Cited by 5 publications

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Design for Social Advocacy: Some Experiences from Taiwan

Design for Social Advocacy: Some Experiences from Taiwan

You Must Touch It: Touchscreen Hygiene and the Sin of the Smudge

Value-based conflicts experienced by junior design professionals in collaborative practice

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