TY - GEN
T1 - PregnancyCubes: A design process to cultivate tensions
AU - Vallgårda, Anna
AU - Wagner-Eckert, Camille
AU - Mølhave, Caroline Bøgvad
AU - Bewley, Harvey
PY - 2022/10/8
Y1 - 2022/10/8
N2 - This pictorial proposes a strategy to cultivate tensions in a design process inspired by Stengers’ notion of problematization. This strategy is a response to the issue that a current ideal is to design technology to smooth out the curves of our everyday lives rather than acknowledging our entangled relationships with all the human and non-human actors we engage with. The argument is that if we keep striving for minimal friction, we will end up estranged and discontent. The technologies will only provide a shallow technological fix that does not fit into our entangled lives. Our case is a design process to support the relationship of expecting parents. The result is a set of nine PregnancyCubes which are meant to cultivate tensions within a relationship in different ways.
AB - This pictorial proposes a strategy to cultivate tensions in a design process inspired by Stengers’ notion of problematization. This strategy is a response to the issue that a current ideal is to design technology to smooth out the curves of our everyday lives rather than acknowledging our entangled relationships with all the human and non-human actors we engage with. The argument is that if we keep striving for minimal friction, we will end up estranged and discontent. The technologies will only provide a shallow technological fix that does not fit into our entangled lives. Our case is a design process to support the relationship of expecting parents. The result is a set of nine PregnancyCubes which are meant to cultivate tensions within a relationship in different ways.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3547284
DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3547284
M3 - Conference article
SP - 1
JO - Proceedings of NordiCHI
JF - Proceedings of NordiCHI
M1 - 94
ER -