Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 94 |
| Conference proceedings | Proceedings of NordiCHI |
| Pages (from-to) | 1 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
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| Publication status | Published - 8 Oct 2022 |
| Event | Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2022: Participative computing for sustainable futures - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 10 Oct 2022 → 12 Oct 2022 Conference number: 12 https://conferences.au.dk/nordichi2022/ |
Conference
| Conference | Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2022 |
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| Number | 12 |
| Location | Aarhus University |
| Country/Territory | Denmark |
| City | Aarhus |
| Period | 10/10/2022 → 12/10/2022 |
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Keywords
- Design Tensions
- Problematization
- Human-Non-Human Relationships
- Friction in Technology Design
- PregnancyCubes
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