Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Making the Social Hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design
The article illustrates the potentials of an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective to design. Drawing on ANT's assumption that objects with their scripts and incorporated programs of action compel and rearticulate new social ties, I argue that design triggers specific ways of enacting the social. It is impossible to understand how a society works without appreciating how design shapes, conditions, facilitates and makes possible everyday sociality. Viewed as a type of connector, not as a separate cold domain of material relations, design's investigation might shed light on other types of non-social ties that are brought together to make the social durable. The article also discusses some steps towards an ANT of design and suggests a new research program for design studies.
Making the Social Hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design
The article illustrates the potentials of an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective to design. Drawing on ANT's assumption that objects with their scripts and incorporated programs of action compel and rearticulate new social ties, I argue that design triggers specific ways of enacting the social. It is impossible to understand how a society works without appreciating how design shapes, conditions, facilitates and makes possible everyday sociality. Viewed as a type of connector, not as a separate cold domain of material relations, design's investigation might shed light on other types of non-social ties that are brought together to make the social durable. The article also discusses some steps towards an ANT of design and suggests a new research program for design studies.
Making the Social Hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design
Yaneva, Albena (Autor:in)
Design and Culture ; 1 ; 273-288
01.11.2009
16 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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