The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a Post-human Ontology of Digital Design via the Study of Discards
Thinking about design in post-human terms (Forlano, 2017) challenges designers to consider the effects of their designs on the more-than-human world, and in particular to consider non-human actors as users of our designs (Forlano 2017, Cruickshank & Trivedi 2017). However, the post-human turn al...
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| description | Thinking about design in post-human terms (Forlano, 2017) challenges designers to consider the effects of their designs on the more-than-human world, and in particular to consider non-human actors as users of our designs (Forlano 2017, Cruickshank & Trivedi 2017). However, the post-human turn also calls into question the modernist assumption that “good design” is predicated on notions of instrumental use, which underpins user-centred design, the dominant perspective in digital and interaction design. I propose an alternative, based on Willis’s ontological designing (Willis 2006) and Yuk Hui’s digital ontology (Hui 2016), which highlights the role of ongoing care and maintenance in the ontology of the digital, and argue that discards, and in particular digital discards, have a peculiar ontological status within this theory which offer promise for future study of digital design beyond instrumental use, and it’s entanglements with the more-than-human.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab9c4dc4f9bc44d3a52142dfd25309c02022-12-22T01:18:43ZcatBau, Centro Universitario de DiseñoInmaterial2462-58842462-58922022-06-01713The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a Post-human Ontology of Digital Design via the Study of Discards Tim Cowlishaw0Bau College of Arts & Design - Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de CataluñaThinking about design in post-human terms (Forlano, 2017) challenges designers to consider the effects of their designs on the more-than-human world, and in particular to consider non-human actors as users of our designs (Forlano 2017, Cruickshank & Trivedi 2017). However, the post-human turn also calls into question the modernist assumption that “good design” is predicated on notions of instrumental use, which underpins user-centred design, the dominant perspective in digital and interaction design. I propose an alternative, based on Willis’s ontological designing (Willis 2006) and Yuk Hui’s digital ontology (Hui 2016), which highlights the role of ongoing care and maintenance in the ontology of the digital, and argue that discards, and in particular digital discards, have a peculiar ontological status within this theory which offer promise for future study of digital design beyond instrumental use, and it’s entanglements with the more-than-human. https://inmaterialdesign.com/INM/article/view/142Interaction design;infrastructurepost-human design;discardsontology |
| spellingShingle | Tim Cowlishaw The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a Post-human Ontology of Digital Design via the Study of Discards Inmaterial Interaction design; infrastructure post-human design; discards ontology |
| title | The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a Post-human Ontology of Digital Design via the Study of Discards |
| title_full | The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a Post-human Ontology of Digital Design via the Study of Discards |
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| title_short | The Symbols of the Divine: Approaching a Post-human Ontology of Digital Design via the Study of Discards |
| title_sort | symbols of the divine approaching a post human ontology of digital design via the study of discards |
| topic | Interaction design; infrastructure post-human design; discards ontology |
| url | https://inmaterialdesign.com/INM/article/view/142 |
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