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Human agency and system design
Seeking well-being and survival, human beings in technological environments are ‘thinking actors’:…
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Quality of an object
What is the quality of an object? Let us be more specific: how do we define the quality of an…
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Going High
A bus is something weird. Its intimate because you travel, often for a long time with strangers
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The Internet and mediated presence
The transcendence of time and place has been a human drive for centuries. Inventions of script
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Exploring Witnessed Presence (methodology)
The qualitative exploratory study ‘Witnessed Presence and Systems Engineering’ presented in this…
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Being Another’s Witness
How does a designer look at the work of his or her fellow colleagues? What are the issues of…
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Facing Decisions
Precisely how does the designer make his/her decisions in the process of design; what leads him or…
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The end of the world
How to imagine the end of the world? Where the land ends and the seas continue, where the weather…
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Witnessing the “Self”
Self-witnessing is vital to human social interaction. So what happens when a designer fails to…
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Here, Everywhere and Nowhere
Do the end-users have a presence in the design process? Being the ultimate client, what impact do…
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The Trio
Is the presence of the manufacturer complicating the existing designer-commissioner relationship?
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Crossing Paths
What happens when the slow dance takes on an interesting switch? When the designer dances the steps…
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Multiple Identities
What is a designer? What is the public notion of this group of professionals whose presence is…
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How do you compose a moment in which time itself is shared?
How can music bring people together for something more than a fleeting, aesthetic experience? How…