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The Game
Compare it to the games children play. They play war games, play death, they long for a game full…
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Onshore/Offshore
These containers are meant for cargo, not for people. In the container a light bulb was hanging on…
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Informing the form
With the new technologies there are new possibilities for service design and these can bring some…
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Cycle of quality & wits to survive
In traditional artisan’s context, where the user and the maker shared time and place, there was an…
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Reference to profound experience
The way references and values will be understood in a technology context is highly dependent on how…
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Centredness as social structure
Learning the skills to work with the material is a process of inducing in traditional artisan…
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Interacting with materials
Jogi Panghaal argues that while interacting with material the human being changes the material…
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Assuming systems to be stable and regular
When handling technology or other artefacts, users need to be aware that their actions will have a…
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Systems of knowledge
Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets…
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Feminine transformation
Narayanan expects that a huge feminine gender based transformation will take place in India over…
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Humanness at the centre
When suggesting that technology actually functions as a social engineering tool, Narayanan…
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Failing is crucial
The learning environment of Srishti is an open environment; always in a state of flux, there is a…
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Social use of technology
Geetha Narayanan has lived in Bangalore since the 50’s and has witnessed how public funding in the…
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Being witness is context defined
When addressing witnessed presence in crisis situations, Parthasarathi elaborated on the media…
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Media governance
Information and communication technologies function in structures of governance. There is the…
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Adaptation processes
Because people use technology devices, they also adapt to them. In the last hundred years have…