Environmental Interaction
When human beings work with material, shape material, the material shapes them at the same time. The potter centres the clay and the clay centrs the potter. While operating technology, technology affcets human beings as well. The mobile phone for example changed human decision behaviour. Interacting with material, including interaction with technology, shapes human beings and influences their spatiotemporal trajectories up to the point that others recognize them. In communities of practice the recognizing of spatiotemporal trajectries is a requirement for developing shared concepts out of which language emerges.
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Communication and adaptation
Many organizations and business train their employees in global communications skills in which the…
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Influence and participation
Surveillance and identification technologies deeply influence today’s society. Large quantities of…
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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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Presence and survival
Natural presence and mediated presence are the result of trade-offs that individual human beings…
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Landscapes
Where am I? It looks like Siberia, everything is white, no it must be the Carribean, colors ranging…
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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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New social structures are emerging
Individuals are discovering beneficial ways to use technology, incorporating technology into their…
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The Slow Dance
What impact does the designer-commissioner relationship has on the outcome of the design? What are…
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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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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…