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Wanting to live here: design after anthropocentric functionalism
conference contribution
posted on 2023-06-10, 00:58 authored by Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Ann LightAnn LightDesign research has recently turned to theoretical perspectives, including care ethics and posthumanism, to counter the industrial processes that have led to climate crisis. As design theorists and ethnographers of interaction, we researched experimental eco-farming in a community that shared many of these theoretical and ideological commitments. Our goal was not to offer an account of use and provide design implications in support of it. Instead, we chose to identify concrete practices and artifacts that embody the sorts of industrial transformations that we are seeking—even if they are manifest in an imperfect or partial form. We encountered practices focused on community building, local resilience to climate disruptions, experiments in eco-farming, economic survival, and attracting the next generation. One interlocutor translated these concerns into a simple binary, asking, “do we want to live here?” This paper contributes to a design research agenda that might (eventually) provide an affirmative answer.
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Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.Publisher
Association for Computing MachineryExternal DOI
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1-24Pages
24.0Event name
CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsEvent location
Yokohama, JapanEvent type
conferenceEvent date
May 08-13, 2021Place of publication
New York, NY, USAISBN
9781450380966Department affiliated with
- Engineering and Design Publications
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- Creative Technology Publications
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2021-09-16First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-09-30First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-09-16Usage metrics
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