week 10. material talks and methodology

Understanding agency in interaction design materials, 2012. (material talks back)

       "The notion of agency puts focus on the emerging properties of materials and how they actively contribute to the way that design activity unfolds."

     "The analyses showed how interaction design is to a large extent driven by emergent                 characteristics of available materials."

    Schön, D. The Reflective Practitioner: design materials ‘talk back’ to designers’

    "Instead, humans and material objects intra-act; i.e. not only do the humans construct meaning     out of their representational acts, but the objects themselves actively contribute in the meaning

    making process."

    "Agency is thus not an attribute of things but, an “on-going reconfiguring of the world” [1]."

Computational Compositions: Aesthetics, Materials, and Interaction Design, Wiberg, 
2010.  (Material Turn宣言）

Methodology for materiality: interaction design research through a material lens, Wiberg, 2013. (Methodology)

        "Fig. 1, ... a methodology that takes a point of departure in material studies. ... to account for         the dynamics of working back and forth between materials and wholeness."    

        Fig. 2, Extended schematic description

            Materials: Properties, Character

            Details: Aesthetics, Quality

            Texture: Appearance, Authenticity

            Wholeness: Composition, Meaning

        "...an organizing methodological structure based on the simple dialectic tradition in design to work         back and forth between details and wholeness, materials and textures."

New Materialism by Fox and Alldred (2018) (New Materialism Ontology)

Doing new materialist data analysis: a Spinozo-Deleuzian ethological toolkit  (Fox & Allred, 2021) (New Materialism Methodology)

material-centered design vs. user-centered design

Questions:

1. How to relate "material talks" concepts to Wabi-sabi ?

2. How to apply Wiberg's methodology to wabi-sabi aesthetics and HCI design?

HW 4, Material Exploration in everyday life

1. design your own "Material Probes" 
    ex. Spyn project , botanic printers, 綉珍's app logo probes, ....
     Probes with digital technology in the form of 照片、貼紙、馬達、LED、...
2. record and collect how these probes appear in everyday life (照片、影片)
3. discuss how these "variations" of material interaction imply the nature of the material (with a phenomenological approach), related terms could be wabi-sabi, unfinalized, unfinished, imperfection, worn media, ... 

or analyse with Wiberg's framework and write up the dialectic results.

deadline: May 19, 2025

week 9. introducing material turn

1. Definition of Material Turn

2. Framework and Strategy of Material Interaction (Featuring Anna Vallgårda)

    A Material Strategy: Exploring Material Properties of Computers, 2010, IJDesign.

   Giving form to computational things: developing a practice of interaction design, Anna Vallga˚rda, 2014. PUC (Framework)

    Temporal Form in Interaction Design, 2015, IJDesign

    The Hedonic Haptic Player, 2017, IJDesign

3. (Post-)Phenomenological approach to Materiality (Featuring James Pierce)

    

    Material awareness: promoting reflection on everyday materiality, 2009 (post-phenomenology)

    A phenomenology of human-electricity relations, 2010 (phenomenology)

    Electric materialities and interactive technology, James Pierce, 2013 

(phenomenology)

    Machine Learning Uncertainty as a Design Material: A Post-Phenomenological Inquiry, 2021

 

     

Readings in Part II Material Turn:

Computational Compositions: Aesthetics, Materials, and Interaction Design, Wiberg, 
2010. 

"Material interactions": from atoms & bits to entangled practices, 2012, ACM CHI panel

Understanding agency in interaction design materials, 2012. (material talks back)

Methodology for materiality: interaction design research through a material lens, Wiberg, 2013. (Methodology)

Giving form to computational things: developing a practice of interaction design, Anna Vallga˚rda, 2014. (Framework)

Electric materialities and interactive technology, James Pierce, 2013 (Phenomenological approach to materiality)

PUC theme issue: material interactions, 2014. (special issue, PUC)

Broken probes: toward the design of worn media, Daniela Rosner, 2014 (wabi-sabi)

Interaction Design as a Bricolage Practice, Anna Vallgårda & Ylva Fernaeus, 2015

Expanding on Wabi-Sabi as a Design Resource in HCI, Vasiliki Tsaknaki & Ylva Fernaeus, 2016

FeltRadio: Sensing and Making Sense of Wireless Traffic, 2016

Questions:
1. How does Microboundary relate to Wabi-sabi
2. Wabi-sabi and system 1/2 thinkings?
3. What is the relationship between wabi-sabi and mindful interaction?


HW3: 

Student presentation on Wabi-Sabi & its design cases on May 5th (week 12).

Reference:

Wabi-Sabi：給設計者、生活家的日式美學基礎

日本美學：物哀、幽玄、侘寂（全三冊）：從唯美的物哀，深遠的幽玄，到空無的侘寂。掌握日本美學關鍵的獨家著作。

mid-term project demo

 1.  students present mid-term projects

2. introducing tarot-structural mapping methods to compose new method-cards

   (a) decompose the meanings of each card in a Tarot deck (major acarna)

   (b) structurelize the deck 

   (c) collecting elements in g a new (or an emerging) area and  remapping to the structure 

reference:

Tarot-mapping workshop