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The dramatic acceleration of digital technologies and their
integration into physical products is transforming everyday
objects. Our domestic appliances, furniture, clothing, are growing
in intelligence. Smart objects are increasingly capable of
interacting with humans in a purposeful manner with intentionality.
This collection of essays, descriptions of empirical work, and
design case studies brings together perspectives from interaction
design, the humanities, science and technology studies, and
engineering, to map, explore and interrogate ways in which our
relationships with everyday smart objects might expand and be
re-imagined. By offering a critical assessment on the growing place
of smart technology in everyday environments, this book outlines a
transdisciplinary research agenda for the future of 'smartness' to
help define, envision, and inspire future collaborative design
practices. These essays propose an understanding and design of
smart objects that embrace their hybrid nature as shifting and
blending tools, agents, machines, or even 'creatures'. Authors
argue that smart objects have the potential to enter into multiple
kinds of relationships with humans, and form complex human-nonhuman
ecologies that are both meaningful and empowering in the context of
everyday life. This book also shines a light on the hidden
infrastructures behind the functioning of smart objects with
stirring debates tackling questions of technology, human values,
and economic and ecological impact. Whether you are a design
scholar, design practitioner or design activist this book will
inspire through offering theoretical insights, design concepts and
practical ways on how to engage in this research agenda for future
smartness.
This is an interrogation of the theory and practice of design
through the thought of Gilles Deleuze. What can Deleuze's creative,
immanent and practical philosophy offer to a field not only
concerned with innovation and the creation of possible worlds, but
one that is fast becoming a way of thinking and critically
responding to current issues and concerns? Is there a Deleuzian way
of designing? Whether we are dealing with products or scenarios,
packaging or experiences, objects or digital platforms, services or
territories, organizations and strategies, design is never a thing,
but a process of change, invention and speculation always with
material, tangible implications that affect behaviours and lives.
Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this
book examines ways in which we can think about design through
Deleuze, and likewise how Deleuze's thought can be experimented
upon and re designed to produce new concepts. This book taps into
the emerging networks between philosophy as an act of inventing
concepts, and design as the process of inventing the world. This is
the first book to use Deleuze and Guattari to provide an entirely
new theoretical framework to address the theory and practice of
design. Contributors include academics, practitioners and those at
the intersection between the theory and the practice of design. It
redefines a practice based, industry led field that is rapidly
changing and evolving, showing the plasticity and malleability of a
relatively young discipline whose boundaries are far from fixed.
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