Disclosing New Worlds

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Disclosing New Worlds
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Design

• Design/change of anything
• Organizations and technology Entrepreneurship
• Politics Democratic action
• Culture Cultivation of solidarity
• Society, technology, personal identity,
• Disclosing new worlds
• History making (Changes in the ways we understand
  and deal with ourselves and things)
• Articulation
• Reconfiguration
• Cross-appropriation
• Installed base cultivation?

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Alternative to Non-historical design

• Postmodernism flexibility, anything goes, ..)
• Cartesian Design
• Rene Descartes Modernity
• Reductionist
• Objective, positivist science
• Detachment
• ultimate form pure theory
• Context-free
• Control (not government)

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Basis Heideggers phenomenology

• Husserl
• Noema
• Phenomenological reduction, bracketing
• Heidegger
• Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, ..

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Heidegger

• Being and Time
• Being-in-the-world
• Winograd and Flores Understanding Computers and
  Cognition
• Ready-to-hand
• Breakdown
• Present-at-hand
• Thrownness (Situatedness)

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• Equipment(ality)
• Purposes In order to
• Identities
• Disclosing (the world)
• Meaning (experience) not essences
• Disclosing space
• Web of practices and meanings
• Interrelated set of equipmental relations
• Things show up for us in terms of our familiar
  practices for dealing with them
• From phenomenological reduction to hermeneutic
  circle

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Style

• All our pragmatic activity is organized by a
  style.
• Style is .. the way all the practices ultimately
  fit together.
• Style is not an aspect of things, people, or
  activity but constitutes them as what they are.
• Two aspects of disclosive space
• Organization Disclosive space as equipmental
  relations
• Coordination How complex structures are
  interrelated and fit together

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Change and style

• Practices are changed on the basis of the style
  they already have (installed base)
• A style opens a disclosive space by
• Coordinating actions
• Determining how things and people matter
• Being what is transferred from situations to
  situations

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Technological style

• Thomas Hughes
• Holistic approach
• Repressive or emancipatory technologies/media?
• Large scale, centralized or small scale,
  decentralized
• The Internet and democracy debate.
• Commercialization of the Media

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Historical Disclosing

• Customary Disclosing
• Historical Disclosing two skills
• Sense and hold on to disharmonies
• Change ones disclosive space on this basis.
• Authentic change intense, reflexive engagement,
  not detached calculation

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Articulation

• The most familiar
• Two kinds
• Gathering from dispersion (focus on core
  business)
• Retrieval moving what has become marginal to
  the centre

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Reconfiguration

• (Re. ANT Actor configuration)
• Some marginal aspect is becoming central

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Cross-appropriation

• When one disclosive space takes over form another
  a practice that it could not generate on its own
  but that it finds useful