Approaching Things that Trigger Things: A Review of Three Shifts in the Character of Things and Their Implications for Design.

In this article I focus on the changing character of things. In doing so, I review and draw together a set of existing sources, and emerging strands and conceptions of design, to discuss three fundamental shifts that have profoundly changed the character of the things we surround ourselves with, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Design Issues Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 70 - 81
Main Author: Wiberg, Mikael
Format: Article
Published: MIT Press Winter2022
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:In this article I focus on the changing character of things. In doing so, I review and draw together a set of existing sources, and emerging strands and conceptions of design, to discuss three fundamental shifts that have profoundly changed the character of the things we surround ourselves with, and I discuss their implications for design. I contribute to existing design research by bringing these strands together, and by making this accessible in the form of the three shifts.