Relating to Things
Design, Technology and the Artificial
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2020
304 pages
978-1-350-12427-1 (ISBN)
Description
We relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation - inquiring into what it means to live with and relate to things that can actively relate to us, and that relate to each other in ways that do not involve us at all.
Case studies include Amazon's Alexa, the Internet of Things, Pokémon Go and Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner. Authors explore everything from the care work undertaken by objects, reciprocal human/machine learning, technological mediation as a form of control, and what it takes to reveal things that tend to be hidden and that often (by design) conceal the ways in which they use us.
As a whole, Relating to Things is a collaborative philosophical inquiry into the nature and consequences of contemporary technological things. It is a design inquiry into the current nature of the artificial, and possibilities for how things might be otherwise.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
68 BW illus
File size
3,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-350-12427-1 (9781350124271)
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Person
Heather Wiltse is Associate Professor of Design at Umeå University, Sweden. She is the author, with Johan Redström, of Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Content
Introduction
Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
I: Caring for Things That Care for Us
1. Privacy as Care: An Interpersonal Model of Privacy Exemplified by Five Cases in the Internet of Things
Dylan Wittkower (Old Dominion University, USA)
2. Attachment to Things, Artifacts, Devices, Commodities: An Inconvenient Ethics of the Ordinary
Michel Puech (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)
3. The New Assisted Living: Caring for Alexa Caring for Us
Diane Michelfelder (Macalester College, USA)
II: Learning from Things That Learn from Us
4. Handling Things that Handle Us: Things Get to Know Who We Are and Tie Us Down to Who We Were
Bruno Gransche (University of Siegen, Germany)
5. Can Ethics be Learned? Videogames as an Ethical Sandbox
Fanny Verrax (independent scholar and consultant, France)
6. Casting Things as Partners in Design: Toward a More-than-Human Design Practice
Elisa Giaccardi (TU Delft, Netherlands)
III: Controlling Things That Control Us
7. Hostile Design and the Materiality of Surveillance
Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
8. A Tool for the Impact and Ethics of Technology: The Case of Interactive Screens in Public Spaces
Steven Dorrestijn (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)
9. Postphenomenology of Augmented Reality
Galit Wellner (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
IV: Revealing Things That Reveal Us
10. Imagining Things: Unfolding the "of" in Philosophy of Technology, through Object-Oriented Ontology
Yoni Van Den Eede (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
11. The Disappearing Acts of the Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Withdrawal of Things
Ron Wakkary (Simon Fraser University, Canada; TU Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sabrina Hauser (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Doenja Oogjes (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12. Revealing Relations of Fluid Assemblages
Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
13. Designing Networks that Reveal Themselves
Holly Robbins (TU Delft, Netherlands)
14. Reflection and Commentary
Erik Stolterman (Indiana University, USA)
Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
I: Caring for Things That Care for Us
1. Privacy as Care: An Interpersonal Model of Privacy Exemplified by Five Cases in the Internet of Things
Dylan Wittkower (Old Dominion University, USA)
2. Attachment to Things, Artifacts, Devices, Commodities: An Inconvenient Ethics of the Ordinary
Michel Puech (Paris-Sorbonne University, France)
3. The New Assisted Living: Caring for Alexa Caring for Us
Diane Michelfelder (Macalester College, USA)
II: Learning from Things That Learn from Us
4. Handling Things that Handle Us: Things Get to Know Who We Are and Tie Us Down to Who We Were
Bruno Gransche (University of Siegen, Germany)
5. Can Ethics be Learned? Videogames as an Ethical Sandbox
Fanny Verrax (independent scholar and consultant, France)
6. Casting Things as Partners in Design: Toward a More-than-Human Design Practice
Elisa Giaccardi (TU Delft, Netherlands)
III: Controlling Things That Control Us
7. Hostile Design and the Materiality of Surveillance
Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
8. A Tool for the Impact and Ethics of Technology: The Case of Interactive Screens in Public Spaces
Steven Dorrestijn (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)
9. Postphenomenology of Augmented Reality
Galit Wellner (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
IV: Revealing Things That Reveal Us
10. Imagining Things: Unfolding the "of" in Philosophy of Technology, through Object-Oriented Ontology
Yoni Van Den Eede (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
11. The Disappearing Acts of the Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Withdrawal of Things
Ron Wakkary (Simon Fraser University, Canada; TU Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sabrina Hauser (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Doenja Oogjes (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12. Revealing Relations of Fluid Assemblages
Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
13. Designing Networks that Reveal Themselves
Holly Robbins (TU Delft, Netherlands)
14. Reflection and Commentary
Erik Stolterman (Indiana University, USA)
