Making the Social Hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design
@article{Yaneva2009MakingTS, title={Making the Social Hold: Towards an Actor-Network Theory of Design}, author={Albena Yaneva}, journal={Design and Culture}, year={2009}, volume={1}, pages={273 - 288} }
ABSTRACT The article illustrates the potentials of an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective to design. Drawing on ANT's assumption that objects with their scripts and incorporated programs of action compel and rearticulate new social ties, I argue that design triggers specific ways of enacting the social. It is impossible to understand how a society works without appreciating how design shapes, conditions, facilitates and makes possible everyday sociality. Viewed as a type of connector, not as… CONTINUE READING
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