Design and Aesthetics of Being Together
(PhD project Stoffel Kuenen)
Design deals with matters of aesthetics. It does not necessarily
address the question what Aesthetics in general is. Instead, in
giving form to artifacts, it develops and expresses particular
notions of aesthetics that guide the design practice. This practice
is oriented towards people and their experiences, while it works
with properties and features of stuff. Particular notions of
aesthetics provide a logic of expression for bridging that gap in
particular ways. Design thus shapes the presence of the artificial
in our life, guided by the notion of aesthetics it brings to
expression through artifacts.
When interaction design engages with artifacts that mediate
interactions between people, such a notion of aesthetics needs to
extend to how the presence of others comes to expression in the
presence of an artifact (and vice versa). It then configures what
the artifact is and -at the same time- what people are to
eachother. My thesis work presents the notion of aesthetics of
being together that reaches for such an extension, to orient
the design of interactions with artifacts to the role they play in
bringing people to expression for each other.
Areas of interest
Aesthetics in Interaction Design, technologically mediated
social interaction, dynamics of techno-social systems, embodiment,
presence.
My supervisors are Erik Stolterman and Johan Redström.
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