Dear Ufuk,
If you are interested in subject of 'user', co-construction, agency in
design from the perspective of Complex Adaptive Systemsthen then have a look
at one of my recent articles:
Sayed, S., Singh, A., Saad-Sulonen, J. & Diaz, L. 2011 Jan 9.
‘Co-construction as complex adaptive system’. for The Journal of Community
Informatics [Online] 6:2. Available:
http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/719/598
Abstract:
The term User in the literature on co-construction of users and technology
often implies the represented user rather than the person in question. While
a representation of the user has instrumental value, the persons in body and
flesh remain to be explored. When focusing on them we find that the
correlation between their life and their use of technology is not of a
linear causal nature such as a perceived need leading to a particular use.
Instead we show that the causal structure is emergent through their
entanglement as can be explained with the conceptual framework of complex
adaptive systems. We further argue that the agency is located / embodied in
the simultaneous top-down and bottom-up constraints that bound such a
system. In this paper we present the ethnographic account of the becoming of
a particular user, a girl living in an urban slum in India and her use of
multiple phones in terms of emergent complex adaptive system.
Best Regards,
Abhigyan Singh
Design Researcher / Interaction Designer
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Delft University of Technology (TUD)
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Gordon Rowland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Colleagues, I'm very pleased by the many requests for the article in my
> earlier post. In case your interest extends to complexity, I'll add that I
> edited a special issue of Performance Improvement Quarterly in 2007 that
> contained relevant articles from Harold Nelson and Ranulph Glanville on
> complexity and design. They are available online through Wiley (see url
> below). Cheers, Gordon
>
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.**com/doi/10.1111/piq.2007.20.**
> issue-2/issuetoc<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/piq.2007.20.issue-2/issuetoc>
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> On Jul 6, 2011, at 3:43 AM, ufuk ulusan wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I am a Phd design student and also a teaching assistant. This
> is my first post to this mail group which i have been into by the advice of
> my
> professor, so please forgive me for any flaws. I was wondering if anyone
> could
> recommend me anything that combines chaos theory with design. I have come
> across sources
> combining chaos theory with architecture and art, but nothing with design
> itself. I plan to handle
> the subject on three ways:
>
>
>
> 1) Theoretically thinking the world
> as a fractal structure consisting designed clusters as residences,
> roads, vehicles, parks etc. that have climates, borders and systems on
> their
> own
>
> 2) Taking design process as a chaotic,
> unpredictable and ambiguous phenomenon because of indefinite numbers of
> inputs
> and also because design needs ambiguity itself for innovation (can we also
> think the designer as a strange attractor in the design process?)
>
>
> 3) Fractal structured design
> objects (like hadid, lovegrove or campana brothers etc.)
>
>
> Thank you and best regards from İstanbul.
> Ufuk Ulusan
>
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