Abstract
With prototyping, design practice thinks about the shape and environment of many objects that will embody our world experiences. In that, we see this action as eminently political and we ask ourselves along this paper the following question: under what conditions can prototyping be a political experience of design? Based on the analysis of three design use cases that present a prototyping situation, this paper explores ways designers could embody the political dimension of their practice. While observing our use case through a framework built from sociology and political science literature, we are looking for signs of politics in our practices of design. This work, part of a more extensive research, shows that prototyping could be the most adapted situation to experience the political in design because it brings together human and non- human actors into a co-design process where debate is necessarily present.
Keywords
Debate; Political Experience; Arenas; Trouble; Embodiment
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2023.107
Citation
Rose, D.,and Reunkrilerk, D.(2023) The hidden arena: prototyping as a poli�cal experience of design, in Silvia Ferraris, Valentina Rognoli, Nithikul Nimkulrat (eds.), EKSIG 2023: From Abstractness to Concreteness – experiential knowledge and the role of prototypes in design research, 19–20 June 2023, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2023.107
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The hidden arena: prototyping as a poli�cal experience of design
With prototyping, design practice thinks about the shape and environment of many objects that will embody our world experiences. In that, we see this action as eminently political and we ask ourselves along this paper the following question: under what conditions can prototyping be a political experience of design? Based on the analysis of three design use cases that present a prototyping situation, this paper explores ways designers could embody the political dimension of their practice. While observing our use case through a framework built from sociology and political science literature, we are looking for signs of politics in our practices of design. This work, part of a more extensive research, shows that prototyping could be the most adapted situation to experience the political in design because it brings together human and non- human actors into a co-design process where debate is necessarily present.