Abstract
This paper investigates the sociomateriality of collective creation in a practice-led design project, addressing how entanglement occurs in material-centric processes where it often remains largely unarticulated. Adopting a sociomaterial ontology, we employ qualitative network analysis (QNA) to trace sociomaterial trajectories of the DIY Material project. Our analysis identified 12 diverse actors (e.g., humans, tools, knowledge…) in five clusters, and 22 sociomaterial entanglement 'events' classified into three types: Material Emergence, Social Intra-action, and Sociomaterial Assemblage. The resulting network visualizes these moments, explicating their role in instantiating inter subjective design ideas and contributing to project formation, offering a new methodological lens for analyzing design practices beyond human-centered approaches.
Keywords
Design Practice; DIY Material; Material Tinkering; Sociomateriality
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.1131
Citation
Tsujimura, K.,and Kakehi, Y.(2025) Unraveling Sociomaterial Trajectories: A Qualitative Network Analysis of Material, Human, and Nonhuman Entanglement in the DIY Material Project, in Chang, C.-Y., and Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.1131
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Conference Track
Track 1 - More Than Human-centered Design
Unraveling Sociomaterial Trajectories: A Qualitative Network Analysis of Material, Human, and Nonhuman Entanglement in the DIY Material Project
This paper investigates the sociomateriality of collective creation in a practice-led design project, addressing how entanglement occurs in material-centric processes where it often remains largely unarticulated. Adopting a sociomaterial ontology, we employ qualitative network analysis (QNA) to trace sociomaterial trajectories of the DIY Material project. Our analysis identified 12 diverse actors (e.g., humans, tools, knowledge…) in five clusters, and 22 sociomaterial entanglement 'events' classified into three types: Material Emergence, Social Intra-action, and Sociomaterial Assemblage. The resulting network visualizes these moments, explicating their role in instantiating inter subjective design ideas and contributing to project formation, offering a new methodological lens for analyzing design practices beyond human-centered approaches.