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The role of hybrid communities and socio-technical arrangements in the participatory design
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Callon, Michel |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | This paper highlights the importance of "hybrid collectives" in the design process. In the first part, the active role of technologies and broadly speaking of non humans, in the construction and the functioning of those collectives, is emphasized: they allow heterogeneous actors to coordinate their projects; they contribute to the emergence and the transformation of social identities; they help to frame the spatial and temporal settings in which these collectives exist and act; they are directly engaged in action and cognition. For all these reasons non humans are to be considered as strategic players in the dynamics and the organization of these collectives, and in particular of design communities. Symmetrically, the very existence of hybrid collectives induces a new vision of human agency, that must be considered as diversified and variable: needs, demands, expectations, feelings, capacities of action and cognition depend on the socio-technical configurations of their environment, i.e. of the collectives they are part from. Finally some general lessons for participatory design and information ecology are drawn from the recognition of the centrality of hybrid collectives in our advanced societies. |
| Starting Page | 3 |
| Ending Page | 10 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.comm.tcu.ac.jp/cisj/05/5_01.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
