Digital materialities: design and anthropology

"As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material environments? How can we engage with digital technologies to make sustainable, healthy and meaningful decisions, both now and in the future? Digital Materialities presents twelve chapters by scholars and practitioners working at the intersection between design and digital research in the UK, Spain, Australia and the USA. By incorporating in-depth understandings of the digital-material world from both the social sciences and design, the book considers how this combined knowledge might advance our capacity to design for the future. Divided into three parts, the focus of the book moves from the theoretical to the practical: how different digital materialities are imagined and emerge, through software emulation, urban sensors and smart homes; how new digital designs are sparked through collaborations between social scientists and designers; and finally, how digital design emerges from the insider work of everyday designers. A fascinating, ground-breaking book for students and scholars of digital anthropology, media and communication, and anyone interested in the future of digital design."--Bloomsbury Publishing

"As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material environments? How can we engage with digital technologies to make sustainable, healthy and meaningful decisions, both now and in the future? Digital Materialities presents twelve chapters by scholars and practitioners working at the intersection between design and digital research in the UK, Spain, Australia and the USA. By incorporating in-depth understandings of the digital-material world from both the social sciences and design, the book considers how this combined knowledge might advance our capacity to design for the future. Divided into three parts, the focus of the book moves from the theoretical to the practical: how different digital materialities are imagined and emerge, through software emulation, urban sensors and smart homes; how new digital designs are sparked through collaborations between social scientists and designers; and finally, how digital design emerges from the insider work of everyday designers. A fascinating, ground-breaking book for students and scholars of digital anthropology, media and communication, and anyone interested in the future of digital design."--Bloomsbury Publishing

FC -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1 Digital materiality Sarah Pink, Elisenda Ardèvol and Débora Lanzeni -- Part One Expectations -- 2 Rematerializing the platform: Emulation and the digital-material Paul Dourish -- 3 Smart global futures: Designing affordable materialities for a better life Débora Lanzeni -- 4 Envisioning the smart home: Reimagining a smart energy future Yolande Strengers -- Part Two Co-interventions -- 5 Refiguring digital interventions for energy demand reduction: Designing for life in the digital-material home Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Val Mitchell, Garrath T. Wilson and Tracy Bhamra -- 6 Speculative design and digital materialities: Idiocy, threat and com-promise Mike Michael -- 7 Ethnography and the quest to (co)design a mixed reality interactive slide Jaume Ferrer, Elisenda Ardèvol and Narcís Parés -- 8 Designing for the active human body in a digital-material world Florian 'Floyd' Mueller -- Part Three Insider Design -- 9 Mobile intimacies: Everyday design and the aesthetics of mobile phones Heather Horst -- 10 Designing for the performance of memory David Carlin -- 11 Digital interventions in declining regions Ian McShane, Chris K. Wilson and Denise Meredyth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.