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View article: Breast scars and creative well-being: Personal stories and experiences of healing
Breast scars and creative well-being: Personal stories and experiences of healing Open
This article examines the connection between creative practices and processes of healing and scarring and proposes that creative outcomes can be understood as evidence of healing. We understand scars as embodying both cultural narratives o…
View article: Anticipatory Repair: Reframing Breakage through a Futures Agenda. Interview with Minna Ruckenstein and Sarah Pink
Anticipatory Repair: Reframing Breakage through a Futures Agenda. Interview with Minna Ruckenstein and Sarah Pink Open
In this interview, we wanted to explore the notion of repair beyond the usual materialities and temporalities of the present. Therefore, we proposed a conversation between Minna Ruckenstein and Sarah Pink, in order to rethink repair in the…
View article: Generative Repair and Graceful Decay: Interview with Caitlin DeSilvey
Generative Repair and Graceful Decay: Interview with Caitlin DeSilvey Open
Professor Caitlin DeSilvey works as a cultural geographer and lecturer at the University of Exeter. Her work explores the ways in which built environments change through aging, including processes of repair, decay, and wasting. She collabo…
View article: Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold
Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold Open
Tim Ingold is a British anthropologist, Social Anthropology Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has explored the relationship between anthropology, archi…
View article: Postcards from Abroad
Postcards from Abroad Open
In this section called ‘postcards from abroad’ we propose to diversify and open up the understandings and practices of repair itself, engaging material repair in conversation with other types of repair, coming from fields of creation and k…
View article: “Isn't this Marvelous”
“Isn't this Marvelous” Open
HCI research involving older adults has typically focused on improving technology skills, mobility and health outcomes. Technology for positive ageing emphasizing creativity, inquisitiveness and resourcefulness is less commonly explored. T…
View article: Smart Homes for Seniors: Intelligent Home Solutions for Independent Living
Smart Homes for Seniors: Intelligent Home Solutions for Independent Living Open
With an increasing ageing population globally, there is growing interest in ‘smart home’ technologies that can assist older adults to continue living at home. Contemporary research confirms that technology can support positive ageing and c…
View article: Swipe Inwards
Swipe Inwards Open
Infrastructures of accessibility have a significant impact on people’s sensory experience of privacy, autonomy, and security in a psychiatric hospital. This is the case for patients and staff. Through an examination of the material and soc…
View article: The sum is the realisation of the parts: interdisciplinary perspectives on care
The sum is the realisation of the parts: interdisciplinary perspectives on care Open
Designing through the paradigm of care and for care, is a complex and perhaps precarious activity. It is a domain of design research and practice that is best undertaken through interdisciplinary collaboration. In this paper we reflect on …
View article: Caring with Others – Cultivating and revaluing as forms of everyday designing
Caring with Others – Cultivating and revaluing as forms of everyday designing Open
In this paper we reflect on the notion of caring with in design research by discussing processes of cultivating and revaluing. Cultivating as a form of caring with other species. Revaluing as a form of caring with unwanted things. Both are…
View article: Everyday mundane repair: banknotes and the material entanglements of improvisation and innovation
Everyday mundane repair: banknotes and the material entanglements of improvisation and innovation Open
This article seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of everyday repair with a focus on banknotes, a ubiquitous and mundane technology in constant need of maintenance and repair. Through a design anthropology approach, we examine how …
View article: Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world
Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world Open
In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth…
View article: Living IKEA: shopping experiences, making homes and branding sustainability
Living IKEA: shopping experiences, making homes and branding sustainability Open
"Living IKEA" aims to define the "intangibles" that IKEA "sells" through its range of products. In order to achieve this objective the research studied IKEA's strategies of commercialization, promotion and communication. This study was dev…