AYŞE AĞÇA
Intelligences
Theory Instruments as Tangible Ways of Knowing
JESSICA SORENSON
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
METTE GISLEV KJÆRSGAARD
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
JACOB BUUR
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
MARY KARYDA
Department of Sociology and Environmental Economics, University of Southern Denmark
AYŞE ÖZGE AĞÇA
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
While ethnographers and the data they produce already play a role in affecting industry practices, there is potential to integrate anthropological ways of seeing and knowing into a shared transdisciplinary design praxis. In a series of design research experiments, we have taken a pragmatic and playful approach to physicalizing theory. The result is a set of ‘Theory Instruments’ that transform theory into tangible interaction. Theory Instruments scaffold knowledge production by encouraging new ways of seeing organizations, products, users, and the relations between them....