Deployments of the table-non-table: A Reflection on the Relation Between Theory and Things in ...
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A 25 kg artifact made from ~1,000 sheets of paper on an aluminum chassis hides a motor that moves only 1–2 times per day for under 10 seconds; it is deployed across 4.5 years in three study series (initial drop-in, three-household ethnography, designer couple study). Claim: postphenomenological framing reveals that even seemingly useless objects mediate human-world relations and shape realities when tucked away, though participants often explore then sidelined the object.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 2:58Theory and design research
- 4:47Introducing the table-non-table
- 7:23First deployment studies
- 9:52Ethnographic investigations
- 11:43Post-phenomenological shift
- 13:10Mediations beyond use
- 16:40Reflections and findings
- 17:45Conclusion and implications
- 18:41Q&A session
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