Understanding the contribution of people in the community, and across the boundaries of practice, requires a trace by which action has unfolded. The design thread is the line of practice that makes things happen. New technologies, whether wikis or social media platforms, help us to trace the design process and understand the journey.
The Idea
This chapter is about how technology shapes what we become. As Latour (1990), a social theorist, declares in an article, “technology is society made durable.” Technology crystallizes what we know and think as social beings (Hidalgo 2015). This chapter is also about how technological development is open-ended but often appears to be deterministic (Smith and Marx 1994). Design often ...
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