Digitalization and the design of everyday life - steps in the evolution of a research agenda
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2014
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en
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67
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This thesis is a collection of four published articles that describe a selected set of steps of the evo-lution of a research agenda and activity regarding Digitalization and the Design of Everyday Life – from an early manifesto that describes the issue space, through two conference papers that discuss concepts that have been developed to facilitate research and analysis, to finally a journal article that discusses a more specific research finding. The articles deal with topics such as the impact of digitalization on everyday life and the field of design; the need to consider a wider idea of design; the role of designers in this development; the idea of people as designers of their own practices; the way how our artifacts and practices form design ecosystems; and discusses concepts such as the personal digital ecosystem, design toolkit, design platform and design space. The final article is related to the idea of supporting users as in-novators within organized settings, and examines critically the idea of Living Labs and of Open Innovation.Description
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Kuutti, KariThesis advisor
Kuutti, KariKeywords
design of everyday life, design ecosystem, design toolkit, practices as designs, emergent design, design and evolution