TY - GEN
T1 - Photography as a design research tool into natureculture
AU - Liu, Szu Yu
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/6/8
Y1 - 2018/6/8
N2 - We use photography as a research method to cultivate a designerly sensibility of the theoretical concept natureculture, a provocation to transgress the dichotomy of nature and culture. We investigate the visual language of natureculture through an iterative practice of creating, editing, organizing, and refecting on images. Specifcally, we explore natureculture as spatiotemporal movements, sediment-like layers, heterogeneous gatherings, formal homonyms, emotional experiences, and aestheticized expressions of style. Each of these has a materioformal concreteness and symbolic density that supports design ideation on topics such as environmental sustainability, agroecological systems, human-animal cohabitation, urban informatics, and more.
AB - We use photography as a research method to cultivate a designerly sensibility of the theoretical concept natureculture, a provocation to transgress the dichotomy of nature and culture. We investigate the visual language of natureculture through an iterative practice of creating, editing, organizing, and refecting on images. Specifcally, we explore natureculture as spatiotemporal movements, sediment-like layers, heterogeneous gatherings, formal homonyms, emotional experiences, and aestheticized expressions of style. Each of these has a materioformal concreteness and symbolic density that supports design ideation on topics such as environmental sustainability, agroecological systems, human-animal cohabitation, urban informatics, and more.
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U2 - 10.1145/3196709.3196819
DO - 10.1145/3196709.3196819
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054004130
SN - 9781450351980
T3 - DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
SP - 777
EP - 790
BT - DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2018
Y2 - 9 June 2018 through 13 June 2018
ER -