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The Performative Space of a Smartphone

Paper by Marika Hedemyr
Published 2019 by NORDES 2019: Who Cares? The 8th biannual Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) conference.
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New media technology devices such as smartphones are devices for spatial configuring of bodies. Thereby questions of ethics, agency and performativity are core in the design and design research. This PhD project proposes choreography as a design practice in which the body is central. The topic is explored by creating mixed reality walks at public places and key in the study is how care is ‘designed’ in mixed reality experiences, or not. There is also a concern about ethics and the care for whose stories, bodies and places are involved in the interaction design – in theory and practice. Articulating a design practice sensitive to these questions is essential in this research.

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To cite this: Hedemyr, M. (2019). The Performative Space of a Smartphone. Paper presented at the 8th biannual Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) conference: Who Cares?, Espoo, Finland.