Situated design
“A fundamental challenge for designers and the design community is to move from designing ‘things’ (objects) to designing Things (socio-material assemblies)” (Bjögvinsson, Ehn, and Hillgren 2012, 102).
“Situated design acknowledges the tinker-ing and negotiation involved in designing things—tangible as well as intangible—and making them happen as intended. Phrased in a slightly different manner, a situated design deals with all the ‘thinging’ that goes into the making of things” (Simonsen et al. 2014, 1).
“[Situated design] refers to practices in which artists and researchers anchor their creative processes in specific physical or social locations. This approach focuses on investigating and understanding the unique dynamics and meaning arising from the interaction between art and the environment in which it is created” (Berkers et al. 2024, 95).
References
Berkers et al. 2024
Berkers, Frank, et al. Agenda Key Enabling Methodologies 2024–2027. Eindhoven: CLICKNL, 2024.
Bjögvinsson, Ehn, and Hillgren 2012
Bjögvinsson, Erling, Pelle Ehn, and Per-Anders Hillgren. “Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges.” Design Issues 28, no. 3 (2012): 101–16.
Simonsen et al. 2014
Simonsen, Jesper, et al. “Situated Methods in Design.” In Situated Design Methods, edited by Jesper Simonsen et al., 1–24. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2014.