Recent design research has shown an interest in diffraction and agential realism, which
promise to offer generative alternatives when designing with data that resist treating data as …

The amount of e-waste generated by discarding devices is enormous but options for
recycling remain limited. However, inside a discarded device (from consumer devices to …

“Libraries of Things” are tangible collections of borrowable objects. There are many benefits
to Libraries of Things such as making objects and skill-building accessible, reducing waste …

The proliferation of new technologies has led to a proliferation of unwanted electronic
devices. E-waste is the largest-growing consumer waste-stream worldwide, but also an …

Despite irreversibility being omnipresent in the lifeworld, research on interactions making
use of irreversibility in computing systems is still in the early stages. User freedom–provided …

Some level of digital technology design skills and competencies is important in any
profession but in their education and work life this is often ignored. We explore the potential …

Crafting interactive artifacts is typically associated with synthesizing, making, constructing,
putting things together. In this paper, we discuss how these activities can be contrasted with …

With this studio-workshop we aim to explore and debate how disassembling computational
things can yield a potential for design practices. We believe there are significant qualities to …

This pictorial explores the material resources that can unfold through taking things apart. We
describe a workshop program and according exercises designed around four particular …

Materials are dynamic-they can be shaped and changed. Often however, our tools and
technologies appear to fix materials in place. Disassembly is one practice that provides …