TY  - GEN
AU  - Subrahmanian,Eswaran
AU  - Reich,Yoram
AU  - Krishnan,Sruthi
TI  - We Are Not Users : Dialogues, Diversity, and Design
SN  - mitpress/11931.001.0001
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Art & design styles: Postmodernism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Individual designers
KW  - Regional geography
KW  - human-centred design
KW  - usability
KW  - participation
KW  - sustainability
KW  - engineering design
KW  - design for diversity
KW  - technology and society
KW  - technology and culture
KW  - inclusive design
KW  - design philosophy
KW  - complex social systems
KW  - context-sensitive
KW  - non-reductionist
KW  - liberal arts
KW  - design as social process
KW  - interdisciplinary design
KW  - architecture
KW  - industrial design
KW  - public policy
KW  - management design
KW  - design management
KW  - design science
KW  - models in design
KW  - design history
KW  - computer science
KW  - information design
KW  - development studies
KW  - humanities
KW  - science
KW  - technology
KW  - and society
KW  - STS
N1  - Open Access
N2  - A call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both digital and analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the case? We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to the entity called “user”; we are not homogenous but diverse. That buzz of dissonance that we hear reflects the difficulty of condensing our diversity into “one size fits all.” This book proposes that a new understanding of design could resolve that dissonance, and issues a call to reclaim and rethink the field of designing as a liberal art where diverse voices come together to shape the material world. The authors envision designing as a dialogue, simultaneously about the individual and the social—an act enriched by diversity of both disciplines and perspectives. The book presents the building blocks of a language that can conceive designing in all its richness, with relevance for both theory and practice. It introduces a theoretical model, terminology, examples, and a framework for bringing together the social, cultural, and political aspects of designing. It will be essential reading for design theorists and for designers in areas ranging from architecture to software design and policymaking
UR  - http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043366
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/77986
ER  -