Design(ing) 'Here' and 'There': Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes
Design(ing) 'Here' and 'There': Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes
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10.1145/2858036.2858509
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2016-05
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Seyram Avle;S. Lindtner
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作者：
Seyram Avle;S. Lindtner
人机界面在重要方面塑造了什么是创新，什么是(好的)设计所在的主导概念。在这篇文章中，我们主张不断扩大批判性和反思性工作的主体，要求研究者和设计师反思他们在世界上的设计价值。从加纳阿克拉和深圳的民族志研究，中国，我们说明了设计是如何既是关于制造文物，也是关于产生民族认同、声誉和经济收益。作为硅谷式创新的新兴场所，科技创业者从他们所在的城市获取并抵制这种言论。它们使“追赶西方”的叙事过于简单化，脱离历史，对情景设计实践视而不见。我们认为，这种观点对于质疑我们对设计的看法至关重要，尤其是在它在当代全球经济中变得更加核心的时候。
HCI shapes in important ways dominant notions of what counts as innovation and where (good) design is located. In this paper, we argue for the continuous expansion of the body of critical and reflexive work that asks both researcher and designer to reflect on their values of design in the world. Drawing from ethnographic research in Accra, Ghana and Shenzhen, China, we illustrate how design is as much about making artifacts as it is about producing national identity, reputation, and economic gain. Technology entrepreneurs take from and resist the discourse of their cities as emerging sites of Silicon-Valley type innovation. They render the narrative of "catching up with the west" overly simplistic, ahistorical and blind to situated practices of design. This view, we argue, is critical for interrogating our views of design especially as it becomes more central in the contemporary global economy.