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oapen-20.500.12657-629102024-03-28T08:18:49Z Relating to Things Wiltse, Heather Industrial / commercial art and design Phenomenology and Existentialism Media studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYD Systems analysis and design We relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation — inquiring into what it means to live with and relate to things that can actively relate to us, and that relate to each other in ways that do not involve us at all. Case studies include Amazon's Alexa, the Internet of Things, Pokémon Go and Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner. Authors explore everything from the care work undertaken by objects, reciprocal human/machine learning, technological mediation as a form of control, and what it takes to reveal things that tend to be hidden and that often (by design) conceal the ways in which they use us. As a whole, Relating to Things is a collaborative philosophical inquiry into the nature and consequences of contemporary technological things. It is a design inquiry into the current nature of the artificial, and possibilities for how things might be otherwise. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2023-05-03T18:57:17Z 2023-05-03T18:57:17Z 2020 book ONIX_20230503_9781350124271_6 9781350124271 9781350124264 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62910 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350124271.pdf 9781350124264.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Visual Arts 10.5040/9781350124288 10.5040/9781350124288 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350124271 9781350124264 Bloomsbury Visual Arts 304 London open access
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We relate to things and things relate to us. Emerging technologies do this in ways that are interesting and exciting, but often also inaccessible or invisible. In this open access book, leading design researchers and philosophers respond to issues raised by this situation — inquiring into what it means to live with and relate to things that can actively relate to us, and that relate to each other in ways that do not involve us at all. Case studies include Amazon's Alexa, the Internet of Things, Pokémon Go and Roomba the robot vacuum cleaner. Authors explore everything from the care work undertaken by objects, reciprocal human/machine learning, technological mediation as a form of control, and what it takes to reveal things that tend to be hidden and that often (by design) conceal the ways in which they use us. As a whole, Relating to Things is a collaborative philosophical inquiry into the nature and consequences of contemporary technological things. It is a design inquiry into the current nature of the artificial, and possibilities for how things might be otherwise. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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