Design Inspirations from the Wisdom of Years

Blevis, Eli; Blevis, Shunying An

doi:10.1145/3196709.3196816

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“…In this sense, in designing, designers make choices of imaginative, preferable futures. This concept is sometimes referred to as (politico-)ontological design, that is designs are choices to create (and thus eliminate other) ways of being, doing, and becoming [5,6,22,87]. In the words of Heskett, material artifacts can be seen as "a crucial expression of ideas of how we could or should live, put into tangible form" [36:56].…”

Section: Politico-ontological Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our investigation of vibrators hinges upon the notion of ontological design, or more precisely, politico-ontological design. As digital technologies are seamlessly embedded in our lives radically transforming the world we live in as well as the ways we live, ontological design became an emergent theme in Interaction Design and HCI [5,6,41,71,87].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Hidden Language of Vibrators: A Politico-Ontological Reading

Hua

Jones

Bardzell

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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As digital artifacts for women's pleasurable experience, vibrators are sophistically designed, embedded with cutting-edge technology, and popular among women. Yet they are still facing social, cultural, and legal obstacles; they are disappointingly understudied by academia as a topic of research. In this pictorial, we use vibrators as our vehicles to speculate future aesthetic, social, and political ways of being related to female sexuality. Our speculation is based on a critical politico-ontological reading of the contemporary design of vibrators by situating it in the historical, cultural, and visual contexts through an art historical analysis. We find that the contemporary design of vibrators carries gender norms and sexual normativity into

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Section: Politico-ontological Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%