Lars Bo Andersen, Peter Danholt and Peter Lauritsen
Year:
2015
Publisher:
Second Nordic STS Conference
This paper explores how empowerment is at work in a combined research and design project called Teledialogue instigated by us, the authors. The purpose is to investigate what happens to empowerment when considered with Actor-Network Theory (ANT), that is as a relational composition.
Andersen, Lars Bo; Danholt, Peter & Lauritsen, Peter
Year:
2014
Publisher:
Danish Association of Science and Technology Studies
Dette paper blev præsenteret på Dansk STS (DASTS) konferencen i Roskilde d. 12/6 – 2014 i et track om design af teknologi. Paperet er et indlæg i en teoretisk diskussion omkring vilkårende for design og forsøger at ”besværliggøre” hvad det vil sige, at inddrage brugere i designprocesser (f.eks. anbragte børn og unge i design af Teledialog).
ANT, I think, is promising because it deals explicitly with the transformative movements, the lines of flights, running through black boxes and segmentarities. And while ANT has been accused of bias towards fact-builders and managers, the processes of translation, the lines of flight, are much more multi-directed, multi-ended, and ambiguous than this.
Danish Association of Science and Technology Studies
This presentation is about impasse in technological projects and how to describe these within Actor-Network Theory (ANT). In suggesting limbo as a notion I want to point to a painful mode of existence which may extend for many years. As a tempo-spatial envelope, limbo is full of hope, fear, and uncertainties about duration and outcome.