week 11. material awareness

Material Awareness by James Pierce

1. three relations between technology and human
2. slow technology as a hermeneutic relation: How can slow tech provide material awareness?
3.What is awareness? What is to be aware?
4. readiness-to-hand v.s. presence-at-hand


Project 3
[step 3]
1. What is the material to be aware of?
2. What form could be used to provide material awareness?
     hermeneutic relation: slow technology: physical form according to time-aspect
     alterity relation: animate objects
     How about embodiment relations?
3. Propose a series of 3 tangible artifacts to provide material awareness:
     1. embodiment relation
     2. hermeneutic relation
     3. alterity relation

present "form studies" (also ref: counterfunctional things) on 5/26

TEI submission INFO:

http://www.tei-conf.org/16/