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Rosenberger, R., & Verbeek, P. P. (2015). A field guide to postphenomenology. Postphenomenological investigations: Essays on human-technology relations, 9-41.

perspective: technology as mediating: relations between people and artifacts

"combine philosophical analysis with empirical investigation"

via technology comes mediation not alienation (contrast with Heidegger)

The human-world relation is usually a human-technology-world relation (Ihde 1990)

Ingold does write about design (or, rather: Culture, man-made-things) and ecology (e.g. in [1][2]). Langdon Winner’s essays in [3] might also be interesting And Actor-Network-Theory might be helpful – the classic work of Callon [4] shows a "network" of animals, environment, people, technology… It is a bit hard to read, particularly if you are not familiar with ANT yet, and [5] is a much nicer read.

But these are all rather general. On design research and criticizms of it, I know some stuff on the question of design ethnography [7], claims of true stuff ("the real user needs") [9], users as part of a computer system [11] and design thinking’s intertwinement into neoliberal ideas [12,8] – if that is something that is interesting to you. And talking about neoliberalism [12] is a great source for anything tech/design thinking/engineering related; [13] is by the mentioned Langdon Winner and also pretty great. In the context of work and care for technology (in contrast to churining out "disruptions"), there are

Callon, Michel. 1990. “Techno-Economic Networks and Irreversibility.” The Sociological Review 38 (1_suppl): 132–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1990.tb03351.x.

Actors:

scientific→ certified knowledge
technological → develop things
people
market → react to needs

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- a) Recipe creation as part of household management
- b) recipes do record and depend on social relationships, trust and obligations
- c) recipes as family history
14 recipes in the making by crossing-out, annotating and correcting (also: 26, 113ff)
27 focused recipe-collection for current problems (e.g. someone sick and you gather recipes to relieve it). Also : escalation to professionals
32 recipe selection for own collection from other collections: copying
35 other places other experts: access to knowledge networks
36 importance of locality != local practices: recipes circulated widely
38 Recipes as gifts (also 76)

3 Often, learning is seen as:
- an individual effort
- best separated from other activities
3 What if learning – like eating or sleep – is an inevitable, normal and social?
6 Communities of Practice are everywhere: families, Scientists, street gangs… most do not have names and no formal membership
9 Explicit learning and teaching vs. social learning and teaching
41 Understanding: Defining what to know and what not
47 Practice: Doing. Social and historical context give it meaning
47 Tacit knowledge is often not noticed
48 For practice there is no theory/practice divide. This is more of an distinction for enterprises which say: "We are theory-guided!" "We are hands on!"

2 It is hard to draw the line between "soft" and "hard" skills in engineering projects
3 There is no single person knowing how a telephone works, not even the people who build the infrastructure.
4…But people know how to deal with "their" touchpoints to it competently → see: Pragmatism
6 The physics-based description is seen as ideal for technological literacy. → see: Culture
9 For the physics-view some things are relevant ("underlying" ones like length, thickness, angle), others are not ("impure" or "irrelevant" ones, like history, material, grain).
14 two ideas of artifact creation:
a) Savant: Artifact is the realization of underlying principles
b) utilitarian: the artifact is defined by the market and by what is "good" for actors.
17 Design Processes seen as autonomous and leading to the "right" result. → See: Seitz, Design Thinking
30 META (describing the site)

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	13 Systems have their own system problems in addition to what they are build to do
	17 Systems tend to expand. DIY expands (more things are DIY-able) and manufacturing expands (more different things are manufactured)
	26 State-able goals ≠goals ≠ known things. see: Accountability, Garfinkel
	28 recreate the world in the image of administration → campbell’s law in: "Assessing the impact of planned social change"
	32 Being perfectly prepared for the past → Weick, sensemaking
	33 There is always an older system interfering with the current system → S.L Star, Steps Towards an Ecology of Infrastructure: Complex Problems in Design and Access for Large-scale Collaborative Systems
	38 People in the system do not what the system should be doing but do system things (Bittner?)
	40 The goals of a system is determined by what the system can do (→ Weick, Sensemaking in Organizations → Bowker, Forgetting in Organizations → Some capi

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