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Un-Crafting: Exploring Tangible Practices for Deconstruction in Interactive System Design

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Martin Murer,

Anna Vallgårda,

Mattias Jacobsson,

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With this studio-workshop we aim to explore and debate how disassembling computational things can yield a potential for design practices. We believe there are significant qualities to be found in extending the mundane 'taking things apart' into an elaborate practice of un-crafting. The studio workshop comprises a series of collaborative disassembly activities with the aim of beginning to identify the key qualities and issues at stake. We also hope to have a diverse crowd, whose interdisciplinary viewpoints will enable us to ground an un-crafting practice in a diverse set of contexts.

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DOI:10.1145/2677199

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