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THIS SEMINAR STARTS AT 13:30 (30 MINUTES EARLIER THAN NORMAL)
You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series
on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>
(ECCO 2016-2017)
Time: Friday December 16, 13:30h-15h
Place: room D.1.07, building D, VUB
Adaptation by Product
Hacking:
A cybernetic design perspective
on the
co-construction of
Do-It-Yourself assistive technology
Lieven De Couvreur
https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=oY5-hd0AAAAJ&hl=en
Howest, Industrial Design Center
http://designforeveryone.howest.be/
Abstract:
Whatever you may have heard about product hackers, the truth is
they do something really, really well. In short: "hackers
build things, crackers break them." Through their
experiential and social approach product hackers discover new
possibilities in a frugal manner with the local resources and skills
at hand. Within the context of design for disability this
perspective opens-up a complementary alternative to universal design.
Today there are a lot of people with disabilities whose assistive
devices have not yet come about, due to unique needs and challenges.
A new generation of makers and occupational therapists are seizing
this opportunity by producing one of a kind product adaptations in
people's homes, sheltered workshops and rehabilitation centers.
This talk explores the role of professional designers within this
new design context. In general the research focus is on the
epistemic dynamics of hacking behaviour within the pursuit of making a
tailored product adaptation for a single user. Generally
speaking collaborative hacking activities are a form of
self-organizing co-design activities driven by participatory
prototyping-interactions. For this reason, the starting point of
this work was the question: "How do specific
prototyping-interactions influence general adaptation within
participatory hacking behaviour?" To answer this question
we propose a framework which illustrates hacking entities as a
self-regulating systems. A cybernetic design approach was chosen
to develop a framework to explain the circular causality and
relationships within local hacking ecologies.
We list the minimum conditions and elements of an autonomous
hacking entity in order for it to be able to adapt to changing
circumstances and 'to get what it wants'. With his holistic
thinking, it integrates the surroundings as part of a self-regulating
system by means of two adaptation types, namely single and double-loop
adaptation. Both loops enact respectively as an (1) active
(agents actively change their environments through external
adaptation) and (2) passive (agents compulsory change their internal
construction of the environment through internal adaptation) component
of adaptation. Although both type of adaptations are strongly
intertwined we tried to illustrated them through the variety of data
from living lab practices and illustrate how they self-organize the
hacking process.
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