Framework of emergence: from chain of value to value constellation |
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Authors: | Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante |
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Affiliation: | 1. Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UKm.lujanescalante@lancaster.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTFor academic design programmes and research councils, finding mechanisms to measure impact and valuate co-design research projects is very difficult. The metric parameters – number of attendees, volume, shape, length – have shown to be insufficient. The subject matter, the subjects and matters, do not easily fit within these parameters, which fail to translate the value of a ‘constellation of affections’ that emerge throughout co-design processes. Emphasis on quantifiable impact derives from particular ways of understanding production, reproduction, and dissemination of knowledge. This paper understands academic design programmes as a technology to discuss axiology in co-design practices. This paper re-configures a techno-logic of value; from chain of value to value constellation, intersecting a co-design case study with readings of Simondon’s philosophy of technology and Barad’s agential realism. Ageing Playfully was a knowledge exchange project from The Creative Exchange programme, that involved people living with dementia and their caregivers co-designing interventions to boost mobility and well-being. At the core, this paper, explores an axiological move that informs a framework of emergence, a way of thinking in methods to account for the value of co-design as site of emergence. |
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Keywords: | Generative differentiation catalytic encounter Barad Simondon co-design axiology value constellation |
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