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Making Public Things: How HCI Design Can Express Matters Of Session: Issues That Matter CHI 2014, One of a CHInd, Toronto, ON, Canada Making Public Things: How HCI Design Can Express Matters of Concern Carl DiSalvo, Thomas Lodato, Jonathan Lukens Tanyoung Kim Tom Jenkins University of Tennessee Nokia Georgia Institute of Technology Knoxville, TN, USA, 37996 Sunnyvale, CA, USA, 94086 Atlanta, GA, USA, 30308 [email protected] [email protected] cdisalvo | thomas.lodato | tom.jenkins @gatech.edu ABSTRACT In answering this question, four entwined themes are Science studies scholar Bruno Latour suggests that important [17]. The first is that contemporary democracy is contemporary democracy is shifting from “matters of fact” object-oriented: it occurs through the stuff we make. The to “matters of concern”: contentious conditions entwined second is that contemporary democracy is about matters of with everyday life. What is the role of human-computer concern: contentious issues and their consequences. Third, interaction (HCI) design in this shift? In this paper we draw things are the association of objects and matters of concern: from five design projects to explore how design can express when the stuff we make is experienced in light of the matters of concern by communicating the factors and contentious issues and the consequences surrounding that consequences of issues. In the process, we consider the role stuff, we are living in what Latour refers to as a kind of of design in contributing to the formation of publics and “dingpolitik.” Fourth and finally, these things can function discuss an emerging orientation to publics in HCI design. to organize publics: groups committed to addressing an issue. Understanding a bit about these terms sheds light on Author Keywords the significance of the exhibition title. The phrase “Making Design; Matters of Concern, Publics; Public Design Things Public” is shorthand for exploring the interplay of ACM Classification Keywords objects and issues, and how socio-cultural situations are H.5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): disputed through collective endeavors. Miscellaneous. Design is implicit in this endeavor of “Making Things Public.” The “things” Latour refers to and the ways they are INTRODUCTION “made public” do not come about by accident. They arise In the 2005 exhibition Making Things Public: Atmospheres through traceable processes where choices have been made. of Democracy, science studies scholar Bruno Latour and For the exhibition, Latour and Weibel selected projects they artist/curator Peter Weibel explored the ways artists and interpreted as working to express matters of concern. To an designers construct systems that express and enact current extent, design is taken for granted in the exhibition, as the social conditions and imagined futures [33]. A mammoth images, artifacts, and systems are presented with minimal book, with over 100 essays from social scientists and interpretation. There is little inquiry into how these objects theorists, accompanied the exhibition. Taken together, the do politics or express matters of concern. But as design book and exhibition document a constellation of thoughts researchers, this question of “how” is precisely what and cultural production that wrestle with contemporary interests us: How can products and processes of design democracy. What is common across the projects and essays function to express matters of concern? is that they all seem to be probing the question: How does one “do” democracy in the 21st century? In this paper we explore some of the ways human computer interaction (HCI) design can function to express matters of concern. We do this through a reflexive analysis of five Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are design projects. Each of these projects highlights different not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies design tactics used to identify and communicate the bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for multiple factors of an issue. Taken together, they provide a components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. set of descriptive examples and generative themes for HCI Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission researchers and practitioners. Before discussing the projects and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]. individually, we present the concepts of “matters of CHI 2014, April 26 - May 01 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada concern” and “design things”. Then, after presenting the Copyright 2014 ACM 978-1-4503-2473-1/14/04…$15.00. design projects, we explore the relation between the http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557359. endeavor of expressing matters of concern and recent work in HCI concerning publics. 2397 Session: Issues That Matter CHI 2014, One of a CHInd, Toronto, ON, Canada MATTERS OF CONCERN AND DESIGN THINGS orientation of HCI, toward a more publicly facing practice. What is the difference between “matters of fact” and As HCI expands into social arenas and contested subjects “matters of concern” and why is this of significance to such as sustainability, healthcare, and international HCI? Matters of fact are conditions considered as objective development, HCI scholars and practitioners must data, separate from political conditions. Matters of concern, understand the capacity of design work in these arenas. in contrast, are perceived situations and their consequences; Certainly building working systems is important. However they are subjective experiences that constitute political if we take the ideas of matters of concern and object- conditions. The distinctions between objective data and oriented democracy seriously, HCI has to extend beyond subjective experience are not absolute; they are constructed. the planning and building of working systems—it has to Recognition of this process of construction and how it engage with issues. affects knowledge and politics is one of the distinguishing qualities between matters of fact and matters of concern. DESIGN CASES Consider climate change as an example. Treated as a matter How design things function to express matters of concern is of fact, we can record various environmental conditions, the fundamental question of our research. Over the past five compare and contrast these data, construct computational years we have taken a research-through-design approach models with some level of assumed veracity, deliberate [12,34] to this question—crafting design things to possible causes, and courses of action. Treated as a matter reflexively [14,8,28] examine this approach to of concern climate change includes all of that plus the lived contemporary democracy. In what follows we present five experience and near-future effects of rising tides and projects and discuss how each attempts to express matters fluctuating weather pattern, publically debated in the value- of concern. charged and politicized forums of technology, economics, and religion. Smog is Democratic Smog is Democratic was a media installation commissioned Acting effectively in a democracy, requires engaging with as part of the exhibition “Consequential Matters,” at the topics as matters of concern—with the lived qualities of museum of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. political conditions. This does not mean abandoning The purpose of the installation was to explore the issues of rationality. But it does means placing the experiential, the scientific representation, particularly with regard to affective and the desired alongside the presumed pollution. We sought to design a series of visualizations that objective.[6,23,24,33] Moreover, it requires recognition of combined the lived qualities of particulate matter with the constructed quality of categories that characterize common forms of technical representation of pollution. To political conditions, and the development of tactics for that end, the media designs that were constructed for the troubling those categories and intervening in those installation were not intended to establish or prove facts. conditions such that they become better known and able to Rather, the designs were interpretive and expressive, with be acted upon. the goal of considering how a range of sources and What is the role of objects in addressing matter of concern? measurements of particulate matter might be aesthetically Within politics, objects are typically not included in the rendered in order to generate reflection. debate themselves. In contrast, for an increasing number of The title of the installation, “Smog is Democratic” is taken social scientists and theorists [6,23,32], this exclusion is a from the sociologist Urlich Beck [2]. While some have problem. In their view, objects already participate in argued that the claim “smog is democratic” is not accurate political debates. Objects often function as expressions of because the effects of environmental damage are unevenly matters of concern, encapsulating aspects of an issue to distributed—in cases of environmental racism, for make them accessible to a broader public.[17,23] In Design example—we find the phrase compelling and appropriate, Things [3], Binder, De Michelis, Ehn, Jacucci, Linde, and for it communicates that the air around us is both shared Wagner picks up on Latour’s work and extend it into and contested. design. One of the many contributions
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