statements for design - critical understanding of the social and cultural meanings of domestic technologies

• Efficiency is overrated
• the assumption that each instance basically the same - There can be no a-cultural domestic technology design - inform culturally rich designs
• These technologies follow a history of symbiosis between consumption and technology; technology helps us consume while consumption stimulates technology design. In a world of dwindling resources, there is a need for domestic devices that do not stimulate consumption but instead offer alternatives and raise awareness about it
• Domestic technologies should support, but not unnecessarily constrain everyday activities, especially those which have particular emotional meaning to users
• design should explore a greater range of human experience
• Design must take communities into account, but it cannot assume that connectivity is necessarily positive
• change stereotypes - it proposes not to design for users’ current needs and desires, but to shape alternative needs, desires, and behaviors through design
• Western technology design often focuses on ‘the user’ – a single individual - monitors and reflects the emotional climate of a whole unit(climate)
• ludic design, supporting people as they “explore, wonder, love, worship, and waste time.”