When the stone stopped moving, Counter-curation as site specific interaction design
2015 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Rural place is often overlooked in interaction design research. This thesis is centered around an analog interaction between humans and a 35 ton stone in a danish forest, on the rural island of Bornholm. With a methodological approach influenced by Donna Haraway's essay 'Situated Knowledges' the author approaches her site-specific topic both as a local, a tourist and a researcher. The thesis offers a close study of the interaction with the stone, and explains how this natural occurring interaction, has physically shaped the landscape around it, but also reveals the curation imposed upon rural place and and how this curation affects our sense of place. The researcher suggests that counter-curations can be used as a method for site-specific interaction designers, and exemplifies this by curating a natural site as well as a rural village site. The stone in the forest opens up for a project about the multiple identities of rural place and how theses are shaped in deep intertwining and tension between the past and present, human and nature.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö högskola/Kultur och samhälle , 2015. , p. 58
Keywords [en]
Interaction Design, Rural Place, Sense of Place, Situated Knowledge, Curation, Counter-curation, Peripheral Region, Site-Specific Research
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21578Local ID: 19441OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-21578DiVA, id: diva2:1481485
Educational program
KS K3 Interaction Design (master)
2020-10-272020-10-272022-06-27Bibliographically approved