Moments of Entanglement

Journal Article, Formakademisk 14(2).

    
   

Moments of entanglement: Following the sociomaterial trajectories of an intersubjective studio practice

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Authors

 

 
  • Luis Vega · Aalto University

  • Maarit Mäkelä · Aalto University

  • Tzuyu Chen · Aalto University

  • Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen · University of Helsinki

 

Publication Venue

 

 
  • Form Akademisk, Vol. 14 Nº 2

  • Research journal of design and design education

 

Abstract

 

This paper investigates the sociomateriality of collective creation in the context of a design studio project. Grounded in a relational approach that has influenced a multitude of studies in various fields, the notion of sociomateriality accounts for the constitutive entanglement of the social and the material in practice. How this entanglement occurs or what exactly is subjected to it, however, remains largely unarticulated, especially in studies where the handling of materials lies at the heart of the research process. By adopting a relational approach operationalized through qualitative network analysis, we traced the sociomaterial trajectories of a studio project to identify the moments in which various actors were entangled. The resulting network visualizes these moments and assists in explicating how they enabled the instantiation of intersubjective design ideas.

 
 
 
 

 
 

Keywords

 
 
 

 

Co-creation, craft and design, qualitative network analysis, sociomateriality, studio practice

 

 

Information

 

 

Peer-reviewed journal article

  • Vega, Luis; Mäkelä, Maarit; Chen, Tzuyu; & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita (2021). Moments of entanglement: Following the sociomaterial trajectories of an intersubjective studio practice. Form Akademisk - Research journal of design and design education, 14(2), Article 18. ISSN: 1890-9515