The making of performativity in designing [with] smart material composites

Bahar Barati; Elisa Giaccardi; Elvin Karana

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173579

The making of performativity in designing [with] smart material composites

Bahar Barati, Elisa Giaccardi, Elvin Karana

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Abstract

As the material becomes active in disclosing the fullness of its capabilities, the boundaries between human and nonhuman performances are destabilized in productive practices that take their departure from materials. This paper illuminates the embodied crafting of action possibilities in material-driven design (MDD) practices with electroluminescent materials. The paper describes and discusses aspects of the making process of electroluminescent materials in which matter, structure, form, and computation are manipulated to deliberately disrupt the affordance of the material, with the goal to explore unanticipated action possibilities and materialize the performative qualities of the sample. In light of this account, the paper concludes by urging the HCI community to performatively rupture the material, so to be able to act upon it as if it was always unfinished or underdeveloped. This, it is shown, can help open up the design space of smart material composites and reveal their latent affordances.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-11
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5620-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173579
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

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Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018
Abbreviated title	CHI EA'18
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Affordance
Computational composites
Electroluminescent materials
Material-driven design
Performative qualities
Performativity
Smart materials

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Barati, B, Giaccardi, E & Karana, E 2018, The making of performativity in designing [with] smart material composites. in CHI'18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 5, ACM, New York, pp. 1-11, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173579

The making of performativity in designing [with] smart material composites. / Barati, Bahar; Giaccardi, Elisa ; Karana, Elvin.
CHI'18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM, 2018. p. 1-11 5.

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