Chance-seeking as a way of making sense in the time of

technological entanglementEmanuele Bardone

Institute of InformaticsTallinn University, Tallinn

Estonia

Transposition of meaning

The main effect of such transposition is the creation of a new way of doing something in the world

As we take the pen or pencil in our hand, you can only sense the pen or the pencil in between our fingers.

But, as soon as we start using it, something mysterious happens.

I want to cycle in the dark (goal)

A bike light is what I need (means)

A bike light is designed to serve the purpose of cycling in the dark

I don’t want to get surprised

I am just implementing a course of action determined beforehand

Calling and chatting with people

writing

Summer School on Design as Inquiry, Helsinki, Finland, 2013

She’s using it as a note-taking tool

She’s not taking a selfie, but she’s using it as a mirror

you flip the camera

Re-appropriation or creative re-use

This seems to disclose something quite interesting about the way in which we

can engage with technological artifacts

Chance-seeking as tinkering with chance

events

I was quite disappointed by posting multiple pictures…

This was my chance…

Collage as an artifact for learning

Collage as an artifact for sense-making

A collage as an artifact for sense-making

A story about quoting….

If I post something on Facebook as a text, I always forget about it…

I bought a new ipod

New ipods touch are equipped with better quality camera

I can take a picture of page in a book

Tinkering with chance events…

Tinyscan

I started posting quotes as images…so that I could easily retrive them at some later point in

time

…but then I also wanted to point the attention to a specific passage in a

quote

With digital text, that was quite easy…

Conclusive remarks…

Ends are not given, but they become conceivable in relation to the means that we

come across in due course

We like getting surprised

We don’t plan, we tinker with whatever comes in handy in the form of chance

events

What we do is inseparable from us, our being-in-the-world

It’s an exploratory, individuating, and path-creating process